[DX-NEWS] ARRL Announces New Version of LoTW Software
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-announces-new-version-of-lotw-software -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] ADIF to CQ DX Marathon version 5.2 released
The CQ DX Marathon is an annual recognition issued by CQ Magazine. It is the sum total of the number of different entities, plus the number of CQ zones, worked in a given year. You can find out more about the Marathon here: http://dxmarathon.com/ This conversion program reads an ADIF log and writes a comma-delimited spreadsheet that can be copied/pasted into the official CQ Scoresheet, which you can download from the link above. For more information see: http://software.ad1c.us/marathon/ Here are the changes in this version: Ver 5.2 - 5 January 2013 Fixed bug ignoring ADIF file header (before EOH) Support lines up to 4096 characters Prefix for Kosova is now Z6 Please read the instructions thoroughly if this is the first time you are using the conversion program. Let me know if you have any problems. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] Sorry for missing bulletins last week
Dear subscribers, Something broke in the E-mail forwarding of ARRL DX, ARRL Propagation and 425 DX bulletins last week. I never even received them myself! This should now be fixed, I'll watch what happens this week. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] ADIF to CQ DX Marathon version 5.0 released
The CQ DX Marathon is an annual recognition issued by CQ Magazine. It is the sum total of the number of different entities, plus the number of CQ zones, worked in a given year. You can find out more about the Marathon here: http://dxmarathon.com/ This conversion program reads an ADIF log and writes a comma-delimited spreadsheet that can be copied/pasted into the official CQ Scoresheet, which you can download from the link above. For more information see: http://software.ad1c.us/marathon/ Here are the changes in this version: Ver. 5.0 - 5 May 2012 Prefix for Republic of South Sudan is now Z8 Updated modes for 2012 Please read the instructions thoroughly if this is the first time you are using the conversion program. Let me know if you have any problems. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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 ---
Re: [DX-NEWS] ST0R Web Site
ST0R web site is back on-line. --- 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] USA: Info on the 2011 USPS Shipping Rate Increases
Highlights: 2nd column = old rate 3rd column = new rate First-Class Mail letter - each additional ounce $0.20 $0.17 Postcard$0.29 $0.28 First-Class Mail International to Canada (1 oz.)$0.80 $0.75 First-Class Mail International to Mexico (1 oz.)$0.80 $0.79 http://www.stamps.com/usps/postage-rate-increase/ -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] RESEND: USA: Info on the 2011 USPS Shipping Rate Increases
Highlights: 2nd column = new rate 3rd column = old rate First-Class Mail letter - each additional ounce $0.20 $0.17 Postcard $0.29 $0.28 First-Class Mail International to Canada (1 oz.) $0.80 $0.75 First-Class Mail International to Mexico (1 oz.) $0.80 $0.79 http://www.stamps.com/usps/postage-rate-increase/ -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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 ---
Re: [DX-NEWS] The 2011 DX Marathon is underway!!
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:18 PM, John, K9EL k...@comcast.net wrote: CQ Magazine's 2010 DX Marathon is now over. Please visit www.dxmarathon.com for details on submitting your score. Submissions must be in by 2359Z, 31 January 2011. High claimed scores will be posted on the website after the submission deadline. Winners for 2010 will be announced mid-year 2011 in CQ Magazine. I have updated the ADIF to Marathon conversion program for 2011. You can get more information here: http://software.ad1c.us/marathon/ Please contact AD1C (not K9EL) if you have problems installing or using this conversion program. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] Two Huge Holes in the Sun Spotted
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/111860/20110213/sun-holes-nasa-space-coronal-hinode.htm -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] Fwd: af068 is annulled for now for a terrible accident
Remember that DXpeditioners are the ones taking all the risks. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alfredo IK7JWX ik7jwx2...@yahoo.it Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:19 PM Subject: [wff44] af068 is annulled for now for a terrible accident INFO DX PEDITION MOROCCO 2011 Inform our dear friends, colleagues radio amateurs, sponsors, supporters, individual contributors that 27 february at 15:30 the team 5C2 was traveling in Morocco to reach Dakhla and Herne is., on the way broke a wheel of the jeep and were turned upside down, the impact has been only hurt our good friend Leo I8LWL (5C2L), the rest of the team is good, the impact Leo suffered a fractured shoulder and a slight head injury is now recovering in the hospital of Marrakech which has received the first treatment mediche.Non just improve his condition will return to Italy. Congratulations to Leo lends a healing and a return home soon. The new dxpedition to AF068 will be in september 2011. 73 de 5C2 team --- 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] GPcluster - GUI to connect to DX Cluster nodes via Telnet
I saw an announcement on the DX Cluster last night for a new program called GPcluster. It has functions similar to VE7CC's AR User program, but I think it saves all the spots in a local database so you can search for things. You can check it out here: http://www.ih9gpi.com/ 73 - Jim AD1C (follow-ups to dx-chat) -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] ZL8X update 3 Dec 2010
http://www.kermadec.de/news/news_archives/index.php?task=shownewsid=22 News 03.12.2010 Written by DL1MGB, December 3rd 2010, 02:27 160m operation update With over 3,500 QSOs already in our log one might think that pile-ups are getting smaller on Top Band. But there are still a lot of stations who want to get their chance to make it in our 160m log. In the last days we observed bad behaviours of cluster users which makes our and the caller's life very hard. We have following advice for all of you: * Do not spot our split frequency! Those who hear us also can copy our split frequency, those who do not hear us should also not call us! * Do not spot us if we are already spotted! It just produces more QRM! * Do not spot us if we have to move our TX frequency to avoid additional QRM! * Tell us in the cluster when we are jammed on our TX frequency! We will read the cluster spots and can move immediately to another frequency. * We will only work SSB when there is no pile-up on CW. So please do not ask for SSB when there is a CW pile-up! We are very sorry but last night our beverage to North America was broken. So it was very hard to copy NA stations in the S9 noise of the ground plane. We will repair it during daytime today. RTTY operation update You already might observed that we extended our RTTY operation to more bands than originally planned. This is due to the decreasing pile-ups on the bands. So if the pile-Ups in CW or in SSB are not too high we also offer RTTY operation on that band. Because the demand for a CW QSO on 80m is still high we will definitely not offer RTTY operation there. --- 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] Re: CQ DX Marathon Update, October 2010
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:55 PM, John, K9EL k...@comcast.net wrote: DX Marathon Update, October 2010 – As recently announced by CQ Magazine, Competitors in the 2010 CQ DX Marathon will have a unique double-dip opportunity in working the islands of the Netherlands Antilles for Marathon points. Those who worked any of the islands before 10/10/10, get credit for either the Windward or Leeward Islands, as appropriate. Hams who work them again on or after 10/10/10 will get additional credit for the new entities, providing a maximum of six country credits for working the islands in 2010. Version 2010.2 of the DX Marathon scoresheet that incorporates the four new PJ countries is now available on the DX Marathon website: www.dxmarathon.com Instructions to convert version to 2010.1 to the new 2010.2 are available on the website. However, participants can also send their existing scoresheet to sco...@dxmarathon.com and we will convert it and send it back to you. I have updated the program that reads an ADIF file (exported from your logging software) and writes the Marathon data to a .CSV file, which you can then copy/paste into the official Marathon spreadsheet. You can find it here: http://software.ad1c.us/marathon/ Please carefully read and follow the instructions (ALL of them). If you have any problems with the program, please let me know. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] Dissolution of Netherlands Antilles Creates Four New DXCC Entities
http://www.arrl.org/news/dissolution-of-netherlands-antilles-creates-four-new-dxcc-entities 10/13/2010 The dissolution of the Netherland Antilles has caused changes to the DXCC List. As per the DXCC rules, the two Netherland Antilles DXCC entities will be deleted and moved to the Deleted Entities List. Four new entities will be added to the DXCC List: (1) Curaçao; (2) Sint Maarten; (3) Saba and St Eustatius, and (4) Bonaire. The event date and time for these changes will be 0400 UTC, October, 10 2010. Confirmations for these new entities will be accepted for credit starting January 1, 2011. Other administrative changes and actions will be announced as they are finalized. --- 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] DX Code of Conduct
http://dx-code.org/ -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] 425 DX News
Hi Folks, 425 DX News recently changed their distribution system, and the script that relays the bulletins to the DX-NEWS and ODXG reflectors wasn't updated until today. You should see the next bulletin that will be mailed on or about 23 July 2010. I'll watch the DX-NEWS reflector for its arrival. Thanks to Merv, N6NO for bringing the problem to my attention. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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 ---
Re: [DX-NEWS] Help with T8UZA from July 1981
On 11/28/2009 4:16 PM, Zack Widup wrote: On further investigation, the T8 prefix for Palau became official on January 1, 1994. However, it was also being used by the Principality of Seborga in May of 1995. Talk about confusing! I don't know who had it in 1981. T8 may have been one of the many prefixes used by South African homelands, i.e.: S4 (Ciskei) = ZS S8 (Transkei) = ZS T4 (Venda) = ZS H5 (Bophutatswana) = ZS V9 (Venda) = ZS (ref: http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/prefix_refs.html) But that's just speculation. T8 was used from Seborga starting May 1995 (ref: http://freenet-homepage.de/dl8aam/Seborga.html) T8 was allocated by the ITU to Palau in 1996 (see above reference). I think that T8UZA is a busted call. I found a 1994 QSO with I8UZA in my log, and I could be mistaken for T if hand-written. 73 - Jim AD1C p.s. I have an extensive list of KC6 calls that were used from W. Caroline/Palau, send me yours and I'll cross-check. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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 ---
Re: [DX-NEWS] C6APR plane crash
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Ken Scheper WA8JOC kens...@one.net wrote: Does anyone know their names and calls? They should be recognized. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/10/21/11157/ -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] DX Magazine Most Wanted Survey
Hello DXers: I could not announce this earlier as I had to be sure it was uploaded and ready for use. THE 2009 DX MAGAZINE MOST WANTED SURVEY WEB FORM IS NOW READY FOR YOU TO USE. JUST GO TO THE WEB SITE: www.dxpub.com AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HOME PAGE YOU WILL SEE THE LINK TO THE FORM. NOTE: THIS IS NOT - REPEAT NOT - A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL DXCC COUNTRIES. However, if you need something that is not on the list, you may add it at the bottom of the survey form in the COMMENTS box. Please pass the word to your DXer friends that the survey is up and running and will be there until OCTOBER 15th. Thanks/73, Carl, N4AA --- 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] Club Log
Club Log is a web-based application which uses a database to analyse amateur radio log files, which are uploaded in the common ADIF format. Using the logs, it is possible to build band-mode league tables of amateurs' QSOs, provide efficient log search tools and create most wanted lists for DXCC entities (both over all time and in recent history, or by mode for example). Also, Club Log can give back to its users the ability to find wanted DX spots, and other analysis of their logs which might be hard to do with normal logging software. More information at: http://www.clublog.org/ 73 - Jim AD1C (not a user) -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] Amazon introduces the Kindle DX
Who needs sunspots? http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Amazons-Wireless-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0/ [discussion on dx-c...@njdxa.org please!] -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] DXCC checking at Dayton Hamvention
http://www.arrl.org/blog/Century%20Club%20Awards/390 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] Sun has fewest sunspots since 1913
Who cares about GPS accuracy? :-) By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Thu Apr 2, 5:20 pm ET WASHINGTON – The sun has been unusually quiet lately, with fewer sunspots and weaker magnetic fields than in nearly a century. A quiet sun is good for Earth: GPS systems are more accurate, satellites stay in orbit longer; even the effects of manmade global warming are marginally reduced, though just by three-tenths of a degree at most. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090402/ap_on_sc/sci_quiet_sun_2 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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 US stamps set for rate increase in May
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/02/27/new_stamps_set_for_rate_increase_in_may/ -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] K5D - only one day left!
http://69.89.25.185/~trexsoft/t-rexsoftware.com/desecheo/news.htm February 24, 2009 2300Z: After reaching the 100,000 QSO mark last night, instead of kicking back and coasting, the team has worked the bands harder than ever. There are still so many people calling, many needing KP5 for a new one, the team has put their head down and kept going. Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, we begin to scale back the operation and prepare for departure. Just as when we ramped up, we will scale down with three stations remaining QRV until dawn (local time) on departure day, Thursday the 26th. Many antennas will come down tomorrow and equipment packed. We enjoyed a beautiful sunset tonight and many of the team sensed that the end of this incredible adventure was drawing near. --- 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] K5D Log search is up!
http://logsearch.de/index.php?option=com_wrapperItemid=231 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] W2YC earns first Triple Play award
http://www.arrl.org/?artid=8707 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] CQ to Accept eQSL Confirmations for Award Credit
(Hicksville, NY and Bedford, TX, January 13, 2009) - CQ magazine will accept contact confirmations made on the eQSL.cc electronic confirmation system for its operating awards effective immediately, CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, and eQSL Founder and Webmaster Dave Morris, N5UP, announced today. There will be certain limitations and procedural differences for different awards, at least to start. Only confirmations from Authenticity Guaranteed members of eQSL will be accepted, and in accordance with existing eQSL policy, a membership level of bronze or higher is required in order to participate in award programs via eQSL. http://www.eqsl.net/qslcard/PR-20090113CQ.cfm --- 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] Removing cats to protect birds backfires on Macquarie Island
By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Michael Casey, Ap Environmental Writer – Tue Jan 13, 9:18 am ET BANGKOK, Thailand – It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds. But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers said Tuesday. Removing the cats from Macquarie caused environmental devastation that will cost authorities 24 million Australian dollars ($16.2 million) to remedy, Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division and her colleagues wrote in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_rabbit_infestation_1 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- 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] WAS LoTW Account Information
WAS LoTW Account Information Jan 9, 2009 11:25 ET Bill Moore, NC1L Some users may have noticed that their WAS totals have changed or have completely gone away. On Jan 1, 2009 LoTW refreshed all WAS accounts to accommodate the new Triple Play award. Your Triple Play record is shown as a sub award in your WAS account just as band and mode sub-awards are shown. If your account had no QSO rules then the system had no way of applying your QSO credits. This is easily fixed by adding a rule to your WAS account. All WAS accounts must have at least one rule. To add a rule to your WAS account simply access your WAS account then select 'MODIFY ACCOUNT'. Follow these steps to complete the process: Click 'Add Rule To QSO Set' Next, select the type of rule you want to apply. Drop the box down, make your selection then click 'Add Rule' (Next it may ask you here to select a callsign if you have more than one account. If so, select the callsign you want to change). If there is only one callsign in the account the next screen will say 'Save Account Changes' Click this and your account should be OK now. Note, if you feed more than one WAS account for different locations you must do this for each account. Some accounts are very simple and will only require a callsign rule. Other accounts may be more complex requiring multiple rules to accommodate your operations. WAS accounts can be configured to automatically select those of your QSOs that both qualify for a WAS award and also match a set of rules you specify. A QSO Set is a list of rules that define QSOs that will be matched. Your account can include more than one QSO Set if needed to encompass all of your QSOs that are eligible for the awards. The rules that make up a QSO Set each compare the value of a field related to the QSO. The fields that may be used for this comparison are the call sign you used to make the QSO, the QSO date, and several geographical fields. At least one rule must be included in a QSO Set in order to match any QSOs. If more than one rule is present in the QSO Set, you may choose whether the QSOs must match all of the specified rules or any of the specified rules. 73 es DX! Bill Moore NC1L ARRL Awards Manager --- 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] ARRL's New Triple Play Worked All States Award
[May not be the best forum to post this, but couldn't think of a better one.] From the ARRL Logbook of the World web site: Jan 1, 2009: ARRL's New Triple Play Worked All States Award -- 1. The Triple Play WAS (Worked All States) Award is available to all amateurs worldwide who must use Logbook of the World (LoTW) to confirm QSOs with each of the 50 states on voice, CW, and digital modes. The Triple Play WAS Award is a serial-numbered award starting with # 1, as determined by the time stamp of the electronic application submitted via LoTW. Awards issued will be tracked and presented on the ARRL Website. 2. Two-way communications must be established on amateur bands with each state on each mode. There is no minimum signal report required. Any or all bands (except 60 Meters) may be used for the Triple Play WAS. The District of Columbia may be counted for Maryland. 3. Contacts must be made from the same location, or from locations no two of which are more than 50 miles apart. Club station applicants, please include clearly the club name and callsign of the club station (or trustee). 4. Contacts must be made after Z on January 1, 2009 to be considered for this award. LoTW will be programmed to automatically use this criterion. Contacts must be confirmed via LoTW. Written confirmations will not be accepted. 5. There are no endorsements for the Triple Play WAS Award. 6. Contacts made through repeater devices or any other power relay method cannot be used for WAS confirmation. A separate WAS is available for Satellite contacts. All stations contacted must be land stations. Contact with ships, anchored or otherwise, and aircraft, cannot be counted. EXCEPTION: Permanently docked exhibition ships, such as the Queen Mary and other historic ships will be considered land based. 7. A US applicant must be an ARRL member to participate in the WAS program. DX stations are exempt from this requirement. 8. Attempts to falsify data, logs, or other application operations may be grounds for disqualification. The decision of the ARRL Awards Committee in such cases is final. 9. Please follow the instructions presented on the LoTW website. The cost of the Triple Play WAS award is $12 for a certificate delivered to a U.S. address, or $13 delivered to an address outside U.S.A. Per-QSO fees associated with using LoTW credits as normal will be charged via the online application. Read more about the award in QST and see the certificate. If you have previously set-up a WAS award account on your user page, you do not need to do anything else. There is a new Triple Play Award counter and link in your WAS award area if you have confirmed any state in LoTW after January 1. --- 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] ADIF to CQ DX Marathon
The CQ DX Marathon is an annual recognition issued by CQ Magazine. It is the sum total of the number of different entities, plus the number of CQ zones, worked in a given year. This conversion program reads an ADIF log and writes a comma-delimited spreadsheet that can be copied/pasted into the official CQ Scoresheet. See: http://software.ad1c.us/marathon/ 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us Let Not Mankind Bogart Love - Willie Nelson --- 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 DX Summit Took Over the Mother of all DX Summits Today
Received from Martti Laine Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:17 -0500 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TODAY, NOVEMBER,19, 2008, 10.00UTC NEW DX SUMMIT TOOK OVER THE MOTHER OF ALL DX SUMMITS TODAY! The Group at OH8X is honored to continue the services initiated by members of the OH2AQ Radio Club more than ten years ago. The original OH2AQ DX Summit was closed today at noon local time. http://www.dxsummit.fi/ In the words of Wayne, N7NG, the President of Yasme Foundation, we capture the essence of this original innovation; Yasme Foundation and the whole world of Amateur Radio congratulate Jukka Salomaa, OH2BUA and Antti Kantola, OH5TB for conceiving, operating and maintaining the DX Summit, the first widely-used Web-based spotting network portal. They created a tool that fundamentally changed the nature of HF operating, a true advancement of the radio art. The New DX Summit is operated by Radio Arcala, OH8X, located in the Far North at the Arctic Circle, within the Aurora Belt, with a mission to encourage today's youth to make possible the impossible in the course of their own innovations through radio communication experience and related exciting theories. Arcala Extremes is headquartered in Finland while operating in a European context. The message is global, and the experience is for us to share. Read about the Arcala mission and let your imagination fly to do your share among the young people and secure the continuation of this great passion that has enriched our lives and made the communication among people more effective and enjoyable. The New DX Summit and its future applications are targeted to be part of this vision. Running the New DX Summit is supported by Yasme Foundation Inc. www.radioarcala.com and www.yasme.org --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Sun Shows Signs Of Life: Long-Awaited Solar Cycle 24 Starting To Take Off
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2008) — After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. I think solar minimum is behind us, says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. His statement is prompted by an October flurry of sunspots. Last month we counted five sunspot groups, he says. That may not sound like much, but in a year with record-low numbers of sunspots and long stretches of utter spotlessness, five is significant. This represents a real increase in solar activity. Even more significant is the fact that four of the five sunspot groups belonged to Solar Cycle 24, the long-awaited next installment of the sun's 11-year solar cycle. October was the first time we've seen sunspots from new Solar Cycle 24 outnumbering spots from old Solar Cycle 23. It's a good sign that the new cycle is taking off. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/08230341.htm -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] DX SUMMIT ALERT
From: Martti Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] DX SUMMIT ALERT The Old OH2AQ DX Summit Goes Offline November 19, 2008 at 1000 UTC The new DX Summit website at http://www.dxsummit.fi/ debuted on May 23, 2008. The site has been redeveloped from the ground up and uses the latest technology available. The new DX Summit has been ramping up steadily and today the number of hits is approaching 1 million a day. In addition to providing the same functionality as the old DX Summit, the new platform offers the necessary flexibility to easily add new features which are currently on the drawing board. The old DX Summit homepage at http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/ redirects users to the new DX Summit website. However, all the old DX Summit data pages are still online but the trend for daily hits has decreased, as we expected. The number still remains high but the time has come to shut down the old DX Summit machine which may cause your software to stop working. To try and maintain compatibility with older software which may no longer be supported, the new DX Summit includes a series of DX spot webpages which are 100% HTML compatible with the same pages on the old DX Summit. Simply changing the URLs in your software according to the information below should keep it working with the new DX Summit. If your software does not allow you to edit the URLs, please contact the author of your software and ask them to change the URLs according to the information below. URLs to change Latest 25 DX spots page Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx25.html New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx25.html Latest 1000 DX spots page Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx1000.html New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx1000.html Latest 1 DX spots page Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx1.html New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx1.html Software authors who wish to implement data exchange with the new DX Summit should visit http://www.dxsummit.fi/technical.aspx for information on data formats and URLs. If your software does not work with the new DX Summit, we encourage you to forward this information to the author of the software you are using. We hope all software relying on the DX Summit can be successfully updated to work with the new DX Summit. We look forward to providing you with this valuable DX resource for many years to come! 73, OH8X Team --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Reflector archives and ARRL DX bulletins
Are the dx-news archives at this web site up-to-date? http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org/ The reason I'm asking is that I don't see any ARRL DX bulletins there since this date: [DX-NEWS] ARLD028 DX news Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:44 -0700 I'm trying to figure out if something is wrong on my end. I haven't seen today's bulletin (ARLD046) on the reflector either, or in my personal mailbox, however, it did get sent to two other reflectors, so I know it arrived. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] VK9DWX News #13 - 30.10.2008
News #13 - 30.10.2008 The “VK9DWX-Willis Island DX-pedition 2008” is history. We closed the log with more than 95.000 QSOs (that’s our first merger of all logs except the VK9DWX/mm qsos during the voyage). A great adventure full of unforgettable moments and sweet memories lays behind us. We enjoyed a beautiful time of ham radio operation and are very happy of being able to serve so many hams around the world with a new one or at least with new and additional bandpoints for the DXCC. We enjoyed nice and trusty fellowship within our team. Our two rookies Josh, W4WJF, and Rhy, ZS6DXB turned out to be a real surprise for us: They not only slipped into the team very easily but they also shouldered the operating burden in amazingly good performance, they became a valuable support for the DXpedition. After 10 days of operation we welcome the sailing boat “Rum Runner” which brought us new supplies (food and fuel) as well as the exchange of our rookies: Josh had to leave and Rhy was coming to replace him. Also our DXpedition visitor Gerd, DK2JW, came in as well as Dale, VK4DMC, our valuable, trusty and very important support in Australia. They were very happy to have solid ground under their feet again, because the voyage was somewhat rough and not a real pleasure. We spent a nice evening with exiting talks and a few cool beers. They stayed over night with us on the island. Next morning it was time to say good bye, because the “Rum Runner” went back to Cairns. Operation on this DXpedition was a real challenge to everyone: Fresh to strong winds every day, some days so powerful that the tents were threatened to be blown away or at least heavily damaged. High tide climbed the beaches often higher than expected and swept over the feed points of the arrays, (perfect ground conductivity at least !!) disordering the radial system completely. Turtles are really heavy (some 75 kg!) and snagged the coax or other cable from time to time, but fortunately caused no major trouble with that. Hundreds (or were it thousands ??) of different birds, screaming (and smelling !!) all day and night and whom you might have noticed as the background noise in our SSB-QSOs. Small crabs, flies and moths were perennial companions in our tents, but luckily did not bite at all. Day after day the sun poured down and let the temperature soar to 35 to 40 degrees Celsius in the tents. Unfortunately we could not open tents due to the wind and the brightness of the sunlight: We simply would not have seen anything on the laptop-screens anymore. Fans were only of little help and not a real relief. In spite of these unfavourable conditions, the equipment worked to our satisfaction. No major faults to mention. Only internet access was limited to several hours a day, which made it impossible to update the log in shorter periods. Food was cooked on the MV Floreat daily and supplied to us day by day. A great hug to our chef Susy who did a marvellous job in feeding the team with delicious meals and perfect sandwiches as well as fresh fruit most of the days. MV Floreat’s skipper Marcus Oke inspected the weather forecast very thoroughly, took the development of wind and waves as well as the tide in consideration and came to the conclusion that Sunday would be the best choice for ferrying our material safely from the beach to the ship. Safety of all our members first and the material second was our biggest concern and we would never doubt the decision of our experienced skipper. So - sad to say - but we had to finish the CQWW SSB –Contest already by Sunday morning. We took down all the 4 squares, vertical, and Vertical-Array-Dipoles (VDAs) which served us as trusty companions throughout our DX-pedition and made these many contacts possible. To tear down the whole stuff turned out to be much easier than erecting it. We began very early in the morning - just on sunrise - to get most o the job done before the tropical sun would burn out our brains. It was a perfect manoeuvre, everyone knew what to do. We packed all material in boxes, pelicases and Skipper Marcus took all the stuff safely back to the MV Floreat. We did not miss a single item and nothing got wet at all. So we luckily managed to finish the complete work already by early afternoon. Once we were all back on the ship, the MV Floreat hoisted the anchors and headed east back to Cairns. We waved a last Good Bye to the island each of us with his own personal memories, leaving thousands of boobies, frigatebirds, hermitcrabs and green turtles in their ancestral environment. After Norfolk Island in 2007 as VK9DNX we are very happy having performed a new adventure with VK9DWX now in 2008. We enjoyed it very much and hope that we could meet at least part of your expectations. May be not every one could make it into our log. We are sorry for that and hope that there will be a next chance for you soon. We thank you very much for
[DX-NEWS] VK9DWX News #11 - 16.10.2008
The Willis Islands Group, Mid Isl. Thursday, October, 16th This is the seventh day of operation. We had two days with heavy gusty winds. The long enduring rainfall for more than a day gave us some relief. It was refreshing to have a sweet-water shower from the sky and temperature dropped to 28 degrees C. Today the sun is back again and we are experiencing 39 degrees in the operator tents, with linears running. Our receiving situation on the lowbands is heavily influenced by static noise, which usually comes up to 20-30 db over S9, a real challenge for our operators. We obviously built the 30m 4 square too close to the water, because two Verticals were nearly washed into the sea by the heavy surf. We managed to fix the guy-ropes and pegs again and could keep the antenna into operation. For the same reason, we also moved the 40m 4-square a few meters away from the beach. We also put up a 6m-antenna, but there is no activity at all so far. Today we crossed the line of 40.000 Qs. Stations are pouring in in great numbers still. Unfortunately especially the W-path is interfered and jammed heavily on 160m. but we will do our very best to get as many of you as possible in the log. We also have set up a fifth station and now are able to operate from all five positions at the same time, to cater the needs of all of you even better. Tomorrow, we are expecting the Rum Runner, who will bring us more supplies, out friend Dale, VK4DMC, Bernd (DK2JW; our tourist) and the new rookie Rhy, ZS6DXB. Unfortunately Josh, W4WJF will be leaving with the Rum Runner in the next day, but this also means that Rhy will be joining our effort. Josh says he has loved working you all on the bands and has greatly enjoyed his experiences so far. He came in mainly as a SSB operator but has made quite a few CW contacts with you on-the-air. Even though he said some operators complained of his slow speed, his proficiency has improved so far. He is lucky since he doesn't have to help break down the antennas and the camp AND can go home and put VK9DWX in his log! He thinks the idea of inviting rookies along on DXpeditions is a great idea. In the US, he said many DXers were inspired by this idea and he hopes to give a few presentations about his trip in order to motivate others to sponsor a rookie on their next DXpedition. We are expecting a great weekend and another exciting week full of pile-ups on the Island. We will enjoy to work you in CW, SSB and RTTY on all bands! 73 de the VK9DWX-Team P.S.: Just a few minutes ago the Rum Runner arrived at Willis Island. Around noon we will start to transfer the persons and the ordered supplies. We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as widely as possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow DXers. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] REMINDER: The 2008 DX Magazine MOST WANTED Survey!
Today is the last day to fill out The 2008 DX Magazine MOST WANTED Survey! http://www.dxpub.com/dx_survey2008.html 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Polls S2 Dxpedition AS-127 -- Vote!
From: http://www.eham.net/articles/20109 David Liañez (EB7DX) on September 13, 2008 Upcoming Dxpedition to AS-127 in Bangladesh Vote for the band you need at: http://s2iota.eb7dx.com/ 73! --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] 2008 DX Magazine Most Wanted Survey
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:34:49 -0400 From: Bernie McClenny, W3UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2008 DX Magazine Most Wanted Survey The DX Magazine 2008 Most Wanted Survey is now up and running on the web site http://www.dxpub.com/dx_survey2008.html. I would like to stress the need for everyone to submit your needed countries lists to N4AA, Carl, at The DX Magazine, because this is what DXpeditioners use to decide where to go. Check each block as necessary to indicate your needs on the various modes and click SUBMIT at the bottom. There is also a box at the bottom for comments. Results will be published in the January/February issue of The DX Magazine. Oh and please pass this email to your DX club and DX friends. Thank you, Bernie, W3UR Bernie McClenny, W3UR -- Now more than ever - you need The Daily DX and The Weekly DX - to keep up with the DX news from around the globe! Editor of - The Daily DX -- two free weeks http://www.dailydx.com/order.htm - The Weekly DX -- free sample http://www.dailydx.com/weekly2.html - How's DX http://www.dailydx.com --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] The VP6DX book
K8CX has pictures of the Ducie book on his web site: http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/Ducie_Island/vp6dx.htm 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] 2007 DXCC Honor Roll List
http://www.arrl.org/blog/DXCC%20Dialog/337 2007 DXCC Honor Roll List Jul 13, 2008 17:13 ET Bill Moore, NC1L Upon receiving the August issue of QST it was discovered that some Honor Roll members were incorrectly listed, mostly from numbers from their previous submission, while a couple were not listed at all. We apologize for this and as soon as we have a handle on those who were not properly listed a correction will be published in QST later in the year. (Issue to be determined once we have all the information). If you notice an incorrect listing please send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be placed on the list for the corrected listing. Please remember that the period for this listing is from January 1 through December 31, 2007 only, the prior period of April 1 through March 31 has been changed. 73 es DX Bill Moore NC1L Awards Branch Manager --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Kingman Reef featured in National Geographic, July 2008
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/07/kingman-reef/warne-text -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] DX Summit partially working
The DX Summit web site is reachable, but many spots seem to be missing: http://www.dxsummit.fi/ This was the last spot received; PA3DJC-@ 14210.0 JW7G1231 20.06 No mention of what's going on. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] VP6DX News #28- 2008 Jun 18
Latest news released 18 June 2008: http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Sun goes longer than normal without producing sunspots
Follow-ups to DX-Chat, of course http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5982 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] CQ News: Chinese hams secure emergency nets
From the CQ Newsroom... CQ Public Service Editor Bob Josuweit, WA3PZO, reports that hams in China have secured their earthquake emergency nets on HF, but note that one or more may be restarted if needed as a result of continuing aftershocks. According to the Chinese Radio Sport Association (CRSA) website, personnel and equipment have been removed from the disaster zone, and the frequencies of 7.030, 7.050, 7.060 and 14.270 MHz are no longer in use for emergency communications. However, International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Disaster Communications Chairman Jim Linton, VK3PC, says the CRSA notes that one or more of those frequencies may be returned to use in the event of further severe aftershocks. CRSA would like to thank all amateurs around the world who helped keep these frequencies clear for emergency communications, and for the concern of amateurs and amateur radio societies worldwide. Please note that 7077, 7085, and 7140 kHz continue to be in use for emergency communications by amateurs in Colombia following last weekend's earthquake there. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] LogBook of The World Maintenance
From: Moore, Bill, NC1L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:59:56 -0400 Subject: LogBook of The World Maintenance Logbook Scheduled Maintenance -- The Logbook system will be off-line for approximately 24 hours beginning at 1200Z on Wednesday, 28 May (8:00 AM EDT) in order to perform some hardware additions. The system should return to service by 1200Z, 29 May. Thank you for your patience. 73 Bill Moore NC1L DXCC Manager ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: (860) 594 0234 Fax: (860) 594-0346 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DXCC Web Site: www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc Blog: http://www.arrl.org/blog/DXCC%20Dialog -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] LOTW signup at Ham Radio Friedrichshafen (Germany)
- Original Message - From: Ron Novak To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:33 PM Subject: [ARRL-LOTW] LOTW signup at Ham Radio Friedrichshafen (Germany) Just saw this on the DXCC weblog about ARRL at Ham Radio Friedrichshafen June 27 through 29: * Special LogBook of The World registration information: If you would like to apply for a new LogBook of The World certificate, bring a copy of your home call license and a picture ID. If you wish to create an LoTW account for a dx-pedition or a club callsign, you must bring proper documentation. (eg: License and proof that you were at the dx-pedition location, or a copy of the club license). The ARRL representative will immediately issue you a password to get started. * Ron - N4VZ -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] NEW DX SUMMIT HITS THE STREETS ON FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008 AT 16.00 UTC
[Please don't reply to AD1C] NEW DX SUMMIT HITS THE STREETS ON FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008 AT 16.00 UTC The original OH2AQ DX Summit was launched in 1998. It represented something that changed the entire DX hunt. Spinning the dial became old history that would never return. Yasme Foundation President Wayne Mills, N7NG put it as follows; Jukka Salomaa, OH2BUA and Antti Kantola, OH5TB were awarded the Yasme Excellence Award for conceiving, operating, and maintaining the DX Summit, the first widely used Web-based spotting network portal. They created a tool that fundamentally changed the nature of HF operating, a true advancement of the radio art. The OH2AQ Summit has been a reliable tool for DX spotting for ten years. It was based on a concept and the computing power of those other days. Today marks the 10th anniversary of this innovation. The New DX Summit, operated by Arcala Extremes, OH8X and supported by Yasme Foundation Inc., boasts a dramatic increase in computing power with the latest available equipment providing easy access to configure a Microsoft Server 2003 platform. State-of-the-art multiple servers are located in California, USA for fast information throughput and massive data storage. A huge amount of data will be retrieved for potential future applications. The system has been developed by Admino Technologies Ltd. located in Oulu, Northern Finland. http://www.adminotech.com Traffic congestion should be a thing of the past. You can sample the speed and functionality during this coming weekend's WPX Contest. You should reconfigure your setup to http://www.dxsummit.fi (please update your browser bookmarks) because the original OH2AQ DX Summit will close down soon. While the new system begins as a stepped-up carbon copy of the original system, it will provide an advanced technical platform for many new features that are on the drawing board as we speak. Arcala Extremes, OH8X is a group of serious hams seeking technical innovations, experimenting with advanced radio and antenna concepts to further the evolution of amateur radio by using the competitive spirit as their trademark to attract young people. Their stations, OH8X and CU2A, are located in Oulu, Northern Finland and Azores Islands respectfully. Yasme Foundation http://www.yasme.org is a non-profit corporation undertaking scientific and educational projects related to amateur radio, including DXing and the introduction and promotion of amateur radio in developing countries. -- ((( 73 ))) Jarmo OH2BN -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] St. Barthelemy (from ARRL DXCC desk)
Subject: St Barthelemy Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:39:56 -0400 From: Moore, Bill, NC1L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add Mobile Alert In follow up to the January 21, 2008 DXCC blog entry regarding St Barthelemy, DXCC has completed processing 2007 applications and St Barthelemy has now been added to the DXCC computer system, and, Logbook of The World. This moves the #1 Honor Roll position to 338 current entities making entry level Honor Roll 329. While DXCC has completed 2007 applications there are a number of application returns still being mailed so it may be another 2-3 weeks before applicants receive their 2007 return. Lastly, Logbook of The World is now accepting certificate requests for St Barthelemy, and once those logs are submitted the matches should occur and applicants can claim DXCC credit. For programmers who use the DXCC entity numbering system, the entity code for St Barthelemy is 516. 73 es DX! -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX Newsletter #26 - 2008 Apr 03
[Please don't reply to me - AD1C] http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php News #26- 2008 Apr 03 Highlights: ... Website additions ... ... Sponsors and LOTW updates ... ... QSL card status ... ... /MM-operations ... 1. Website addition: sound files The vp6dx.com website has been expanded to include recordings of VP6DX made at locations around the world. To reach the list of recordings, please click on Sounds in the navigation bar. We would like to receive additional recordings. If you have a recording of VP6DX, please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include the following information: * location where recording was made * date * time (start of recording) in UTC * band * description of equipment Thank you! 2. Website addition: FAQ Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about QSLs, the on-line log, and other topics are now available on the vp6dx.com website. To reach the FAQ list, please click on FAQ in the navigation bar. 3. Sponsors and LOTW updates: * The list of sponsors on the website is updated about once a week. Similarly, LOTW confirmations for QSL requests are uploaded to the ARRL LOTW server about once a week. The most recent upload occurred at 2008 Apr 03 20:00z. As of that time 14,668 QSOs with 3,061 number different stations were confirmed. 4. QSL cards: * We are completing the design of the QSL card. We expect direct-mail QSL cards to enter the postal system in late April. At present the On-line QSL Request database holds requests for 53,602 contacts with 7,924 stations. 5. /MM-operations * Some of the team members were active as /mm onboard the Braveheart. Following members were active as /mm: * DL3DXX/mm * DL6FBL/mm * DL8LAS/mm * ES5TV/mm * N5IA/mm * SP3DOI/mm * SV1JG/mm * WA6CDR/mm QSL cards should be obtained from the individual callsign owners. Thank you for your interest in the VP6DX project. We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as widely as possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow DXers. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] Kosova (Kosovo) Added as Multiplier for CQWW DX Contests / CQ DX Marathon
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:46:46 -0500 To: CQ Newsletter List [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Richard Moseson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cq-l] Update: Kosova (Kosovo) Added as Multiplier for CQWW DX Contests / CQ DX Marathon - From the CQ Newsroom Update: Kosova (Kosovo) Added as Multiplier for CQWW DX Contests / CQ DX Marathon The Worked All Europe (WAE) award committee of the Deutsche Amateur Radio Club (DARC) has voted to add Kosova (Kosovo) to the WAE country list. The CQ World Wide DX Contests and the CQ DX Marathon both use a combination of the DXCC and WAE lists as the basis for their country lists. Therefore, Kosova will now be considered a separate entity for both theCQ DX Marathon (effective February 17, 2008) and for the CQ WW DX Contests, beginning with the CQWW RTTY DX Contest on September 27-28,2008. CQ previously announced that it was accepting Kosova as a separate entity for award credit, as of February 17, 2008. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] ARRL: 300 Entities Confirmed in LoTW by K4DY
From ARRL LoTW site: Mar 7, 2008: 300 Entities Confirmed in LoTW by K4DY -- Les, K4DY has confirmed 302 entities in Logbook of the World! Congratulations Les. Les says My current total on LoTW is 302 (with deletes)/298 (current countries). I am up to 1,914 Challenge Countries. This was as of 02/19/2008. I am importing the LoTW Report directly into a separate Logbook program. It is Logger 32. This way I can tell at a glance where I stand since only LoTW QSO confirmations are in the log. Les received his Novice ticket in 1957 at the age of 13. He relates my call at the time was KN4SWL. I upgraded to General about 8 months later but the FCC changed my call to K4ZCP (why they didn't give me K4SWL I don't know --I was so happy to have my General I didn't care, hi). I became K4DY in 1976. I started chasing DX as a Novice and have never stopped. I still prefer CW and love low band DXing. I have also got hooked on 6 Meter Dxing. Just wish I had discovered the band sooner, hi. When LoTW was first announced I wasn't the least bit interested in it but then I got to thinking, hey this would be a neat way to start over from scratch and see what I could do using nothing but LoTW confirmations. Here are my totals as of 2/19/2008: 160:88 80: 180 40: 220 30: 219 20: 259 17: 252 15: 238 12: 217 10: 193 6: 48 - 1,914 for the Challenge (302/298 for DXCC) I am also chasing States via LoTW. I have completed 160M WAS and need only 17 more confirmations to have a 5BWAS all via LoTW. The hard part is finding someone in a State like North Dakota that uses LoTW, hi (Thank goodness there is at least one- KD4POJ, hi) My earliest LoTW confirmation goes back to August 14, 1958 when I was K4ZCP. I had only been General Class about a month when I worked KP4AOO. KP4AOO is today Roger, N4ZC who lives only about 35 miles away, hi hi. I have never uploaded my Novice Log-KN4SWL. Someday I may obtain the necessary certificate and upload those 500+ QSOs as well. I doubt if I would get any hits but who knows, hi. Thanks to Les for his comments and for using LoTW! -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] E7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
[Forwarded with permission] From: Bernie McClenny, W3UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:41:24 -0400 Subject: [The Daily DX] E7 Bosnia and Herzegovina On August 8, 2007 the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) replaced the callsign series prefix block of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from T9 to E7. Effective today at 2300Z (March 22 1200 AM in Bosnia and Herzegovina) Amateur Radio operators from BiH will begin using their new E7 callsigns. T93Y (soon to be E73TW), Boris Knezovia, says the Communications Regulatory Agency issued only two and three letter callsigns suffixes. Applications for one letter suffixes can be applied for starting April 14th and hopefully being issued in late May 2008. More details (in Bosnian) can be found at http://www.cra.ba/bs/public-affairs/pressr/default.aspx?cid=4822. This should generate a lot of interest on the bands late tonight and early tomorrow. See you in the Pileups! 73 Bernie, W3UR -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] E7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
[Forwarded with permission] From: Bernie McClenny, W3UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:41:24 -0400 Subject: [The Daily DX] E7 Bosnia and Herzegovina On August 8, 2007 the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) replaced the callsign series prefix block of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from T9 to E7. Effective today at 2300Z (March 22 1200 AM in Bosnia and Herzegovina) Amateur Radio operators from BiH will begin using their new E7 callsigns. T93Y (soon to be E73TW), Boris Knezovia, says the Communications Regulatory Agency issued only two and three letter callsigns suffixes. Applications for one letter suffixes can be applied for starting April 14th and hopefully being issued in late May 2008. More details (in Bosnian) can be found at http://www.cra.ba/bs/public-affairs/pressr/default.aspx?cid=4822. This should generate a lot of interest on the bands late tonight and early tomorrow. See you in the Pileups! 73 Bernie, W3UR -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
Re: [DX-NEWS] Re: Kosova
From the CQ Newsroom... Kosovo Added to CQ DX Awards Country List Effective 2/17/08 (Hicksville, NY) March 21, 2008 -- Kosovo is being added to the list of countries and territories recognized for CQ DX awards, effective immediately, CQ DX Awards Manager Billy Williams, N4UF, announced today. Verifications for contacts made on or after February 17, 2008 are acceptable for CQ DX Award credit. CQ DX Honor Roll members with 335 or more credits should update by May 31st for highest placement in Honor Roll listings. The new 339 entity maximum will appear on CQ DX Honor Rolls to be prepared in early June. CQ DX Honor Roll listings prepared in early April will be based on a 338 maximum count. All Kosovo contacts will count for field KN on applications for the CQ DX Field Award. Kosovo's status has been the subject of some controversy in the amateur radio community as well as the world community, as the ARRL declared that special operations from there on February 17 will count as Serbia, not Kosovo, in terms of DXCC credit. The United States and many European countries immediately recognized Kosovo's independence. However, Russia and China are opposed to it and Russia has threatened to veto any U.N. action to recognize Kosovo as an independent nation. We are aware that the ARRL has not yet added Kosovo to the DXCC list, explained CQ magazine Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU. The League says it is waiting for Kosovo to become a member state of the United Nations or be issued a callsign block by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a U.N. agency. However, because of geopolitical issues far beyond the realm of amateur radio, it is unlikely that the United Nations or the ITU will act on Kosovo in the near future, even though the United States and many other countries have granted it recognition. Because it is CQ's policy to grant credit for contacts with 'new' entities as of the date that their status changes, Moseson continued, we have decided not to wait for U.N. action, but to follow the lead of the United States and other countries that have recognized Kosovo's independence, and to grant credit for contacts made with stations in Kosovo as of its independence day, February 17, 2008. (NOTE: This action does not affect the country list for the CQ WW DX Contest. CQWW rules state that its country list is composed of those entities on the DXCC list and the WAE (Worked All Europe) award list. If the WAE Committee decides to add Kosovo to its list, it will automatically be added to the CQWW list.) -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
Re: [DX-NEWS] Are all of Clippertons log online?
--- Shack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had so many Q's not shown in an online log. I know that we all occasionally think we made a contact but don't but I'm missing two (30 and 40 meter CW) in the online log and am wondering if anyone else has experienced the same thing. No, not until they get back to the mainland 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
Re: [DX-NEWS] Are all of Clippertons log online?
--- N7mal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be curious as to the particulars of Jim's statement. In simple words how does he know that? The website has not been updated, nor have any of the 'blogs' have been updated. One of the biggest problems in our DXing community is people making unfounded statements, no matter how reasonable the statements may seem(to them). The statement was not unfounded - it was reported in W3UR's The Daily DX. I believe he heard it from one of the 20 meter SSB ops aboard the Shogun on the way home. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] Clipperton Hot News - 11 March 2008
[I am not affiliated with the DXpedition - don't send me E-mail about it - AD1C] On our 2nd day of operation, qso's now total 30,225. Operations on March 10th continued without any significant interruptions from mother nature (finally!). Good pile-ups were seen on all operating frequencies. Yesterday we focused on European openings per our operating plan where Clipperton is high on the most wanted list. Paths to the USA are open almost all the time on a variety of bands so we really want to focus on Europe and other hard to reach areas when propagation is possible. This is why we landed on the north side of the island in the first place. So we know the USA operators will understand why at certain times we are operating only Europe or outside the USA. When the paths are open to EU, we're hearing all of Europe extremely well, very strong signals. We're finding that our Q rates rise significantly when stations call only once or twice and use complete calls. Signals are so strong, with no qsb or noise on our end, that we can often quickly pick out several complete calls and work more stations. If we all work together, we can get more people in our logs. http://www.clipperton2008.org/dxpedition/TX5C_dxpedition.htm -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX News #26- 2008 Mar 10
http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php News #26- 2008 Mar 10 Highlights: ... Answering questions about QSLs and LOTW credits ... ... missing QSOs ... ... other questions answered ... QSL procedures: All the operators have returned home. Carsten DL6LAU arrived at his house to find several thousand envelopes with QSL cards waiting for him. We are surprised! Apparently we forgot to explain the new on-line QSL system used for VP6DX clearly! * Please do NOT send a paper QSL card! You do NOT need to send a paper QSL card nor a letter in the mail. * Go to the website www.vp6dx.com. Click Online QSL Request on the left side menu. Follow the procedures to submit your claimed QSOs. * After entering your claimed QSOs, you may choose to: o Receive your cards via the bureau at a later date. No financial donation to the VP6DX project is required. You are finished. Please do not send any cards to us. o Receive your QSLs mailed direct to your home (premium on-line QSL request service). To cover the cost of mailing and other expedition expenses, the premium on-line QSL request service is available only to people who make a donation of at least US$5 or 3. If you have already made a donation, that's great: just check the appropriate box on the premium service request page. If you want to make a new donation, or add to your previous donation, that's great too! Check the appropriate box, and the website will take you to the donation section. You may donate on-line (via Paypal/credit card) or by sending a check in the mail; just follow the website instructions. By far, the most popular error in using the Paypal donation procedure is forgetting to enter your callsign. If you use the Paypal system, please remember to enter your callsign so your donation can be matched to your QSL requests. Remember: you do NOT need to send a paper QSL card! In fact, a QSL card just makes everything harder and slower. If you send your QSL request by mail on paper, someone else (a volunteer) must enter the data into the on-line form for you. This means your paper mailing will sit in a queue until a volunteer opens your envelope -- a MUCH slower process. It will be faster if you enter your QSL request on-line! Even if you are making a donation by check via the mail, please do not send a QSL card request with your check. When your donation check has been received and entered into the database, all your on-line QSL requests will be automatically processed. In conclusion: Use the on-line QSL request form... Thank you for your donations (in every form)... and, especially, thank you for NOT sending a paper QSL card! Reminder: PLEASE include your callsign with any PayPal donation! Logbook of the World: Information about QSOs with stations who have already donated to the VP6DX project have been automatically uploaded to the ARRL LOTW server. As of March 7, 17,142 VP6DX QSOs (almost 10% of the total log) have been accepted into the ARRL LOTW server and 3260 QSOs have been matched. Updates to the donor/sponsor list on the website, and LOTW uploads, are done at least once per week. For others who do not wish to donate to the VP6DX project, and who request a QSL via the on-line QSL request website, information about their QSOs will be uploaded to the ARRL LOTW server at a later date, approximately 9-12 months from now. We have received a few email inquiries along the lines of I donated, but my LOTW credits are not appearing. We have to research each inquiry by hand, so please be patient. By far, the most common problem is that the donor did not include his callsign with his donation. Missing QSOs: We have also received some email from people who feel they made a successful contact with VP6DX, but their QSO is not in the on-line log... or a variation of their callsign appears in the on-line log. During the next few weeks the raw log files from each of the logging computers at Ducie Island will be re-integrated together and checked against the on-line log. We know some obvious logging errors occurred, and these will be fixed at that time; for example: * OPONK3NA, a mistake by the operator logging on at the start of his operating shift. * W1FJK1XM, two calls entered as one QSO, which could not be quickly fixed in real-time on the island. Some of your missing QSOs may be recovered during this review of the logs. It is also possible your callsign was recorded incorrectly by the operator at Ducie Island, forming a busted call. You may receive a QSL for a busted call, according to these rules: * You submit an on-line QSL request for the contact; and * The log contains a QSO at the correct time on the correct band/mode, but with a callsign which differs from your callsign by ONE character, or by one transposition; and * The owner of the busted callsign does not submit an on-line QSL request for the contact within the next 6-9 months. Example #1: K5NA submits a QSO request for a
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX - News # 23 - February 29, 2008
News #23- 2008 Feb 29 Highlights: ... On-air operating phase of expedition ends ... ... Equipment packed and transfered to M/V Braveheart ... ... Everyone transferred from shore to ship ... ... Equipment stowed ... ... M/V Braveheart departs ... Around 4:30am Wednesday (Feb 27 Wed 1230z), a rain shower drenched Ducie Island. On-duty operators scrambled to close up the radio operating tents, which had been left open to enjoy pleasant nighttime breezes. Two hours later, at dawn, Eric and Carsten *the expedition co-leaders) and Nigel (captain of the Braveheart) stood at the top of the shoreline, coffee cups in hand, discussing the recent rain. Bands of rain showers had been seen the previous sunset, and more were evident in this morning's eastern sky. The discussion was short, for each man had already privately concluded the on-the-air phase of the Ducie Island expedition should end immediately. The generators were switched off, and the roar of the surf against the shoals of low tide became the predominant sound. The decision scuttled plans for a second night of limited on-air operations by a skeleton team of 3-4 operators, focused on the 160m-30m low bands. Instead, after a quick, light breakfast, teams focused on packing all equipment and exiting the island promptly, before the weather and sea conditions deteriorated further. The men returned to their sleeping tents to pack personal gear into watertight cannisters for transfer back to the ship. Bedding was folded up. The tents were left standing for the moment: they were soaked from the early morning downpour, and if some sunshine developed, they might have a chance to dry before packing. Thereafter small groups of radio operators fanned out along the northeastern coast to take down all remaining antennas at the east camp and pack them in their shipping tubes. Three men spooled thousands of meters of coaxial transmission cable and antenna control lines back onto their shipping reels, wrapping each completed spool in protective film. Two disconnected the electrical power distribution system, coiling up thick cables and packing distribution boxes, outlet strips, and lighting. Another packed computers, radios, antenna control boxes, footswitches, filters, DC power systems, and other miscellaneous radio apparatus into pre-assigned watertight shipping cases. When each tube and watertight shipping container received the last of its items, it was closed, sealed, and tagged. The annotation scribbled on the florescent green tape stated the container was ready to leave the island, indicated whether it could be stored outside on the ship, and whether access during the return voyage was required. The containers were placed by the path to the beach, and Braveheart crew loaded tagged materials onto a hand trolley for transfer to the beachhead. Others of the Braveheart crew disassembled and packed the camp infrastructure: food storage and preparation areas, eating tables and benches, washing stations, protective tarps, the beloved fresh water shower by the lagoon shoreline, and the Toilet With The Outstanding Scenic View. Fortunately, the remainder of the morning was sunny and pleasant. Tents dried out by late morning. The Braveheart team emptied them of bedding and cots, swept out the accumulated bits of trash and dirt, and then sealed each tent after spraying the interior with an insecticide. An hour or two later the tents were struck and packed in fadges (large sacks), to be stowed outside on the Braveheart. New Zealand environmental regulations require precautions to reduce the chances of importing insects. Later, when Braveheart is in French Polynesia, the tents and tarps will come out of the fadges to be washed down, scrubbed, rinsed, dried, and repacked. With the arrival of high tide, a jet boat from the Braveheart came to the eastern shore's landing point to start the long process of transferring equipment from shore to ship. Sea conditions and the on-shore breeze combined to make this task a tricky one. The Braveheart, pitching and rolling at anchor, lifted items off the transfer boat with a crane onto its rear deck. Careful timing was required to get materials hooked onto the crane, whose heavy hook and block swang around the bobbing jet-boat. By 11:00 AM the radio teams had walked over to dismantle the west camp. The cable team extracted out of the low forest and underbrush the kilometers of wiring used for low band receiving antennas, packed the remotely controlled receive antenna switching hub, and reeled up several thousand meters more of coaxial and control cables. More watertight cases filled up with equipment... and everything rolled down to the lagoon shoreline on the hand dollies over the rough coral paths. At mid-afternoon, the jet boat traveled around to and surfed across the shallow southern lagoon entrance. West camp materials were shuttled to the lagoon side of the east camp, then rolled or carried over the atoll to the seaside
[DX-NEWS] DXCluster.Info web site
For the last year or so, I have been maintaining a web site with a wealth of information on DX cluster nodes: http://www.dxcluster.info I have been trying to update it at least monthly. If you find any information missing or incorrect, please let me know. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX - News #22- 2008 Feb 26
News #22- 2008 Feb 26 Highlights: ... First LOTW credits for VP6DX contacts on ARRL server ... ... Station and camp disassembly begins ... ... One more record claimed ... Late yesterday, Feb 21, the Ducie Island expedition submitted over data for over seven thousand VP6DX contacts to the ARRL robot. These contacts were with over 900 stations whose owners made financial contributions of at least five US dollars to the expedition through Feb 24. The submission has been accepted and processed by the robot, and these contacts are ready for matching by the donors. Meanwhile, on Ducie Island, the operator team and crew of the Braveheart have begun the first phase of disassembly and off-loading. On today's schedule to be disassembled and removed from the island: * All antennas for 20 through 6 meters at both east and west camps. * The 30m antenna at the west camp, and the 40m 4-square at the east camp. * Two operating positions and the shift supervisor workstation at the east camp. * The technical workstation. * A portion of the camp infrastructure for meals, cooking, washing, etc. No on-air operating will occur during the daylight period today, as all hands are needed to complete the work of disassemble, packing, transfer to the ship, and storage for the sea journey. Tonight (beginning as early as Feb 27 Wednesday 0300z) a more limited on-air operation is possible, if the operators have time and energy remaining. Five operating positions at two sites and transmit antennas for 160 through 30 meter bands will be available. At Feb 27 Wednesday 1445z on-air operations will again shut down for a second day of deconstruction. At the end of Thursday local time the entire east camp will have been removed from the island. The west camp, with single element verticals for 160, 80/30 and 40m, and possible one beverage (045) will remain, along with three operating positions. This equipment will be staffed by a skeleton overnight crew, on-air from about Feb 28 Thursday 0330-1430z. Most operators will sleep on the Braveheart, as there will be no camp facilities on the island. Early Thursday morning (Ducie Island time), around 1400z, the ship's crew and operators will return to the island to pack and remove all remaining antennas, equipment, etc. The on-air phase of the Ducie Island expedition will end at that point. This will be the last press release from Ducie Island. A log update was submitted to the website about one hour ago. A final log update, together with a press release containing final statistics, will be transmitted from the Braveheart once we have departed. We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as widely as possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow DXers. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX News #21- 2008 Feb 25
Original Message Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP6DX News #21- 2008 Feb 25 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:42:19 +0100 From: Christian Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Highlights: ... Fireworks at Ducie Island ... ... VP6DX breaks record for largest number of contacts on an expedition ... ... Other band and mode contact records also broken ... ... Pileups remain large ... ... Long path contacts made on 160m band with Ducie Island ... ... Description of stations ... ... New Pictures online ... On 2008 February 25 Monday at 0437z, after 13 days 7 hours and 37 minutes of continuous operation, RA0ALM contacted the Ducie Island expedition on the 10 MHz band for the expedition's 168,723rd contact. According to documents maintained by Jari Jussila OH2BU, this contact breaks the record for the largest number of contacts made by any radio expedition. The record was previously held by the Five Star DX Association's expedition to the Comoros Island (D68C) during 2001 Feb 8-28. A few moments later, the pre-moonrise starry skies above Ducie Island sparkled with a barrage of flares launched from the deck of the M/V Braveheart in celebration. The thirteen operators and six Braveheart crew congratulated each other with handshakes, hugs, and some strong coffee. But deep pileups of European and North American stations were still calling. Soon the seven on-duty operators were back in front of the radios, while the others crept off to their cots to catch up on sleep in the cool of the evening. The Ducie Island expedition has broken other expedition records in recent days, including: * largest number of RTTY contacts, previously held by the Swains Island N8S expedition of 2007 April. * largest number of SSB (voice) contacts, previously held by the Comoros Island D68C expedition. * largest number of contacts on the 40m band, previously held by the Libya 5A7A expedition of 2006 November. * largest number of contacts on the 30m band, previously held by the St Brandon Island 3B7C expedition of 2007 September. * largest number of contacts on the 17m band, previously held by the Swains Island N8S expedition. * largest number of contacts with North America, previously held by the Comoros Island D68C expedition. * largest number of contacts with South America, previously held by the Peter the First Island 3Y0X expedition of 2006 February. * largest number of contacts with Africa, previously held by the Rodrigues Island 3B9C expedition of 2004 March-April. As this message was transmitted by Iridium satellite from Ducie Island, the expedition contact total crossed 170,000 contacts... and continues to increase at about 415 contacts per hour. Most contacts now entering the logs are with European stations during their morning twilight period. In an hour or so the focus will shift to North and South America, east Asia and the Pacific, where it will remain until dawn at Ducie Island. Long path contacts on 160m with Ducie Island Earlier, we reported that a contact on the 160m band had been made with A45XR in Oman, at the opposite side of the planet from Ducie Island. This contact occurred on Feb 18 near Ducie Island sunrise. All of the stations contacted in Europe were in their late afternoon, with the sunset terminator approaching. On Feb 21 a series of long path 160m contacts were made between Ducie Island and stations in Ukraine and southern European Russia. Eleven stations were worked during 1345-1430z. Signals were best on the 225 (Ukraine) or 195 degree (Russia) beverages and inaudible in other directions, confirming a long path route with very little or no skew. Contacts with southern European Russia used a path from Ducie Island south-southwest over Antarctica, then north across the southern Indian Ocean (Heard Island, Mauritius), across the Persian Gulf and Iran into Russia. These paths are 23000 to 24000 km long. For the Ukraine, signals followed a south Pacific Ocean path into the Southern Ocean below New Zealand and Australia, then near the Maldives, the Persian Gulf, and finally towards the Ukraine. During the same time period, a station in the Moscow City oblast was also contacted. This signal clearly arrived on the short path, crossing over Scandinavia Signals were loud on 015 degree beverage antenna and was barely audible on the 195 antenna. Scandinavia and northwest Russia stations looking for a 160m contact with Ducie Island should check this time for a short path opening. Stations in Ukraine and southwest Russia should look for the long path. During the hours leading up to and including this long/short path opening to Europe, Oman, Mongolia, and Tajik stations were also contacted on their short path directions. Of course, we looked for the same opening the following morning, but without success. The 160m operator team will keep checking
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX News #20- 2008 Feb 24
Original Message Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP6DX News #20- 2008 Feb 24 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:39:34 +0100 From: Christian Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Highlights: ... Final days of expeditions ... ... Outline of teardown and departure schedule ... The Ducie Island expedition has entered its final days of on-air operations. DXers seeking contacts on 20 through 6m should focus their attentions on their most important goals between now and Feb 26 Tuesday 1430z. Low band contacts will be available in limited number until Feb 29 Thursday 1430z. All plans are subject to revision if weather and sea conditions change. At present, the weather is fine (partly cloudy, hot at midday) and sea conditions are reasonable. Any degradation in either may result in earlier reductions of on-air operations or an earlier departure. Assuming the weather and sea conditions continue to cooperate, VP6DX will continue on-air at full staffing levels until Feb 26 Tuesday 1430z, shortly after local sunrise. The team will spend the day disassembling some antennas (primarily 20-10m), one radio station, and some related infrastructure. This material will be packed and transfered to the M/V Braveheart. On Tuesday night, it will be stowed securely for the sea transit. Around sunset that day, VP6DX will return on-air for limited nighttime operations. The start time depends on how well the day's work progressed... and the number of stations on-air will depend on conditions and operator enthusiasm after a long day of hard work. As many as six stations could be on-air on 160-30m during this night (Feb 27 Wednesday 0300-1430z). On Feb 27 Wednesday on-air operations will again stop. The team will again spend the daylight period disassembling the next portion of the station. At the end of Wednesday our entire camp will be packed and off the island. Most operators will spend the night on the M/V Braveheart, helping to secure materials on the ship for the sea transit. We plan to leave only a skeleton crew (3-4 persons) for nighttime operations. That night (Feb 28 Thursday 0300-1430z) as many as three stations could be on-air on 160m-30m. One beverage may remain for this final night. Just before dawn on Feb 28 Thursday the team will come ashore for final disassembly and packing. The last operating site will be packed, the remaining four antennas taken down, and a final check of the island for trash, etc made. We intend to have all material stowed on the ship by Feb 28 Thu 2000z, to weigh anchor, and depart Ducie. We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as widely as possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow DXers. -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX News #19- 2008 Feb 19
News #19- 2008 Feb 19 Highlights: ... 160m contact made with opposite side of the planet ... ... 104,900 contacts and climbing ... ... QSO Statistics ... ... 17m RTTY operations started ... ... 30m RTTY frequency adjustment ... ... 6m beacon now on the air ... ... long path contacts made with Finland, European Russia on the 80m band... ... possibilities for 160m? ... ... North American 160m schedule ... 160m contact made with opposite side of the planet At Feb 18 Mon 1252z, the Ducie Island 160m operator was called by, and completed a contact with, A45XR in Oman. A45XR is located less than 300 km from the antipode (exact opposite location on the planet) of Ducie Island -- essentially the most distant location from Ducie Island. This contact took place during the late afternoon, Oman time, 1 hour 10 minutes before sunset. At the time of the contact, the terminator was 2000 km from Oman, approaching from the east-northeast. All directions between antipodes are of equal distance. Over what path was this contact made? At Ducie Island, A45XR's signals were heard best on the 305° beverage antenna. This suggests the signal path traveled over Japan, northern China, and Pakistan... exiting perpendicular from the twilight zone. It is possible a single E-skip hop between Oman and northeast Pakistan completed the path through the 2000 km daylight sector. Congratulations to both operators! Now that we have shown Ducie Island's topband operating team can contact even the farthest points on the planet, what's stopping you from trying a top band contact with VP6DX? If you think your antenna is inferior, or you are running limited transmitter power, don't give up! Look at the comments in the guestbook section of the VP6DX.com website: lots of stations are now in the VP6DX logbook with very simple antennas and low heights -- event on top band. So give every band and mode a try. We are waiting for your call! We are stuck on an uninhabited island with nothing to do but work any station who calls us. Well, perhaps that's not entirely true. It's almost time for breakfast... and a nap for the nighttime operators. 104,900 contacts so far Current dupe rate is below 7%, which is typical for this volume of QSOs. During the next days we plan a greater focus on Asia openings, which are presently underrepresented on most bands. Openings on 12 and 10m to Europe can be weak and difficult, but we will try to capture all of them in the remaining days on the air. 30m has received somewhat less attention to date due to competition from other band openings into difficult-to-reach areas. On Feb 19 Tue we added a second 30m antenna and started running CW and RTTY simultaneously. 17m RTTY operations started RTTY totals to date also are below plan. To help correct this, and to exploit a more convenient propagation time for North American operators, on Feb 19 Mon we began RTTY operations on 17m during mid-day (local Ducie time). Our RTTY transmit frequency on this band will be about 18101 kHz (below the packet stations), listening down. 30m RTTY frequency adjustment We have received reports that our 30m RTTY transmit frequency of 10149 is sometimes covered by commercial stations in Europe. We may move this frequency back to 10139... but listen up in the JA RTTY window of 10140-10150. Note that some form of radar or other broadband signal from northern Asia occasionally covers most of the 30m band. During these times we redeploy the operating position to another band. This interference may cause us to miss some openings. 6m beacon now on the air At about 2008 Feb 19 Tue z the VP6DX 6m beacon began operations. The beacon frequency is 50105.5 kHz. Beacon power is 70 watts to a Yagi. We will try beaming east-northeast for two hours around our sunrise... north-northeast to USA/Canada/Central America for the remainder of the day. The beacon speaker is on our picnic table, used for meals and relaxing, and next to the east operating tent. In addition we have a spectrum display monitoring a portion of the 6m beacon band. Please submit any reception reports via the VP6DX.COM website (they will be forwarded to the operator team). You may call us on the beacon frequency, or contact any of our HF operators to alert us for an opening. 80m longpath to OH and European Russia During a window around Ducie Island local sunrise (1345-1445Z), long path contacts have been made on both 75m SSB and 80m CW with stations in Finland and European Russia. The furthest contact was to northern Finland, about 25,000 km from Ducie Island and 5,000 km beyond the antipodes. The best reception at Ducie Island for most contacts is on the 195° beverage. Some stations were heard equally well on the 225° beverage. The stations were inaudible on any other direction. This suggests the path has very little skew off the great circle long path route. This long path route parallels the terminator (bearing 187° from Ducie), with signals from Ducie traveling over
[DX-NEWS] N8S Swains QSOs have been uploaded to LoTW
N8S Swains QSOs have been uploaded to LoTW http://dx-is.com/news/?p=216 I just downloaded my report and my QSOs are there. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
RE: [DX-NEWS] Fwd: [The Daily DX] Kosovo Press Release # 1 February 16, 2008
--- Joe Subich, W4TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) to be included on either the U.N. list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (www.un.org/depts/dpi/decolonization/trust3.htm) or the US Department of State list of Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty (www.state.gov/s/inr/rls/10543.htm). I don't believe this section applies, because Kosovo is declaring political independence. The full DXCC rule is: c) The Entity contains a permanent population, is administered by a local government, and is located at least 800 km from its parent. To satisfy the permanent population and administered by a local government criteria of this sub-section, an Entity must be listed on either (a) the U.S. Department of State's list of Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty as having a local Administrative Center, or (b) the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. There will be no parent in this case. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX (Ducie) in ARRL DX CW
http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php News #16- 2008 Feb 15 Directly from Ducie Island: ARRL DX CW contest starts soon. VP6DX will participate in a limited fashion: * On the CW contest bands 160, 80, 40, 20 15 and 10, we probably will not be at the normal frequencies. Operators will pick a frequency based on band conditions. Each operator will make his own decisions about split vs simplex operation, depending on the situation at the time. * We will answer ALL callers (USA/VE and others), and send our contest exchange and log the exchanges received from contest participants. * We won't be chasing multipliers and will not be able to handle pass requests. If another band is open at all, we should have a signal there. Quick QSYs to check non-open bands are time-consuming (manual filter and antenna changes) and not a good use of our time on the island. Meanwhile, other radios will be on non-contest bands and band segments; e.g., 20m SSB or 30m RTTY. These non-contest segment operations will continue as they have the last few days: split operations, with priority to difficult propagation paths. We anticipate no 20m RTTY or 40m SSB during the contest. The contest ends at Feb 17/2359z and it will be late afternoon (4pm) here. 40m will be just opening to Europe, and the low bands will open during the next three hours. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] VP6DX News #14- 2008 Feb 13
http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/news/index.php News #14- 2008 Feb 13 I just had a telephone call with Carsten (DL6LAU) on Ducie Island. The reason we did not get any update or online log from the island is that they had no time until now because of a big workload to setup the stations and antennas. They plan to go online in the next 6-12 hours so we expect the first online logs around noon on Thursday. Please be aware that the data connection via Iridium is very sensible so it can last a long time to upload the online logs. After 1,5 days of operation they have now about 28,000 QSOs in the log (about 17,000 after the first 24 hours!). They already started RTTY operation on 20m with over 700 QSOs at the moment. In some days we expect also RTTY operation on 30m. Antenna construction is still in progress. Some antennas for 12m and 10m are missing. Today they are at the installation of the Beverage antennas for the low bands. All team members are in a good shape (except some sunburns) and they have a lot of fun. A problem is the extreme heat during the day which makes it nearly impossible for the night operators to sleep. Tomorrow we will get some more news from the island. Please stay tuned. We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as widely as possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow DXers. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] Serbia: Kosovo to be independent Feb. 17
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 8, 10:39 AM ET BELGRADE, Serbia - The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_re_eu/serbia_kosovo_independence -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] From Hyderabad to Cocos Island
Interesting story about S. Yamini, VU2YAM, the first Indian national to participate in a DXpedition outside India: http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/26/stories/2008012657880400.htm 73 - Jim AD1C [follow-ups to DX-CHAT of course] -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] Vietnamese hold rare rally over islands
Sun Dec 9, 2:36 AM ET HANOI, Vietnam - Several hundred Vietnamese staged a rare public demonstration Sunday to protest China's effort to claim control of two disputed island chains in the South China Sea. The demonstrators, mostly university students, gathered near the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi and chanted Down with China! and Long Live Vietnam! Police let the demonstration continue for about an hour before breaking it up. The protesters were supporting the government's position that Vietnam has sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel islands, a contentious issue between Vietnam and China for years. The largely uninhabited islands and surrounding waters are believed to have large oil and natural gas reserves. They straddle busy sea lanes and are rich fishing grounds. Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei also claim sovereignty over all or some of the Spratlys. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071209/ap_on_re_as/vietnam_china_protest -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
Re: [DX-NEWS] Unsubscribing more
--- Fred Stevens K2FRD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options The NJDXA web site seems broken. I found this page: http://www.njdxa.org/dx-tools/dx-news.php It says, You can subscribe, or unsubscribe to either the DX News or DX Chat reflectors using the form on the bottom of any page on the NJDXA website. I could not find *any* form at the bottom of the pages of the web site, either in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I did find this page using google: http://www.njdxa.org/dx-news/ There is a form, but when you try to enter an address to subscribe or unsubscribe, you get this: Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. One subscriber has been trying to get off the list for several weeks. I forwarded several of his requests to Steve and Urb but it doesn't seem to help. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Re: How big is the DX cluster?
I mis-spoke. There was bug in CC Cluster which caused an explosion of the number of nodes, the real number is below: Cluster: 392 nodes 304 Locals 3169 Total users Uptime 2 days 0:59 Still, that's an impressive number of users! I put a snapshot of this on the web site: http://www.dxcluster.info/Oct-06-2007.htm 73 - Jim AD1C Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Dirk G1TLH and Lee VE7CC have been working on improving the communication between DX Cluster nodes (DX Spider and CC Cluster, respectively). Check out the message I just saw when I logged into W0MU: Cluster: 805 nodes 8 Locals 3799 Total users Uptime 1 days 0:28 I remember the days when there were about 50 nodes and 300+ users. This is an order of magnitude larger! Way to go, guys! Instead of ANN/FULL, try TALK instead, even if the user isn't visible to your node. It just might work! 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] SM5DQC - Silent Key
Very sorry to read this new in The Daily DX today. My prayers go out to Osten's family. *** The Daily DX (c) *** Volume 11 Number 174 September 10, 2007 Editor/Publisher Bernie McClenny, W3UR Edited today by Rich Boyd, KE3Q SM5DQC, Osten Magnusson, has become a Silent Key at the age of 67. He passed away Friday at his home. Osten was a longtime subscriber to the Daily DX, a major source of DX news for us, a great history reference and a good friend to many, including to W3UR. The ARRL's DXCC Manager, NC1L, Bill, says Osten joined DXCC in 1967 and has been very active ever since. Osten was appointed a DXCC card checker in November, 2000 and has been, says NC1L, one of the more active European checkers. Osten was #1 Honor Roll for both Mixed and Phone, CW Honor Roll, and needed just one, P5. He had DXCC on all bands 160- 10M and 5BDXCC. NC1L says, When an issue stumped the DXCC guy, Osten always came to the rescue! SM5DJZ, John, will carry on with the DXCC program for Swedish hams. The two had divided this task. But, John notes that Osten was QSL manager for some 9Q stations - he doesn't know who will pick up that task. -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Some important messages from the 3B7C team (10-Sep-2007 @ 19:00 UTC)
http://www.3b7c.com/news.htm 10-Sep-2007 @ 19:00 UTC Some important messages from the team: 1. North America west coast: Long path openings occur 02-04z on both 30m 20m... and 12-14z on 40m through 20m (even longer on 20m, up to 16z). Signals are good here but few people are calling us. We will continue looking for west coast long path at these times. A brief skew path 80m opening around 13z occurs, and we will be looking for 160m openings as well at this time to west coast. Please report any other long path or unusual openings to the Americas. 2. Pirates: At least two pirates were operating this past weekend on 40m. Now that logs have been uploaded, DXers are encouraged to verify contacts especially on this band. 3. Generator shutdown will be shifted to 04z in future days, typically 1 hour. A longer shutdown for oil change is required on Wednesday and every fourth day thereafter. Shutdown will be after the last North America low band QSOs. 4. Relatively poor propagation has heavily favoured Europe over Japan... and North America has been even more of a struggle. DXers in Europe may be asked to QRX while we try to work the weak, short openings to North America and Japan. Thanks for everyone's patience. Let's hope conditions will improve. 5. 160m CW will shift to 1821.2 to avoid a carrier bothering Europe. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #852
[testing forwarding - please ignore] 425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 1 September 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 852 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by IK1ADH I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3B7- The 3B7C team expects to arrive on Isle du Sud, St. Brandon (AF-015) on 4 September. Operations are not expected to commence until midnight UTC on the 7th, by which time all stations and antennas will have been assembled (however, the 6m beacon will be activated at the earliest opportunity, so that 6m DXers can start to monitor for possible openings). Suggested frequencies are as follows: Band CW SSB RTTY FM PSK 160m1822 1842 --- 80m 3502 3795 3570 - 3580 40m 7002 7052 7035 - 7037 30m10102 - 10137 - 10140 20m140221414514085 - 14071 17m180721814518100 - 18100 15m210222129521085 - 21071 12m248922494524920 - 24920 10m2802228495280752958028071 6m 5010250145 --- 6m Beacon 50090 ---- There will be 12 stations (one on every band from 160 to 6 metres, with second stations on 80 and 20 metres so that they can operate on CW and SSB at the same time) with big monoband antennas on all bands from 30 to 6 metres and verticals on the remaining bands. Feedback messages can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John, G3WGV will read them and send a daily digest of key information to the team. Logs will be uploaded to the 3B7C website on a daily basis. The online log lookup will feature a lookup for your zone, showing what times you, or others in your country/zone, have made contact with 3B7C on each band. QSL via G3NUG, direct or bureau (bureau cards can be requested via the webpage). The QSL manager for SWLs is Bob Treacher, BRS32525. Bookmark http://3b7c.com for full information on the expedition. 5H - Scott, AC3A will be in Tanzania with ORBIS International (a nonprofit humanitarian organization dedicated to blindness prevention and treatment in developing countries) on 7-17 September. He plans to be active as 5H3EYE during his local evening hours. QSL via AC3A. [TNX The Daily DX] 9A - Mladen, 9A2NA will operate SSB on the HF bands from Korcula Island (EU-016) on 1-10 September. Side trips to the nearby islands of Cerin and Prznjak Mali are being planned. [TNX F5NQL] 9H - A large group of Dutch amateurs will be going to Qawra, Malta (EU-023) for their 20th holiday/DXpedition. They will operate on 80-6 metres CW, SSB and digital modes between 9 and 30 September using a very special callsign, 9H20 (Nine Hotel Twenty, no suffix; QSL via PB9ZR). The operators will be PE1NGF (9H3X), PA0BEA (9H3IE), PG9W (9H3ON), PE1OFJ(9H3YM), PB9ZR (9H3ZR), PA1SL (9H3AB), PA3HGP (9H3S), PA5W (9H3WX), PD5W (9H3WY), PA1GR (9H3ZF), PA3AVS (9H3AVS), PA3GUU (9H3YT) and PE2EMS (9H3EM). [TNX http://www.vrza.nl/] 9M - Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Malaysian indipendence, a large number of 9M50M special event callsigns (the first letter of the suffix stands for Merdeka, which means independence in Malay language) will be aired from all over that Country between 30 August and 1 September. Expect 9M50MA, 9M50MB, 9M50MC, 9M50MD, 9M50ME, 9M50MF, 9M50MJ, 9M50MK, 9M50MM, 9M50MN, 9M50MP, 9M50MR, 9M50MT and 9M50MW from West Malaysia, while 9M50MS and 9M50MQ will be active from East Malaysia. QSL via the MARTS (Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitters' Society) bureau. [TNX 9M2TO and 9W6RAY] CT - Carlos Mauricio, CT4HA will be active as CT4HA/p from Berlenga Island (EU-040) on 7-9 September. He plans to
[DX-NEWS] New newgroup: vista-ham
I have set up a Yahoo! group (reflector) for discussing hardware/software issues related to Windows Vista. You can find more information here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vista-ham/ Please spread the word! 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] ZS2H - Marion Island
Hi Folks, I'm trying to determine whether the callsign ZS2H was ever used from Marion Island. I found reference to this on the web: http://www.dailydx.com/Issues/02-192.txt *** The Daily DX _ *** Volume 2 Number 192 October 13, 1998 Edited by Bernie McClenny, W3UR Several people pointed out that one of the DX Bulletins reported that ZS2H was on Prince Edward Marion Island. Chris, ZS6EZ, called and spoke to someone on the phone from Marion Island. He says There are only a dozen people on the islands, so they should know! He asked If there was a Barry Jackson (ZS2H) and whether there was a radio ham. The response to both questions was no. If anyone has a card from ZS2H on Marion Island, could you please scan the front/back and send that to me? Thanks 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Midway to allow visitors, volunteers
By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 21, 1:30 PM ET MIDWAY ATOLL - The long stretch of atolls and coral reefs northwest of the main Hawaiian islands is so precious humans generally aren't allowed to venture there. Boats need special permits to enter. All fishing must stop in 2011, aside from what Native Hawaiians catch for cultural purposes. President Bush made the region the largest protected marine area in the world when he declared the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands a marine national monument last year. But there is one spot in the 1,400-mile archipelago where officials believe human visitors, in limited numbers, could do more good than harm: Midway Atoll. In about six months, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow tourists to visit Midway, primarily to help clear the island of debris and invasive species. Wildlife officials also hope visitors will leave having become strong advocates for the continued preservation of the monument. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_re_us/midway_tourism_1 -- Jim Reisert AD1C, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Russian Scientists Say the Arctic Is Theirs
Follow-ups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please! June 28, 2007, 10:42 am Russian Scientists Say the Arctic Is Theirs By Mike Nizza Toss another stick or two on to that smoldering Cold War fire: Theres renewed talk of expanding the Russian Empire. This time, its not President Vladimir V. Putin spawning the headlines, but a group of geologists. After a 45-day expedition, the scientists say they have discovered new evidence that would bolster a Russian claim to a vast part of the Arctic region beyond the 230-mile maritime economic zone belonging to Russia and the four other nations bordering the Arctic Ocean: Canada, Denmark (through its posession of Greenland), Norway and the United States. One Russian paper celebrated the discovery by publishing a large map of the Arctic under the Russian flag, the Guardian reported. By identifying a geological link between the continental shelf abutting Russias Far North and the North pole by way of a sea-floor feature called the Lomonosov Ridge, Russia could reportedly press a claim to roughly 460,000 square miles of ocean as its territorial waters an area whose size approaches the Mexican Cession (529,189 square miles), which added Texas, California and states in between to the United States. (Still short of the Louisiana Purchases 828,000, though.) And Russia wouldnt be paying a ruble for it, either. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/whats-the-russian-for-santas-workshop/ -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] 3B7SP - St. Brandon
According to The Daily DX, the team from Poland has obtained operating permission and will be QRV as 3B7SP from St. Brandon shortly. This is the same DXCC Entity as Agalega, 3B6 but a different IOTA. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] DXpedition to Islas Cabras NA122
From: herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:21:14 +0200 Subject: [RTTY] expedition to Islas Cabras NA122 Hello group, Next week we are at the Island Cabras with a group from the Dominican Republic. Cabras was no more on the air the last 18 years There will be 4 stations on the air: one on 6 m -- 2 on SSB and one RTTY From 11-17 june 2007 Call HI0C NA 122 QSL via ON4IQ See You all next week Herman Pieter ON4QX -- Jim Reisert AD1C/0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] ARLX002 Canada Ending 136 kHz and 5 MHz Special Authorizations
ZCZC AX02 QST de W1AW Special Bulletin 2 ARLX002 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 30, 2007 To all radio amateurs SB SPCL ARL ARLX002 ARLX002 Canada Ending 136 kHz and 5 MHz Special Authorizations In accordance with an agreement between Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) and Industry Canada, that country's telecommunications regulatory agency, special authorizations allowing some Canadian radio amateurs to conduct experiments at 136 kHz and 5 MHz will terminate June 30. These experiments have had, as one objective, the provision of data that would support the objectives of RAC and the IARU for possible new allocations to the Amateur Service at these frequencies, the RAC said. Future special authorizations will depend on the outcomes of World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 (WRC-07), which gets under way October 22, the RAC added. New worldwide, secondary amateur allocations at 135.7 to 137.8 kHz and in the 5 MHz range are up for possible consideration at WRC-07. RAC Newfoundland-Labrador Section Manager Joe Craig, VO1NA, described some of his LF experiences in The Transatlantic on 2200 Meters, that appeared in July 2005 issue of QST. Craig also has been in the forefront of 60 meter experimentation in Canada through the Marconi Radio Club of Newfoundland. In 2003, club station VO1MRC worked N1RL in Massachusetts for the first Canada-US two-way amateur contact on 60 meters. There's more information on the VO1MRC 5 MHz Experiment Web pages at, http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jcraig/5megex.html. /EX -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] YASME web site has EXPIRED
http://www.yasme.org/ yasme.org expired on 05/07/2007 and is pending renewal or deletion. If you know someone at YASME, please let them know! 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] BS7H DXCC Accreditation
Subject: BS7H DXCC Accreditation Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:00:15 -0400 From: Moore, Bill, NC1L [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following operation is approved for DXCC credit: BS7H - Scarborough Reef 2007 Operation 73 es DX! Bill Moore NC1L DXCC Manager ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 Telephone: (860) 594 0234 Fax: (860) 594-0346 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DXCC Web Site: www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc Blog: http://www.arrl.org/blog/DXCC%20Dialog -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] ARLD017 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD017 ARLD017 DX news ZCZC AE17 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 17 ARLD017 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT April 26, 2007 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD017 ARLD017 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by MM0BQI, N1RL, NC1L, VK2YJS, YV5AJ, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. FIJI, 3D2. A group of five operators are QRV from two IOTA groups until May 7. Operators 3D2AP, 3D2TZ and 3D2UY are QRV from Taveuni Island, IOTA OC-016, until May 3. Next, they will be QRV as 3D2RI from Yanuca Island, IOTA OC-189, in the Ringgold Isles Group, from May 3 to 7. Activity is on all bands with two stations. QSL 3D2RI via UR3HR, 3D2UY via UT5UY, 3D2AP via UX0LL and 3D2TZ via UR7HTZ. GUINEA, 3X. Serge, 3XM6JR and Alex, 3XD2Z are QRV from here for a few months. They plan to be active soon on 6-meters for the E-skip season. QSL 3XM6JR via UA6JR and 3XD2Z via RW3AZ. TANZANIA, 5H. Sigfrido is QRV as 5H0RS for one year. He has been active on 20 meters SSB at various times. QSL via IT9YVO. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, A6. Rashad, A61R has been active on 20 meters around 1630z. SCARBOROUGH REEF, BS7. A group of operators are en route and expect to be QRV as BS7H by April 28 and active for about nine days. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via KU9C. CHINA, BY. Look for operators BA4XA, BA4XYL, BA4VE, BD4XD, BD4XW, BG6IQD and BG4VGJ to be QRV from Dongxilian Island, IOTA AS-135, from May 1 to 7. They will be active holiday style near the popular IOTA frequencies. QSL to home calls. MOZAMBIQUE, C9. Eduardo, CU2AF is QRV as C91AF from Maputo until May 6. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB, RTTY and PSK31 a few hours each day. QSL to home call. BELARUS, EW. Members of the EW8ZZ club station in Gomel will be QRV from May 1 to 14 with special event call EV8DP to commemorate the day of Victory over WWI. QSL via UA3FDX. SAINT MARTIN, FS. John, K9EL is QRV as FS/K9EL until May 6 while on family vacation. Activity will be on 80 to 10 metes using mainly CW and SSB. QSL to home call. SCOTLAND, GM. Jim, MM0BQI will be QRV from Shuna, IOTA EU-008, from April 28 to May 5. He may also be active from other islands in the area as well. Activity will be mostly on 80, 40, 30 and 20 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. ITALY, I. Members of the ARI Frascati will be QRV as IY0ORP from the Geophysical Observatory at Rocca di Papa for International Marconi Day. QSL via I0DJV. OGASAWARA, JD1. Look for JM1LJS, JI5RPT and JG7PSJ to be QRV as JD1BLK, JD1BLY and JD1BMH, respectively, from Chichijima Island, IOTA AS-031, from April 29 to May 4. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters, including some satellite activity, using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL to home calls. DENMARK, OZ. Tom, DL4VM is QRV as OZ/DL4VM/qrp from the Lighthouse on Samsoe Island, IOTA EU-172 and WLOTA LH-0726, until May 5. Activity is on 40, 20 and 15 meters CW using QRP power. QSL to home call. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, TL. Patrice is QRV as TL8PB and has been active on 20 meters around 1930z. QSL via LA0HF. BELIZE, V3. Paul, AK1P will be QRV as V31PA from April 29 to May 9. This is a casual operation. QSL via WA6GER. AUSTRALIA, VK. Members of the Hornsby and Districts ARC will be QRV as VK2IMD on April 28 from Wahroonga in commemoration of International Marconi Day. Activity will be on all bands. VENEZUELA, YV. Members of the Radio Club Venezolano will be QRV as YW4AJ from Cojedes State from April 28 to May 1. Activity will be on 80 to 6 meters, including various satellites, using all modes. QSL via YV5AJ. SOUTH AFRICA, ZS. A team of ten operators from the Boland ARC are QRV as ZS1HELL from Gamka's Valley in the Swartberg Mountains until April 30. Activity is on 160, 80, 40 and 20 meters. QSL via operators' instructions. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, SP DX RTTY Contest, Helvetia Contest, QRP to the Field, Florida QSO Party, DX Colombia International Contest, Nebraska QSO Party, International Marconi Day and the AGCW QRP/QRP CW Party are all scheduled for this weekend. Please see April QST, page 98 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /EX -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] 3D2AP - was it used from Rotuma once?
3D2AP will be active from Fiji later this month. My country database says that 3D2AP was used from Rotuma at one time. Does anyone know when this might have been? Thanks 73 - Jim AD1C 27/04/2007: Len UR3HR, Sergey UR7HTX, Max/UR7HTZ, Alex/UT5UY and Alex/UX0LL will be active from Taveuni Island (OC-016, WLOTA LH-2762) April 27th to May 3rd as 3D2AP (QSL via UX0LL), 3D2TZ (QSL via UR7HTZ) and 3D2UY (QSL via UT5UY). [Tnx 425 DX News] -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Re: 3D2AP - was it used from Rotuma once?
I should have done some more research first (old spots files). I think it was a typo/busted call for 3D2AG who used to be active from Rotuma. If you *have* a 3D2AP card from Fiji, please let me know, but I don't think you'll find one. 73 - Jim AD1C --- Jim Reisert AD1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3D2AP will be active from Fiji later this month. My country database says that 3D2AP was used from Rotuma at one time. Does anyone know when this might have been? Thanks 73 - Jim AD1C 27/04/2007: Len UR3HR, Sergey UR7HTX, Max/UR7HTZ, Alex/UT5UY and Alex/UX0LL will be active from Taveuni Island (OC-016, WLOTA LH-2762) April 27th to May 3rd as 3D2AP (QSL via UX0LL), 3D2TZ (QSL via UR7HTZ) and 3D2UY (QSL via UT5UY). [Tnx 425 DX News] -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Re: 3D2AP - was it used from Rotuma once?
I heard back from Warwick, VK4AP: Re Rotuma, no, I have never been there. I was resident in Fiji in 1990/91, (not a dxpedition), and filled in for some months as net controller of the Pacific Inter-Island net on 14315. So it sounds like 3D2AP was definitely a typo for 3D2AG. Case closed! I should have done some more research first (old spots files). I think it was a typo/busted call for 3D2AG who used to be active from Rotuma. If you *have* a 3D2AP card from Rotuma, please let me know, but I don't think you'll find one. 73 - Jim AD1C --- Jim Reisert AD1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3D2AP will be active from Fiji later this month. My country database says that 3D2AP was used from Rotuma at one time. Does anyone know when this might have been? Thanks 73 - Jim AD1C 27/04/2007: Len UR3HR, Sergey UR7HTX, Max/UR7HTZ, Alex/UT5UY and Alex/UX0LL will be active from Taveuni Island (OC-016, WLOTA LH-2762) April 27th to May 3rd as 3D2AP (QSL via UX0LL), 3D2TZ (QSL via UR7HTZ) and 3D2UY (QSL via UT5UY). [Tnx 425 DX News] -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] N8S logs updated
The N8S on-line logs were updated recently. They look fairly complete (my 17m RTTY QSO from 1939z on 7 April is in there). http://www.yt1ad.info/n8s/log.html As of 1630z on 8 April the web site seems to be temporarily unreachable. Here is what Chris DL5NAM wrote on the http://logsearch.de web page: I receive 2. batch log data : * QSO count: 47.952 Please don't ask me or Pilot station about missing QSO's. We provide only a free service I would like to clarify my position. I am not opposed to on-line logs. What does bother me is people using inappropriate methods to ask about them. We, the subscribers, can't help. If you have a question about the logs, ask one of the (extended) team members, not the reflector. If you have NEWS about the logs, then post the news here. In my opinion, if it's a choice between a DXpeditioner making more QSOs or fiddling with on-line logs, I'll take the additional QSOs every time. Follow-up to DX-Chat@njdxa.org 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] DX spots for mobile (wireless) devices
Here are some DX Clusters that are optimized for mobile/wireless/WAP devices. http://www.dxcluster.info/links.htm#WAP 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] Calm before the (solar) storm
March 10, 2006: It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet. Like the quiet before a storm. This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one, she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] U.S. Postal rates set to go up to $0.41 on May 14
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 19, 5:38 PM ET WASHINGTON - The cost of mailing a letter will go up on May 14, but you'll be able to lock in that price no matter how rates rise in the future by buying the new forever stamp. The post office governing board agreed Monday to accept the new 41-cent rate for first class mail recommended in February by the independent Postal Regulatory Commission. The board also agreed to the proposal for a forever stamp, that will always be valid for mailing a letter no matter how much rates increase. James C. Miller III, chairman of the postal board, said the forever stamp could go on sale as soon as next month, at the 41-cent rate. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_go_ot/postal_rates The rates taking effect May 14 include: Letters, bill payments, greeting cards: 41 cents for the first ounce, up from 39 cents. Wedding invitation (2-ounces), 58 cents, down from 63 cents. Postcard, 26 cents, up from 24 cents. Priority mail flat-rate envelope, $4.60, up from $4.05. Express Mail flat-rate envelope, $16.25, up from $14.40. Parcel Post, 1-pound package, $4.50, up from 3.95. Bank statement, 2 ounces, presorted, 45.9 cents, down from 54.4 cents. Utility bill, barcoded, 31.2 cents, up from 29.3 cents. -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] GM3POI attains 9-band DXCC - via LoTW confirmations only
GM3POI became just the second ham to achieve 9 band DXCC using only Logbook of the World confirmations (VE3EJ was the first). Congratulations, Clive! 73 - Jim AD1C Feb 23, 2007: GM3POI 9 Band DXCC -- Another stellar achievement was reached by Clive Penna, GM3POI, who achieved a 9-band DXCC in June of 2006 using only LoTW confirmations! Congrats Clive. Award SelectedApplied Awarded Total / Current Mixed 0 0 249 249 / 248 CW 0 0 243 243 / 243 Phone 0 0 119 119 / 118 RTTY0 0 1 1 / 1 160M0 0 124 124 / 124 80M 0 0 124 124 / 124 40M 0 0 170 170 / 170 30M 0 0 119 119 / 119 20M 0 0 170 170 / 169 17M 0 0 116 116 / 116 15M 0 0 142 142 / 142 12M 0 0 105 105 / 105 10M 0 0 136 136 / 136 6M 0 0 16 16 / 16 2M 0 0 11 11 / 11 Challenge 0 0 1221--- / 1221 -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] TC0DX
For those of you working towards your CQ DX Marathon standing for 2007, be aware that TC0DX on IOTA EU-186 counts for the TA1 - European Turkey entity. More information at http://www.dxmarathon.com/ 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
[DX-NEWS] 60 meters DX web page
In case you haven't seen this yet: http://60meters.info/ 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
