[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #953
425 DX NEWS _ 08 August 2009A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 953 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3B7- Rachid, 3B8FQ [425DXN 948] will leave Mauritius by boat on 11 August and will be active as 3B7FQ from St. Brandon Island (AF-015) starting on the 12-13 through the end of the month (and possibly for a few extra days in early September). He will operate CW and SSB in his spare time. Look for him on 30-10 metres, although Rachid expects 40 and 20 metres to be most productive. He will use the island's G5RV and a vertical with a 100 watt transceiver powered by a 12 volt battery that will be charged daily. Rachid's anticipated frequencies are 7008, 10108, 14008, 18078, 21008, 24898, 28008 kHz (CW) and 7050, 14191, 18141, 21241, 24941, 28491 kHz (SSB). QSL via K5XK, direct preferred. [TNX K5XK] 3D2_cr - Uwe, DJ9HX has joined the 1-10 October DXpedition to Conway Reef [425DXN 948], which means that they will be able to run up to four stations simultaneously. The callsign will be 3D20CR (3D Twenty CR), to mark the 20th anniversary of the first operation (3D2CR) from the newly born DXCC Entity. QSL via DJ8NK. The website for the expedition is at http://www.conwayreef2009.de [TNX DJ8NK] 4J - Gerard, F2VX and Yannick, F6FYD will be active as 4J/homecall from Azerbaijan on 11-29 August. They will operate SSB on the HF bands. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX F5NQL] 5B - Terry, G4MKP will be active as 5B/G4MKP from Cyprus (AS-004) on 14-25 August. He will operate mainly CW on 80-10 metres. QSL via M0URX. [TNX NG3K] 9M - Mirek, VK6DXI will be active in his spare time as 9M8DX/2 from Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia until 13 August. Then he will go and operate holiday style as 9M8DX from Kuching, Sarawak (OC-088), East Malaysia until the 18th. He will operate mainly CW from both locations. QSL via SP5UAF. [TNX VK6DXI] BY - A group of six operators will be active as BA7IO/4 from Heng Sha Island (AS-136) on 8-17 August. QSL direct to BA7IO. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] C2 - Dani, EA4ATI (9M2TI) expects to be active as C21TI from Nauru (OC-031) on 17-23 August. Plans are to operate SSB and CW on 160-6 metres. QSL via EA4ATI. Further information can be found at http://c21ti.madrono.net/index.html CE - Hector, CE3FZL will be active as CE2P from the lighthouse at Punta Panul (ARLHS CHI-073) on 15-16 August. He plans on 40 metres SSB. QSL via EA5KB. [TNX EA5OL] CE0Y - XR0YA is the callsign issued to the expedition to Easter Island (SA-001) which will take place between 31 October and 15 November [425DXN 945]. The six team members(namelyMarco/CE6TBN, Leszek/NI1L, Art/PA3C, Zbig/SP7HOV, Stan/SQ8X and Victoria/SV2KBS) have been granted permission to operate on all bands, and they plan to focus on 160, 80, 40 and above all 30 metres (CW only, as digital modes on 30m are not allowed). Working Europe on 30 metres will be their priority during the first week on the island. XR0YA will have three stations with two amplifiers and several antennas. Although SSB will not be neglected, CW will be the main operating mode, with some RTTY being planned as well. QSL route TBA. Further information can be found on theexpedtion'swebsite (http://rapanui2009.org/). [TNX MM0NDX] CT7- CT1GZB, CT1CSY and CT2JXT will be active as CR6LH from the lighthouse at Cabo Espichel (ARLHS POR-009) on 15-16 August. They plan to operate SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and some slow CW on as many bands as possible. QSL via CT1GZB, direct or bureau. [TNX CT1GZB] CT8- Frank, DK5FT will be active holiday style as CT8/DK5FTfrom Sao Miguel (EU-003), Azores on 10-22 September. [TNX DK5FT] CX - The Radio Club Uruguayo will be active as CW1R from the lighthouse at Punta del Este (ARLHS URU-008) on 14-16 August. They plan to have at least two stations up and running on 80-15 metres CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL direct to Radio Club Uruguayo, P.O. Box 37,
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #953 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS _ 8 August 2009A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 953 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 08/08 DP9S: special event station952 till 08/08 GB4WINGS: special event station (England) 952 till 08/08 IA5/IK2MLS: Elba Island (EU-028) 949 till 09/08 EG5LB: special callsign951 till 09/08 ES5GP/8: Kihnu Island (EU-178) 949 till 09/08 J48LH: Cape Dukato lighthouse 953 till 09/08 JD1BNE: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara 953 till 09/08 SU8LH: Ras El-Bar lighthouse 951 till 09/08 XR6B: Morro Bonifacio lighthouse 952 till 10/08 IS0/IZ3DBA: Sardinia (EU-024) 951 till 10/08 OJ0B: Market Reef (EU-053) 953 till 10/08 R45EFIR: special callsign 951 till 10/08 ZF2GC: Cayman Islands (NA-016) 951 till 11/08 3DA0DJ, 3DA0EL, 3DA0MH: Swaziland 951 till 11/08 3DA0MM, 3DA0TB, 3DA0VA: Swaziland 951 till 11/08 5B/LZ2HM and C4I: Cyprus 952 till 11/08 TF/IW4BLZ: Iceland 935 till 12/08 IS0/IK5WOB: Sardinia 952 till 12/08 OJ0J: Market Reef (EU-053) 953 till 12/08 V31NP: Ambergris Key (NA-073) 951 till 13/08 7P8AO, 7P8CF, 7P8MM, 7P8OK, 7P8YI: Lesotho 949 till 13/08 9M8DX/2: West Malaysia 953 till 13/08 IA5/IW1DFU: Elba Island (EU-028) 952 till 15/08 KL7/N3SY: Denali National Park 953 till 15/08 TK8B: Corsica (EU-014) 952 till 16/08 AT8LHC: Kadalur Point Lighthouse 953 till 16/08 MM3KBU/p: EU-008 and EU-010950 till 16/08 OH/G4FSU: Emsalo Island (EU-097) 949 till 16/08 PE25KP: special callsign 945 till 19/08 LY1CM, LY2GV, LY3X: Lithuanian lighthouses 952 till 21/08 OZ7VEA: Romo Island (EU-125) 951 till 25/08 SV1CEI/8: Kea Island (EU-067) 947 till 28/08 PD55EA: special event station 953 till 31/08 GB111HP: special callsign (England)953 till 31/08 LY1000: special prefix 924 till 31/08 VR2/F4BKV: Hong Kong Island (AS-006) 908 till September LZ8WHST and LZ17ARDF: special event stations 924 till 02/10 CE73RG: special callsign 950 till 03/10 4W6AL: East Timor (OC-148) * by CT1GPQ 952 till 10/10 IY1NGM: special callsign 952 till 10/10 SV0XAN/5: Dodecanese (EU-001) 949 till 31/10 4W6FR: East Timor (OC-148) 948 till 30/11 FT5WO: Crozet Islands (AF-008) 916 till November OD5/W5YFN: Lebanon 915 till 31/12 9A09P: special event station 932 till 31/12 9A48IFATCA: special event station 926 till 31/12 9A800VZ: special event callsign933 till 31/12 GB250RB: special event call (Scotland) 925 till 31/12 GB40WAB: special callsign 922 till 31/12 HE8 and HB8: special prefixes (Switzerland)921 till 31/12 IA3GM: special callsign927 till 31/12 II2RAI: special callsign 924 till 31/12 IY7GM: special callsign953 till 31/12 IY7NGM: special callsign 944 till 31/12 LZ50BNT: special event station 940 till 31/12 VR2009EAG: special event callsign 947 till 31/12 YL90AIR: special callsign 948 till 31/12
[DX-NEWS] ARLP032 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP032 ARLP032 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP32 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 32 ARLP032 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA August 7, 2009 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP032 ARLP032 Propagation de K7RA We had some nice sunspot activity from July 3-10, and were hoping for a return 27-28 days later, but it never happened. Varying by latitude, the sun rotates relative to earth about every 27.5 days. If that same region was still active or activity renewed, then we might have seen something between July 30 and August 7, which is today. Instead, the quiet continues. Some rather odd numbers appeared on August 5. Check out the eight planetary K index readings on that date at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DGD.txt and note that they never varied. Dean Lewis, W9WGV of Palatine, Illinois wrote this week asking about the most likely path that his signal took on July 12. Because of local restrictions, he uses inside wire for an antenna, so he can't tell for sure which direction a signal is coming from. At 0620z in the IARU HF World Championship he worked VK2AYD on 20 meter CW. He wondered if the path was most likely over the Pacific, or the Atlantic Ocean and Africa? I ran some numbers on W6ELprop (download from http://www.qsl.net/w6elprop/) and used a location of 42.148 deg N and 88.014 deg W for Dean, and according to the entry on QRZ.com, VK2AYD is in grid square QF68in, which W6ELprop translates to 31.44 deg S, 152.71 deg E. W6ELprop indicates that the short path is 9,069 miles with a beam heading from Illinois of 262 degrees. Long path is at 82 degrees from Dean, at 15,806 miles. With a smoothed sunspot number of 3, it shows that they worked each other at the optimum time for that band. From 0400-0600z the program predicts signals at 19, 21, 23, 24 and 25 db above .5 microvolt, on half hour intervals. After that, signals drop out, which is exactly what Dean experienced. Any possible long path opening would be much weaker and also earlier, according to the software. It says 2300-z is most likely. Among six meter reports this week, Bill Turner, W4WNT says he was mobile running 40 watts on the beach at Oak Island, North Carolina (FM03) when he worked EA8CQS (IL18) in the Canary Islands on phone on July 29. Bill was using one of those popular and inexpensive monoband whips on the back of his car. Jon Jones, N0JK of Wichita, Kansas had a lot of 2 meter e-skip excitement on July 29-30, but missed openings the following day. One July 29 he worked (with UTC, call, grid square and state abbreviation) 2242 W1AIM FN34 VT, 2245 K1WHS FN43 ME (heard off and on for over an hour.) 2,300 km, 2252 W2RJO FN23 NY, 2332 KC2RDC FN14 NY, 2349 VE2DFO FN25 QC. He sent a link showing the K1WHS station, at http://www.directivesystems.com/144MHZ.htm. Jon was using a 7 element Yagi on a stepladder in his bedroom. It was facing northeast, but Jon didn't say if the antenna was pointed out the window. George Ackinclose, W4GNE of Chesterfield, Virginia had an exciting time with that same sporadic-e 2 meter opening on July 29 from 2200-z. He was using a 12 element Yagi on a 20-foot boom, but just 25 feet above ground. George reports that he worked ''K0AWU in EN37, Minnesota (approx 1,000 mi.), K0SIX in EN35, Minnesota, KA9CFD in EN40, Illinois, WB0ULX in EN04 South Dakota (approx 1,200 miles.), K0KFC in EN35, Wisconsin, K0CJ in EN34, Minnesota and N0UK in EN34, Minnesota''. ''I have only been in amateur radio since Dec. 2002 and that was the most heart racing, adrenaline pumping action on ANY band that I have been a part of... so far. I'm certain that if I had a little better antenna height I would have worked a lot more, I heard many others just too far down in the noise for me to pick out''. All these contacts had good signals, S5-S9. Roger Harrison, VK2ZRH sent an interesting email concerning a 3-month running mean of sunspot numbers he has been looking at. You can see his analysis and discussion at http://www.vklogger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43t=8661. Roger wrote, ''During the late-1980s, I worked with Dr Leo McNamara to produce a series of 9 articles titled ''Radio Communicators' Guide to the Ionosphere'', published in Australian Electronics Monthly (I was Editor/Publisher), Dr McNamara subsequently developed that into a book - ''Radio Amateurs Guide to the Ionosphere'', published by Kreiger. More recently, from around 2002, I began re-acquainting myself with the world of sporadic E research and sporadic E VHF propagation''. This weekend is the Worked All Europe DX CW Contest. Conditions should continue to be quiet, although currently on Friday morning the interplanetary magnetic field is pointing south, leaving our earth vulnerable to a solar wind stream. Predicted planetary A index for August 7-11 is 5, 5, 7, 5 and 5. 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
