After several discussions and team worker the HQ has agreed to establish new rules and guidelines in order to make IR great again.
These rules and guidelines have been published for a few days and are being removed now for reasons!
Read the Statement of IRDX President Jimmy 13IR011 on next page !
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Philipp 15IR664 is active now from Cochabamba central part of Bolivia.
Will be active until April 5th 2024 “Holiday style”, some info about the setup there in Cochabamba:
TX/RX: Yaesu FT 857D 100W
ANTENNA: Half Wave End Fed coax antenna
Logged Stations: ITL (in the log)
QSL Manager: 15IR106 Adrian
Standard contribution is needed.
See you in the Pile UP!
After some years of absence, the German IR-DX crew decided to organize a fieldday meeting again.
First visitors
The first fieldday visitors from the Netherlands (19IR04 Rob and his wife) and Switzerland (15IR076 Chris and his wife), did arrive as one of the first on friday afternoon.
Meanwhile the crew was busy with cleaning and building up the side and got some help from the visitors, to get ready for the main fieldday on saturday.
BBQ man
IR and non-IR members
Several (non) members from the area, showed up on fridayevening, to say hello and took a few drinks.
Under great weather conditions with a clear blue sky and very sunny weather, the fieldday started on saturdaymorning.
More members, including non-members, showed up and we had a lot of nice eyeball QSO contacts.
It was really nice to meet several old friends, who did not see eachother for over 10-20-30 years.
Some “Young Ladies” from the IR-DX group had made some nice cake at home and did share it during the fieldday. At the late saturday afternoon, we had a nice BBQ with several nice salads.
The eyeball QSO contacts, did continue until the end of the evening. On sunday, the fieldday was being faced out, little by little and at the end of the afternoon, it was really ended.
Transceiver and laptop setup
Fieldday – 11 WW Contest
As we know that the 11 WorldWide contest was running, we decided to use 13IR/HQ as our callsign, instead of 13IR000.
We knew, that we did not announce it in advance, but we did not make a serious plan to be active many hours.
So far, 79 radio contacts could be made, mainly inside Europe, but also with continents Africa and South-America.
Thank you
We would like to thank all people involved with the fieldday organization and all participants to make this event a success after some years again.
Unfortunately one of the organizers was in quarantaine, so unfortunately he and his wife were not able to join us.
The International Radio DX Group (established in 1994) is not a free of charge radio group. You have to pay once a membership fee, to become a lifetime member of this group.
We are not looking for multi-multicall members (callsign collectors). What we expect, is people who really want to use the IR callsign and want to be involved in the group life.
Also, we are not interested in putting on the air silly activations or useless activations. We better do few, but good activations.
We are a familial radio group, mixing seasoned DXers with beginners …
The group has a lot of "Originals" members, who know each other for years and years and are fully devoted to keeping up the IRDX Spirit !
Le groupe International Radio (crée en 1994) n'est pas un groupe gratuit. Il faut payer une cotisation afin de devenir membre à vie du groupe.
Nous ne recherchons pas de nouveaux membres à n'importe quel prix mais nous attendons de nos membres qu'ils participent à la vie du groupe et qu'ils utilisent majoritairement leur indicatif IR.
Nous ne tenons pas non plus à activer tout et n'importe quoi juste pour faire parler de nous, nous préférons activer des choses quand cela vaut vraiment la peine.
Nous sommes un groupe familial, où se côtoient des DXers confirmés ainsi que des débutants. Nous avons parmi nous un grand nombre d'anciens, qui se connaissent parfois depuis des décennies et s'emploient à préserver l'esprit IR et à assurer sa continuité.
Want to become an IRDXer ? It's the right time to apply for a lifetime membership ! hq@irdx.org
Vous voulez devenez un IRDXeur ? C'est le moment de nous contacter pour demander un indicatif IR à vie ! hq@irdx.org
Dear friends, dear members,
As the IR manager for IR island activities in the 2017 contest, and also as an island activator and hunter, I wanted to congratulate ALL teams from all groups, and thank ALL hunters.
Special TNX to the Island Festival Organisation for the great work (fast answer to all queries, and lightening fast results calculation!!!).
I already looking forward to participating to the 2018 event! 2017 was a success TNX to all involved.
Sincere BRAVO to the winners in each category !
Now, as the manager for IR activities and as a vice President of the group, I want to say a few words to the IR members:
Guys, I'm delighted by the EFFORT you've done ! Great activating and great hunting !
International Radio made the show again ! We can do it if we really want !
The group is ALIVE and we have TOP quality members – I hope many "sleeping" members or members mostly active for other groups will consider again using the mythical IR callsign.
We have a fantastic callsign, and incredible history and a great "way of life" (The Spirit), so enjoy the radio and help us making IR BIG again !
Regards and vy 73 … de 14IR017 Regis
NB: I will now start designing the IR Island Festival QSL.Teams, your pictures are welcome.
Dear IRDX members,
The Island Festival 2017 will take place the first week-end of june (3-4 june 2017).
The registration is now OPEN http://islandfestival.net/?page_id=1470
As usual , IOTA, IOTA N/V and I.W.I are counters for the competition.
A searchable list of islands is available here : http://www.islands.uznam.net.pl/ but please not all islands aren’t listed.
We would be happy if some IR teams would be active this year, to promote the group and to keep the band alive.
Nearly everyone has some island nearby, at sea, in a lake or on a river, so don’t hesitate to take part to the event! With a team or alone, a few hours, one day or 48h, by car, foot or boat, just do like you can and enjoy the event !!!
To save you time and money, the group offers to print an ISLAND FESTIVAL 2017 QSL, confirming all IR island festival activations. One QSL, one manager (14IR017 Reg), one contribution.
All you have to do is to register the Island Festival, to inform 14IR017 Reg about your plans and to send your logs to the Island Festival + to 14IR017 when the event is over.
Chers membres IRDX,
L’Island Festival 2017 aura lieu les 3 et 4 juin prochains.
On peut dès à présent s’enregistrer sur le site pour y participer : http://islandfestival.net/?page_id=1470
Comme d’habitude, les IOTA, les IOTA N/V et les I.W.I comptent dans cette compétition.
Une liste d’îles est disponible sur http://www.islands.uznam.net.pl/ , même si la liste n’est jamais complète et que de nouvelles îles peuvent y être ajoutées.
Nous serions heureux que, cette année encore, des membres IR participent au Festival, afin d’assurer la promotion du groupe et de maintenir un peu d’activité sur la bande.
Presque tout le monde a une île près de chez lui, qu’elle soit en mer, sur un lac ou sur une rivière, n’hésitez donc pas à vous lancer ! Seul ou en équipe, pour quelques heures, une journée ou 48h, à pieds, en voiture ou en bateau, faites comme vous voulez et amusez-vous !!!
Pour vous éviter tout tracas, le groupe propose de faire imprimer une QSL générale Island Festival 2017 qui confirmera toutes les îles actives en IR cette année pour le festival. Une QSL, un manager (14IR017 Reg) et une seule contribution.
Vous devez juste vous enregistrer pour l’édition 2017, informer 14IR017 Reg de vos projets et ne pas oublier d’envoyer vos logs à l’organisation de l’Island Festival ainsi qu’à 14IR017.
Dear friend and members,
New year is already far away and the spring, is slowly making its way here.
End 2016-Early 2017 propagation stayed extremely bad and nothing special was heard here in Europe, only a few Asia -Australia recently.
As a result the Internet 11mtrs DX sphere has been more than quiet, no only IRDX Website, Facebook and mailing list, but all other sites / groups have suffered.
Even cluster.dk is like a desert these days.
Not much is happening anymore, quiet band and people having long time, just changing groups all time just because they are bored to death.
From what I've seen, some people are already QRT, other plays a bit with PMR 446mhz radios and some are desperately waiting for some openings.
A handfull of members like Francis 15IR056, Fred 14IR226, Florent 14IR206 and other are experimenting with digimodes (ROSmode, JT65, WSPR, SIM31 etc…), which is problably the way to go because of their efficiency over SSB in these times of bad conditions.
I believe we should encourage the use of digimodes and IRDX group should be known that, now, has someone free time to make some explanations/ tutorials and why not, organise some kind of "contest" ? like a "sunday JT65 party" or whatever ?
This would be cool, and even better if introduced by the International Radio DX Group !
By the way, in a few days (march the 13th if I remember well), our group will turn 23 years old !!! Of course, no need to organise an event for that, but be proud, and show your pride to be a IR-DXer on Facebook ! 23 years is not nothing, we weren't born just yesterday ! I will try to do some free to use designs for you to make some advertisement on Facebook or wherever you like.
As per usual, I would like to remind you that activations are very welcome and we are here to support if you need some help. If long haul DX is poor we should anway benefit from "short skip" openings in May-June, so this would be the right time to make some IOTA-LOTA-IWI-SOTA-COTA-MOTA-WFF … QSL designing, QSL managing is no problem at all.
73 to all , enjoy the week-end …
14IR017 Reg
Dear members, dear friends and supporters,
Best wishes for this new year 2017. May your dreams come true.
2016 has been a great year for IRDX : new members, activations (SOTA, WFF, 109IR, 152IR, 189IR, 328IR, IWI, Island Festival etc etc.), communication (Whatsapp group, Facebook …), modernity (members active on ROS mode, WSPR, SIM31 …).
Let's hope 2017 will be the same, even though propagation has been horrible lately.
We are proud for all our achievements, we are proud that we are always going forward, and we are proud to see our SPIRIT is still ALIVE !!!
We are not into the BUZZ, we aren't into elite, we are just normal people in a normal group, a familial group where everyone is equal and where everyone can voice his opinion.
Many groups come, many groups quit, many groups come back.
We are known as a serious group, which isn't making noise, which isn't into polemics and wars, we just go our way. We aren't Phoenix like (rise fast, fly high, fall quick), we are here to stay ! We believe in IR-DX and we will make EVERYTHING we can to be stronger next cycle ! It's not a springt, it's a marathon 😉
Please, if you want something, if you have any remarks, requests, questions, don't hesitate to contact the HQ. Everything is possible, but the HQ cannot know about the members wishes if no one asks ! We enjoy your feedback and ideas ! Should you need anything, we're available on the mailinglist, on Facebook, on Whatsapp, via the Website etc .
