History 1994 - 2009

1994: IR-DX Group ( Spirit of Australia ) is the 11 meter section of an International Radio DX Club ( Amateur Division Radioclub ) from Sydney - Australia.
The club was formed on 13 March 1994 by IR founder and club President Tommy 43 IR 01.

1997: At the end of 1997 IR-DX Group headquarter moved into New York U.S.A. then to Miami, Florida U.S.A.The group President was called Max 2 IR 123.
In this period the IR-DX Group became more and more well known and famous, Max arranged great DX activations and the best examples were:

140 IR-DX Antarctica
200 IR-0 South Shetland Islands
221 IR-0 South Orkney Islands
189 IR-0 Mayotte
174 IR-0 Uganda
184 IR-0 Burundi
227 IR-0 Rwanda
115 IR-0 Qatar
248 IR-0 Turks & Caicos
319 IR-0 United Nations New York

Max and his team had to stop with leadership IR-DX Group and requested Jan 19 IR 01 to take over as President of the 11 meters Section IR-DX Group. This happened on 5 May 1998 personally in Miami - USA.

1998: When 19 IR 01 Jan went home from Miami he took 2 suitcases full with received QSL's with him……all QSL's received for 140 IR-DX, 200 IR-0, 221 IR-0 etcetera needed to be confirmed because there was already a big delay, this was a hard job but he succeeded.
From this period the requests to join IR-DX Group came in very quickly. In following 5 years the group welcomed about 1000 active members , active on radio and / or computer.
19 IR 01 Jan created a Headquarter Team as he could not do all the work alone, Vice Presidents were appointed, a new website was launched, the group was doing fine and became more and more wellknown thanks to the big spirit by the fanatics in IR-DX Group, which was shown worldwide from these members.
The IR-DX Group was famous because of it's incredible rare activations, in this period the show went on, good examples of good activations were:

121 IR-DX The Bahamas
148 IR-0 Ascension Island
160 IR 101 Sudan
225 IR-0 Brunei
236 IR-0 Bangladesh
253 IR-0 Andaman & Nicobar
266 IR-0 Eastern Kiribati
 

Because of private circumstances 19 IR 01 Jan resigned as President on 30 June 2003

2003: In April 2003 the IR-DX Group welcomed Stefano 1 IR 749 as new IR-DX Group President, Stefano did already great jobs in the past for the group like designing & printing directories and QSL cards. At the IR-DX World meeting in Holland (October 2003) Stefano was introduced as new President IR-DX Group and got the new unitnumber 1 IR 001.

2004: In 2004 the group was celebrating 10 years anniversary, we had several contest events, international meetings and printed special 10 years QSL to celebrate and to remind this fact. After discussions about renewal payments Stefano quit his job on 30th September 2004. At the 7th IR-DX Meeting in Delft Holland (15-16-17 October 2004) all present Active Vice President took part in elections for voting a new President. We welcomed Jimmy 13 IR 011 as 5th President of IR-DX Group. Jimmy and his Vice Presidents will organise new structures according to our Philosophy:

Philosophy of IR-DX Group (The Spirit)

The International Radio DX Group 11m Section is a family oriented, liberal group of radio operators.
We are open for all serious DX-ers and respect all others.
Our hobby is DX-ing and our passion is finding friends around the world.
We want to be a modern, non profit group with visions for the future.
We just have a few guidelines to run the community.

2005: In 2005 International Radio DX Group celebrated 11 years on 11 meters! IR-DX Group goes ahead with a free of charge renewal system. This can be done by sending a form by letter or via this website.(click Renewal in the menu)
Jimmy is proud to have very creative and active members in several divisions who do many nice projects. For many years these members are organizing meetings, running internet-sites, creating frequency events or other projects and spending much time for our group.
Jimmy asks all members to support these projects with their participation and of course he hopes more will join the active side.

2007: After some years of presidency Jimmy knows that structuring of our group is a hard job and it takes some time. We are proud to publish the first IR-DX Directory as PDF. It is the first version and we look forward to better propagation, in future we will distribute new versions of this e-directory.

2009: After several renewals of the IR-DX Web pages, the new project "IR-DX Web21 launched and put into operation. The basic idea was to give each member the opportunity to introduce and involve himself. Through the own posts and pages, as well as a new mailinglist feature via the webpage, there is now a better way of communication available. Another step was done to be a modern group with visions for the future.

For any questions / informations please contact IR DX Headquarter at:

IR DX Group H.Q This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it : P.O.Box 48 , Hemhofen , D-91333 , Germany