[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #932
> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < _ 14 March 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 932 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 9A - Special event station 9A09P will be active through the end of the year to celebrate the city of Djurdjevac. A special QSL will be issued and all of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau. [TNX 9A2JK] 9H - Valentin, DL5GA will be active as 9H3GA from Malta (EU-023) on 17-24 March. He will operate holiday style on the HF bands. QSL via home call. [TNX DL5GA] C9 - Cal/WF5W, Paul/W5PF, Madison/W5MJ, Bill/K5WAF, Dale/KG5U and Jim/N4AL will be active on 160-10 metres as C91TX from Bilene, Mozambique from 25 March to 5 April. They plan to have three stations (one for CW, one for SSB and one for digital modes) with amplifiers, log periodics, a 4-square for 40m and possibly a 4-square for 80m, and a vertical for 160, 80 and 30m. They will also participate in the CQ WW WPX SSB Contest. QSL via W5PF, direct or bureau. The page for the operation can be found on the Texas DX Society's site (http://www.tdxs.net/c91.html). [TNX K5DX] E5 - Tim, NL8F will be active as E51COF from Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cook Islands from 21 March to 4 April. He plans to operate SSB on 10, 15, 20, 40, 80 and maybe 17 metres. QSl via K8NA. [TNX www.islandchaser.com] GI - The Foyle & District ARC will be active as GB5SPD on 14-17 March to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. QSL via MN0AKU, direct or bureau. [TNX F5NQL] KH4- After a seven-year hiatus, in late January 2009 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced that they would once again allow amateur radio operations from Midway Atoll (OC-030) "on a trial basis" [425DXN 926]. A multi national team of 19 operators will be active as K4M from Midway for ten days between 5 and 19 October. They will have 5-6 stations active on 160-6 metres, with at least one station on 20m around the clock. Furtherinformation, including details on how contribute to this expensive expedition, can be found at www.midway2009.com. OY - Lars, OZ1FJB will be active as OY/OZ1FJB from the Faroe Islands (EU-018) from 16 March to 1 April. He will be QRV during his spare time, indicatively on 21-24 UTC and 6-7 UTC, and will operate mainly CW with some SSB. He has also been permitted to operate on 60 metres, look for him on 5403.5 khz USB. QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K] S2 - Upon arrival in Dhaka, just in the middle of a civil unrest, the Korea DX Club's team found out that the previously issued licence (S21KD) had been revoked. They were able to get a new licence (S21ZCY) on 8 March, but they could not retrieve the radio gear that had been confiscated at the airport. On 10 March, while the local situation was deteriorating, they surrendered and cancelled the operation, as "safety is the first priority". Their website is at http://dxpedition.co.kr/ TK - Dragan/9A2SX, Igor/9A3AXX, Hrle/9A6XX and Marko/9A8MM will be active as TK/homecall from Corsica (EU-014) on 18-22 March. They will operate on 160-10 metres and will participate in the Russian DX Contest (21-22 March, http://www.rdxc.org/)as TK7P. QSLs via 9A8MM (all of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau). [TNX 9A6XX] V6 - Yoshi, JJ8DEN is currently active as V63PR from Pohnpei (OC-010), Micronesia until 19 March. On 20-24 March he will be active from the Chuuk Islands (OC-011). He expects to operate CW, RTTY and PSK31 on 160-10 metres. QSL via home call. VE - VC3Y is a special callsign for the 50th anniversary of the York Region Amateur Radio Club (http://yrarc.com/yrarc/). The club hopes to have it on the air as much as possible until 31 March. On 21-22 March it will be used by Doug/VE3CWO,Neil/VE3SST, Igor/VE3ZF, Valdas/VE3VO and Brent/VE3IRT to activate Bluffers Park Island (CISA new) and lighthouse. QSL via VE3CWO, direct or bureau. [TNX VA3JI and VE3ZF] VP5- Art,
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #932 [Calendar]
> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < _ 14 March 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 932 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 14/03 V73J and V73M: Majuro (OC-029) 929 till 15/03 TM2HC: Hoedic Island (EU-048) 931 till 16/03 H40FN, H40HP, H40MS: Pigeon Island (OC-065), Temotu931 till 16/03 SV9/DJ7RJ: Crete (EU-015) 925 till 17/03 CE9XX, FT5YJ and VP8DLM: Antarctic adventure 928 till 17/03 V4/G4FAL: St. Kitts (NA-104) 927 till 19/03 CT3/DL3KWR and CT3/DL3KWF: Madeira (AF-014)925 till 19/03 V25WY and V25OP: Antigua (NA-100) 931 till 19/03 V63PR: Pohnpei (OC-010), Micronesia932 till 22/03 7Q7AH: Malawi 929 till 22/03 II0IDP, II0IDR, II0IGU: special event stations 931 till 22/03 II1ICS, II1IGG, II8ICN, II9ICF: special event stations 931 till 25/03 D44TXQ, D44TXP, D44TXO, D44TXF: Sal Island (AF-086)929 till 25/03 D44TXR, D44TXI, D44TXS: Sal Island (AF-086)929 till 25/03 J79WR: Dominica (NA-101) 930 till 26/03 J38CW: Grenada 931 till 28/03 FR/F5UOW: Reunion Island (AF-016) 930 till 31/03 6W2SC: Senegal 915 till 31/03 IY1GM: special callsign923 till 31/03 J5UAP: Guinea-Bissau 915 till 31/03 N2OB/150 and N2OB/LH: special event operation 923 till 31/03 VC3Y: special event callsign 932 till 31/03 VP8KF: Falkland Islands (SA-002) 930 till 01/04 C6ANM: Nassau (NA-001), Bahamas922 till 01/04 J79XBI: Dominica (NA-101) 924 till 15/04 FT5XS(/mm): (Kerguelen)931 till 28/04 H44MS: Solomon Islands 923 till April OD5/IV3YIM: Lebanon915 till April VK2LNX and VK2FSNJ: Maatsuyker Island (OC-233) 909 till April VQ9JC: Diego Garcia (AF-006) 921 till April ZS8T: Marion Island (AF-021) 925 till 05/05 5X1NH: Uganda 931 till June 5X4X: Uganda 923 till June AP2AHSF: Pakistan 929 till 02/07 TT8CF: Chad930 till 31/08 LY1000: special prefix 924 till 31/08 VR2/F4BKV: Hong Kong Island (AS-006) 908 till September LZ8WHST and LZ17ARDF: special event stations 924 till 30/11 FT5WO: Crozet Islands (AF-008) 916 till November HF0APAS: South Shetlands (AN-010) 921 till November OD5/W5YFN: Lebanon 915 till 31/12 9A09P: special event station 932 till 31/12 9A48IFATCA: special event station 926 till 31/12 GB250RB: special event call (Scotland) 925 till 31/12 GB40WAB: special callsign 922 till 31/12 HE8 and HB8: special prefixes (Switzerland)921 till 31/12 IA3GM: special callsign927 till 31/12 II2RAI: special callsign 924 till 31/12 Z30MCWG: special callsign 928 till ?? R1ANB: "Mirny" Antarctic station 928 14/03-17/03 GB5SPD: special event station (Northern Ireland) 932 14/03-24/03 JS6RRR and JI3DST/JS6: Miyako Islands (AS-079) 931 14/03-17/03 R150ASP: Gogland Island (EU-133) 931 14/03-16/03 T88CD and T88WW: Palau (OC-009)929 14/03-27/03 VK9AA: Cocos (Keeling) (OC-003)927 15/03CS6A: Murtinas Posterior lighthouse931 15/03-28/03 FG/F5TGR: Guadeloupe (NA-102) 929 15/03-22/0
[DX-NEWS] ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP011 ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP11 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 11 ARLP011 >From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 13, 2009 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP011 ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA Last week's Propagation Forecast Bulletin again mentioned briefly appearing sunspots, and it happened again this week. For just two days, another Cycle 23 spot appeared, numbered 1014. The latitude of the spot was consistent with an old and fading solar cycle. As this period of quiet Sun drags on, statistic based projections of a return to solar activity continue to be pushed out. Early Friday morning the planetary K index is rising to 5, then 5. This is from a stream of solar wind bearing down upon us. NOAA and the US Air Force predict a planetary A index of 15 for today (March 13), 10 for Saturday, then back to 5. Tough to forecast this far out, but they show that active region returning on April 9. On March 10 at 2333z the Australian Space Forecast Center released a bulletin predicting "increased geomagnetic activity expected due to coronal hole high speed wind stream from 13-14 March 2009." The Center has 26 email alert services that anyone can subscribe to. Check http://www.ips.gov.au/Products_and_Services/4/1 and click on any subject title to subscribe to that list. Geophysical Institute Prague projects unsettled conditions for March 13-14, and quiet conditions March 15-19. Chuck Zabreskie, KE5HPY of Houston, Texas wrote with an anecdote about last weekend's propagation. Chuck wrote, "Thought I'd mention a pleasant surprise last Saturday afternoon (2100-2200Z) during the recent International DX contest. My rig is 100W into a 35' OCF (off-center fed) dipole, nothing fancy. I need to look where the others aren't piled up. 20m was busy as you'd expect so I took a look at 15m after looking at W6EL Prop. Great signals from Peru, Argentina and Brazil among others, but little heard to the north of my QTH in Houston, Texas (30 deg N). Feeling lucky, I looked at 10m and also had great copy from Argentina and Brazil until 2230. Nothing in W6EL suggested that should be where it appeared. Again, nothing heard to the north of them or here and relatively few US operators coming back to their CQs. Seemed like a pipeline between TX/AZ into that zone." Chuck continues, "Nothing like a contest to demonstrate what the bands permit. I'll be calling CQ on 10m this Saturday." He ends with, "Is this a seasonal effect due to the equinox? Is it common to see a small zone on either end of the pipe?" I thought I would check into Chuck's results using W6ELprop, which should factor in the equinox. Although the program is meant to be used with the predicted smoothed sunspot number for the month, I used a sunspot number of 12 -- the actual daily sunspot number for March 6-7. Chuck is near Rice University in Houston, and actually sits to the south of the 30th parallel, at 29.725 degrees North latitude. Using March 7 with a path to Brazil at 15 degrees south, 54 degrees west, I show that as a good time for propagation on 15, and even 10, and especially 20 meters, using the exact coordinates for Chuck's QTH. But I wonder why other North American stations weren't working the South America stations? But it is interesting that W6ELprop shows much less favorable conditions for other stateside areas into Brazil, even from Dallas, which is around the 33rd parallel. Chuck and I will have to compare our results using W6ELprop. If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers, email the author at, k...@arrl.net. 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#e mail. Sunspot numbers for March 5 through 11 were 0, 12, 12, 0, 0, 0, and 0 with a mean of 3.4. 10.7 cm flux was 69.2, 69.1, 69.1, 68.9, 69.1, 68.8, and 68.9 with a mean of 69. Estimated planetary A indices were 3, 2, 1, 8, 2, 3 and 3 with a mean of 3.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 3, 0, 0, 7, 1, 3 and 2 with a mean of 2.3. /EX --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org 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 ---
[DX-NEWS] New Canadian Island and Lighthouse Activation
I.C.P.O. (Islands, Castles & Portable Operations) UPDATE - === New Canadian Island and Lighthouse Activation - Doug/VE3CWO, Neil/VE3SST, Igor/VE3ZF, Valdas/VE3VO and Brent/VE3IRT will be activating Bluffers Park Island (new CISA island) and new lighthouse as well. We will be using a special call sign VC3Y on March 21st-22nd, 2009, celebrating 50 Years of the York Region Amateur Radio Club. QSL via VE3CWO. [VE3ZF] === 73 and Good DX! Dave Raycroft - VA3RJ Home of ICPO: http://webhome.idirect.com/~va3rj/ Contest Calendar, DX Calendar, Lighthouse Activations, 8000+ online logs and much more. === --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org 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 ---
