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General News from IR-DX group such as reviews from certain equipment or anything else related to the hobby.

IR Island Festival 2018 / Flora and Fauna Green Party 2018

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Hello,

This is to remind you of two radio events, you can take part in:

  1.  Green Party 2018 : World Wide Flora Fauna activations, from May 1st 2018 to August 31st 2018. Several IR members or IR teams are taking part to this event, and it’s not too late to register ! See links below.
  2. Island Festival 2018 : IOTA, IOTA n/v and IWI activations. This event is now a major event on 11mtrs and it has been organised for many years. IR members will take part, as usual, and you still can join the Festival, which will take place 2 and 3 June 2018. See links below.

Thanks for reading and looking forward to your participation !

Regards de 14IR017 Reg

Bonjour,

Je souhaitais vous rappeler que vous pouvez prendre part à deux événements radio intéressants :

  1. Green Party 2018: activations de références WFF (Flora Fauna). Les activations sont possibles du 1er mai au 31 aout, mais il n’est pas trop tard pour participer. Nous avons déjà plusieurs membres qui vont activer des références, mais n’hésitez pas à nous rejoindre, surtout qu’il y a des références un peu partout ! Voir les liens ci-dessous.
  2. Island Festival 2018: activations d’îles (IWI, IOTA, IOTA n/v). Tout le monde connaît cet événement qui a déjà lieu depuis des années et rencontre toujours un grand succès. Là aussi, nous avons déjà des membres qui vont activer des îles, mais plus on est de fous, plus on rit, donc n’hésitez pas à participer ! Il est encore temps. Là aussi, des îles, il y en a un peu partout. Voir liens ci-dessous.

Merci de m’avoir lu. J’espère que nous aurons de nombreux membres IR actifs !

73 de 14IR017 Régis

Green party 2018 : https://www.facebook.com/groups/2068678406475536/

Green party 2018 registering site : https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/H9MZ9XF

Island Festival 2018: http://islandfestival.net/

Island database (ex uznam) : http://islands.upway.pl/

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

2017 wishes

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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 .

14IR017 QSL management

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Getting tangled in the snail mailFor your information, all QSL requests received as of today (25/11/2016) have been answered.

I have no more pending QSL requests for:

328IR/CI082 , 328IR/CRO109, 328IR/CRO188, 14IR/FFF293, 14IR/67002R and 109IR/NU001.

It is not too late to request your QSL !

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/14IR017

mail: 

M. Régis

33 RUE RAYMOND POINCARE

68510 SIERENTZ

FRANCE

Contributions accepted :  $, €, IRC, timbres au tarif en vigueur

Thank you for using UTC time !

PSE do not forget to send a SAE or a sticker.

BTW: I still have many QSL from last 5 years on stock (68XXXR IWI, 250IR/HB20, 50IR010 Victor, 10IR/BC, 10IR/COA, 30IR Basquian IWI – LOTA tour etc). PSE contact me for availability if you need some "old" card.