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IF 2017 RESULTS

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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.

 

http://islandfestival.net/?page_id=1577

Island activities announced for Island Festival 2017

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So far are announced:

104IR/EU014 Corsica by 104IR001

188IR/AF013 Madagascar by 188IR905

14IR/68001R Rhin Island Kembs by 14IR017

121IR/LI Long Island by 121IR391

79IR/OC129/A Negros island by 79IR101 Seth

79IR/OC129/B Negros island by 79IR428 Irving

125IR/NA016 Grand Cayman island by 125IR357

158IR/SA011 Trinidad island by 158IR101

173IR/AF016 Reunion island by 173IR034

14IR/10005R ile du stade by 14IR206

14IR/59058R IWI activation by 14IR106 Fabrice (sunday june 4th)

14IR/80001R St Aragone island by 14IR162 Gui

14IR/80006R La Treve island by 14IR162 Gui

14IR/80008R Pont Rémy island by 14IR162 Gui

14IR/80010R Ailly sur Somme island by 14IR162 Gui


…One QSL for all 2017 IR Island Festival activities : via 14IR017 Régis

 

Infos message 24/02/2017

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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