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.

If you need more information, please write me using the form at the end of this article or via email that you can found on my page of qrz.com using the mouse to view.

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.

The ARRL CW 2025, has been the first contest in which i used my new special contest call IP3U. I got a lot of fun, what a pity the contest is 48 hours long. I don’t enjoy the two days long contests. I prefer the 24 hour ones like the ARI International Dx Contest that take place the first weekend of may.

There have been a lot of participants both from North America and outside North America. In few hours I contacted almost 500 North American stations.

EUDX 2025 comments. Despite its fifth edition the EUDX contest organization received 1881 logs. Bands was crowded and i had a lot of fun.

I operated for thirteen hours in Single Operator CW High Power category. I used six bands with 500 watt excluded on 160 metres that I have 100 watt only. The EUDX is world wide type contest but most traffic has been exchanged between european stations. I didn’t contacted any african station and just a few North American stations.

The EUDX 2025 comments will follow with my declared score and statistics, elaborated by the logger QARTest.

A few comments about last CQWW 160 CW 2025 just passed.

I had been always interested in the low band since I was radio officer in the italian merchant ships. In that times I often used medium waves on the distress an calling frequencies of 500 kHz CW and 2.182 kHz AM or SSB.

In this band I use an inverted V dipole with the extremes folded and the top 12 metres high. It is tuned exactly on the band’s segment from 1830 kHz to 1850 kHz where the ROS is 1:1. I use a RTX Kenwood TS850S with maximum power output 100 watt. I haven’t any linear amplifier on this band.

But now here is the results by the contest logger QARTest of my CQWW 160 CW 2025.

A new contest call IP3U, has been issued to me by the Telecommunication Division of MIMIT, MInistero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy. https://appradioamatori.invitalia.it/

This is the copy of autorization for the new contest call IP3U:

The EUDX 2025 Contest is a world wide type. Every one can contact every one. But stations on the European Union contries are favored because qsos with us counts ten points and every region of each EU countries count one multiplier other than DXCC WAE lists and IG9 and IH9. The focus of the contest, however, is contact as many regions of all EU countries as possible. EUDX 2025 Contest organisation is by Ik6qon and the EUDXCC.

The list of the 27 political countries of European Union follow: