[DX-NEWS] VP6DX logs
The logs up to 2008-02-15 06:14:19 are on line http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/onlinelog/index.php Best wishes Jean-Michel F6AJA -- 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] (Fwd) [NJDXA-L] DX Info
From the NJDXA DX webpage --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:21:01 -0500 From: Bill Hellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[NJDXA-L] DX Info To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: YUICHI YAMAMOTO a class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;/abr Ducie - VP6DX: Online ogs at: : http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/onlinelog/index.php ZL - New Zealand, Lord Howe and Australia: ON5AX and ON3AX, will sign ZL/ON5AX from Feb 19 to 27th, VK9ALH from Lord Howe,between March 23 to 30 and VK4/ON5AX Australia, between Apr 2nd to èth. HF in CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL vía ON5AX or ON3AX. -- MARIANAS isl: Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:07:03 +0900 From: YUICHI YAMAMOTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll go to KH0(Saipan Is.) from 17 Feb. 2008 to 21 Feb. 2008. By 7K3BKY as AI4GN/AH0. Partially participate ARRLDX CW on Sunday. 73, Yu 7K3BKY. JERSEY: Contest: ARRL DX CW Contest (Feb 16-17, 2008) Submitter's callsign: K2WR Submitter's e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contest callsign: GJ2A DXCC entity: Jersey Operation class:SOABHP CQ zone:14 QSL route: K2WR Operators: K2WR Notes: also QRV prob. no earlier than Thurs. as MJ0AWR (QSL also K2WR) Tks Bill, NG3K: --- End of forwarded message --- -- 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement -- - Description: Binary data - Description: Binary data
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX (Ducie) in ARRL DX CW
http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php News #16- 2008 Feb 15 Directly from Ducie Island: ARRL DX CW contest starts soon. VP6DX will participate in a limited fashion: * On the CW contest bands 160, 80, 40, 20 15 and 10, we probably will not be at the normal frequencies. Operators will pick a frequency based on band conditions. Each operator will make his own decisions about split vs simplex operation, depending on the situation at the time. * We will answer ALL callers (USA/VE and others), and send our contest exchange and log the exchanges received from contest participants. * We won't be chasing multipliers and will not be able to handle pass requests. If another band is open at all, we should have a signal there. Quick QSYs to check non-open bands are time-consuming (manual filter and antenna changes) and not a good use of our time on the island. Meanwhile, other radios will be on non-contest bands and band segments; e.g., 20m SSB or 30m RTTY. These non-contest segment operations will continue as they have the last few days: split operations, with priority to difficult propagation paths. We anticipate no 20m RTTY or 40m SSB during the contest. The contest ends at Feb 17/2359z and it will be late afternoon (4pm) here. 40m will be just opening to Europe, and the low bands will open during the next three hours. -- 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] ARLP007 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP007 ARLP007 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP07 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 7 ARLP007 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA February 15, 2008 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP007 ARLP007 Propagation de K7RA No sunspots appeared this week. Solar flux was about the same as last week. The 45-day outlook for solar flux and planetary A index from NOAA and the Air Force (see http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html) on February 10 was predicting a flat solar flux of 70. Then the following day this was revised to show 72 for February 12-18, then 70 after that. On February 12 this changed to show 72 solar flux for February 13 through the rest of the 45 days. February 10-13 we saw increased geomagnetic activity due to another solar wind stream. The planetary A index, calculated from a number of mostly higher latitude magnetometers, was 18, 17, 11 and 12 over those four days. Alaska's college A index, measured near Fairbanks, was 42, 31, 22 and 26, illustrating the increased geomagnetic activity toward the poles in response to space weather. Here at mid-latitudes, where many of us live, the A index (measured in Virginia) was 13, 16, 6 and 10. That magnetometer is near 38.3 degrees north latitude, which is a little south and of course way east of the Boulder site (at 40.1 degrees north latitude), where we get the K and A index reported on WWV. Jon Jones, N0JK of Wichita, Kansas reports some February E-skip openings on 6 meters. He writes, Es tend to become scarce in February, and March has the lowest occurrence of Es of any month. On February 2 he worked XE2YWB in Central Mexico (DL82) at 2237z on 50.125 MHz with S7 signals. The next day he worked K4EU in Virginia via E-skip on 10 meters. K4EU reported working stations throughout the Midwest that day. Ed Swynar, VE3CUI of Newcastle, Ontario took issue with a statement in last week's bulletin about the absence of sunspots being great for 160 meters. He comments, Such mythology could not be further from the truth this year. The band has been MOST unremarkable this season, to say the least, and it continues to languish away in the doldrums. I thought that perhaps it was something at fault at my end, however, many subscribers to W4ZV's Topband Reflector seem to be of the same opinion. Readers have sent similar reports about both 160 and 75 meters over the past year. It seems that low geomagnetic and sunspot activity should be good for the lower frequencies, but perhaps it is not always the case. Over the past week many, many emails arrived from readers with a link to an article in a daily business publication claiming that we are on the verge of another Maunder Minimum, a decades-long period of little or no sunspot activity that occurred roughly between the years 1640 to 1710. The article appeared with no byline, and it quoted Dr. Kenneth Tapping, of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Penticton, British Columbia. This is the observatory that supplies our daily solar flux values. But I thought the quotes sounded a little strange, and not like Ken. Some readers also felt this way. As one wrote, The article didn't quite ring true, and I have a fairly broad scientific reading list. I sent an email to Ken, who responded that this has been a difficult week for him. A few weeks ago he received a phone call from a woman who engaged him in a long discussion involving possibilities ranging from likely to not likely. He wrote that the article promotes something that is untrue, and in no way do I support the conclusions she assigned to me. I think we can relax about any possible upcoming 70-year period of a quiet Sun. We cannot say that it could not happen, but in fact there is nothing unusual about the current solar cycle minimum, and really no known method of predicting such a period. This weekend is the ARRL International DX CW Contest. The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet. Last weekend I watched an interesting DVD from the local library, a 1994 documentary titled Picture of Light. This has some nice time-lapse long-exposure moving images of Aurora, taken in Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay above 58 degrees north latitude. 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/. Sunspot numbers for February 7 through 13 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 with a mean of 0. 10.7 cm flux was 70.8, 70.9, 72.2, 72.6, 72.1, 72.1, and 70.5 with a mean of 71.6. Estimated
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #876 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 16 February 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 876 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 16/02 FS/SP3IPB and FS/SQ3WN: St. Martin (NA-105)875 till 16/02 FS/SP6IXF and FS/SP7VC: St. Martin (NA-105)875 till 16/02 FT5XR: Kerguelen (AF-048) 875 till 17/02 AB2ST/KH2, KB3LTB/KH2, KG6WTW/KH2: Guam (OC-026) 871 till 17/02 PA/DK5TX: Goeree Overflakkee (EU-146) 875 till 17/02 S21ZDT: Bangladesh 874 till 18/02 VE4GV/6Y5: Jamaica (NA-097)873 till 18/02 CT3/DK7YY and CT3/DL5AXX: Madeira (AF-014) 875 till 18/02 CT3/DL5LYM and CT3/DL8WAA: Madeira (AF-014)875 till 18/02 H7/K9GY: Nicaragua 875 till 18/02 HB0/DJ2MX, HB0/DJ4MZ, HB0/DJ5MW: Liechtenstein 873 till 18/02 HB0/DK4YJ, HB0/DK9TN, HB0/N0MX: Liechtenstein 873 till 18/02 PZ5WW, PZ5DD, PZ5TX, PZ5AY: Suriname 874 till 18/02 WA2USA/4 and K4D: Dauphin Island (NA-213) 874 till 18/02 VP2V/AK0M: British Virgin Islands (NA-023) 875 till 19/02 EA8/SP2JMB: Canary Islands (AF-004)874 till 19/02 J79WI, J79IU, J79KM: Dominica (NA-101) 873 till 19/02 J79PN, J79PC, J7DX: Dominica (NA-101) 873 till 19/02 JD1BMM: Minami-Torishima (OC-073) 873 till 19/02 NP2/N2TTA: US Virgin Islands (NA-106) 875 till 19/02 PJ4/W9RE and PJ4/N5OT: Bonaire (SA-006)875 till 19/02 PJ4/W4OC and PJ4/N4GG: Bonaire (SA-006)875 till 19/02 PT7/HA9RT: Brazil 875 till 19/02 V31TB and V31WO: Belize873 till 20/02 CE0Y/K0HML: Easter Island (SA-001) 875 till 20/02 KP2/K3CT and KP2/K3TEJ: US Virgin Islands (NA-106) 875 till 21/02 E51WWA: Mauke (OC-083), South Cooks873 till 22/02 FS/F5IYJ PJ7/F5IYJ: St. Martin/St. Maarten (NA-105) 873 till 23/02 CN2XW: Morocco 869 till 25/02 V63ZM, V63TR, V63OC: Pohnpei Island (OC-010) 876 till 26/02 T32OU and T32YA: Christmas Island (OC-024) 875 till 27/02 VU2BMS: India 875 till 28/02 JD1BLY, JD1BMO, JD1BMP: Ogasawara (AS-031) 871 till 28/02 VP6DX: Ducie Island (OC-182) 875 till 28/02 VP8DIF: South Georgia (AN-007) 859 till 29/02 ES90: special callsigns (Estonia) 874 till 29/02 V31YN and V31GW: Belize874 till February OJ1ABOA: Aboa Station (Antarctica) 866 till 03/03 J79XBI: Dominica (NA-101) 872 till 06/03 C56YK and C56JC: Gambia873 till 10/03 DP0GVN: Neumayer Base (Antarctica) 872 till 11/03 S21YV: Bangladesh 872 till 14/03 3B8/G4FKH: Mauritius 873 till 14/03 II9CAR: special event station 869 till 15/03 TT8PK: Chad873 till 31/03 J20MB: Djibouti870 till 31/03 LZ130LO: special callsign 867 till 15/04 6W2SC: Senegal 871 till 15/04 J5UAP: Guinea-Bissau 871 till 23/04 UN/4J9M: Kazakhstan876 till April VQ9JC: Diego Garcia (AF-006) 866 till April ZD7X: St. Helena (AF-022) 869 till 07/05 VP5/WA1UKN: Grand Turk (NA-003)874 till MayV73RY: Kwajalein (OC-028) 869 till 15/05 YI9MI: Iraq863 till 30/06 VR10: special
