[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #861 [Calendar]
> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 3 November 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 861 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by IK1ADH and I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 03/11 E51NOU: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cook Islands 857 till 04/11 8R1PY: Guyana 853 till 05/01 A7/G0MKT: Qatar849 till 05/11 JW/G3SXW and JW/G3TXF: Spitsbergen (EU-026)861 till 07/11 UT/OZ5IPA: Ukraine 859 till 08/11 J48NL, J48PS, J48JJ, J48PL, J48RT: Thassos I. (EU-174) 859 till 06/11 XW3DT: Laos859 till 08/11 SV8/HA2VR, SV8/HA6NL, SV8/HA6PS: Thassos Isl (EU-174) 859 till 08/11 SV8/HA6ZV, SV8/HA7JJS, SV8/HA7PL: Thassos Isl (EU-174) 859 till 10/11 8Q7AU: Maldives (AS-013) 857 till 11/11 PA60LIM: special callsign 859 till 12/11 T6EE: Afghanistan 857 till 14/11 VK9ANH: Norfolk Island 851 till 15/11 6C60: special prefix (Syria) 858 till 15/11 YK9SV: Arwad Island (AS-186) 854 till 16/11 4U1WRC: ITU Geneva 859 till 16/11 EA6/LU5FF: Balearic Islands (EU-004) 856 till 17/11 AT60MY: special call (India) 851 till 21/11 GB4RN: special callsign857 till 30/11 7W53N: special callsign (Algeria) 861 till 30/11 EW905B: special callsign (Belarus) 840 till 30/11 HF150TG: special event station 853 till 30/11 R450KB: special station852 till 30/11 SU8BHI: Egypt 851 till Nov8Q7IM: Maldives (AS-013) 809 till 06/12 IU2IPY: special callsign 843 till 09/12 AO, AN, AM: special prefixes (Spain) 852 till 31/12 6H1, 6I2, 6J3, 6E4: special prefixes (Mexico) 817 till 31/12 9A60K: special callsign820 till 31/12 9A07P: special event station 841 till 31/12 DL100DAN: special callsign 839 till 31/12 EM50ARDF: special event station834 till 31/12 GB6OTR: special callsign (England) 821 till 31/12 HF100SK: special scout station (Poland)858 till 31/12 LX2007L, LX2007G, LX2007D: special event stations 817 till 31/12 LZ170VL: special event callsign819 till 31/12 LZ50DX: special callsign 818 till 31/12 ON50EU: special event callsign 830 till 31/12 SC300VL: special callsign (Sweden) 846 till 31/12 SG60RK: Gotland Island (EU-020)828 till 31/12 SX100VAR: special event station (Greece) 809 till 31/12 YU60BCD and YT60W. special callsigns (Serbia) 818 till 31/12 YU07HST: special event callsign830 till 31/12 Z360M: special call849 till 31/12 ZY5100SCOUT: special callsign 821 till 15/01/08 FO5RU: French Polynesia854 till 15/01/08 VP8CXV: Falkland Islands (SA-002) 852 till Feb 2008 DP0GVN: Neumayer Base (DL-03, AN-016) 812 till Apr 2008 6W/EA4ATI and 6W1EA: Senegal 833 till 30/06/08 VR10: special prefix (Hong Kong) 843 till Aug 2008 C91R: Mozambique 855 till 30/09/08 9A73AA: special callsign 855 03/11-11/11 IY1EY: special event station 860 03/11-16/11 OZ/DK9LO: Nordjylland (EU-171) 860 03/11-19/11 PA20NAFRAS: special event station 860 04/11II0VUI: specia
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #861
> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 3 November 2007A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 861 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3B8- Ron, SM7DKF will be active holiday style as 3B8/SM7DKF from Mauritius Island (AF-049) on 10-23 November. QSL via home call, Further information and QSLling policy at http://www.sm7dkf.se. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] 3X - This year the VooDoo Contest Group will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as 3XY5D from Conakry, Guinea. The team will include AA7A, G3SXW, G4BWP, G4IRN, GM3YTS, K4UEE, K5VT and KC7V. As usual, they will enter the Multi-Multi category with mono-band antennas for all six bands and kilowatt amplifiers. QSL via G3SXW, direct or bureau (bureau cards can be requested by e-mail: simply send the QSO details to the e-mail address on http://www.qrz.com/g3sxw). Logs will be uploaded to LoTW. Further information can be found at http://www.voodoocontestgroup.com/ 5X - Nick, G3RWF will be in Uganda on 21-30 November and will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK as 5X1NH, including en entry in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. "This is a solo dedicated DX outing with a short safari to the Mountains of the Moon after the contest", he says. He will be in Kampala from the 21st to the 26th, then he will travel to Western Uganda and do some "spare time" portable work. QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K] 7X - The Bou-Saada ARC will be active as 7W53N through 30 November to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Algerian War of Indipendence. QSL via 7X5VRK. [TNX F5NQL] 9M4- Yoshiaki, JA1OCZ will be active as 9M4DXX from Penang Island (AS-015), West Malaysia on 7-12 November. He plans to operate CW, SSB, and FM on 80-10 metres and to make a special effort during the Japan International DX SSB Contest (10-11 November). QSL via 9M2TO, direct or bureau. [TNX JF1OCQ] CT - Adolfo, EA7TV will be active as CT/EA7TV/P from Culatra Island (EU-145, AL-001 for the Portuguese Islands Award) on 8-11 November. He plans to operate on 10-40 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX EA7TV] E5 - George, K5KG and Ron, KK9K will be active as E51MMM and E51NNN from Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cook Islands from 12 November to 1 December. They plan to operate CW and SSB, to concentrate on 160 and 80 metres and to participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as E51MMM. QSLs forbothvia K5KG.Theyhaveablogat http://www.e51mmm.blogspot.com/ [TNX The Daily DX] EA8- EA8ARG, EA8AY and EA8BFH will be active as EG8FDA from Anaga Lighthouse on Tenerife Island (AF-004) on 10-11 November. They plan to operate on the HF bands as well as on 6 and 2 metres. QSL via EA8NQ, direct or bureau. Further information can be found at http://ea8arg.ure.es/eg8fda/ [TNX EA8NQ] EA8- Jean, ON5JV and Georgette, ON6AK will be active as EA8/homecall from Tijoco Bajo, Tenerife (AF-004) from 28 November to 26 January 2008. Activity will be mainly on 20 and 40 metres during their evening hours. QSL via home calls, bureau preferred. [TNX ON5JV] GD - Rosel, DL3KWR and Hardy, DL3KWF will be active as MD/DL3KWR and MD/DL3KWF from the Isle of Man (EU-116) on 17-30 November. They plan to operate mostly CW (CQ WW DX CW Contest included) and on 12, 17 and 30 metres. Hardy will also try to operate RTTY and PSK31. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau (e-mail requests for bureau cards can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Their web page is at http://www.mydarc.de/dl3kwr [TNX DL3KWR] HB0- Laci/HA0HW, Tomi/HA4DX and Geza/HA4XG will be active as HB0/homecall from Masescha (1350 metres a.s.l.), Liechtenstein on 6-14 November. They will operate on the HF bands (with an emphasis on 160 and 80 metres) CW, SSB and maybe some digital modes, plus 2m tropo and MS. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW] I - Special event station II0VUI will be acti
[DX-NEWS] ARLP045 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP045 ARLP045 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP45 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 45 ARLP045 >From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 2, 2007 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP045 ARLP045 Propagation de K7RA Average daily solar flux and sunspot numbers were unchanged from last week. The average sunspot number was easy to figure, since there were none. Average daily solar flux was essentially the same, 67.3 and 67.2. Since this is a new month, it is time to go over some monthly sunspot averages. But more about sunspots later. A big surprise this week was last weekend's 15 meter activity during the CQ World Wide DX Phone Contest. We've recently reported 10 and 15 meter activity that seemed surprising for the bottom of the solar cycle, but openings on Saturday and Sunday, October 27-28 seemed to have little precedent. N3RD and KC1XX worked 139 and 150 countries, respectively, in the contest, all on 15 meters. All this with still no sunspots. Dave Hawes, N3RD of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (about 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia) wrote, "The band opened strongly to Europe both mornings, but from the East Coast, there were virtually no eastern Asians to be had, with only one JA logged here. Several VKs and ZLs made it through, as did A35, V7, KH6, and FO. KL7RA squeaked through with an ESP level signal. Of course, the N-S path provided many strong signals, and there was a good showing from Africa and the Middle East as well. If this is what no sunspots is like, I can hardly wait for some to show up. There's no meters like 15 meters!" I should point out though that N3RD used an array of three stacked 5-element Yagis. And KC1XX, the station that worked 150 countries on 15 meters, has an even more impressive antenna installation, which you can see at, http://www.kc1xx.com. We've commented recently that the recent 10-meter activity is a surprise at the bottom of the cycle, but another opinion was put forward by Bob Adams, W7UH of Bryantown, Maryland. Regarding north-south propagation on 10 meters, he wrote, "In the 55 years I have been listening and working 10-meters, this is not unusual. In fact it's quite common. People should pay more attention to their logbooks and their memories. North/South propagation is quite common on 10 meters from all parts of the U.S. to Central and South America and the Caribbean." Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA commented, "I think Bob, W7UH summarized his 10-meter experiences very well. I think the bands are open a heck of a lot more than we realize - and when a contest comes along, it really shows." Carl also commented that, "we have to remember that sunspots are not the cause of F2 region ionization - it's radiation at wavelengths between 10 and 100 nm (nanometers). Sunspots, just like 10.7 cm solar flux, are proxies for the true ionizing radiation." Carl continued, "The closest measurement we have is the GOES X-ray data at 0.1 to 0.8 nm in the Weekly Report put out by the Space Weather Prediction Center, and those wavelengths impact the D region. When the next report comes out Tuesday evening, we'll see if there was any increased radiation in the 0.1 to 0.8 nm band - that could indicate we had increased radiation in the 10 to 100 nm band." There wasn't the expected increased radiation at .1 to .8 nm. Carl wrote, "If there wasn't an increase, it was probably a combination of moving into northern hemisphere winter and some geomagnetic activity that enhanced the mid and low altitude F2 region." Jack Emerson, W4TJE of Fancy Gap, Virginia works 15 meters with a 7-element Yagi at 100 feet and a 5-element Yagi at 75 feet. He wrote, "Maybe my set-up on 15 meters is giving me a head-start, but over the past month many other East Coast stations have discovered that 15 has reawakened as well. What we have been hearing is much more than the seasonal improvement we always get this time of year, though that surely is helping. Listening to the band over the past month at my QTH, you would think we were closer to the top than to the bottom. I'm not exaggerating. I have filled log page after log page with Europeans and Mid-East stations on phone and CW. But hearing the JA on 15m this past weekend, with the solar flux at 68 I think, that takes the cake. Though he was too weak for me to work, I did hear stations as far east as W9 working him." Here at K7RA, I went out mobile on Sunday with a set of monoband whips, and worked several Caribbean and South American stations before discovering that I was using the 10 meter instead of the 15 meter antenna. We received many other reports from people surprised at the no-sunspot propagation on 15, as well as 10 and 12 meters. It may be that we're experiencing a combination of factors, including DX stations with great antennas, and also spotting networks that bring many stations on the air when an opening occurs. All of this conspires to contrast our on-air experiences with the remembered or misremembered
