[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #964
425 DX NEWS _ 24 October 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 964 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW A3 - Paul, A35RK originally thought his new A35A call had restrictions and was to be used for contest and special events, however that is not the case. Effective immediately, Paul has chosen A35A as his new permanent callsign. QSL via W7TSQ, direct or bureau or LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX] A3 - Ramon, XE1KK will participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest as A31KK from Fafa Island (OC-049), Tonga, on 20 metres. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau. The log will be uploaded to LoTW. F - F5IL, F5IRC, F5THW and F5UBH will be active as TM5SN from Sein Island (EU-068) from 30 October to 2 November. They will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on the HF bands. QSL via F5IL, direct or bureau. [TNX F5NQL] FP - Eric, KV1J and Tom, W8TOM have rescheduled their activity from Miquelon [425DXN 961], which has been postponed to 7-15 November. They will operate as FP/KV1J and FP/W8TOM on 160-6 metres SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. Their logs will be uploaded to LoTWand eQSL. Further information at http://www.kv1j.com/fp/october09.html FT5W - Flo, FT5WO will be active from Alfred Faure Base on Ile de la Possesson, Crozet Islands [425DXN 916] until 14 or 15 November. Usually he can be found on 17 and 20 metres during the weekends between 6 and 13 UTC. Look for him on or around 14260-14280 and 18165 kHz. QSL via home call (F4DYW), direct or bureau. [TNX The Daily DX] HA - Radio Club Puspokladany (HA0KHW) will be active as HG0WFF/p from the Orseg National Park on 22-29 October. QSL via HA0HW. [TNX HA0HW] I - Mauro, IN3SAU will be active as IB0/IN3SAU from Ponza Island (EU-045) for about ten days starting on 26 October. He plans to operate SSB, RTTY and BPSK31 on 80-10 metres. [TNX IN3SAU] JT - Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Mongolian Border Service Institute, special event station JU75BSI will be active on 23 October-20 November, including an entry in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. QSL via JT1CH and LoTW. [TNX JT1CD] P2 - Rough seas and bad weather conditions are delaying the voyage to the Tanga Islands (OC-102). The team (CT1AGF, G3KHZ, G3USR, M0VTG and SM6CVX) sheltered in Putt Putt cove on New Britain Island (OC-008) and operated as P29VSR (QSL via G3USR), then reached Muliama harbour on New Ireland (OC-008). Their estimated time of arrival to Tanga is now around 2 UTC on 24 October. Bookmark www.425dxn.org/dxped/p29_2009/index.html for updates. ST - Robert, S53R, will be active as either ST2KSS or ST2X (pending license) during the CQWW DX SSB Contest, on 15 or 20 metres. [TNX NG3K] T6 - David, CT1DRB has been active as T6AG from Afghanistan since 21 October. He will remain there for about six months. He operates CW only, for the time being on 30 metres (hopefully other bands will follow, but he might have problems with 20 and 80 metres). QSL via EA3GHZ, direct or bureau. Updates and logsearch will be available at http://t6ag.nra.pt/ [TNX EA3GHZ] T8 - Kozo, JR8DHE will be active as T88KP from Koror (OC-009), Palau on 24-29 October, including activity during the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. QSL via home call. [TNX http://dx-hamspirit.com/] TF - Rene, DL2JRM will be active as TF/DL2JRM/p from Iceland (EU-021) from 31 October to 2 November. He will operate CW on 160-10 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] TZ - Mac, TZ6JA will be back to Mali on 26 October for one month, and hopes to operate SSB only during his early morning and late evening hours between 2 and 23 November. He will have two transceivers, a small amplifier, a 2-element beam for 40 and 20 metres and a G5RV. QSL direct only to Makoto Obara, P.O. Box 59, Tama, Tokyo, 206-8691 Japan. [TNX JA1ELY] YJ0- Tomas, VK2CCC (LY1DF) will be active as YJ0CCC from
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #964 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS _ 24 October 2009A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 964 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 25/10 4U1UN: UN Headquarters 961 till 25/10 8Q7AK: Maldives (AS-013) 957 till 25/10 8Q7EJ: Maldives (AS-013) 962 till 25/10 FH/DJ7RJ: Mayotte (AF-027) 949 till 26/10 9M8Z: East Malaysia (OC-088) 959 till 26/10 KH0/JK2VOC: Northern Marianas (OC-086) 963 till 26/10 KH0UV, AA6CM/KH0, KK6WW/KH0, WH0AA: Saipan (OC-086)963 till 26/10 S79MI: Praslin Island (AF-024) 957 till 26/10 V31MW: Belize 962 till 26/10 VE2IM: Zone 2 963 till 27/10 TY1MS: Benin 947 till 27/10 VP5/WA2VYA, VP5/W2WAS, VP5/N2VW: Caicos Isls (NA-002) 963 till 27/10 YN2NW and HT2N: Nicaragua 963 till 28/10 V25Z: Antigua (NA-100) 963 till 28/10 VP2MDG, VP2MZM, VP2MKA, VP2MIJ: Montserrat (NA-103)963 till 28/10 VP2V: British Virgin Isls (NA-023) * by KN5H and N3DXX 963 till 29/10 3D2MJ and 3D2KJ: Viti Levu (OC-016), Fiji 955 till 29/10 EA6/AA5UK: Balearic Islands (EU-004) 957 till 29/10 HG0WFF/p: Orseg National Park 964 till 29/10 J45PO: Rhodes Island (EU-001) 963 till 29/10 PZ5M: Suriname 963 till 30/10 6V7Q: Senegal 957 till 30/10 E51NOU: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cooks958 till 30/10 J68JA: St. Lucia (NA-108) 941 till 30/10 YC0IEM/8: Ambon Island (OC-070)962 till 31/10 AI5P/VK9N: Norfolk Island 960 till 31/10 SN120OSP: special event station953 till 31/10 VC3COPP: special callsign 960 till 05/11 DV7/DL4IAS: Bantayan Island (OC-129) 963 till 06/11 PA30IPA: special event station 962 till 07/11 ZK2DL: Niue Island (OC-040)945 till 11/11 PB65BP: special callsign 963 till 13/11 HL9QST: Korea 957 till 15/11 FT5WO: Crozet Islands (AF-008) 964 till 17/11 VK7ACG: Tasmania (OC-006) 929 till 20/11 JU75BSI: special event station (Mongolia) 964 till 30/11 2A, GA, MA: Scotland (special prefix) 954 till 30/11 SN40DVP: special callsign 959 till 30/11 VG7V: special callsign 963 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 9A800VZ: special event callsign933 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 HF35PEA: special event station (Poland)961 till 31/12 IA3GM: special callsign927 till 31/12 II2RAI: special callsign 924 till 31/12 IY7GM: special callsign953 till 31/12 IY7NGM: special callsign 944 till 31/12 LZ50BNT: special event station 940 till 31/12 VR2009EAG: special event callsign 947 till 31/12 YL90AIR: special callsign 948 till 31/12 Z30MCWG: special callsign 928 till December P29CW: Papua New Guinea (OC-034) 956 till December T6YA: Afghansitan 962 till 31/01/10
[DX-NEWS] ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP43 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 43 ARLP043 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA October 23, 2009 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA A tiny cycle 24 sunspot group numbered 1028 emerged briefly on Tuesday, October 20, then was gone. This is another brief phantom sunspot, teasing us with hints of the expected increase in activity that never seems to manifest. Of course the silver lining in the low solar activity is low geomagnetic activity. While folks in Alaska miss dramatic aurora, HF hams in the northern latitudes can enjoy the bands without all the disruption that comes with geomagnetic storms. A couple of coronal holes are spewing enough plasma to activate some aurora, but remember that most of the photos you see of beautiful displays in the sky are actually very long exposures taken from a rock-steady tripod mount. Many times the unaided eye cannot perceive the more dramatic details. As a result of solar wind from coronal holes, geomagnetic indices rose yesterday, on Thursday, with planetary A index at 14, mid-latitude A index as measured in Virginia at 12, and the College A index at Fairbanks, Alaska way up to 25. The College A index has been quiet for a long time, and the last time the index was nearly this high was on August 30, 2009 at 24. Prior College A index readings higher than Thursday's were July 22, 2009 at 27, February 4, 2009 at 36, December 6, 2008 at 26, and November 8, 2008 at 30. You can look back at daily geomagnetic and solar indices from 1994 to the present at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/indices/old_indices.html. In fact, it is instructive when bemoaning the present lack of solar activity to reflect on times when there was so much geomagnetic activity, that HF propagation was difficult. At http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/1994_DGD.txt see 1994 College and Planetary A index numbers, and how there were extended periods of heightened activity. In fact, you can see stretches for weeks at a time when there are only spotty records of the College A and K index, and I seem to recall that during these times their instruments were knocked out of service by energy from geomagnetic storms concentrated in polar regions. The activity on Thursday was not predicted by USAF and NOAA in their daily 45-day forecast at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html. In the days prior to Thursday (check October 20 and 21) they were still expecting a Planetary A index of 5 for Thursday. Then in the October 22 prediction they show a Planetary A index of 8 for October 23-25, the weekend for the CQ World Wide SSB DX Contest. Geophysical Institute Prague has a little more detailed forecast for the contest weekend. They expect quiet conditions for October 23, quiet to unsettled October 24, unsettled on October 25, and back to quiet for October 26-29. OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group expects a bit higher activity, with quiet conditions for October 23, and unsettled to active geomagnetic conditions for October 24-25. Scott Craig, WA4TTK has an updated data file for his Solar Data Plotting Utility. This is useful if you are not yet running the program and collecting the data. The data can be updated semi-automatically each week from this bulletin, and manually as well. The new data file has daily solar flux and sunspot numbers from January 1, 1989 through October 7, 2009. Download it for free at http://www.craigcentral.com/sol.asp. This is a good way to visually realize the difference between the previous solar minimum and this extended quiet period we are in. Brian Webb, KD6NRP of Ventura County, California notes that even with no sunspot activity, using low power and a simple antenna he hears and works many stations overseas on 17 meters. On October 19 at 1556z he worked PA3HP on PSK on 17 meters, after answering his CQ. Brian's antenna was a horizontal delta loop, about 50 feet on each side, and fed with 300 ohm twinlead and 100 watts. I noted that between his location and the Netherlands on that date there was a good chance of an opening from 1600-1730z, according to W6ELprop. Ed Stokes, W1KOK of Randolph Center, Vermont asks if there is a W6ELprop version for Macintosh. No, there isn't, although Ed says he would like to port it to Mac. In the 2008 ARLP049 (http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/2008-arlp049.html) we answered a similar question, and were pointed toward DX Toolbox at http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/dxtoolbox.html, and also a site at http://www.machamradio.com/software/software.html for Macintosh ham radio software. This week an interesting piece about sluggish flow inside the sun appeared, authored by two scientists on the GONG project. Read it at http://spie.org/x37587.xml?highlight=x2418ArticleID=x37587. Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, has another monthly column on propagation in the latest November issue of the now
[DX-NEWS] Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #931
SB DX @ WW KB8NW $OPDX.931 Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 931 The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster DX Bulletin No. 931 BID: $OPDX.931 October 26, 2009 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio) Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K the AR TelNet Clusters Network, K1XN GoList, NC1L, NJ1Q, W2YR, NG3K, W3VT, N4AA QRZ DX, KH6BZF, K8YSE, W9VG, A35A, AT International, DL7MAE The DX News Letter, DX World of Ham Radio Web Site, F5NQL UFT, HA0HW, I1JQJ/IK1ADH 425 DX News, JT1CD, OH2BH, Pete's-DX-Newsdesk, RSGB IOTA Web Site, SM6DEC, VA3RJ ICPO, VE7BC, VHF-DX-Portal (MMMonVHF) and VK2HV for the following DX information. ** TAKE A MINUTE TO REMEMBER THEM THIS WEEKEND! If you haven't heard, four radio amateurs were killed in plane crash while enroute to operate in the CQWW DX SSB Contest from Crooked Island, Bahamas. The tragedy happened just after take-off, around 6:30 AM on Wednesday, October 21st, when the twin-engine Piper PA-23 plane carrying the four contesters crashed into the woods only 250 yards off the end of the runway in Jedburg, South Carolina, about 20 miles northwest of Charleston. The four radio amateurs were: Peter Radding/W2GJ (C6APR) SK - North Charleston, SC; Pilot/Owner James Randy Hargenrader/K4QO (C6AQO) SK - Summerville, SC Edwin F Steeble/K3IXD (C6AXD) SK - Summerville, SC E. Dallas Carter/W3PP SK - Laurel, DE Details about this tragedy can be found on the Web at: http://www.journalscene.com/news/Plane-crashes-at-Summerville-Airport http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/10/21/11157/?nc=1 * Since their signal will be missing during the CQWW DX SSB Contest, OPDX is requesting/suggesting (out of respect and memory) that the contesters world-wide take a pause for 1 minute (complete silence on the bands for the one missing station; 15 seconds for each SK operator) from -0001z, Sunday, October 25th. PLEASE, pass the word around OPDX and its readers would like to send out deepest sympathy to the family and many friends of the above Silent Keys... * C6APR Memorial CQWW SSB Station. It was announced that in memory of C6APR, the Trident Amateur Radio Club (TARC) will be operating the CQWW SSB Contest using the clubs callsign N4EE. They will be operating a single station out of W3VT in Summerville, SC, on 75m, 40m, and 20m, other bands as conditions permit. Frequencies and times will be published at a later time. A special QSL card will be made to memorial- ize the C6APR team's accomplishments and tragic loss. Please join them during this weekend's contest to remember their fallen friends and pass on condolences to their families. Charleston area hams are invited to assist with operations. Please contact W3VT for info. QSL will be direct with SASE - For LoTW and EQSL confirmation please note on QSL. Condolences thread can be found here: http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=222654 *** EDITOR'S SPECIAL NOTES (by Tedd, KB8NW): This week's bulletin was sent out earlier than normal to accommodate the late CQWW DX SSB Contest announcements. Also, we wanted to provide the readers with a consolidated listing of the CQWW DX SSB Contest participants. DXCC COUNTRY/ENTITY REPORT: According to the AR-Cluster Network for the week of Friday, 16th-October, through Friday, 23rd-October there were 235 countries active. Countries available: 3A, 3B8, 3D2, 3V, 4J, 4L, 4O, 4S, 4U1U, 4W, 4X, 5B, 5H, 5N, 5R, 5U, 5V, 5X, 5Z, 6W, 6Y, 7Q, 7X, 8P, 8Q, 9A, 9G, 9H, 9J, 9K, 9L, 9M2, 9M6, 9N, 9Q, 9V, 9Y, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A9, AP, BV, BY, C2, C3, C5, C6, C9, CE, CE9, CM, CN, CP, CT, CT3, CU, CX, D2, D4, DL, DU, E4, E5/s, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, EL, EP, ER, ES, ET, EU, EX, EY, EZ, F, FG, FH, FK, FM, FO, FO/m, FP, FR, FS, FT5W, FW, FY, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GU, GW, H4, HA, HB, HB0, HC, HC8, HI, HK, HL, HP, HR, HS, HV, HZ, I, IS, J2, J3, J5, J6, J8, JA, JD/m, JD/o, JT, JY, K, KG4, KH0, KH2, KH4, KH6, KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LX, LY, LZ, OA, OD, OE, OH, OH0, OK, OM, ON, OX, OY, OZ, P2, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ7, PY, PY0F, PY0T, PZ, R1FJ, S2, S5, SM, SP, ST, SU, SV, SV5, SV9, T5, T7, TA, TF, TG, TI, TJ, TK, TL, TR, TU, TY, TZ, UA, UA2, UA9, UK, UN, UR, V2, V3, V4, V5, V7, V8, VE, VK, VK9L, VP2E, VP2M, VP2V, VP5, VP6, VP8, VP9, VQ9, VR, VU, XE, XT, XU, XX9, YA, YB, YI, YJ, YL, YN, YO, YS, YU, YV, Z2, Z3, ZB, ZC4, ZD7, ZD8, ZF, ZK2, ZL, ZP, ZS * PLEASE NOTE: The report could contain Pirate/SLIM operations or more likely a BUSTED CALLSIGN. As always, you never know - Work First Worry Later (WFWL). 3V, TUNISIA. SWL Ashraf, 3V4-002, will be active as 3V8SS from the Radio Club Station of Tunisian Scouts in Sousse, during the CQWW DXX SSB Contest (October 24-25th) as a Single-Op/Single-Band (15)/Low-Power entry. QSL via IZ8CCW. Also, read about Ashraf on the following Web pages at:
