Re: [DX-NEWS] DX Contest Software
I apologize to the DX-NEWS group. I inadvertently hit the Reply-All button on my Email program to send a response to this request from Elliott. I should have directed it solely to him, as he requested. I am sorry. Please excuse me. 73 de Paul J. Ciezniak, K1SEZ - Original Message - From: "Elliott Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: [DX-NEWS] DX Contest Software I don't want to start an unappoved reflector discussion but I am interested in finding a "good" contest software program. The only possibility I've found is WriteLog and that does RTTY etc. The old DOS programs don't work in XP! Please contact me directly with any suggestions. Thanks and 73 Elliiott WA6TLA -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options -- -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
Re: [DX-NEWS] DX Contest Software
After activating the N1MM Logger (free) program a few months ago, I heartily recommend it. I think there is nothing that will come close to it (Free or Paid) for full contest versatility including controlling your rig, running CW or RTTY (via the famous MMTTY program that's built into the system), and the PDF of the 380 page manual is astounding! I used it in "combat" this weekend's CQ WW CW contest and is was like playing a video game. It controlled my TS-2000 and the macro buttons allowed me to fully participate in the Search & Pounce mode despite the very fast (30wpm+) CW speeds the running stations were using. To help me "read" the blazing CW speeds, I also use a wonderful, separate software program called "CW Get"...by UA9OV. This is not a free program, but well worth the expense, in my opinion. It "reads" CW and also presents me with the audio spectrum of sounds (0 to 4000 hz) from my rig's audio signal, which I then use to zero-beat the other guy's frequency...dead nuts on. This is a very good tool for adjusting your VFO B frequency when working split-frequencies on DX stations. You can position yourself right on top of the last guy who just worked the DX station! For the full effect of the N1MM Logger capabilities, you'll need to hook up your rig via some interface to the shack's PC, so that it controls the transceiver and allows you to send CW and RTTY in contesting mode. I bought the microHAM USB II Interface (doesn't need a computer serial port at all) which comes with all the necessary hookup cabling and little black box with the blinking lights, but I'm sure other ones will work fine also. I was operational within an hour of opening up the box from microHAM. To finish the contest, with the push of the button, you will get a download of your contest logging file in the required Cabrillo format to send off to CQ magazine too cool. GL es 73 de Paul J. Ciezniak, K1SEZ - Original Message - From: "Elliott Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: [DX-NEWS] DX Contest Software I don't want to start an unappoved reflector discussion but I am interested in finding a "good" contest software program. The only possibility I've found is WriteLog and that does RTTY etc. The old DOS programs don't work in XP! Please contact me directly with any suggestions. Thanks and 73 Elliiott WA6TLA -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options -- -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] DX Contest Software
I don't want to start an unappoved reflector discussion but I am interested in finding a "good" contest software program. The only possibility I've found is WriteLog and that does RTTY etc. The old DOS programs don't work in XP! Please contact me directly with any suggestions. Thanks and 73 Elliiott WA6TLA -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP49 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 49 ARLP049 >From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 26, 2007 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA This is an off-schedule post-Thanksgiving bulletin. Because ARRL headquarters was closed on Friday, the day this bulletin is normally released, and the last Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP048 was written before the end of our reporting week (which is Thursday through Wednesday), the sunspot, solar flux and geophysical numbers normally at the end of the bulletin are in this bulletin, but were not a part of ARLP048. Friday, November 30 will find us back on the regular schedule with Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP050. The last propagation bulletin reported a brief return of sunspots on November 16-17, when sunspot group 974 emerged, and the sunspot number was 13 on both days. There were six more days of no spots, then November 24 saw the emergence of group 975, with a sunspot number of 15. The next day the sunspot number declined to 12, and the area it covered was about half the area on the previous day. A solar wind stream on November 20 caused the most active recent geomagnetic day, with the planetary A index rising to 28, and Alaska's high-latitude college A index going to 48. Geomagnetic indices were somewhat unsettled over the last weekend (November 24-25), but are quieting down now, with the expected planetary A index at 10 for today, November 26, and then 5 until December 11. The planetary A index over November 22-25 was 13, 10, 12, and 11. The numbers for the seven days previous to that are listed below. Unexpected bottom-of-the-cycle propagation still crops up. On November 21, a number of Northeast United States stations reported working Central and South America on 10 meters. W1RM worked Mozambique on 12 meters and Ecuador on 10 meters. In Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP047 on November 16 we mentioned briefly some unusual daylight DX on 75 meters. Note that most of these stations had what many of us would consider monster directional antenna arrays for 75 meters, such as 2-3 element Yagis anywhere from 100-165 feet. Glenn Rattmann, K6NA of Valley Center, California wrote, "I have been a serious DXer on 75/80m for more than 35 years, and we observed something there on November 10 that hasn't been seen much before, at least among the west coast 75m morning longpath DX crowd. A number of folks here worked a group of ZS stations on 3795 kHz under unusual circumstances." He continues, "As you know, working into the Middle East, Diego Garcia, and Europe on 75m longpath from the west coast is a fairly routine occurrence during the period November through February. Northeast Africa would also be commonly worked on this grayline path, but for the lack of activity in places like SU, J28, ET3." He goes on to say, "However, historically there has not been propagation to the southern part of Africa during the west coast sunrise-grayline window, because the position of the grayline is not favorable. Although we in the northern hemisphere are moving into shorter and shorter days (later sunrise too), in the southern latitudes they are moving into more and more daylight. It is possible that a far northwestern station in Seattle, or VE7 land, with the latest sunrise time, has worked a 5R8. Speaking personally, I have never heard of someone working a ZS--even further west than 5R8--on this path. The other significant item is that normally the most easterly and southerly stations in California (that would be San Diego, where I am) have the earliest sunrise, and therefore tend to lose the band earlier than others north and west of us. Typically one hears long path signals fading completely by about 25 minutes after local sunrise on our end." Glenn continues, "The short story regarding why we don't hear ZS stations on the longpath on 75m is: Sunrise occurs on the west coast 'too soon,' in conjunction with the sunset period occurring 'too late' in South Africa (southern latitudes), even for stations in WA or BC. However, on November 10th such an opening did occur to ZS." He goes on to say, "I came to the band a bit late that morning, and immediately heard K7ZV and W6KW working a ZS. I listened a while, and they worked several ZS stations in a roundtable. I called in at 1555Z--already one hour and forty minutes after my sunrise!--and logged ZS4TX who gave me a 59 plus report. He was true S-7 on my S-meter. The other California stations received similar reports for the most part. I copied perfectly several other ZS stations but didn't bother to work them; some were using low power and low dipole antennas. All said they had never worked a US west coast station prior to this. I heard ZS4TX say that his sunset would be 'after 1700Z sometime.' So all stations on both ends of the path were in full daylight with significant overlap, although of cours
Re: [DX-NEWS] Unsubscribing & more
--- Fred Stevens K2FRD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.njdxa.org/index.php > scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options The NJDXA web site seems broken. I found this page: http://www.njdxa.org/dx-tools/dx-news.php It says, "You can subscribe, or unsubscribe to either the DX News or DX Chat reflectors using the form on the bottom of any page on the NJDXA website." I could not find *any* form at the bottom of the pages of the web site, either in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I did find this page using google: http://www.njdxa.org/dx-news/ There is a form, but when you try to enter an address to subscribe or unsubscribe, you get this: Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. One subscriber has been trying to get off the list for several weeks. I forwarded several of his requests to Steve and Urb but it doesn't seem to help. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
