[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #965
425 DX NEWS _ 31 October 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 965 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 5H - Harald, DL7VSN (5H1HS) will be touring Tanzania in November, and will operate mainly CW and RTTY on the HF bands with 100 watts and various dipoles. He will be QRV probably from 1 November from the Kilimanjaro area, and from 18 November from Serengetiand Tarangire National Park. If flight/boat plans go well, he will also try to go and operate from an IOTA group for one or two days. QSL via home call. [TNX dx-hamspirit.com] 9J - Niko, S53A will be active again as 9J3A from Zambia on 25-30 November, CQ WW DX CW Contest included. QSL direct to S57S. [TNX NG3K] CE_ant - Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the indipendence of Chile, the Radio Club de Concepcion (http://www.ce5ja.cl/) will operate as XR9JA from the Chilean Navy Base Arturo Prat on Greenwich Island, South Shetlands (AN-010) on 10-25 January 2010. The operators will be Dago/CE5COX, Carlos/CE6UFF, Luis/XQ5CIE and Didier/F6DXE. They plan to operate on all bands SSB, CW and PSK31, plus Satellite AO-51. QSL via CE5JA, direct or bureau. [TNX CE1KR] CE0Y - Announced frequencies for the 31 October-15 November XR0Y DXpedition to Easter Island [425DXN 957] are as follows: CW1826, 3505, 7005, 10120, 14005, 18073, 21005, 24893, 28023 RTTY 3580, 7034, 14091, 18102, 21083, 24923, 28085 SSB 1843, 3725, 7075, 14200, 18140, 21295, 24935, 28480 There are three QSL routes. [1] Stan, SQ8X will handle cards for Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania (direct and bureau). [2] The Radio Club de Chile will handle cards for North, Central and South America (direct and bureau). [3] An Online QSL Request System (OQRS) will be activated on the expedition's website when XR0Y gets on the air. In addition, the XR0Y logs will be uploaded to LoTW and eQSL sometime in 2010. Please visit http://rapanui2009.org/ for updates, further information and details on QSLling policy. ES - Ben, OZ5AAH will operate CW and SSB as ES1/OZ5IPA from Estonia for the International Police Association Contest (7-8 November, rules at http://www.ipa-rc.de). QSL via OZ5AAH. [TNX The Daily DX] F - The Radio Club Havrais (F8KHN) will be active as TM1TJV will be activated on 4-8 November for the Transat Jacques Vabre, the yachting race on the coffee trading route between Le Havre (France) and Puerto Limon (Costa Rica). [TNX F8REF] F - Look for Didier, F4ELJ/p to be active from Wrac'h Island (not IOTA) and lighthouse on 7-8 November. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX F4ELJ] FK/C - The TX3A license for the Chesterfield DXpedition [425DXN 962] has been extended, and AA7JV and HA7RY will be able to use that callsign from 2 November until 6 December. George and Tomi left Gladstone (Queensland) on 26 October and reached Suamarez Reef the day after. They had to stop there to wait for the weather to improve; hopefully the voyage will be resumed on Saturday with TX3A being expected to be QRV by 3 November in the local evening hours. QSL via HA7RY. Bookmark http://tx3a.com/ for regular updates. GD - Tom, GM4FDM and Ronald, PA3EWP will be active as GD4FDM and MD/PA3EWP from the Isle of Man (EU-116) on 6-9 November. They will concentrate on the low bands CW, and Tom will do some RTTY as well. QSL GD4FDM via GM4FDM, QSL MD/PA3EWP via PA7FM. [TNX The Daily DX] HB0 - Kazik (DL2SBY), Tomi (HA4DX) and Laci (HA0HW) will be active as HB0/homecall from Masessa, Liechtenstein on 6-13 November. They plan to operate CW and some SSB with three stations, and to concentrate on 160, 80 and 40 metres. QSL via home calls, bureau preferred. [TNX HA0HW] KP2- Look for KP2/K1ZE, KP2/N3XF and KP2/W1EQ to be active from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands on 4-11 November. QSL via home calls and LoTW. They will operate CW, SSB and possibly RTTY on 160-10 metres, and will
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #965 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS _ 31 October 2009A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 965 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 31/10 AI5P/VK9N: Norfolk Island 960 till 31/10 P29VLR: Green Islands (OC-231) 939 till 31/10 SN120OSP: special event station953 till 31/10 V63DX and V6B: Pohnpei(OC-010) 963 till 31/10 VC3COPP: special callsign 960 till 02/11 TM5SN: Sein Island (EU-068)964 till 02/11 ZZ6Z: Abrolhos Archipelago (SA-019)963 till 04/11 GN4KPT/p and EI/GN4KPT/p: Irish castles963 till 04/11 IB0/IN3SAU: Ponza Island (EU-045) 964 till 05/11 4X/K1HP: Israel963 till 05/11 DV7/DL4IAS: Bantayan Island (OC-129) 963 till 05/11 YJ0CCC: Efate Island (OC-035) 964 till 06/11 PA30IPA: special event station 962 till 07/11 ZK2DL: Niue Island (OC-040)945 till 08/11 YU9JJS, YU9NL, YU9PL, YU9PS, YT36QRP: Serbia 965 till 11/11 FK/F5NHJ: New Caledonia (OC-032 and OC-033)963 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 22/11 PW2SIDC: special callsign 965 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 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 IY2M: special event callsign 955 till April 2010 T6AG: Afghanistan 964 till 30/06/10 GB50ATG: special event callsign957 till 12/07/10 ZS10WCS: special callsign 956 31/10-04/11 8R1PY: Guyana 961 31/10-02/11 TF/DL2JRM/p: Iceland (EU-021) 964 31/10-08/11 VI50LZ: special event callsign 965 31/10-15/11 XR0Y: Easter Island (SA-001) 965 Oct-Nov VP8DIF: South Georgia (AN-007) 959 01/11-28/11 GB4RN: England 963 01/11-07/11 LU/PY2TJ: Tierra del Fuego (SA-008)965 01/11-06/11 ZL/AI5P: New Zealand 960 02/11-09/11 P29NI: Woodlark group (OC-205) 939 02/11-23/11 TZ6JA: Mali964 03/11-06/12 TX3A: Chesterfield Islands (OC-176)965 03/11-15/11
[DX-NEWS] ARLP044 Propagation de G0KYA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de G0KYA ZCZC AP44 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 44 ARLP044 From Steve Nichols, G0KYA Wymondham, England October 30, 2009 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de G0KYA The propagation bulletin this week is written by Steve Nichols, G0KYA, of the RSGB's Propagation Studies Committee in the English county of Norfolk. K7RA is out of town and will return next week for the November 6 Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP045. Well, what a week it has been. The solar flux hit 82.3 on Tuesday, the highest recording yet since the first observed new cycle sunspot in January 2008, which was the official visual start of Sunspot Cycle 24. Even as I write this, the flux is still at 80, thanks to sunspot region 1029, so let's hope that it is a sign of better things to come. The region (1029) produced several B-class solar flare events and a single C2.2 class flare on the 28th, but luckily CQ World Wide SSB was unaffected for the most part. NASA's STEREO behind spacecraft is not showing any new spots coming around the solar rim, but we live in hope. I was lucky enough to record a Podcast with Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA at the RSGB's Convention in the UK where he talked about Solar Cycle 24 and the possible effect of galactic cosmic rays on Top Band propagation. You can hear the Podcast at, http://www.g0kya.blogspot.com. In the UK a combination of sporadic-E and F2 layer propagation made 10 meters a must have band for contesters last weekend. The 28 MHz band was full of European stations and I personally worked more than 25 countries in two hours of casual operation. Longer DX included 4X (Israel) and ZS9 (South Africa) with signal strengths peaking at 59 with very simple antennas. I can't remember the last time 10 meters was so active, although it was interesting to note that on Monday the band was completely clear. It just shows that you should call CQ once in a while. Tim, K6GEP reports that he and other Southern California amateurs worked YO4ATW on 10 meters around 1930z on October 25 during CQ World Wide SSB. No other European countries were heard on the band at that time. Only 100 watts and modest tri-band yagis were used at both ends. Marcel, YO4ATW was a single band entry on 10 meters, and made over 340 contacts, including some in South America. On another day this week, he worked some Brazilians around 1800z. Multi-hop Es or F layer? Let's hope it is a pointer towards better things to come. Al, AB2ZY also found 21 MHz wide open. From the Adirondacks in upper New York state with a single ground-mounted Butternut HF6V vertical with lots of radials, an ICOM 756 Pro III transceiver and an old Yaesu FL-2100B amplifier, he was hearing Western European stations well after their sundown. At the other end of the spectrum 80 meters was also a great band with many US and Canadian stations giving novice European operators their first trans-Atlantic QS0s around 3.8 MHz. K3LR in PA was still audible more than one hour after sunrise in the UK. Let's hope we get similar conditions for CQ World Wide CW in November. K7RA--and normality--will be back next week. 73 de Steve G0KYA 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#email. Sunspot numbers for October 22 through 28 were 0, 30, 21, 28, 29, 29, and 26 with a mean of 23.3. 10.7 cm flux was 71.6, 72.9, 75.6, 75.5, 81.3, 81.5, and 79.9 with a mean of 76.9. Estimated planetary A indices were 14, 8, 8, 5, 3, 3 and 2 with a mean of 6.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 12, 7, 5, 3, 3, 2 and 3 with a mean of 5. /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 ---
