[DX-NEWS] ARLP050 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP050 ARLP050 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP50 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 50 ARLP050 >From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 30, 2007 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP050 ARLP050 Propagation de K7RA Sunspots appeared over several days in the past week. November 24-27 had daily sunspot numbers of 15, 12 and 11. Otherwise, the Sun has been blank. In the previous reporting period, November 15-21, there were only two days with sunspots, and the daily sunspot numbers on both days were 13. The result is the average daily sunspot number from the previous reporting period to the current (November 22-28) reporting period rose from 3.7 to 5.4. There were no days with geomagnetic storms, and geomagnetic conditions should be quiet over the near term. The next recurring solar wind stream is expected December 17. Expect more weeks of no sunspots, with occasional appearances for a few days at a time. The U.S. Air Force predicts a planetary A index of 5 for the next ten days. For the week, Geophysical Institute Prague predicts quiet geomagnetic conditions for today, November 30, quiet to unsettled December 1, and back to quiet conditions for December 2-6. This weekend is the ARRL 160 Meter Contest, which begins today at 2200z. This is a CW only contest, and you can study the rules at, http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/160-meters.html. Check out a resource for 160 meter propagation in the Northern Hemisphere at, http://solar.spacew.com/www/160pred.html. This is from the same folks who publish the Proplab-Pro HF Radio Propagation Laboratory software. They say version 3.0 is radically updated, and will be released this week, on Monday, December 3. Unlike W6ELprop and some other propagation software, this one is not free, and in fact is likely the most expensive propagation software that hams will run across. But it looks like a powerful program. Another one that is quite powerful is ACE-HF, with info at, http://acehf.com. ACE stands for "Animated Communications Effectiveness," and it was originally developed for the military by a non-ham, who was able to obtain licensing for it upon retirement. Tomas Hood, NW7US, who writes the monthly propagation column for CQ Magazine has a page devoted to it on his personal web site at, http://hfradio.org/ace-hf. There were more reports of interesting 10 meter propagation. In the CQ World Wide DX Contest on November 25, Doug Charette, W5GA of Wagoner, Oklahoma reported that he worked V51AS in Namibia around 1700z. Doug uses a very modest commercial multiband vertical antenna, and heard the African station at S-5. He was surprised that he didn't hear many South American stations on 10 meters in the contest. Also in the contest, Phil Finkle, K6EID of Marietta, Georgia worked 6W1RW (Senegal) on 10 meters at 1409z on Saturday. On the same band on Sunday around 1630z he worked V51AS, D4C (Cape Verde) and 3X5A (Guinea). Walt Knodle, W7TTE of Bend, Oregon heard V51AS very clearly on Sunday morning on 10 meters (he didn't say what time), but the opening only lasted about three minutes. Around the same time he heard LW5EE in Argentina, which also disappeared shortly. Fabrizio Valdirosa, an Italian shortwave listener in Rome, reports he also observed the 12 meter opening on November 21 reported in our extra post-Thanksgiving Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP049. Fabrizio reported that this was the first time he's heard Mozambique on 12 meters, and could hear C91R working North American stations. He wrote, "This opening happened just at the onset of some geomagnetic activity, as I have seen other times. When the Kp index starts to go up, we have good openings on the higher bands, usually from Europe to Africa and South America." 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 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/. Sunspot numbers for November 22 through 28 were 0, 0, 15, 12, 11, 0 and 0 with a mean of 5.4. 10.7 cm flux was 69.7, 70, 71.3, 70.7, 71.5, 71.4, and 71.2 with a mean of 70.8. Estimated planetary A indices were 13, 10, 12, 11, 8, 4 and 3 with a mean of 8.7. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 6, 8, 8, 8, 6, 5 and 3, with a mean of 6.3. /EX -- 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] [425ENG] 425 DX News #865 [Calendar]
> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 1 December 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 865 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by IK1ADH and I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 01/12 C6AGY: Treasure Cay (NA-080), Bahamas 863 till 01/12 E51MMM and E51NNN: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cooks 861 till 01/12 HL: Chung Island (AS-060) * by HLs and JAs 865 till 02/12 AU1JCB, AU2JCB, AU4JCB: special callsigns (India) 864 till 02/12 AU7JCB, AU8JCB, AU9JCB: special callsigns (India) 864 till 02/12 AT0JCB: special callsign (India) 864 till 02/12 AY7X: Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (SA-008) 864 till 02/12 TM7AJ: special station (France)863 till 02/12 V25W: Antigua (NA-100) 861 till 03/12 VP2MVX, VP2MFO, VP2MNR, VP2MSC: Montserrat (NA-103)863 till 05/12 YC0IEM: Bangka Island (OC-144) 861 till 06/12 IU2IPY: special callsign 843 till 07/12 5R8NL: Madagascar 865 till 08/12 KH6/I0TWA: Hawaii (OC-019) 862 till 09/12 AO, AN, AM: special prefixes (Spain) 852 till 09/12 TM7IET: special callsign (France) 865 till 09/12 TM8T: special event station (France) 864 till 12/12 XU7BUM: Cambodia 861 till 14/12 TZ6JA: Mali863 till 17/12 XF4YK, XF4YW, 6E4LM: Socorro (NA-030), Revillagigedo 864 till 18/12 P40TA and P40K: Aruba (SA-036) 864 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 26/01/08 EA8/ON5JV and EA8/ON6AK: Tenerife (AF-004) 861 till Feb 2008 DP0GVN: Neumayer Base (DL-03, AN-016) 812 till 15/05/08 YI9MI: Iraq863 till 30/06/08 VR10: special prefix (Hong Kong) 843 till Aug 2008 C91R: Mozambique 855 till 30/09/08 9A73AA: special callsign 855 till Nov 2008 YE2IPY: special callsign 864 till ?? R1ANR: "Blue One Runway", Antarctica 863 01/12-10/12 C56JJ: The Gambia 863 01/12-02/12 AO7TV/P: Punta del Perro lighthouse865 01/12HS80A: special event station 864 03/12-20/01/08 3D2AG: Rotuma (OC-060) 865 05/12-08/12 VP9/VE3ZF: Bermuda (NA-005)865 06/12-11/12 VP5/K0OK and VP5E: Providenciales (NA-002) 857 06/12-11/12 VP5/KB7UB and
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #865
> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 1 December 2007A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 865 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3D2_rot - Tony, 3D2AG/FO5RK expects to depart for Rotuma [425DXN 855] on 1 December and to reach the island by the 3rd. Because of his busy work-related schedule during the first two weeks, Tony will be able to operate full time only from 15 December, hopefully until end of January. Updates (on-line logs included) will be available at http://www.3d2ag.fr.tc/ 5R8 - Remco, PG0A is active holiday style as 5R8NL from Madagascar until 7 December. QSL via PA7FM. Effective immediately, this QSL route applies also to Remco's 2005 operation (Dennis says that "there's a small backlog of direct QSL requests that will be cleared after this operation as soon as possible"). Further information at http://www.5r8nl.pa7fm.nl/ [TNX PA7FM] 6Y - Dave, KY1V will operate CW as 6Y1V from Jamaica (NA-097) for the ARRL 10 Meters Contest (8-9 December). QSL via OH3RB. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] 9M0 - Ed, N1UR and Christine, KB1PQN will be active from Layang Layang, Spratly Islands (AS-051) on 22-30 March. QSL via K2RET. The web site for the operation is at http://www.n1urspratly.com/ [TNX N1UR] CU - Michael, G7VJR will be active as CU2/G7VJR from Sao Miguel (EU-003), Azores from 26 December to 3 January. He plans to operate CW only on a range of HF bands including 160 metres, with a small linear and verticals. QSL via G7VJR. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW shortly after the operation. [TNX G7VJR] EA - Adolfo, EA7TV plans to operate as AO7TV/P from the lighthouse at Punta del Perro (ARLHS SPA-301) on 1-2 December. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX EA7TV] F - Special callsign TM7IET will be aired until 9 December to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Institut Electrotechnique de Toulouse, nowadays ENSEEIHT (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electrotechnique, Electronique, Informatique, Hydraulique et Telecommunications). Expect activity on the HF bands SSB, CW and PSK31, and on the VHF bands FM. QSL via F4DQG. [F5NQL] GJ - Look for Rob/MJ0RLJ (MW0RLJ), Anthony/MJ0JZE (MW0JZE) and Russell/GJ5XW (G5XW) to be active from Jersey (EU-013) on 7-10 December. Their main plain is to operate SSB (with some QRS CW) on 40, 80 and 160 metres during their nights. All QSLs direct to G5XW. [TNX G5XW] HC - Peter, DL9DAK will be active from Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands early next year: 02-11 JanuaryDL9DAK/HC1Quito 15-18 JanuaryDL9DAK/HC8Galapagos 19-21 JanuaryDL9DAK/HC2Guayaquil He will operate only digital modes (PSK, Olivia, RTTY, Feldhell, etc.) on 17, 20 and from time to time 40 metres, with vertical dipoles and 50 watts. QSL via home call. Further information at http://www.dl9dak.de/ [TNX DL9DAK] HL - A group of operators from Korea and Japan (DS4NMJ, HL4CEL, HL4CEY, JA1HGY, JA1RJU and JA1WPX) will be active from Chung Island (AS-060) for 24 hours, from about 4 UTC on 30 November through 4 UTC on 1 December. [TNX F5NQL] KH0 - Hiro/JF1OCQ (W1VX and KH0D), Toshi/JE1SYN (N3YS) and Hide/JI1JPJ (AB2WE) will be active from Saipan, on 7-10 December. They plan to operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FM on on 80-10 metres. QSL via home calls. [TNX JF1OCQ] KL - Rick, K6VVA injured his hand/wrist during his latest operation from NA-041, and has had to cancel his planned trip for the ARRL 160 Meter Contest [425DXN 861]. It looks like he may go back in February. Further information is expected in due course. [TNX www.islandchaser.com] TR - Roland, F8EN will be active again as TR8CR (or with a special callsign) from Libreville, Gabon from 7 December to 12 January. He will operate especially on 20 metres CW (14005 kHz) and SSB (14125-14200 kHz), and will also t
[DX-NEWS] 6W1SJ QSL cards are out
Dear DX'er, I am happy to inform you that all 6W1SJ direct QSL request received by 27. November 2007 are in the mail. Please give BH post some time (it can take up to 4 weeks to deliver air-mail letter) before start asking questions on mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks. 73's Boris T93Y -- 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 --
