[DX-NEWS] WA2EPI/FS
My friend, Sam Pizzano, will be QRV the isle of St Martin, Sunday, June 28 through July 5 signing WA2EPI/FS Using a dipole and 100 watts, mostly during the evenings QSL buro and direct to K2LAB Friends of Sam can request skeds by emailing him direct --- 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] [425ENG] 425 DX News #947
425 DX NEWS _ 27 June 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 947 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3A - Gab, HA3JB will be active as 3A/HG3IPA from Monaco on 23-30 September, including an entry in the CQ WW RTTY DX Contest. This activity will be good for the Hungarian International Police Association Award (on-line log and information on the award can be found at http://www.ha3jb.com). QSL via HA3JB. [TNX HA3JB] 3B8- I3LDP will be active as 3B8/I3LDP from Mauritius Island (AF-049) from 29 June to 11 July. He will operate SSB and CW on the HF bands with a vertical for 40-10 metres, and on 6 metres with a vertical dipole. QSL via I3LDP. [TNX MMMonVHF and DL8EBW] 5R - Wayne, W5KDJ will be active as 5R8KD from the shack of 5R8FU in Antananarivo, Madagascar (AF-013) on 4-17 July. He will operate CW and RTTY on 6-160 metres and will also be active during the IARU HF World Championship. QSL via W5KDJ. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW and eQSL. Log search at http://www.tdxs.net/5r8kd.html [TNX W9DX] 6W - Dervin, PD9DX will be active as 6W/PD9DX from Senegal from 26 June to 5 July. He plans to operate holiday style on 160-10 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX PD9DX] 9A - Once again Zik, VE3ZIK (DO7ZZ) will be active as 9A/VE3ZIK from Bilice, Croatia between 2 July and 3 August. He plans to operate CW, SSB and digital modes on the HF bands, and to participate in the IOTA Contest from IOTA group EU-170. QSL via DO7ZZ, direct or bureau (e-mail requests for bureau cards can be sent to zib...@t-online.de). Logs will be uploaded to eQSL and LotW. [TNX VE3ZIK] CO - Edor, CO7PH and a group of operators from the Ceballos Radio Club plan to participate in the IOTA Contest from Cayo Coco (NA-086) as either T47C (requested callsign) or CO7PH/p. A late December expedition to Cayo Anclitas, Jardines de la Reina Archipelago (NA-201) is also being planned. [TNX CO7PH] CT - The Portuguese Navy Amateur Radio Group (Nucleo de Radioamadores da Armada) will be active from four lighthouses (two on mainland Portugal and two on Terceira Island, Azores) as follows: 4 July CR5NRA Cabo Sardao (Portugal) ARLHS POR-014 11 July CR1NRA Praia da Vitoria South Mole (Azores) ARLHS AZO-027 18 July CR6NRA Cabo da Roca (Portugal) ARLHS POR-007 1 August CR2NRA Lajes (Azores) ARLHS AZO-010 QSL direct only to Nucleo de Radioamadores da Armada, ETNA - Base Naval de Lisboa, 2801-001 Alfeite, Almada, Portugal. [TNX CT1END] CT7- Celebrating the 57th anniversary of the Portuguese Air Force, special event station CR57FAP will be active on 27-28 June, 1 July and 4-5 July. Expect activity on 10-80 metres SSB and digital modes. QSL via CT1REP. [TNX CT1END] EA9- Six operators from Ceuta will be active as ED9NA as a Multi-Multi Entry in this weekend's His Majesty the King of Spain Contest (complete information at www.ure.es/contest/431-sm-el-rey-contest- english-version.html). QSL via EA9GW, direct or bureau. [TNX NG3K] F - Thomas, DL5MO will be active as F/DL5MO from Groix Island (EU-048) from 29 June to 10 July. He will operate holiday style mainly on 40, 30 and 20 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] F - A group of operators from the Sevran Radio Club will be active as F5KKD/p from Sein Island (EU-068) on 24-27 July, IOTA Contest included. A second activity is planned to take place from Belle Ile (EU-048) on 11-14 September. QSL for both the activities via bureau to F5KKD. The web pages for the activities are at http://iota2009.crxcluster.com [TNX F5NQL] F - To recover from the trip to Rockall and to start preparation for a new attempt, the Rockall 2009 crew and support team (ON3DX, ON4AHF, ON4ATW, ON4HIL, ON4IA, ON6CC, ON6LEO, ON6NL, ON6ZU and ON7YT) will participate in the IOTA Contest (25-26 July) as F/OT2A from Ile de Batz (EU-105). QSL via ON4HIL. [TNX ON4ATW] FJ - Rich, DK8YY and
[DX-NEWS] Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin #913.1
SB DX @ WW KB8NW $OPDX.913.1 Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin No. 913.1 The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster DX Special Bulletin No. 913.1 BID: $OPDX.913.1 June 26, 2009 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio) Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K the AR TelNet Clusters Network and Glenn Johnson/W0GJ for the following DX information. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 June 2009 From: NCDXF Subject: W0YK, Ed Muns, appointed to NCDXF Advisory Board The Northern California DX Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Ed Muns, W0YK, as an Advisor to the NCDXF Board of Directors. Ed's primary duty, along with Doug Bender, WW6D, will be working with the NCDXF website: http://www.ncdxf.org Ed became interested in ham radio in high school, working 40 meter CW into Asia in the early morning hours before school. During college, his license expired and he rejoined DXing ten years later in the early part of his 32-year career at Hewlett-Packard. Ed's interest in DXing quickly morphed into contesting where a lot of DX participates. All of his ham radio time today is spent contesting, chasing DX and joining DXpeditions occasionally. Favoring CW, Ed can sometimes be found on SSB as well. Thanks to his contest club's (NCCC) campaign to win the club competition gavel in the 2004 ARRL RTTY Round-Up, Ed got started in that mode. He holds the SOHP world record in the contest, operating with his P49X callsign, having broken the world record in 2006, 2007 and 2009. In CQ WPX RTTY, Ed also holds the SOHP world record, having broken it in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2008, he operated the CQWW RTTY contest, winning SOHP. Ed was on the YK0A team in 1994 and has operated as 6Y0A and 6Y4A as well as holding the 7J1ACJ call sign. From Aruba, where he holds a permanent visitor license as P49X, he has operated nearly a dozen times, primarily CW and RTTY contests. He has operated from the HC8N mega-station in a M2 operation in the CQWW RTTY, winning the world. He recently joined the Radio Expeditions team, of VP6DX fame, on the management team with specific focus on funding. Ed has taught the RTTY curriculum at Contest University at Dayton in 2008 and 2009 as well as at Contest Academy at Visalia in 2009. He is the contest manager and log checker for the NCJ NA RTTY Sprint and both CQ RTTY contests: CQWW and CQ WPX. He serves on the CQ Contest Advisory Board. For the NCCC, Ed manages the NCCC, CQP and NCCC Sprint web sites as well as the club's various email reflectors. He has published several articles in the NCJ. We think Ed will have a lot of insight for what will be needed to keep the NCDXF website a dynamic and useful website for DXers. The NCDXF Board of Directors wants to thank the many individuals who have contributed support to NCDXF. We realize that these financial times have put a strain on many of us, but think about the thrill of working a new one or band counter and its impact on your country totals - priceless, right? If you are currently not a member, please consider contributing to support future DXpeditions. Since May 2008, NCDXF has provided financial help to the following DXpeditions: 4W6R Timor Lorosa'e VK9XWW Christmas Island VK9CJW Cocos-Keeling OJ0B Market Reef VK9DWX Willis Island A5100A Bhutan E44M Palestine (Bethlehem) FW5RE Wallis Fortuna K5D Desecheo Island VK9LA Lord Howe Island S04R Western Sahara Hopefully you worked one or more of these DXpeditions! Contributions can now easily be made on-line using our SSL secured web server: https://www.ncdxf.org/donate Glenn Johnson, W0GJ Vice President, NCDXF -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ** IMPORTANT NOTICE/REMINDER ** The Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin now has a new FAX number. Contributors can now send/fax their DX information to the following number:1-419-828-7791 ( F A X only! ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SPECIAL NOTE BY EDITOR: If you are having a problem receiving bounced mail by sending mail to me via kb...@barf80.nshore.org , please send mail to me via kb...@arrl.net .. TNX de Tedd KB8NW -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PLEASE NOTICE (as of February 12th), NEW ADDRESS CHANGES FOR THE OPDX INTERNET HELP/SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS: Help:mailto:opdx-requ...@barf80.org?subject=help Subscribe: mailto:opdx-requ...@barf80.org?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:opdx-requ...@barf80.org?subject=unsubscribe OPDX WORLD-WIDE WEB HOME PAGE (provided by John, K8YSE): http://www.papays.com/opdx.html ALSO VISIT THE NORTHERN OHIO DX ASSOCIATION'S WEB HOME PAGE: http://www.papays.com/nodxa.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Excerpts and distribution of The OPDX Bulletin are granted as long as KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80
[DX-NEWS] ARLP026 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP026 ARLP026 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP26 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 26 ARLP026 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA June 26, 2009 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP026 ARLP026 Propagation de K7RA Thanks to Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA for writing last week's Propagation Forecast bulletin. Two new sunspots appeared last week, numbered 1022 and 1023, and both were Cycle 24 spots. 1022 lasted through June 23 and 1023 until June 24. On June 24 geomagnetic indices were unsettled. This weekend is ARRL Field Day, and conditions should be stable. Planetary A index is predicted to be around five, which is quiet. Chip Margelli, K7JA wrote about some surprising openings last week. He writes, Sunspots or no, there are DX opportunities even with a solar flux of 67. Both Friday and Saturday nights (U.S. time June 19-20), the 21 MHz and 28 MHz bands were open to Japan from my location in southern California, and along much of the West Coast, around 0500-0800 UTC (that's 10 PM to at least 1 AM!). Both nights, the 15-meter CW band was crawling with loud JA signals from stations working the All Asian DX Contest, and there were many loud signals on 10 meters, as well. I fear many did not think to check ten at this hour, but it very much was open. He continues, And Saturday night I worked 54 JA stations in a nice run on 50 MHz, so perhaps those noctilucent clouds were being kind to me. Steve Brandt, N7VS of Portland, Oregon had a similar observation. On 10 meters CW last Friday night (at 0336z Saturday) Steve worked JK1YMM in the All Asia CW Contest with S7 reports in both directions. Steve also observed sporadic-E openings this week out to about 1,000 miles, and said other stations have reported working Japan on 10 meters this week. In last week's bulletin, Carl mentioned the upcoming DXpedition to Glorioso in July. Now he has written a set of predictions for propagation to Glorioso from various areas, and you can see it at http://mysite.verizon.net/k9la/id11.html. Just click on the Glorioso in July 2009 link. I received some interesting mail from Red Haines, WO0W of La Crescent, Minnesota. I did a search for past emails from him, and came across an unread mail from December, 2007. Just to review and clarify, an ionosonde is a tool for measuring the critical frequency (f0F2) for the area just above. It sweeps an RF signal, beaming straight up, and looks for reflections. Some quotes from Red occupy the next few paragraphs. Though we use the sunspot number and the solar flux index to assess propagation expectations, there is only an indirect connection between these indices and propagation. Neither sunspots nor the radiation measured by the solar flux index directly increase or decrease the levels of ionization in the ionosphere. All three are determined, somewhat independently, by physical processes on or in the Sun. Sunspots and the solar flux are caused by solar conditions that are often associated to a limited degree with high energy radiation that reaches Earth and ionizes molecules in the atmosphere. Only the energetic radiation (UV, X-ray, and Gamma rays) from the Sun or other sources ionize those molecules. The solar flux radiation is not energetic enough. The sunspots are only a visual phenomena associated with solar events, including radiation. It often happens that no solar radiation associated with a sunspot reaches Earth. In past years, we didn't have any better predictors of propagation than the sunspot number and the solar flux index. They remain useful, but we must recognize their limitations. In fact, propagation correlates very poorly with them. Smoothed sunspot numbers are useful to study the solar activity cycle. Smoothed sunspot number doesn't predict the next day's propagation or even the next cycle's timing or magnitude. In fact, the smoothed SSN cannot be calculated until 6 moths have passed. The daily SSN is just about meaningless to propagation. Today, we have better indicators of propagation potential. Hams may view near real time measures of X-ray radiation from the GOES satellites. See http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html. The various propagation beacons are very useful to assess current propagation. A source of near real time ionospheric conditions, including the various critical frequencies, may be accessed at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/lists/iono_day/. This index links to the worldwide system of ionosondes to report measured values on short time intervals, typically near 15 minutes. The shortcoming is the relatively small number of ionosondes, which requires interpolation to estimate the MUF for a propagation path, as well as educated guesses regarding details of the path. The Australian IPS Radio and Space Services offer several maps that attempt to depict interpolated propagation conditions, based on ionosonde measurements. For an example and links to additional products, see http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems/4/3.;
