[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #911
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 18 October 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 911 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3A - Gianni, I1UWF will be active as 3A/I1UWF from Monaco on 25 October for the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. He plans to operate on 10, 15 and possibily 20 metres starting around 13 UTC, with 100 watts into a vertical antenna. QSL via home call. [TNX I1UWF] 3D2- Aki, JA1NLX will be active as 3D2YA from Mana Island (OC-121) on 21-27 November. He will operate CW on or around 3505, 7015, 10115, 14035, 18075, 21035, 24895 and 28035 kHz. QSL via JA1NLX, direct or bureau. The logs will be uploaded to LoTW. [TNX K1XN] 3W - Mike/RL3BM and Arkady/UA4CC will be active as XV4BM and XV4CC from Phu Quoc Island (AS-128), Vietnam on 5-13 November. They plan to operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres, with 100 watts into vertical antennas and a 2-element wire vertical Yagi for 20m. This will be a family vacation, but the two will do their best to be on the air as much as possible. QSL via home calls. [TNX NG3K] 4X - Hal, W8HC and Jerry, K8OQL will return to Israel for another CQ WW DX SSB Contest from the Holyland. In commemoration of Israel's 60th Anniversary, they have been granted permission to operate as 4X0C as a special event/contest station from atop the historical Masada National Park. Hal and Jerry will be hosted and joined by Ruben, 4Z5FI for their M/S operation during the contest. QSL via W8HC, direct or bureau. The logs will be uploaded to LoTW. [TNX NG3K] 6Y - Francesco, IZ7KHR will be active as 6Y7K from Jamaica (NA-097) on 20-28 October. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. He is this year's Young Ham selected to participate in the CW WW DX SSB Contest from the 6Y1V station. 8Q - Oku, JK1KSB will be active as 8Q7SO from the Maldives (AS-013) from 26 October to 1 November. He plans to operate holiday style on 80-10 metres SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX JK1KSB] 8Q - Slavo, SP2JMB and his wife Dorota, SP2TO will be active as 8Q7SC from the Maldives (AS-013) from 25 November to 10 December, CQ WW DX CW Contest included. QSL via SP2JMB. [TNX SP2JMB] 9A - Mike, DL3VTA and Wolfgang, DL1DVP will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31 as 9A/DL3VTA and 9A/DL1DVP from Pag Island (EU-170) on 20-27 October. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX DL3VTA] 9H - Anne, OH2YL will be active as 9H3YL from Malta (EU-023) on 1-8 November. She plans to operate CW and SSB on the HF bands. QSL via home call. [TNX OH2YL] 9L - Karl, DK2WV and other operators from Germany and England, plus one local operator, will be active as 9L0W from Sierra Leone between 21 October and 11 November. The team will counduct training courses in Amateur Radio at the University of Freetown. Activity will be on 160-6 metres with up to three stations, with amplifiers and different antennas. QSL via DK2WV, direct or bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] 9M8- Steve, 9M6DXX will be active as 9M8Z from Sarawak, East Malaysia on 22-26 October, including an entry in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. Before the contest he will operate as time permits. QSL via M0URX, direct or bureau. [TNX 9M6DXX] A4 - A43ICEM will participate in the JOTA event (18-19 October) from the International College of Engineering Management. QSL direct to A41MA. [TNX A41MA] EA8- Stephan, DK3TNA will be active as EA8/DK3TNA from Fuerteventura (DIE S-006), Canary Islands (AF-004) from 20 October to 1 November. He will operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres, with 100 watts and a dipole. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] EA8- Jean/ON5JV and Georgette/ON6AK will be active as EA8/homecall from Tenerife, Canary Islands (AF-004) from 22 November to 3 February 2009. Activity will be mainly on 20 and 40 metres during their evenings. QSL via home calls (bureau
[DX-NEWS] ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP43 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 43 ARLP043 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA October 17, 2008 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA Finally, we are seeing Cycle 24 sunspots that don't emerge one day, and evaporate the next. That's right -- sunspots, as in two or more. On Friday, October 10 sunspot 1005 emerged at high latitude over our Sun's eastern limb, and that day's sunspot number was 12. On the following day the sunspot number rose to 16, and a solar wind emerging from a coronal hole caused a geomagnetic storm. Planetary A index rose from a quiet 3 on Friday to 37, and the mid-latitude A index was 20. The 3-hour planetary K index reached a maximum of 7 that day, a high value for that scale. Since then conditions have quieted again. On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday -- as the spot progressed toward the center-north of the solar disk -- sunspot numbers were 16, 15 and 14 as the dark spot began to fade. On Wednesday the sunspot number faded another point to 13, but on Thursday, October 16, sunspot 1006 emerged, but this time in the southwest corner, about to rotate out of view. The sunspot number for Thursday jumped to 24. On Wednesday of this week a reading of activity on the side of the Sun facing away from Earth found another possible sunspot. This was detected using a method called helioseismic holography, which depends on pressure waves bouncing around our Sun's interior. For more detail, take a look at, http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/Helioseismology.shtml. Also the site, http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/open?pubNo=lrsp-2005-6key=Hagedoorn19 54. Mike Donnelly, KG9M of Woodstock, Illinois wrote to ask, What does 'unsettled conditions' really mean? Good for DX or not??? Same question for 'quiet,' too. Unsettled, active, and quiet refer to geomagnetic indices, the K index and the A index. We generally want those numbers to be low, or quiet, as absorption is lower and polar propagation paths work better. An exception would be VHF aurora propagation, when the numbers are high. The effects of geomagnetic activity are much greater when operating from the far north. Sam Vigil, WA6NGH of San Luis Obispo, California says that during the summer of 2005 he and his wife Eve, KF6NEV paddled 720 miles down the Teslin and Yukon rivers from near Whitehorse in Yukon Territory to Circle, Alaska. They brought a 40 meter QRP transceiver and a general coverage shortwave receiver on the trip, which ran from July 25 to August 28. Sam notes there were long stretches when he heard nothing at all on either radio. The latitude ranged from 60.7 degrees north to 65.8 degrees north. He is searching for archives of A and K index data for northern latitudes, and noticed that our bulletin -- which is archived at the ARRL web site -- only gives a mid-latitude and a planetary number. He is giving a talk about his trip at Pacificon (http://www.pacificon.org/) this weekend and is looking for historical data. I found it on http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/2005_DGD.txt, and noted that periods of high geomagnetic activity corresponded to periods when he heard no signals. The index to watch for far northern latitudes is the college A and K index, which is from a magnetometer at University of Alaska, which is at 68.68 degrees north. The observatory has a web page at, http://geomag.usgs.gov/observatories/college/. Peter Thulesen, OX3XR of Nuuk, Greenland (64 deg N, 51 deg W) wanted geomagnetic data that is appropriate for his high latitude, and I suggested recent data updated daily from, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DGD.txt. This is the same source we use for the indexes at the end of our bulletin, but we don't list the Alaska college index here. If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers, email the author at, [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service web page at, http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. For a detailed explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin, see http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/k9la-prop.html. An archive of past propagation bulletins is at http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/. Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/. Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of this bulletin are at http://www.arrl.org/w1aw.html#email. Sunspot numbers for October 9 through 15 were 0, 12, 16, 16, 15, 14, and 13 with a mean of 12.3. 10.7 cm flux was 68.7, 68.9, 70.8, 70.1, 70.9, 70.4, and 70.9 with a mean of 70.1. Estimated planetary A indices were 2, 3, 37, 13, 9, 4 and 8 with a mean of 10.9. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 1, 2, 20, 10, 7, 3 and 7 with a mean of 7.1. /EX --- To unsubscribe or subscribe
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #911 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 18 October 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 911 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 18/10 IF9/I4GAD and IF9/I4AUM: Egadi Islands (EU-054)910 till 18/10 ZS08YL: special event station 909 till 19/10 CE0Y/JJ2NYT: Easter Island (SA-001)910 till 19/10 FO: Marquesas Islands (OC-027) * by DJ7RJ 908 till 19/10 GB1CODY: special event station 909 till 19/10 HK1AT: San Bernardo Islands (SA-078) 904 till 19/10 K5S and K5Z: East Ship Island (NA-082) 907 till 19/10 K7P: Camano Island (not IOTA) 910 till 20/10 8Q7IU: Maldives (AS-013) 909 till 20/10 HF200T: special event station (Poland) 908 till 20/10 T88RP and T88SB: Palau (OC-00) 910 till 21/10 KG4WV and KG4KL: Guantanamo Bay (NA-015) 909 till 21/10 T22ZL: Tuvalu * by JA2ZL 907 till 22/10 AT25MY and AT25RG: special callsigns 900 till 23/10 9L1X: Sherbro Island (AF-056) 910 till 23/10 C56EA: The Gambia 905 till 23/10 T33ZZ: Banaba Island (OC-018) 910 till 25/10 8Q7AK: Maldives (AS-013) 907 till 27/10 3DA0DJ and 3DA0SS: Swaziland 909 till 27/10 AH8/DL2AH: Manua Islands (OC-077) 904 till 27/10 VK9DWX: Willis Island (OC-007) 897 till 28/10 TO5DX: St. Barthelemy (NA-146) 910 till 29/10 EA6/AA5UK: Balearic Islands (EU-004) 909 till 29/10 PJ2/PA0VDV: Curacao (SA-006) 901 till 30/10 J68WI: St. Lucia (NA-108) 910 till 31/10 HF30JP: special station (Poland) 911 till 31/10 II8MU: special callsign905 till 31/10 IL3T: Torcello Island (EU-131) 908 till 31/10 N3A: special event station 909 till 31/10 VE islands (NA-038, NA-068, NA-010 * by VE7IG 906 till 02/11 T6/PA2MRX: Afghanistan 911 till 03/11 VC2ARAM: special event station 908 till 06/11 JD1BMM: Minami-Torishima (OC-073) 910 till 09/11 5U5U: Niger910 till 09/11 C56YK: The Gambia 909 till 15/11 Caribbean cruise by SP7VC, SP3IPB and SQ3WN911 till 18/11 TT8JT: Chad910 till 26/11 EY8/F4EGS: Tajikistan 908 till 30/11 CK, CJ, CY, CZ: psecial prefixes (Canada) 907 till 30/11 LY70: special prefix 909 till November CE9/CE3VPM: South Shetlands (Frei Montalva Base) 910 till November YE2IPY: special callsign 864 till 31/12 9A08P: special event station 886 till 31/12 9A60A: special callsign881 till 31/12 9M1Cxx: special callsigns 890 till 31/12 AY0DX: special callsgin (Argentina)874 till 31/12 C4EURO: special callsign (Cyprus) 867 till 31/12 DR8M: special event station870 till 31/12 HG1848I: special call (Hungary)873 till 31/12 HG550REX: special call (Hungary) 873 till 31/12 IN3IPY: special callsign 904 till 31/12 ON1000NOTGER: special call 873 till 31/12 ON50WAASLAND: special call 910 till 31/12 ON1708M: special event station 897 till 31/12 ON40BAF: special event call869 till 31/12 ON70REDSTAR:
[DX-NEWS] VK9DWX News #11 - 16.10.2008
The Willis Islands Group, Mid Isl. Thursday, October, 16th This is the seventh day of operation. We had two days with heavy gusty winds. The long enduring rainfall for more than a day gave us some relief. It was refreshing to have a sweet-water shower from the sky and temperature dropped to 28 degrees C. Today the sun is back again and we are experiencing 39 degrees in the operator tents, with linears running. Our receiving situation on the lowbands is heavily influenced by static noise, which usually comes up to 20-30 db over S9, a real challenge for our operators. We obviously built the 30m 4 square too close to the water, because two Verticals were nearly washed into the sea by the heavy surf. We managed to fix the guy-ropes and pegs again and could keep the antenna into operation. For the same reason, we also moved the 40m 4-square a few meters away from the beach. We also put up a 6m-antenna, but there is no activity at all so far. Today we crossed the line of 40.000 Qs. Stations are pouring in in great numbers still. Unfortunately especially the W-path is interfered and jammed heavily on 160m. but we will do our very best to get as many of you as possible in the log. We also have set up a fifth station and now are able to operate from all five positions at the same time, to cater the needs of all of you even better. Tomorrow, we are expecting the Rum Runner, who will bring us more supplies, out friend Dale, VK4DMC, Bernd (DK2JW; our tourist) and the new rookie Rhy, ZS6DXB. Unfortunately Josh, W4WJF will be leaving with the Rum Runner in the next day, but this also means that Rhy will be joining our effort. Josh says he has loved working you all on the bands and has greatly enjoyed his experiences so far. He came in mainly as a SSB operator but has made quite a few CW contacts with you on-the-air. Even though he said some operators complained of his slow speed, his proficiency has improved so far. He is lucky since he doesn't have to help break down the antennas and the camp AND can go home and put VK9DWX in his log! He thinks the idea of inviting rookies along on DXpeditions is a great idea. In the US, he said many DXers were inspired by this idea and he hopes to give a few presentations about his trip in order to motivate others to sponsor a rookie on their next DXpedition. We are expecting a great weekend and another exciting week full of pile-ups on the Island. We will enjoy to work you in CW, SSB and RTTY on all bands! 73 de the VK9DWX-Team P.S.: Just a few minutes ago the Rum Runner arrived at Willis Island. Around noon we will start to transfer the persons and the ordered supplies. We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as widely as possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow DXers. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
