[DX-NEWS] FW: New 3Y0E Bouvet Website
Feed: DX-IS News Site Posted on: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:45 PM Author: k4uj Subject: New 3Y0E Bouvet Website http://3y0e.com/ 19 December 2007 On 19 December 2007 Petrus ZS6GCM was granted temporary permission to operate an Amateur Radio Station for the duration of the 2007/2008 scientific expedition from Bouvet Island. The call sign will be 3Y0E. http://www.qrz.com/3y0e We would like to use this opportunity to thank Tom V. Segalstad LA4LN http://www.qrz.com/la4ln and Trond Olsen LA8XM http://www.qrz.com/la8xm , for the wonderful help and time they dedicated in obtaining permission to operate from Bouvet Island. Secondly we would like to welcome Colin, MM0NDX to the team. Colin has donated a dedicated website for the expedition and will act as the webmaster. We are hoping to receive regular logbook updates from Petrus via satellite phone and will have a logbook search page where you can look if you are in the log. The official 3Y0E operation webpage address is http://3y0e.com/ The site is under construction and we plan to have it fully operational in a couple of days. Feel free to visit the site on a regular basis for the latest news from Petrus. Emil Stoikov, LZ3HI has began design on the 3Y0E qsl card. Emil has donated the QSL card design and printing free of charge. He will also act as the official QSL manager for 3Y0E. Previews of cards designed and printed by Emil previously can be found on his webpage http://www.lz3hi.com/ www.lz3hi.com. We look forward to presenting you all with the official QSL card when it is completed. 3Y0E QSL information: Emil Stoikov P.O. Box 8 6000 Stara Zagora BULGARIA Petrus will be notified via Satellite phone off his new call sign and permission to start operating. We certainly look forward to bring you more exiting news in the near distant future. 73 to all and good luck Rhynhardt Louw ZS6DXB 3Y0E Pilot Station and Media Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] source http://3y0e.com/ View article... http://dx-is.com/news/?p=154 -- 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] ARLP053 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP053 ARLP053 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP53 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 53 ARLP053 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA December 21, 2007 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP053 ARLP053 Propagation de K7RA Sunspot 978 faded this week, with Tuesday, December 18 its last day visible. The average daily sunspot number dropped nearly 13 points from last week to 24.1, and average daily solar flux was down over three points to 83.9. Geomagnetic indicators were up, with the average daily planetary A index up three points to 7.4, and the mid-latitude A index up two points to 5.4. Sunspot 978 held no indication for the next sunspot cycle, because the magnetic polarity was the same as spots from Cycle 23, which is now ending. It was also at mid-latitude, and spots from a new cycle tend to be high latitude. But there was quite an interest this week in a high-latitude area of reverse magnetic polarity. So far this has not turned into an actual sunspot, so we wait. You can read about it at, http://sidc.oma.be/news/100/welcome.html. On Wednesday, December 19, Proplab-Pro version 3 was finally released. It claims to be the most advanced propagation ray-tracing system in the world, and works on personal computers running Windows Xp or Vista. The introduction to the manual says it is a state-of-the-art software package not for the feint of heart. Since the word feint implies a daring move, I suspect the author intended to say faint, implying timidity in this context. With only a short time to look it over, I can say that it is quite complex. You can find information at, http://www.spacew.com/proplab/. Tomorrow, December 22, 2007, the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky, marking Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere, which begins at 0608 GMT. For much of North America, this happens late tonight, and this week we begin the long shift toward more daylight. Perhaps better propagation will appear this Spring. The equinox is on March 21, 2008 at 0548 GMT. See an article at, http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/dark_days.php for an explanation from the U.S. Naval Observatory on why the earliest sunset in the mid-northern latitudes is around December 8, the latest sunrise is around January 5, with solstice in the middle. We've seen no sunspots for a couple of days, and if this continues through the end of the year (10 days from now) the average sunspot number for the calendar year will be just 12.8. We will know for sure by the time the first propagation forecast bulletin of 2008 comes out, on January 4. The daily sunspot numbers averaged over each calendar year from January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2007 should be 170.3, 176.7, 109.2, 68.6, 48.9, 26.1 and 12.8. By comparison, the average daily sunspot numbers for each year, 1995-1997 (the previous solar minimum) were 28.7, 13.2 and 30.7. It seems 2007 must have been a solar minimum year, but of course dividing the data into calendar years is completely arbitrary. We may not end the year with a blank Sun. The predicted solar flux from NOAA and the US Air Force for December 21-22 is 72, 71, and then 70 for December 23-28, then rising to 75 December 29 through January 1, then 80 for January 2-3, and 85 for January 4-11. Recently when solar flux was above 80 for ten days, sunspot numbers ranged from 24 to 43. The predicted planetary A index for December 21-23 is 15, 10 and 8, then dropping to 5 for December 24 through January 5. Geophysical Institute Prague predicts unsettled conditions December 21-22, quiet to unsettled December 23, and quiet December 24-27. If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers, email the author at, [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service at, http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. For a detailed explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin see, http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/k9la-prop.html. An archive of past propagation bulletins is at, http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/. Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at, http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/. Sunspot numbers for December 13 through 19 were 39, 35, 39, 28, 14, 14 and 0 with a mean of 24.1. 10.7 cm flux was 93.8, 91.9, 88.9, 81.7, 79.5, 76.8, and 74.5 with a mean of 83.9. Estimated planetary A indices were 4, 2, 1, 2, 17, 18 and 8 with a mean of 7.4. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 3, 2, 2, 1, 12, 11 and 7, with a mean of 5.4. /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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and allow a few hours for acknowledgement --
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #868 [Calendar]
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 22 December 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 868 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by IK1ADH and I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 22/12 E4/OM2DX: Palestine864 till 22/12 F8HJV: Levant Island (EU-070) 866 till 22/12 T88YU, T88LY, T88GS: Palau 863 till 22/12 VK2IAY/4: Great Keppel Island (OC-142) 851 till 24/12 3B8/F1BCS: Mauritius (AF-049) 866 till 27/12 FJ/OH2AM: Saint-Barthelemy 868 till 27/12 JD1BMM: Minami Torishima (OC-073) 866 till 27/12 VY0/JA1DOT: Cornwallis Island (NA-009) 867 till 31/12 6H1, 6I2, 6J3, 6E4: special prefixes (Mexico) 817 till 31/12 9A60K: special callsign820 till 31/12 9A07P: special event station 841 till 31/12 DL100DAN: special callsign 839 till 31/12 EM50ARDF: special event station834 till 31/12 GB6OTR: special callsign (England) 821 till 31/12 HF100SK: special scout station (Poland)858 till 31/12 LX2007L, LX2007G, LX2007D: special event stations 817 till 31/12 LZ170VL: special event callsign819 till 31/12 LZ50DX: special callsign 818 till 31/12 ON50EU: special event callsign 830 till 31/12 P40CG: Aruba (SA-036) 867 till 31/12 SC300VL: special callsign (Sweden) 846 till 31/12 SG60RK: Gotland Island (EU-020)828 till 31/12 SX100VAR: special event station (Greece) 809 till 31/12 YU60BCD and YT60W. special callsigns (Serbia) 818 till 31/12 YU07HST: special event callsign830 till 31/12 Z360M: special call849 till 31/12 ZY5100SCOUT: special callsign 821 till 05/01 XT2WC: Burkina Faso865 till 06/01/08 PD07SANTA: special call (The Netherlands) 868 till 06/01/08 PD08HNY: special call (The Netherlands)868 till 06/01/08 PA07XMAS, PC07XMAS, PD07XMAS: special calls868 till 06/01/08 PF07XMAS, PG07XMAS, PH07XMAS: special calls868 till 12/01/08 TR8CR: Gabon 865 till 15/01/08 FO5RU: French Polynesia854 till 15/01/08 VP8CXV: Falkland Islands (SA-002) 852 till 20/01/08 3D2AG: Rotuma (OC-060) 865 till 26/01/08 EA8/ON5JV and EA8/ON6AK: Tenerife (AF-004) 861 till 03/02/08 UN/4J9M: Kazakhstan868 till 14/02/08 3Y0E: Bouvet Island (AN-002) 868 till Feb 2008 DP0GVN: Neumayer Base (DL-03, AN-016) 812 till April VQ9JC: Diego Garcia (AF-006) 866 till 15/05/08 YI9MI: Iraq863 till 30/06/08 VR10: special prefix (Hong Kong) 843 till Aug 2008 C91R: Mozambique 855 till 30/09/08 9A73AA: special callsign 855 till Nov 2008 YE2IPY: special callsign 864 till Dec 2008 HF0POL: Henryk Arctowski Station (South Shetlands) 868 till ?? LU1ZA: South Orkneys (AN-008) 867 till ?? R1ANR: Blue One Runway, Antarctica 863 22/12-28/12 CT9EPC: Madeira867 26/12-29/12 5Z4/JK1FNL: Kenya 868 26/12-03/01/08 CU2/G7VJR: Sao Miguel (EU-003), Azores 865 26/12-01/01/08 T88RY: Koror (OC-009) 857 27/12-03/01/08 CN4MC: Morocco 868 27/12-07/01/08 JS6RRR and JI3DST/JS6: Miyako Islands (AS-079) 868 28/12-30/12 OC6I: Isla Blanca
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #868
425 DX NEWS 425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _ 22 December 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 868 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by IK1ADH I1JQJ Direttore Responsabile I2VGW *TO ALL OUR READERS* * WARMEST THOUGHTS AND BEST WISHES * * FOR A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY * *AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR* SAINT-BARTHELEMY, DXCC ENTITY #338 The French Ovearseas Department (Departement d'outre-mer, DOM) of Guadeloupe included Guadeloupe (FG), as well as the island of Saint-Barthelemy (FJ) and the French part of the island of Saint-Martin (FS). On 7 December 2003, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy voted in favour of autonomy from Guadeloupe, in order to form separate Overseas Collectivities (Collectivites d'outre-mer, COM). On 21 February 2007, the French Parliament passed a bill granting COM status to both Saint-Barthelemy and Saint-Martin. The new status took effect on 22 February, when the law was published in the Official Journal. As for DXCC, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy have formed one single Entity for decades - until 14 December 2007. This is the official release from the ARRL Headquarters, dated 19 December: The ARRL DXCC Desk is pleased to announce the addition of St Barthelemy (FJ) to the DXCC List, making the island entity number 338 with an effective date of 14 December, 2007. Cards with contacts dated December 14, 2007 or after will be accepted for DXCC credit. New card submissions for St Barthelemy will not be accepted until January 1, 2008 in order to allow time for administrative adjustments. The event date that caused St. Barthelemy to be added to the DXCC list was December 14, 2007, the date the US State Department Fact sheet was updated by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. This update added St Barthelemy to the List of Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty with its Administrative Center in Gustavia, qualifying it under DXCC rules in Section II -- 1 Political Entities (c). French St Martin (FS), while also added to the List of Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty, will remain on the DXCC List, but it is now considered a Point 1 Political Entity under the same classification as that of St Barthelemy. Please direct any questions you may have about St Barthelemy, St Martin or the DXCC program to the ARRL DXCC Desk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 3Y - Pilot station and Media Officer Rhynhardt Louw, ZS6DXB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports that a five man Norwegian led research team has been on Bouvet Island since 13 December, and will remain there until around 14 February 2008. The medical officer is Petrus Kritzinger, ZS6GCM (newly licenced, previous call ZR6PK). He has an Icom IC-735 and a Hustler 4-BTV vertical antenna, but limited HF experience. He was given a brief training session on operating procedures a couple of days prior to departure. Petrus expects to be active on the amateur radio bands as time and availability of electrical power permit. The landing permission was granted months ago, and the callsign (3Y0E) was issued on 19 December. QSL via LZ3HI. Bookmark http://3y0e.com/ for further information, updates and hopefully on-line logs. [TNX http://www.sarl.org.za/] 5Z - Nao, JK1FNL says he will be active as 5Z4/JK1FNL from Masai Mara, Kenya on 26-29 December. He will be running 100 watts into dipoles or vertical antennas on 15-40 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. CN - Didier, F4ELJ will be active as CN4MC from Morocco from 27 December to 3 January. He plans to operate on 80-10 metres SSB. QSL via home call. [TNX F4ELJ] EA8- Giovanni, IZ2DPX will be active from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (AF-004) from 30 December to 6 January. He plans to operate holiday style on 40, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 metres. QSL via IK2DUW, direct or bureau. [TNX IZ2DPX] FJ - Martti, OH2BH and Olli, OH0XX (HP1WW) have been active as FJ/OH2AM from Saint-Barthelemy
[DX-NEWS] FJ update December 21 2100Z
The following update is from OH0XX, Olli, and OH2BH, Martti on Saint Barthelemy Island - FJ/OH2AM. The team has three verticals up on the beach for continued operation over the next 12-24 hours on 17, 20 and 40 meters CW and SSB. Remember there are two ops and two stations. Over the next three hours or so Martti will continue on 20 SSB. This is a good time for the JAs and some Pacific Islands. Olli will start out on 40 CW. The 40 meter station will remain on the band mostly CW but maybe some SSB (probably after 0900Z). On Saturday after their sunrise watch for them on 20 and 17 meters probably simultaneously. They have an 20 meter high vertical for the 75/80 meter band which they hope to have installed and running by Sunday night (their time). So the thinking right now is Sunday night one mode and Monday night the other mode on this band. Many have asked about when the operation will end. Olli is currently scheduled to leave the island around noon (local time) on Tuesday. Martti is scheduled to leave on Wednesday early in the morning. So this should give you an idea of how much more time you have to get into their log. Remember there will be no online log search during the operation! QSL FJ/OH2AM via OH2BN. This message will be posted to http://www.dailydx.com/barthelemy.htm. You may send this email to your friends and club or DX reflectors. 73 and Merry Christmas 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 -- 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 --
