[DX-NEWS] New DX Award from CQ
An informational news item...Feel free to use DX-CHAT for discussion and comment CQ introduces iDX Award (May 27, 2005) -- CQ Amateur Radio magazine has announced the introduction of the iDX Award, the final component of its three-part Waking Up DXing program designed to encourage more DXing activity. The iDX Award brings back and updates an old concept of introductory-level awards to help bring newer hams into the sport and mindset of DXing, explained CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU. The CQ iDX Award recognizes confirmed contacts with 25 to 100 different countries--or entities--made using remote bases or repeaters linked with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks such as IRLP or EchoLink. Because virtually all new hams today come into Amateur Radio as Technicians operating VHF and UHF, Novice awards have been largely discontinued, Moseson noted. The iDX Award brings the concept of the Novice award to where newer hams are operating today. CQ DX Awards Manager Billy Williams, N4UF, says the demarcation between wired and wireless communication has been blurred by modern integrated systems employed by public safety agencies and commercial users. This blurring of the line between wired and wireless has already reached Amateur Radio in several ways--using the Internet to collect and distribute DX spots, propagation data and location information, to link existing VHF and UHF repeaters over great distances and to access an HF remote base station. Williams says the CQ iDX Award will focus on the last two activities. The CQ iDX Award recognizes the changing landscape and its inevitable effect on where Amateur Radio will be in 2020. Contacts must use radio on at least one end of the link to count for the award. Computer-to- computer contacts, while possible on such systems as EchoLink, will not count toward this award. Contacts for the new award may be made starting January 1, 2006. Complete details are in the June 2005 issue of CQ and on the CQ Web site. CQ previously introduced the CQ DX Field Award and the CQ DX Marathon as the first two parts of its Waking Up DXing program. -- 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 #734 [Calendar]
_ 425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE The latest issue (April 2005) is now available at www.425dxn.org/monthly/ __ 28 May 2005No 734 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA PERIOD CALL REF till 29/05 DL0NBR: special event station 729 till 29/05 ED8MPJ: Fuerteventura Island (AF-004) 731 till 29/05 LA/SA4V: Averoy (EU-036) * by SMs 733 till 29/05 TK/HA0HW and TK/HA4DX: Corsica (EU-014)729 till 29/05 ZW8A and ZW8DX: Canarias Island (SA-072) * by PYs 734 till 30/05 EF8CID: special call (Canary Islands) 725 till 30/05 TM5B: Fort Brescou (EU-148)734 till 31/05 CF, CG, CH, CI0, CI1, CI2: special prefixes (Canada) 730 till 31/05 LZ05KM: special station730 till 31/05 NK4AA: Key West (NA-062) * by N2NL 733 till 31/05 PI25BEA and PI25TRIX: special event calls 730 till 31/05 LY2CY/V25, V25TA, V25O: Antigua (NA-100) * by LYs 734 till 01/06 LG5LG: Morokulien station * by DL3KWR 731 till 01/06 SJ9WL: Morokulien station * by DL3KWF 731 till 04/06 GB60VE: special call 727 till 05/06 C37JPE: special event station 733 till 06/06 PH60L: special event station 731 till 07/06 A35YL: Tonga (OC-049 and OC-064) * by VE7YL and VK3DYL 715 till 07/06 LI and LJ: special prefixes (Norway) 723 till 07/06 SE, SF, SJ, SG: special prefixes (Sweden) 730 till 10/06 7Q7WW: Malawi * by KC4D731 till 24/06 SV8/DF7XE/p: Thasos Island (EU-174)731 till 28/06 YL740C, YL740M, YL740T: special calls (Latvia) 727 till 30/06 II7JP: special call727 till June ST2T: Sudan * by S57CQ 727 till 20/07 TT8PK: Chad * by F4EGS 732 till 31/07 8N5SAIT: special event station (Japan) 730 till July YU8/IZ0BGS 726 till August TT8M and TT8AMO: Chad * by PA5M and HB9AMO 729 till OctoberSV0XAN/5: Lipsi Island (EU-001) * by IK2WZD731 till November HF0POL: Henryk Arctowski Base (SP-01; AN-010) 712 till 31/12 4N35CW: special event station 713 till 31/12 EI05CCC: special event call720 till 31/12 HA200CVM: special ecent call 719 till 31/12 HA80IARU: special event station720 till 31/12 IU7SCT: special station729 till 31/12 LZ8IARU. special event station 728 till 31/12 OE50: special event prefix (Austria) 717 till 31/12 OO: special prefix (Belgium) 712 till 31/12 ZS75PTA: special call 715 till February ZS100RI: special station 722 till March R1ANT: Mirny base (UA-07), Antarctica * by RW1AI 719 till April R1ANN and RU3HD/ANT: Novolazarevskaya (UA-08, AN-016) 730 till ?? LU1ZA: Orcadas del Sur (LU-14; AN-008) 729 till ?? LU1ZD: General San Martin (LU-11; AN-016)729 till ?? LU1ZG: General Manuel Belgrano II (LU-08; AN-016)729 till ?? LU1ZI: Teniente Jubany (LU-15; AN-010) 729 till ?? LU1ZV: Esperanza (LU-06, AN-016) 729 till ?? LU4ZS: Vicecomodoro Marambio (LU-03; AN-013) 729 25/05-02/06 3D2LB: Beachcomber Island (OC-121) * by GM3VLB 733 26/05-30/06 GM7CXM/C6A: Grand Bahama (NA-080) * by EA5ON 733 27/05-30/05 JI1PLF/1, JA1UNS/1, 7N1GMK/1, 7L4PVR/1: AS-043 731 27/05-11/06 TM5KD: special event station (France) 731 28/05-30/05 F/IK1TTD/P: Porquerolles Island (EU-070) 734 28/05-29/05 II7JP and II7PAX: special stations 732 28/05-29/05 JR2RKK/6: Izena Island (AS-017)
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] ARLP022 Propagation de K7RA
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425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE
The latest issue (April 2005) is now available at www.425dxn.org/monthly/
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QST de W1AW
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 22 ARLP022
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA May 27, 2005
To all radio amateurs
SB PROP ARL ARLP022
ARLP022 Propagation de K7RA
To summarize the solar and geomagnetic numbers for the past week,
both were lower. All days were quiet except for May 20, when
mid-latitude K and A index indicated unsettled geomagnetic
conditions and planetary numbers indicated a geomagnetic storm.
Check this site for the geomagnetic numbers:
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DGD.txt
You can see that every three hours there is a K index, and then a
resulting A index for the day. May 24 had low K and A index. On
May 20 you can see the numbers are much higher. To see the
relationship between K and A index, check
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/GEOMAG/kp_ap.html. According to this,
the planetary A index (or Ap) of 5 on May 24 would be equivalent to
24 hours of K index between 1 and 2. Likewise on May 15 the Ap of
105 is equivalent to 24 hours of K between 6 and 7.
Average daily sunspot numbers this week were down over 39 points to
36.6, and average daily solar flux dropped over 19 points to 83.5.
Today and tomorrow, May 27 and 28, a solar wind stream from a
coronal hole is expected to affect earth. Predicted planetary A
index for May 27-30 is 10, 20, 20 and 12. Solar flux is expected to
rise slowly, reaching 100 around May 29 and peaking around 105
around June 3 and again on June 7-10.
None of this should have a major negative effect on the CQ World
Wide WPX CW Contest this weekend.
Readers sent links to several articles of interest to amateur radio
propagation watchers this week:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-05-24-solar-wind-origins
_x.htm
http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2005/gibson.shtml
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16924
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16916
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/solar_fireworks.html
More six meter news dropped in over the week. Larry Bishop, KB9WLM
of Canton, Illinois wrote to report that on May 17 2005 he worked
Korean station HK2JRL at 2320 UTC on 50.135 MHz. Larry has a rather
impressive 6 meter antenna. He ran 375 watts into a homebrew 6
element Yagi with a 34 foot, 8 inch boom at 125 feet fed with hard
line. Chuck DiLuglio, K1DA in Jamestown, Rhode Island on late
Tuesday (probably early May 18 UTC) worked five or six stations in
Indiana and Minnesota barefoot with a rotating dipole. He wrote,
''The interesting thing is that no other states were heard here in
FN 41 but those two so it was a very localized opening. Signals
were very strong.'' Mike Williams, W4DL was on six during the same
evening near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mike wrote, ''I was handily
working into the Caribbean and Central America on phone and then
switched to CW and the band was wild. QRM on 6 CW; I love it. Stayed
up until I had enough and the lower latitudes were still rolling in
around 10 PM local time. Using 50 watts and 4 elements pointed
south with the rad center at 20 feet. There are significantly more
operators on 6 down here in south Florida than in years past.
Enough of us now to use it for local chatting between listening for
the openings.''
If you would like to comment or have a tip, email the author at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information concerning radio propagation and an explanation
of the numbers used in this bulletin see the ARRL Technical
Information Service propagation page at,
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. An archive of past
bulletins is found at http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/.
Sunspot numbers for May 19 through 25 were 34, 22, 37, 42, 36, 40
and 45 with a mean of 36.6. 10.7 cm flux was 84.7, 83.5, 81.9, 82.1,
83.4, 85.2 and 83.8, with a mean of 83.5. Estimated planetary A
indices were 11, 30, 21, 14, 7, 5 and 6 with a mean of 13.4.
Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 7, 17, 13, 10, 5, 2 and 2,
with a mean of 8.
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