[DX-NEWS] Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin #1062.2
SB DX @ WW KB8NW $OPDX.1062.2 Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin No. 1062.2 The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster DX Special Bulletin No. 1062.2 BID: $OPDX.1062.2 May 18, 2012 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio) Relayed from Dayton HamVention - Dayton, Ohio Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K the AR TelNet Clusters Network Cordell Expeditions and W2VU for the following DX information. VK0H, HEARD ISLAND. Dated May 15th: After 5 months of planning, Cordell Expeditions is pleased to announce a DXpedition to Heard Island, Territory of Australia, in early 2014.We have assembled a core team, arranged for the vessel, and are awaiting the landing permit and radio callsign. Initial team members, collaborating organizations, and other resources will be announced in the near future. The expedition will be multi-disciplinary, with three major activities: Communications, Environmental Science, and Documentation. We will be active on all bands and all modes, implement a variety of innovative real-time communications technologies, and field a variety of scientific projects that are designed to observe and document some of the unique resources on this extraordinary island. We will use the latest version of DXA (www.cordell.org/DXA) for real-time online presentation of log data, images, and video from Heard Island. This project follows the very successful expedition to Heard Island carried out by this group in 1997. Details of that operation can be seen at www.cordell.org/HI. The website for the 2014 DXpedition is www.cordell.org/HD. We invite your participation in this project, as a potential team member, supporter, or eventually as a callsign in our radio log! If you have a particular interest in Heard Island or may be interested in joining the expedition, we invite you to contact us. For information, please contact the Expedition Leader, Dr. Robert Schmieder at schmie...@cordell.org. NOTE FROM EDITOR: Here at the Dayton HamVention, I learned that a second group is also planning an operation to Heard Island. Hopefully, more details will be forthcoming. - From the CQ Newsroom... NEWS RELEASE by Rich Moseson, W2VU, Editor CQ magazine: EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE FRIDAY MAY 18, 2011, 8 AM EDT CQ ANNOUNCES 2012 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES (Dayton, OH - May 18, 2012) -- CQ magazine today announced its 2012 Hall of Fame inductees, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the CQ DX Hall of Fame with three new members, along with two new inductees into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame and 16 new members of the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame honors those individuals, whether licensed hams or not, who have made significant contributions to amateur radio; and those amateurs who have made significant contributions either to amateur radio, to their professional careers or to some other aspect of life on our planet. The 2012 inductees (listed alphabetically) are: George Badger, W6TC (SK), expert in tubes and tube circuit designs; executive of Eimac and later President of Svetlana Bill Brown, WB8ELK - Father of amateur radio high-altitude ballooning Robert Brown, NM7M (SK) - Expert on 160-meter propagation, author and retired physics professor Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR - Chair of the Miami Tropical Hamboree hamfest for 45 years; ARRL Southeastern Division Vice Director, Honorary Vice President Richard Garriott, W5WKQ Younger half of first U.S. father-son team to travel in space. (His father is Owen Garriott, W5LFL, the first astronaut to operate amateur radio from space, and a 2001 Amateur Radio Hall of Fame inductee.) William W. Hansen (no call)(SK), Father of Microwave Electronics Richard Kirby, ex-W0LCT/HB9BOA (SK) - Director of the ITU's Inter- national Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) from 1974 to 1995 Fred Maia, W5YI (SK) - One of the architects of VE program, first FCC-designated VEC; editor/publisher W5YI Report; long-time CQ columnist Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML - Communications Director, New York City Marathon, 1976-present; former ARRL First Vice President, Director Larry Mulvehill, WB2ZPI - Photojournalist who has covered major news events around the world for more than 50 years; CQ cover photographer for over 30 years Rowley Shears, G8KW (SK) - Founder of KW Electronics in UK; helped re-establish amateur radio in Germany after World War II Mike Staal, K6MYC - Antenna expert, co-founder of KLM and M2 Antennas Frederick Terman (ex-6FT, W6AE, W6XH) (SK) - Microwave pioneer, partner with William Hansen (see above) Patrick Tice, WA0TDA - Manager, Courage HandiHam System; for more than 20 years Louis Varney, G5RV (SK) - Inventor of the G5RV antenna William A. Wilson, K6ARO (SK) - First U.S. Ambassador to the
[DX-NEWS] ARLP020 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP020 ARLP020 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP20 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 20 ARLP020 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA May 18, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP020 ARLP020 Propagation de K7RA Look at the archive on http://www.spaceweather.com/. On the upper right side of the page, it is accessed by selecting a date on the three drop-down fields. Now step day-by-day through the past week to see the progression of a considerable number of sunspots. The spots are in the Daily Sun image on the left side of the page. There was one new sunspot group on May 10, two on May 11, four more on May 13, and another on May 15. Average daily sunspot numbers for the past week rose nearly 25 points, or about 27%, to 117.3. The big day was Monday, May 14 when the daily sunspot number jumped to 156. This was the day after four new sunspot groups, numbered 1481 through 1484 arrived. Average daily solar flux rose 12 points to 131, an increase of 10 percent. For the near term, predicted solar flux is 135 on May 18-20, 130 on May 21-22, 125 on May 23, 120 on May 24, 115 on May 25-31, 120 on June 1, 125 on June 2-3, 130 on June 4, 135 on June 5-9, and 130 on June 10-12. Projected planetary A index is 15 on May 18, 8 on May 19, 5 on May 20-22, 8 on May 23, 5 on May 24 through June 4, then 8, 12, 18, and 10 on June 5-8, 5 on June 9-11, and 8 on June 12-13. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJu3a2C5zwo for a wonderful video of sunspot group 1476 as it transits the Sun over the week of May 5-11. The images also have a lovely orchestral accompaniment. If you plan to be in Washington, DC on June 5, 2012, you may want to attend the Space Weather Enterprise Forum 2012, held at the National Press Club. See details at http://www.nswp.gov/swef/swef_2012.html. The Monster Sunspot (group 1476) is all over the news, and on the web as well at http://www.space.com/15736-monster-sunspot-solar-flare-satellites.html. Be sure to follow the story all the way down the page below the video. A large scale photo of the spot - taken a week ago on May 11 - is at http://news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-sun-space-weather-sunspot-eruption-120511.html. Don't miss a National Geographic article and photo gallery on solar activity at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/solar-storms/ferris-text . Sunspot size comparisons are all the rage this week, including this article from Universe Today: http://www.universetoday.com/95232/how-big-are-sunspots/. Jim Hadlock, K7WA of Seattle, Washington is now in a limited antenna space, and just uses a couple of 17 meter mobile whips pointing out horizontally from a center feedpoint. Jim writes: It's not that great an antenna - I often hear west coast stations working DX that I cannot hear myself. I check the band a couple of times a day for activity since I'm trying to work 100 DXCC entities this year (2012). Tuesday I worked number 50 (Scotland) and yesterday around local noon (1718Z) I worked Brunei. In addition to listening on the band for activity, the NCDXF Beacons at 18.110 MHz and W1AW at 18.0975 MHz provide a check on real-time propagation. If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers, email the author at, k...@arrl.net. For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service web page at http://arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals. For an explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin, see http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere. An archive of past propagation bulletins is at http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation. Find more good information and tutorials on propagation at http://myplace.frontier.com/~k9la/. Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at http://arrl.org/propagation. Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of ARRL bulletins are at http://arrl.org/bulletins. Sunspot numbers for May 10 through 16 were 93, 102, 85, 138, 156, 125, and 122, with a mean of 117.3. 10.7 cm flux was 130.7, 136.4, 129.5, 130.5, 130, 129 and 130.9, with a mean of 131. Estimated planetary A indices were 12, 12, 10, 12, 6, 5, and 9, with a mean of 9.4. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 11, 10, 8, 10, 7, 5, and 8, with a mean of 8.4. /EX --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
