[DX-NEWS] ARLP009 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP009 ARLP009 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP09 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 9 ARLP009 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA February 29, 2008 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP009 ARLP009 Propagation de K7RA A sunspot emerged a few days ago, a welcome sight at cycle minimum. Sunspot numbers for February 25-28 were 12, 13, 12 and 12, but that spot (number 983) is now gone, over the eastern horizon of our Sun. If the February 29 sunspot number is 0, this means our three month moving average of sunspot numbers centered on January will be 8.5, slightly higher than the last reading. Our moving average centered on June 2007 through January 2008 is 18.7, 15.4, 10.2, 5.4, 3, 6.9, 8.1 and 8.5, with the minimum centered on October 2007. A 13-month predicted smoothed sunspot table from NOAA at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/weekly/Predict.txt shows a combination of known and projected values. On February 6, when this was released, the August 2007 value represents mostly known values, because January's actual sunspot numbers are known. All that is missing is February, which has a predicted value, averaged in with the previous months. November's value is made up with three fewer months of actual values. Next week a new table should be released. Remember that a sunspot number does not represent the actual number of sunspots. The minimum non-zero sunspot number is 11, because a value of 10 is counted for each cluster of sunspots, and a value of 1 is added for each individual spot. So the February 26 sunspot number of 13 represents one group containing three sunspots. This week geomagnetic conditions have been quiet, until yesterday when the effects of a solar wind stream were felt, taking the planetary A index to 22 and K index as high as 4. This moderate disturbance should decline, with a predicted planetary A index at 15, 10 and 5 for January 29 through March 2. Our next unsettled period should be March 8, 9 and 12. Geophysical Institute Prague predicts unsettled to active conditions February 29, unsettled March 1-3, quiet to unsettled March 4, and quiet March 5-6. For the ARRL International SSB DX Contest this weekend conditions should be good (no geomagnetic storms), but probably no sunspots. We are just a few weeks away from the Spring Equinox, always a great time for HF propagation. It would be nice to have some sunspots as well. Last week's bulletin contained an erroneous explanation about discerning the difference between Cycle 23 sunspots and the new Cycle 24 spots. Tom Lizak, K1TL of Tiverton, Rhode Island caught this. The information given was only true for the Sun's northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere spots have exactly the opposite orientation of spots north of the Sun's equator. Also, new Cycle 24 spots should appear away from the equator in the early part of the cycle. Go to http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_mag/512/ to look at the latest magnetogram. For February 28 you can see some white and black spots, but these represent magnetically active areas. Real sunspots will have the white and black areas together. You can search recent archives to display magnetograms prior to the current ones by clicking on the link for Search Real Time Data. There you can enter a range of dates in the -MM-DD format, choose the resolution you want, (512 or 1024), and select the MDI Magnetogram image type. We had some good propagation reports this week, including sporadic-E propagation on 6 meters. Dan Eskenazi, K7SS in Seattle, reported 10 and 6 meter E-skip for February 25-26. On 6 meters he worked Utah, Nebraska and Kansas, reporting that the stations he heard were very loud. Jon Jones, N0JK reports that on February 26, around 0300z XE2WWW (in grid square EL06) worked all call areas in the contiguous 48 states except for 1, 2 and 3. Jon also heard VE3KP take advantage of an e-layer link to the F2 layer. He worked VP6DX in Ducie on 6 meters. Jon said the 6-meter opening lasted from 2200z February 25 until after 0500z February 26, seven solid hours of E-skip. On February 24 Jon wrote, VP6DX's consistent coverage of 10 and 12 meters, high power and good antennas allow the MUF to be tracked with reasonable precision. Today for example, the 12 meter SSB and CW stations were booming into Kansas at 2100 UTC. Yet the MUF fell short of 28 MHz. But a few minutes later the 10 meter station could be heard weakly, almost like 6 meter scatter. One can review the packet cluster spots for VP6DX on various bands and get an approximate view of the MUF and LUF between Ducie and various parts of the world. Even different parts of the lower 48 states experience different propagation. Florida, Texas and California seem to have far more 10 meter propagation to Ducie than other parts of the country. Joe Reisert, W1JR of Amherst, New Hampshire sent an interesting report about fun he had recently with QRP. Joe wrote, The last two weeks have been pretty
[DX-NEWS] The Updated Mega DX Peditions Honor Roll - VP6DX broke most records!
Mega DX Peditions Honor Roll have been maintained now for twelve years. The Honor Roll today includes data of 113 DX Peditions that have worked 30.000 or more QSO's. The oldest DX Pedition found of the list is 8Z4A from 1979. The Honor Roll includes data on: - the total amount and uniques of the DX Pedition, - the amount of QSO's to the six continents, - the amount of QSO's on different modes, - the amount of QSO's on different bands, - the team members of the DX pedition and - the QSL and web info of the DX pedition. The data is collected from DX bulletins, web pages, DX magazines, presentations and directly from individual DX pedition team members. All data has not been received from the 113 DX peditions listed. The purpose of DX Pedition Honor Roll is to help DX peditions to plan their operation, to understand the possibilities to make QSO's to different continents and to optimize the efforts. For DX foundations and individual DXers the Honor Roll gives also a plenty of data. The two-day-old VP6DX operation from Ducie broke most of the records that can be broken at the sunspot minimum. Here's a short overview on some of the today updated Mega DX Peditions Honor Roll records: Total amount of QSO's from DX Pedition: 1 VP6DX Ducie I.Feb 11 - 27 2008183 686 2 D68CComoros Is. Feb 8 - 28 2001 168 722 3 3B9CRodrigues I.Mar 19 - Apr 12 2004153 113 4 3B7CSt. Brandon Sep 9 - 24 2007 137 500 5 4O3TMontenegro July 20 - Aug 13 2006 120 000 6 N8S Swains I. Apr 4 -15 2007 117 205 7 5A7ALibya Nov 16 - 29 2006112 232 8 VU7RG/MY Lakshadweep Is.Jan 15 - 29 2007110 201 9 ZL9CI Campbell Is.Jan 7 - 24 1999 96 004 10 K1B Baker Howland Apr 28 - May 7 2002 95 127 Most QSO's North America, Europe and Asia: North America: 1 97860 VP6DX 2 49964 D68C 3 44914 3Y0X 4 42138 ZL9CI 5 34379 TI9M 6 29809 3B9C 7 28818 ZL7C 8 28194 H40AA 9 27489 T33C 10 23697 VP6DI Europe: 1 98353 D68C 2 92099 3B9C 3 85250 3B7C 4 71900 5A7A 5 51630 VP6DX 6 39464 4J1FS 7 36200 FT5XO 8 33413 TI9M 9 5 1A0KM 10 32120 J20MM Asia: 1 27609 3B9C 2 25488 VP6DX 3 24860 9M0C 4 24755 T33C 5 24750 3B7C 6 23423 K7C 7 21112 BS7H 8 20752 ZL9CI 9 19333 VK9DNX 10 18067 VK9MM Most QSO's on CW, SSB and RTTY CW. 1 87294 VP6DX 2 84482 D68C 3 78375 3B7C 4 77610 3B9C 5 64679 VU7RG 6 60091 5A7A 7 58947 N8S 8 52270 ZL9CI 9 45687 FT5XO 10 45536 VK0IR SSB. 1 86140 VP6DX 2 75497 D68C 3 66826 3B9C 4 52250 3B7C 5 49490 N8S 6 46473 5A7A 7 42146 TI9M 8 41343 ZL9CI 9 40355 4J1FS 10 40076 VU7RG RTTY: 1 10252 VP6DX 2 8948J5C 3 7889XT2C 4 7423N8S 5 68753B7C 6 52803B9C 7 49205A7A 8 4668VU7RG 9 4167D68C 10 4150TI9M Top Three on various bands: 160m 1 76535A7A 2 6671VP6DX 3 5082R1MVW 80m 1 18348 VP6DX 2 18021 5A7A 3 13750 3B7C 40m 1 29423 VP6DX 2 26497 5A7A 3 22661 VU7RG 30m 1 14275 VP6DX 2 13750 3B7C 3 11714 VU7RG 20m 1 41256 4O3T 2 33536 VP6DX 3 31913 4J1FS 17m 1 31489 VP6DX 2 24728 N8S 3 20625 3B7C 15m 1 32126 D68C 2 29920 3B9C 3 29486 VP6DI 12m 1 21208 D68C 2 16858 3B9C 3 13261 VP6DX 10m 1 40052 D68C 2 23535 3B9C 3 16500 3W8CW Those interested in the data can ask for the Excel Sheet (4
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #878
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 1 March 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 878 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW C6 - Randy, W6SJ will be active as C6AWS from Grand Bahama (NA-080) on 6-12 March. He plans to operate holiday style with an emphasis on 30, 17 and 12 metres, as there seems to be special interest in them. QSL via home call. [TNX W6SJ] DL - Clubstation DARC Ortsverband will be active as DA0HEL and DL0IH from Helgoland Island (EU-127) with the special DOK HEL2008 from 1 through 31 March. QSL via DF6QC, bureau preferred. [TNX VA3RJ] EA - Adolfo, EA7TV wil be active as EA5/EA7TV from Tabarca Island (EU-093) on 6-9 March. Expect him to operate mainly on 20 and 40 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX EA7TV] FO0- The TX5C team set sail on 28 February around 3.00 UTC and will operate as FO5A/mm while en route to Clipperton Atoll (NA-011). Conditions permitting, they should be QRV from the island on 7-17 March. Announced frequencies are as follows: CW SSB RTTY - 160m 1827 1847 - 80m3507 37973577 40m7007 70577037 30m 10107 - 10127 20m 1402714197/14227 14077 17m 180781814718107 15m 210272129521077 12m 248972494724927 10m 280272849728077 6m5010750127 - The pilots will be Dave Anderson/K4SV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Jean-Michel Duthilleul/F6AJA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Chris Sauvageot/DL5NAM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). QSL via N7CQQ, direct (P.O. Box 31553, Laughlin, Nevada 89028, USA) or bureau. The log will be uploaded to LoTW. Bookmark http://www.clipperton2008.org/ for futher information, log search and and regular updates. FR - Jean-Pierre, F5HIJ will operate as FR/F5HIJ from Reunion (AF-016) on 3-31 March. Look for him to be active between 18 and 20 UTC. [TNX F5NQL] H4 - Bernhard, DL2GAC will be active once again as H44MS from Honiara, Guadalcanal Island (OC-047), Solomon Islands between 4 March and 28 April. Hermann, DL2NUD will be joining him until 7 April. The two plan to operate 2 metre EME WSJT from grid locator QI90xn. [TNX The Daily DX] HK0- 5J0E will be the callsign the Texas DX Society team [425DXN 877] will be using from San Andres during the ARRL DX SSB Contest. During all other times, they will be signing HK0/homecall on SSB, CW and digital modes. The operators (WF5W, W5PF, NM5G, K5WAF, W5PR and N4AL) will be on the island from 1 to 6 March. QSL for all callsigns via W5PF. [TNX W9DX] KH9- Colin, WA2YUN is on work assignment on Wake Island (OC-053) for an extended period. He will be operating as WA2YUN/KH9 as time permits. QSL via K2PF. [TNX K2PF] PJ2- Chad, WE9V is active as PJ2/WE9V from Curacao (SA-006) until 4 March. QSL via home call (direct, bureau or LoTW). He will participate in the ARRL DX SSB Contest as PJ2T (QSL via N9AG or LoTW). [TNX WE9V] V2 - Chris, M0AJT will be signing V26CC from Antigua (NA-100) on 1-14 March, BERU Contest included. He plans to operate mainly CW with some SSB using 100 watts and a multiband vertical. [TNX K1XN] VK - John, K8UP and Marsha, N8FE will be active holiday style from Australia on 3-13 March. Expect them to operate as VK4AIJ and VK4AII on 20, 15 and 10 metres SSB. QSL via N8FE; logs will be uploaded to LoTW. [TNX N8FE] W - Curtis, KI6KUK and possibily other operators from the Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club (www.palosverdes.com/pvarc) will operate as K6PV from Santa Catalina Island (NA-066) from about 22 UTC on 6 March through about 23 UTC on the 10th. Expect activity on 20, 40 and 80 metres SSB. QSL via K6PV. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST (SSB) --- Object of the contest is for W/VE amateurs to work as
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #878 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 1 March 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 878 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 02/03 TM1R: special event call (France) 869 till 03/03 3A/EA1DVY: Monaco 877 till 03/03 J79XBI: Dominica (NA-101) 872 till 04/03 PJ2/WE9V: Curacao (SA-006) 878 till 06/03 C56YK and C56JC: Gambia873 till 07/03 V4: St. Kitts (NA-104) * by W1USN, AA1M, W1SSR 867 till 09/03 V31MN: Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye (NA-073)877 till 10/03 DP0GVN: Neumayer Base (Antarctica) 872 till 11/03 5Z4HW: Kenya 877 till 11/03 H7/IV3IYH and HT2N: Nicaragua 877 till 11/03 S21YV: Bangladesh 872 till 14/03 3B8/G4FKH: Mauritius 873 till 14/03 II9CAR: special event station 869 till 15/03 SV9: Crete * by DJ7RJ 876 till 15/03 TT8PK: Chad873 till 16/03 LY90: special event stations (Lithuania) 876 till 21/03 FR5EZ: Reunion Island (AF-016) 876 till 22/03 5X1NH: Uganda 876 till 23/03 PJ7/W8EB and PJ7B: Sint Maarten (NA-105) 877 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 prefix (Hong Kong) 843 till August C91R: Mozambique 855 till 30/09 9A73AA: special callsign 855 till November YE2IPY: special callsign 864 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 ON1000NOTGER: special call (Belgium) 873 till 31/12 ON40BAF: special event call869 till 31/12 SB1658OZ and SC1658OZ: special callsigns (Sweden) 871 till 31/12 SH1658DK and SH1658OZ: special callsigns (Sweden) 871 till 31/12 SK1658DK and SK1658OZ: special callsigns (Sweden) 871 till December HF0POL: Henryk Arctowski Station (South Shetlands) 868 till ?? WA2YUN/KH9: Wake Island (OC-053) 878 01/03-20/03 BU2AI/9: Matsu Islands (AS-113)877 01/03-31/03 DA0HEL and DL0IH: Helgoland Island (EU-127)878 01/03-06/03 HK0: San Andres (NA-033) * by K5WAF, N4AL, NM5G878 01/03-06/03 HK0: San Andres (NA-033) * by W5PF, W5PR, WF5W 878 01/03-02/03 5J0E: San Andres (NA-033) 878 01/03-08/03 J88DR: St. Vincent (NA-109)877 01/03-30/03 OL30SPACE: special station 877 01/03-02/03 TI50DX: Costa Rica 877 01/03-14/03 V26CC: Antigua (NA-100)878 03/03-31/03 FR/F5HIJ: Reunion (AF-016) 878 03/03-10/03 V4/G4FAL: St.
