ARIDX International 2026 Comments. Our ARI International HF Dx contest 2026 is finished. I don’t know if my performance has be satisfied. This year I changed category. I participated in Single Operator Mixed High Power, instead of my usual one, Single operator CW Low Power. I have to consider two situations. The first one is that the DVK (Digital Voice Keyer) didn’t work good, although it was checked before on the air with other friends. The second one is that, the high power give me almost 200 qso more, in CW mode, than the last year with 100 Watt. I didn’t use the RTTY mode

I post the picture of the summary table generated by the contest logger QARTest:

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Spring season, is time to antennas maintenance after the winter bad weather. Every year as soon as the weather become fair, in order to obtain a good performance in ARIDX 2026 Antennas maintenance. The ARI International Dx Contest, is organized by ARI the italian radioamateur associaation.

The ARIDX 2026 Antennas maintenance is carry out to assure the 100% efficience to the antennas system. I think we can’t instal antennas and live there in the roof or in the tower for years and years without any maintenace. So yearly I chech my multidipole for 40, 80 and 160 metres.

The ARI Dx 2026 rules for non-italian participants has been pubblished on the ARI web site. This is the link to download it in .pdf format.

Regarding the ARI Dx 2026 rules, I have to say:

Remember, the committee require the Log WEB Upload- at WWW.ari.it . The article 11 of rules say:

11. LOG instructions.
    ATTENTION PLEASE – LOG WEB UPLOAD ONLY
    a. Only CABRILLO log will be accepted
    b. LOG must be WEB-Uploaded at www.ari.it
    c. LOG must be web-uploaded no later than 6 days after the contest (2359Z May
    09, 2026)

The Italian HF International contest take place the first weekend of may of each year. In the 2026 it start saturday the 2nd of may at 12:00 UTC and finish at 11:59 of sunday the 3rd may 2026. In this post of ARIDX CONTEST-2026 Italian Provinces, I’ll publish the table with the abreviation of all Italian provinces up date with new Sardinia Island provinces.

Save the date to join our contest. Italian stations are waiting you.

End experimentation on 160m. The italian ministry of telecomunications, MIMIT, granted the expansion the 160 metres band between 1810 kHz and 1830 kHz in the experimentation form until 31st december 2025. The experimentation has not been reneval since now, therefore the italian Radioamateur can no longer use this segment of band in 160 metres. This is the band plan valid at now.

Red area is for CW, green area is for SSB and blue and light blue area is for digital mode.

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73 and I’ll see you in the next contest de Fiorino/I3FDZ/IP3U

The CQWWCW 2025 declared scores, has been published by the committee on its website. 8429 participants to the most important contest of the world.

CQWW CW game over. The 2025 edition of CQWW CW is just finished. I’m sad for this because I enjoyed it very much. I have to wait the next year for the 2026 edition. I paticipated in the Single Operator all bands high power category with my special contest call IP3U.

This year I’ll be active in the CQWW CW call IP3U, with my special contest call IP3U, in the categorie single operator high power during the weekend november 29-30 2025.

The qso will you will be appreciate very much. QSL card via my own call I3FDZ.

73 ans I’ll see you in the contest CQWW CW call IP3U

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The ARI DX 2025 Results has been released by the contest manager Filippo Vairo/IZ1LBG. You can download them in .pdf format from this link. The propagation didn’t help us in the 2025 issue, for this the logs received from foreing station were a little bit less than 2024.

I post the partecipats table downloaded from the ARI site