[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 1 425 DX News #984
425 DX NEWS _ 13 March 2010 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 984 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 4J - 4J0WFF will be active on 40-10 metres CW, SSB and PSK-31 from National Reserve Yanar Dagh, Azerbaijan starting on 20 March for no less than three days, depending on local conditions. QSL direct to 4J5T. [TNX 4J5T] 4S - Alex, UX4UL has been active as 4S7ULG from near Colombo, Sri Lanka (AS-003) since 10 March and will remain there until 7 April. He operates BPSK, RTTY, CW on 20-10 metres. QSL via UY5ZZ. [TNX UY5ZZ] 9Q - Anton, ON6NL and Henk, ON4AHF are currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo working with Medecins Sans Frontieres. They expect to stay a further ten days and to operate CW and SSB as 9Q0AR/6 (from the South Kivu region) and 9Q0HQ. These are club callsigns, and the QSL route for this activity is via ON6NL for both. [TNX dx-world.net] DL - DB5BZ, DF9TM, DJ4RU, DK7LV, DL1BGC, DL2SWW, DL2VFR and DL4BBH will be active as DA0GLH and DF0WFF from Neuwerk Island (EU-127) and the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park (www.wff-dl.de) on 19-21 March. They will operate SSB, CW and PSK on the HF bands, as well on 2m/70cm FM, from the lighthouse's 700-year-old building. QSL via the DARC bureau for both calls. Direct requestes should go to DL2VFR. [TNX DL2VFR] FM - Dim, UT5UGR will be active as FM/KL7WA from Martinique (NA-107) on 19-29 March, including entries in the Russian DX Contest and the CQ WW WPX SSB Contest (as TO7A). QSL for both callsigns via UT5UGR. [TNX UT5UGR] GI - Once again the the Foyle District ARC will be active as GB5SPD on 15-17 March to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. QSL via MN0AKU, direct or bureau. GM - MM0DGR/p will be working from Kirkconnell Flow National Nature Reserve on 13 March. Look for activity on 160-10 metres BPSK31, BPSK63, CW and SSB. QSL via MM0DFV. Further information is available at www.gmff.org [TNX MM0DFV] HR - Andrei, NP3D will be active as HR2/NP3D from Honduras on 19-29 March. He will operate on all bands and modes, with a focus on 160 metres, and will participate in the Russian DX, BARTG Spring RTTY and CQ WW WPX SSB contests as HQ2T. QSL via W3HNK or RW6HS, and LoTW. [TNX NG3K] I - Special station IR1C will be active from 15 March to 31 December in conjuction with a solidarity project in the Central African Republic. QSL via IK1APO. Further information at www.ir1c.com OA - Daniel, DL5YWM will in Peru between 20 March and 15 May. He plans to operate in his free time as OA4/DL5YWM from Lima; side trips to different call areas are possibile, as well a last minute operation from an island. [TNX dx-world.net] OH - Members of the The University of Oulu Radio Club (OH8TA) will be active as OH8T from Hailuoto Island (EU-184) on 12-14 March. They will be QRV mostly on the HF bands with 100 watts and wire antennas. QSL via OH8TA, direct or bureau. [TNX rsgbiota.org] PJ6 - Southeastern DX Club's and K5D team's members Bob (K4UEE), Gregg (W6IZT) and George (N4GRN) will be active as PJ6/homecall from the island of Saba (NA-145) on 11-15 March. Their purpose is to finalize plans and begin building a station for the anticipated political realignment in the Netherlands Antilles later this year. QSL via home calls. [TNX K4UEE] T32- Nils, SM6CAS has had to withdraw from the IOTA DXpedition to the Southern Line Islands [425DXN 982], due to his wife's health. Nils is very keen for this DXpedition to go ahead even though he cannot join us, the other four operators say. He has been planning this for several years and he is the major financier of the project, and will still be the QSL manager for all callsigns (T32MI, T32CI, T32SI and T32VI). Announced frequencies are 28040, 24920, 21040, 18098, 14040, 10103, 7030 and 3530 kHz (CW); 28460/28495, 24950, 21260, 18128, 14260/ 14195, 7078 and 3795 kHz(SSB). 9M6DXX will operate SSB only, while
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #984
425 DX NEWS _ We have been notified that a glitch occured during the distribution of 425DXN #984. The bulletin is being sent once again: if you have already received it, please be patient and simply trash this duplicate. Thanks! 13 March 2010 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 984 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 4J - 4J0WFF will be active on 40-10 metres CW, SSB and PSK-31 from National Reserve Yanar Dagh, Azerbaijan starting on 20 March for no less than three days, depending on local conditions. QSL direct to 4J5T. [TNX 4J5T] 4S - Alex, UX4UL has been active as 4S7ULG from near Colombo, Sri Lanka (AS-003) since 10 March and will remain there until 7 April. He operates BPSK, RTTY, CW on 20-10 metres. QSL via UY5ZZ. [TNX UY5ZZ] 9Q - Anton, ON6NL and Henk, ON4AHF are currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo working with Medecins Sans Frontieres. They expect to stay a further ten days and to operate CW and SSB as 9Q0AR/6 (from the South Kivu region) and 9Q0HQ. These are club callsigns, and the QSL route for this activity is via ON6NL for both. [TNX dx-world.net] DL - DB5BZ, DF9TM, DJ4RU, DK7LV, DL1BGC, DL2SWW, DL2VFR and DL4BBH will be active as DA0GLH and DF0WFF from Neuwerk Island (EU-127) and the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park (www.wff-dl.de) on 19-21 March. They will operate SSB, CW and PSK on the HF bands, as well on 2m/70cm FM, from the lighthouse's 700-year-old building. QSL via the DARC bureau for both calls. Direct requestes should go to DL2VFR. [TNX DL2VFR] FM - Dim, UT5UGR will be active as FM/KL7WA from Martinique (NA-107) on 19-29 March, including entries in the Russian DX Contest and the CQ WW WPX SSB Contest (as TO7A). QSL for both callsigns via UT5UGR. [TNX UT5UGR] GI - Once again the the Foyle District ARC will be active as GB5SPD on 15-17 March to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. QSL via MN0AKU, direct or bureau. GM - MM0DGR/p will be working from Kirkconnell Flow National Nature Reserve on 13 March. Look for activity on 160-10 metres BPSK31, BPSK63, CW and SSB. QSL via MM0DFV. Further information is available at www.gmff.org [TNX MM0DFV] HR - Andrei, NP3D will be active as HR2/NP3D from Honduras on 19-29 March. He will operate on all bands and modes, with a focus on 160 metres, and will participate in the Russian DX, BARTG Spring RTTY and CQ WW WPX SSB contests as HQ2T. QSL via W3HNK or RW6HS, and LoTW. [TNX NG3K] I - Special station IR1C will be active from 15 March to 31 December in conjuction with a solidarity project in the Central African Republic. QSL via IK1APO. Further information at www.ir1c.com OA - Daniel, DL5YWM will in Peru between 20 March and 15 May. He plans to operate in his free time as OA4/DL5YWM from Lima; side trips to different call areas are possibile, as well a last minute operation from an island. [TNX dx-world.net] OH - Members of the The University of Oulu Radio Club (OH8TA) will be active as OH8T from Hailuoto Island (EU-184) on 12-14 March. They will be QRV mostly on the HF bands with 100 watts and wire antennas. QSL via OH8TA, direct or bureau. [TNX rsgbiota.org] PJ6 - Southeastern DX Club's and K5D team's members Bob (K4UEE), Gregg (W6IZT) and George (N4GRN) will be active as PJ6/homecall from the island of Saba (NA-145) on 11-15 March. Their purpose is to finalize plans and begin building a station for the anticipated political realignment in the Netherlands Antilles later this year. QSL via home calls. [TNX K4UEE] T32- Nils, SM6CAS has had to withdraw from the IOTA DXpedition to the Southern Line Islands [425DXN 982], due to his wife's health. Nils is very keen for this DXpedition to go ahead even though he cannot join us, the other four operators say. He has been planning this for several years and he is the major financier of the project, and will still be the QSL manager for all callsigns (T32MI, T32CI, T32SI and T32VI).
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #984 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS _ 13 March 2010 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 984 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 13/03 VP2MPR: Montserrat (NA-103)973 till 14/03 6Y9V: Jamaica (NA-097) 982 till 14/03 OH8T: Hailuoto Island (EU-184) 984 till 14/03 P40A: Aruba (SA-036) 982 till 14/03 P40D: Aruba (SA-036) 982 till 14/03 TP60CE: special station (France) 983 till 15/03 J88DR: St. Vincent (NA-109)980 till 15/03 K4T: Dry Tortugas (NA-079) 983 till 15/03 PJ6/K4UEE, PJ6/W6IZT, PJ6/N4GRN: Saba (NA-145) 984 till 16/03 J6/G3PJT: St. Lucia (NA-108) 979 till 17/03 VP2MCC: Montserrat (NA-103)977 till 17/03 SV5/DJ7RJ: Dodecanese (EU-001) 975 till 20/03 TM7CC: Ouessant Island (EU-065)980 till 20/03 5X1NH: Uganda 975 till 21/03 II0IDP, II0IDR, II1ICS: special stations 982 till 21/03 II1IGG, II3ICZ, II7ICT: special stations 982 till 21/03 II8ICN, II9ICF, IQ0FM/IGU: special stations982 till 21/03 8Q7NC: Maldives (AS-013) 983 till 22/03 7P8AO: Lesotho 981 till 22/03 V7/N4XP: Kwajalein (OC-028)983 till 23/03 ZL4TY and ZL4M: Stewart Island (OC-203)971 till 23/03 TO5SM: Saint Martin (NA-105) 983 till 24/03 C56KR: The Gambia 971 till 25/03 CT9/DL3KWR and CT9/DL3KWF: Madeira (AF-014)983 till 25/03 J38SW and J38CW: Grenada (NA-024) 983 till 27/03 PJ5NA: St. Eustatius (NA-145) 974 till 31/03 6W2SC (Senegal) and J5UAP (Guinea-Bissau) 975 till 31/03 J79XBI: Dominica (NA-101) 975 till 31/03 LY11BY and LY20NX: special stations982 till 31/03 LZ132GO: special callsign 981 till 31/03 VG, VX, XJ, XK: special prefixes (Canada) 978 till 31/03 VG7G: special callsign 963 till March FG/F6AUS and TO4D: Guadeloupe (NA-102) 967 till March PJ4/PE1MAE: Bonaire (SA-006) 973 till March VP6AL: Pitcairn Island (OC-044)968 till 02/04 3B9WR: Rodrigues Island (AF-017) 982 till 02/04 A3: Tonga (OC-049, OC-123 and OC-064) * by K6HFA 981 till 04/04 HK3JCL: Colombia 981 till 07/04 4S7ULG: Sri Lanka (AS-003) 984 till 20/04 H44MS: Solomon Islands 974 till 29/04 LY20INDP, LY11MM, LY20AM, LY20J: special stations 982 till 29/04 LY20W,LY20PSK,LY11A,LY11GV,LY11QT: special stations982 till 30/04 C6ANM: Bahamas (NA-001)974 till 30/04 PI65RTD, PA65xx, PD65xx, PH65xx: special callsigns 977 till April T6AG: Afghanistan 964 till 11/05 5Z4/LA9PF (Kenya) and 7Q7PF (Malawi) 980 till 18/05 8Q7IA: Maldives (AS-013) 981 till 31/05 YU140Z: special event station 983 till MayVK9WBM: Willis Island (OC-007) 970 till 30/06 3Z0FCH: special event station (Poland) 975 till 30/06 GB50ATG: special event callsign957 till 12/07 ZS10WCS: special callsign 956 till 31/12 3Z0RADIO: special event callsign 974 till 31/12 DR2010L, DR2010O, DR2010N: special callsigns 977 till 31/12 HA2010S: special callsign 976 till 31/12 LM50NRK: special event station 976 till 31/01/11 DT8A: King Sejong Base, South Shetlands (AN-010) 977 till March 2011
[DX-NEWS] ARLP010 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP010 ARLP010 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP10 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 10 ARLP010 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 12, 2010 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP010 ARLP010 Propagation de K7RA We experienced a bit of a scare this week when four days went by with no sunspots. That's right -- for the first time in three months we saw more than a single day with a sunspot number of zero, and that last period was back during November 23 through December 8. Until March 6, there were just three days since then with no sunspots, each a bit less than two weeks apart, December 25, January 6, and January 19. On Wednesday, sunspot group 1054 emerged in the northeastern quadrant of the visible solar disc, and just south of the center of the field another sunspot group appeared on Thursday, number 1055. This brought the sunspot number from 12 on Wednesday to 31 on Thursday, March 11. The total area covered by sunspots increased 14 times from Wednesday to Thursday. The STEREO mission (see http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) shows a possible third sunspot group possibly appearing over the horizon in a few days. As of 0300z on March 13, 88.23% of the Sun can be observed by STEREO, and two weeks later the coverage will expand to about 88.42%. 90% coverage should be achieved on June 18 around 2323-2335z. The 45 day forecast for solar flux has been shifting over the past few days. On March 9, it predicted solar flux for March 12-22 at 78, falling to 75 after March 23. On March 10 it shifted to 84 on March 12, 86 March 13-18, then 78 on March 19-22. On March 11, the latest available for this bulletin, it changed to 85 for March 12-15, 83 on March 16, 81 on March 17, and 80 on March 18-19. For the latest forecast, check http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html. The new daily forecast appears some time after 2100z each day. Current planetary A index prediction from the same source shows the value at 5 on March 12-13 and 7 on March 14-15, then back to 5. Geophysical Institute Prague says watch for quiet conditions March 12-13, quiet to unsettled March 14-15, unsettled March 16, and back to quiet for March 17-18. David Moore, a shortwave listener in Morro Bay, California regularly sends us articles of interest to readers. About ten days ago he sent us this article, http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1003/02solar/ from Astronomy Now about a project at the Royal Observatory Greenwich involving the public in an effort to analyze solar data. Don Kalinowski, NJ2E of Cary, North Carolina also sent a link to this project, called Solar Stormwatch, at http://solarstormwatch.com/. Their idea is that there is too much data for the scientists to observe, so they hope to use a recently popular concept called crowdsourcing in which large numbers of people can expand the observatory's capabilities. This definitely sounds like a fascinating endeavor for many of our readers. Lots of reports received about good conditions for the ARRL International SSB DX Contest last weekend. Andy Gudas, N7TP of Amaragosa Valley, Nevada worked all continents in a half hour on 40 meters with 100 watts and a simple wire antenna, an inverted Vee. His log: 07:56 VK3IO Australia Oceania 08:07 ZX2B Brazil South America 08:10 4A2S Mexico North America 08:15 CR2X Azores Europe 08:21 D4CCape Verde Africa 08:25 JA1ELY Japan Asia Scott Bidstrup, TI3/W7RI sent a link (http://tinyurl.com/ygzg6rv) to an interesting article in Science News about predicting sunspot minima by studying magnetic flows. Jon Jones, N0JK in Kansas noted E-skip a bit early for the normal season. On March 9 at 2320z he worked K2EK, from EL88 in Florida, and around 90 minutes later, at 0052z on March 10 he worked AC5O from EL49 in Louisiana. Jon was in his car, but using a 5/8 wave 2 meter whip. Jon notes that March normally has the lowest occurrence of E-skip of any month of the year. He also reported that W0WOI in Iowa heard the TI2NA beacon in Costa Rica about 0115z that day. Mike Schaffer, KA3JAW in EL87 (Tampa, Florida) reports receiving TV signals from Central America around the same time. Around 2300z he heard YNTC, TV2 in Nicaragua. The strongest signals were around 2325z, and gradually faded away around 0025z Bob Alsaker, N7HJL in Phoenix, Arizona wrote, I received my first license in 1960 (Novice WV6NTQ) and have been active most of the 50 years since then (except for my 'vacation' in Viet Nam) Back then working all around the world was expected, even with modest equipment (50 Watts or less), and minimal antennas (ground mounted verticals with no radials!). The past few months have been a real joy again, after what has seemed like an eternity with no sunspots and no DX. The recent ARRL CW DX contest was once again a blast! Over fifty countries with 9 new ones added to my DXCC. For all the hams licensed in the past decade, get ready for some real fun, especially if you like
