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

One week after ARI DX Contest 2025. Until today 1436 logs arrived to contest committee, it confirm a small decreasing of logs respect last year, but we can check it esactly at the pubblication final results.

This year i used the special contest call IP3U. Now I’ll propose my raw score, the statistics and few comments. First the table rate graph with qso per hours and bands:

Less than one month to the Italian International Dx Contest 2025. It will take place the first weekend of may starting at 12:00 UTC of saturday 3rd and ending sunday 4th at 11:59 UTC. It’s a world wide type, but qso with italian station counts 10 points and each italian province counts one multiplier other than the DXCC list and WAE list. I’ll participate with a new special contest call IP3U.

The CQ organisation published the CQ 160CW raw scores 2025. The participation has been massive they received 2107 logs from world wide.

I hope for a better performance next year.

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Many regards to all readers

73 de Fiorino/i3fdz/ip3u

In order to make copying easier the reports from italian stations during the ARI International Dx Contest, I submit a tables of HamRadio prefixes Italian provinces, with the two letters abbreviation of each 107 provincies. I remember the date and time: it begin at 12:00 UTC of saturday may 3rd and finish at 11:59 UTC of sunday may 4th, 2025.

The tables will follow:

Less than three months to the ARI Dx contest 2025. It will take place the first weekend of may. Starting saturday may 3rd at 12:00 UTC ending sunday 4th may at 11:59 UTC. Plese save the date. Italian stations are waiting eagerness this event. We are getting ready our setup.

Rules are been pubblished on the ARI web site. You can down load the full rules in .pdf format from here.