[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 27, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP053 ARLP053 Propagation de K7RA This is the last propagation forecast bulletin of 2013. In the first bulletin of 2014 we will review the previous year, and look at some averages to give us perspective on the current Solar Cycle 24. Solar activity declined somewhat this week. The average of daily sunspot numbers retreated nearly 21 points from 134.4 to 114.6, and average solar flux was off nearly 21 points to 138.8. Geomagnetic indices were quiet. These comparisons are between the recent seven day reporting period and the previous week, December 12-18, 2013. Predicted solar flux according to the most recent forecast on Thursday, December 26 from NOAA/USAF is 125 on December 27-28, then 130, 135 and 140 on December 29-31, then 145, 150, 155, 165, 170, 175 and 170 on January 1-7, 165 on January 8-10, 155 on January 11-15, and 150 on January 16-17. Solar flux is predicted to drop to a low of 125 on January 22-25, and peak at 175 on February 2. Predicted planetary A index is 7 on December 27, 5 on December 28 through January 2, then 10 and 20 on January 3-4, then 5 on January 5-9, then 15 on January 10, and 5 on January 11-20, then 10 and 8 on January 21-22. F.K. Janda, OK1HH shares his geomagnetic predictions this week, and sees quiet to active conditions December 27, mostly quiet December 28, quiet to unsettled December 29, active to disturbed December 30, quiet December 31 and January 1, mostly quiet January 2-3, active to disturbed January 4, quiet to unsettled January 5, quiet January 6-9, quiet to unsettled January 10, quiet to active January 11, quiet to unsettled January 12, and mostly quiet January 13-17. Don Kalinowski, NJ2E of Cary, North Carolina sent us a tip on space weather coverage by the British Met (Meteorological) Office, which will begin in Spring 2014. You can read about it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25517466 And here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2013/space-weather-forecasts Don also sent a link to this interesting video from NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS57VH3QN1g Rich Zwirko, K1HTV of Amissville, Virginia sent this interesting report: Saturday, December 21 had some very interesting conditions on the higher HF bands. I was watching solarham.com around 1545 UTC and noticed a sharp peak in the density (proton?) reading on the ACE solar wind real time display. I switched to 10 meters and found 3W1T in Vietnam with a strong signal on CW coming in via long path from the south. In a few minutes he was in the log. That was around 1545Z. His signal continued to build to almost S9 on the K3 S meter over the next 15 minutes. I called Ed again on CW with my 100W, asking if he could switch to SSB, but he said that he had to QRT in a few minutes. I then switched to 15 meter SSB with the beam east and worked VK4WIL via the long path. Contacts were also made with a number of stations in the southern half of Africa. Later in the day around 2345Z VK6WX, with a great long path signal, was easily worked on 20 meter SSB. Then in the next 45 minutes QSOs were made with three stations in the Antarctic region on 20 meter CW, all with what seemed to be greatly enhanced signal strengths. On the other hand, signals via the northern polar path were almost non-existent at the K1HTV QTH. Go figure! Thanks, Rich! Log into http://www.qrz.com and take a look at the K1HTV profile, full of interesting history for this active ham, 55 years on the air. Larry Godek, W0OGH of Gilbert, Arizona wrote on December 21: Today listening to the KSM CW transmission on 16.914 Mc out of Point Reyes, California, I am hearing echoes between the characters. Sometimes it's hard to determine the characters as the echo is as strong as the direct or reflected signal. Wonder if anyone else heard the same thing? 10 meter FM has been going strong all day with signals from the East Coast in here solid on 29.620 MHz through KQ2H in New York City. Hearing South American stations quite well. Also this year I've heard the VE2TST repeater in Ottawa an awful lot whereas in the past years it's been very seldom heard. Lots of signals on the bands for the RTTY contest. Hope they have a banner weekend. The KSM transmissions are from a former commercial marine radio site at Point Reyes, Bolinas, California in Marin County north of San Francisco. KSM is on the air occasionally to commemorate the old high seas CW operations of years past. Read about it here: http://www.radiomarine.org/ Peter Gambee, K6TTD of Sacramento, California sent this on December 20: I am located near downtown Sacramento, California. I did get on the air much too briefly during the 10 meter contest, for about an hour all together. Family and holiday shopping took precedence. I had the rig on in the
[DX-NEWS] ARLD051 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD051 ARLD051 DX news ZCZC AE51 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 51 ARLD051 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT December 19, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD051 ARLD051 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, the Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. LESOTHO, 7P. Mathias, DJ2HD and Ulmar, DK1CE will be QRV as 7P8DJ and 7P8CE, respectively, from December 22 to 24. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. EAST MALAYSIA, 9M6. Vincent, F4BKV is QRV as 9M6/F4BKV from Labuan Island, IOTA OC-133, until December 22. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home call. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, 9Q. Look for 9Q0AR to be QRV from Kinshasa from December 23 to 27. QSL via operators' instructions. BOTSWANA, A2. Mathias, DJ2HD, Ulmar, DK1CE and Wolfgang, DH3WO will be QRV as A25DJ, A25CE and A24WO, respectively, from December 24 to 30. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, A6. Members of the Emirates Amateur Radio Society are QRV as A63RI from Dibba Rock Island, IOTA AS-124, until December 23. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL via IZ8CLM. CHILE, CE. Vlad, UA4WHX is QRV as CE9/UA4WHX from Navarino Island, IOTA SA-050. Activity is on the HF bands. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call. ANTARCTICA. Felix, DL5XL is QRV as DP1POL from the Neumayer III base until February 8. Activity is in his spare time on the HF bands using mostly CW. QSL via DL1ZBO. TEMOTU PROVINCE, H40. Sigi, DK9FN plans to be QRV as both H40FN and H40TA from Nendo Island, IOTA OC-100, from December 21 to January 10. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters. QSL via operator's instructions. ITALY, I. Special event station IY0CXII is QRV until the end of 2013 to commemorate the 112th anniversary of Marconi's first transatlantic transmission between Poldhu in Cornwall and Signal Hill on Newfoundland. QSL direct via IQ0RM. SVALBARD, JW. Alex, PY2SEX will be QRV as JW/PY2SEX on December 24 and 25. Activity will be on the HF and 6 meter bands using mainly CW. QSL direct via DL1NX. BONAIRE, PJ4. William, K9HZ is QRV as PJ4/K9HZ until January 1. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters. QSL to home call. SABA, ST. EUSTATIUS, PJ5. Nao, K6NAO will be QRV as PJ5/K6NAO from St. Eustatius, IOTA NA-145, from December 22 to 29. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, RTTY and PSK. QSL via JA1HGY. SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS. Station RI20ANT is QRV from Bellingshausen station, King George Island, IOTA AN-010, until December 31. QSL via N2IEN. POLAND, SP. Dionizy, SP6IEQ is QRV using special call sign 3Z13XMAS until December 30. QSL to home call. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event station R7378TM is QRV from Ufa until February 5 during the Olympic Torch's relay through Russia. QSL via RM8W. NAMIBIA, V5. Dietmar, DL3DXX is QRV as V5/DL3DXX from Outjo until January 8. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using mainly CW. QSL to home call. CHAGOS ISLANDS, VQ9. Jim, ND9M is QRV as VQ9JC from Dgar. Of late, he has been active on 30, 20 and 17 meters using mostly CW with some SSB and RTTY. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call. HONG KONG, VR. Alberto, IV3TAN is QRV as VR2/IV3TAN from Pang Chau Island, IOTA AS-006. Activity is on the HF bands. His length of stay is unknown. QSL direct to home call. CAMBODIA, XU. Pat, N2IEN is QRV as XU7AEV December 21. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL direct to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL CW Rookie Roundup, Russian 160-Meter Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, AGB-Party Contest, Feld Hell Sprint, OK DX RTTY Contest and the Croatian CW Contest are all on tap for this weekend. The Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party runs from December 21 to January 1, 2014. The SKCC CW Sprint is scheduled for December 25. Please see December QST, page 66 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP051 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP051 ARLP051 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP51 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 51 ARLP051 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA December 13, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP051 ARLP051 Propagation de K7RA Solar indicators rose over the past week, for both solar flux and sunspot numbers. The highest were on Tuesday, December 10 when the sunspot number was 169 and solar flux 175.2. In an otherwise quiet week the planetary A index reached 26 on Sunday, December 8, sparked by a strong solar wind surging from a coronal hole. We could see a repeat this weekend. Geomagnetic activity during the ARRL 10 Meter Contest this weekend should be more active than contesters would prefer, with predicted planetary A index values of 20 and 15 on Saturday and Sunday. NOAA said Thursday night that the geomagnetic field may be anywhere from quiet to minor storm levels this weekend. For the past six 10-Meter Contests, geomagnetic conditions have been very quiet. But in 2006 the contest (always the second full weekend in December) fell right between two very active periods. The 2006 contest was held on December 9-10, and checking the record at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/2006_DGD.txt we see the planetary A index on those dates was 7 and 14. But just prior on December 6 the A index was 28, and 25 on December 7-8. Following the contest that year the planetary A index on December 11-15 was 15, 26, 5, 63 and 104. The last two figures indicate a major geomagnetic storm. Lucky it didn't hit earlier, but the contest weekend was still feeling the effects of the higher activity in the days before. Reports included much trans-equatorial propagation. North-South propagation across the equator is not enhanced during periods of high geo-activity, but rather that is often the only propagation path available. Compared to the previous seven days, over December 5-11 the average daily sunspot number rose from 102.9 to 122.1, and average daily solar flux increased from 132.9 to 162.4. The predicted values in the 45-day outlook for solar flux took a substantial leap on December 8. For example, on December 7 the predicted average solar flux for December 10-15 was 141, and on December 8 the projected average for the same period was 170. The predicted values for the following 45 days increased across the board, but have since scaled back somewhat. The latest prediction has solar flux at 165 on December 13, 160 on December 14-15, 155 on December 16-18, 150 on December 19-20, 172 on December 21-22, 175 on December 23-25, 172 on December 26, 170 on December 27-29, 165 on December 30, and 160 on December 31 through January 2, 2014. After dipping to 150 on January 4, solar flux is expected to rise to a short term peak of 172 on January 7-8. Predicted planetary A index is 12, 20 and 15 on December 13-15, then 5 on December 16-25, then 12, 10 and 8 on December 26-28, 5 on December 29 through January 2, 2014, then 10, 20, 15, 10 and 8 on January 3-7. OK1HH believes the geomagnetic field will be quiet December 13-14, mostly quiet December 15, quiet to unsettled December 16, quiet December 17-18, quiet to unsettled December 19, quiet December 20-24, mostly quiet December 25, quiet to unsettled December 26, quiet to active December 27, quiet December 28, mostly quiet December 29, and quiet on December 30-31. Predicted solar flux shows this weekend's 10 Meter Contest should have the highest solar flux and sunspot numbers since the 2002 contest. Conditions may be similar to the 1999 contest, when solar flux and sunspot numbers were about the same as now. This was before the peak of the last solar cycle, cycle 23. To test this out and see where conditions are compared to previous ten meter contests, I averaged sunspot numbers and solar flux since 1997 for the contest weekend including the Friday before. From 1997 through 2012, the average solar flux on the second full weekend in December was 90.6, 143.5, 160.9, 139.9, 224.2, 185.3, 89.1, 88.4, 91.2, 92.8, 87.5, 69.8, 74, 88.2, 139.3, and 100.6. For Friday through Saturday this weekend the average of predicted flux values is 161.7, very close to what it was in 1999, and as you can see, stronger than any contest weekend after 2002. Over the same period using the same method, average sunspot numbers were 66.7, 153.3, 120.3, 70.7, 201.3, 202.3, 41.3, 27, 55.7, 22.7, 34, 4.7, 13, 27, 103 and 32.7. We don't have a source for predicted daily sunspot numbers, but the average reported at the end of this bulletin was 122.1. This is also stronger than any contest weekend since 2002. Note that in 2008 the average sunspot number on the second weekend in December was only 4.7. This may seem strange, because the arcane method used for determining sunspot number produces no non-zero sunspot numbers below 11. But on that Friday through Sunday period, over the three days sunspot numbers were 14, 0 and 0. That produces an arithmetic average of 4.667, or 4.7.
[DX-NEWS] ARLD050 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD050 ARLD050 DX news ZCZC AE50 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 50 ARLD050 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT December 12, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD050 ARLD050 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, the Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MADAGASCAR, 5R. Eric, F6ICX is QRV as 5R8IC from Sainte Marie Island, IOTA AF-090, until December 15. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using mostly CW with some SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL to home call. BAHRAIN, A9. Fawaz, A92AA and Ely, A93LT are QRV as A91MCAT until the end of 2013 to celebrate the capital Manama as the Capital of Arab Tourism. QSL via IZ8CLM. AZORES, CU. Siegfried, DF9WB is QRV as CT8/DF9WB until December 18. Activity is on 20, 15 and 10 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. WALES, GW. Steve, GW4BLE will be QRV as GW7X in the ARRL 10 Meter contest as a Multi/Single entry. QSL direct via G8DX. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JD1. Take, JG8NQJ is QRV as JG8NQJ/JD1 from Marcus Island, IOTA OC-073, until mid December while on work assignment. Activity is on 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters using only CW in his spare time. QSL to home call. ARGENTINA, LU. Look for L73D to be a Multi/Single entry in the ARRL 10 Meter contest. QSL via operators' instructions. LITHUANIA, LY. Vilmantas, LY3BY is QRV as LY2013SAT until December 24 to commemorate the first Lithuanian nano-satellite LituanicaSAT-1. QSL via LY3BY. CURACAO, PJ2. Mark, N5OT, Dave, W6DR, Yin, N9YS and Mike, NT6X are QRV as PJ2/home calls, along with Geoff, W0CG who is QRV as PJ2DX. They will be active as PJ2T in the ARRL 10 Meter contest. QSL PJ2T direct via W3HNK and all others to home calls. SEYCHELLES, S7. Igor, UA3DJY is QRV as S79ACR from Mahe Island, IOTA AF-024, for a month long holiday. He is active holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home call. CHAD, TT. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as TT8ES from Doba until December 20 while working with the Franciscan Sisters Alcantarins mission. Activity is in her spare time on HF using SSB and digital modes during her early mornings and late evenings. QSL via IK3GES. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event call R2014CC is QRV until March 1, 2014 to commemorate the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. QSL via operators' instructions. UKRAINE, UR. Special event station EN100ZKM is QRV to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Nikolaev's regional museum. QSL via UT5ZY. BRUNEI, V8. Special event station V84BNJ is QRV until December 15 to commemorate the 4th Brunei National Scout Jamboree. Activity is on all bands using CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL via operators' instructions. LAOS, XW. Champ, E21EIC is QRV as XW0YJY until December 17. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW. This includes being an entry in the ARRL 10 Meter contest. QSL to home call. INDONESIA, YB. Burkhard, DL3KZA is QRV as YB9/DL3KZA from Lombok Island, IOTA OC-150. Lately he has been active on 20 and 15 meters using SSB. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call. NICARAGUA, YN. Scott, K7ZO is QRV as YN5Z until December 18. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters. This includes being an entry in the ARRL 10 Meter contest. QSL to home call. ST. HELENA, ZD7. Daniel, ZS1BBT is QRV from school station ZD7PAS until December 23. QSL via operator's instructions. SOUTH AFRICA, ZS. Members of the South African Radio League are QRV with special event call sign ZS9MADIBA for the next 30 days to commemorate the life of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. QSL via operators' instructions. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC Credit: Rwanda, 9X0XA, 2013 operation; Lakshadweep Islands, VU7AG, November 20, 2013 through December 10, 2013 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL 10-Meter Contest, AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO CW Party, NCCC RTTY Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, International Naval Contest and the QRP ARCI Holiday Spirits Homebrew CW Sprint are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest and NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint are scheduled for December 16. The NAQCC Straight Key/Bug CW Sprint and QRP CW Fox Hunt are scheduled for December 18. Please see December QST, page 66 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD049 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD049 ARLD049 DX news ZCZC AE49 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 49 ARLD049 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT December 5, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD049 ARLD049 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by KI1U, NC1L, the Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MONACO, 3A. Special event station 3A60ARM is QRV during the month of December in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Association des Radioamateurs de Monaco. QSL via bureau. SENEGAL, 6W. Mark, AA1AC plans to be QRV as 6W/AA1AC from Somone from December 8 to 14. QSL to home call. BARBADOS, 8P. Look for Mike, KI1U, Mike, N1TA and Bruce, K0BJ to be QRV as 8P9IU, 8P9TA and 8P9BJ, respectively, from December 9 to 16. Activity will be on 160 to 2 meters including 60 meters and straight keys, using CW, SSB and RTTY. They may also be active on Satellite SO-50. They will be QRV as 8P8T in the upcoming ARRL 10 Meter contest. QSL all calls via KI1U. CHILE, CE. A group of operators are QRV as XR150CBS during the month of December to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Santiago Fire Department. Activity is on all HF bands using SSB and various digital modes. QSL via XQ7UP. NIUE, E6. Operators Alan, VK4WR and Graeme, VK4FI will be QRV as E6RQ and E6SG, respectively, from December 7 to 17. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters, with an eye towards good sporadic-E and TEP propagation into Asia. QSL both calls direct via VK4FI. NEW CALEDONIA, FK. Freddy, F5IRO will be QRV as FK8RO from Ouvea Island, IOTA OC-033, from December 9 to 13. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. NORTHERN IRELAND, GI. Special event station GI100RSGB is QRV until the end of 2013 during the final leg in the RSGB's centennial celebrations. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via M0VFC. DJIBOUTI, J2. Christian, F5MBF is QRV as J28NC for another two years. He is active on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via F5RQQ. BULGARIA, LZ. Members of the Radio Club Blagovestnik are QRV as LZ867MWB during December to honor St Mihail Voin. QSL via LZ1KCP. CURACAO, PJ2. Jeff, K8ND plans to be QRV as PJ2T in the ARRL 160 Meter contest. QSL direct via W3HNK. EASTERN KIRIBATI, T32. A group of operators are QRV as T32RC from Christmas Island, IOTA OC-024, until December 11. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes an entry in the ARRL 160 Meter contest. QSL via N7RO. MICRONESIA, V6. Haru, JA1XGI is QRV as V63XG from Chuuk, IOTA OC-011, until December 12. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes an entry in the ARRL 160 Meter contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Mats, is QRV as XV2LRR from Phan Tiet until December 14. Activity is holiday style on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via LoTW. ROMANIA, YO. Special event station YP95GU is QRV until the end of 2013 to commemorate the 1918 unification of Transylvania, Banat, Crisana and Maramures into Romania. Activity is on 40, 20 and 15 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via bureau. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL 160-Meter CW Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, TARA RTTY Melee, Wake-Up. QRP CW Sprint, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, VU International DX Contest, TOPS Activity CW Contest, EPC Ukraine DX BPSK63 Contest, AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 CW QSO Party, 10-Meter RTTY Contest and the CQC Great Colorado Snowshoe CW Run will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The QRP CW Fox Hunt, CWops Mini-CWT Test and NAQCC Straight Key/Bug CW Sprint are all scheduled for December 11. Please see December QST, page 66 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP49 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 49 ARLP049 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA December 2, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA This is a catch-up bulletin released Monday morning after the Thanksgiving Holiday. We had quite an active week on November 14-20, and today we are reporting the numbers for the following week, November 21-27, and beyond. Average daily sunspot numbers fell from 193.3 in the earlier period to 63.6 in the latter, and in the four days since then, November 28 through December 1, the average daily sunspot number rose to 100.3. Average daily solar flux was also off, from 166.9 in the earlier period to 130 in the latter, then in the following four days the average solar flux was 130.8. Geomagnetic indices were quiet, except that on November 29 through December 1 the planetary A index was 8, 9 and 10. Still, these are very moderate numbers, indicating conditions were slightly unsettled. Predicted solar flux is 130 on December 2, 135 on December 3-4, then 140, 145, 140, 135 and 140 on December 5-9, 165 on December 9-14, then 160, 155 and 145 on December 15-17, 140 on December 18-19, 135 on December 20, and 130 on December 21-24. Predicted planetary A index is 15 on December 2, 10 on December 3, 5 on December 4-5, 8 on December 6, 12 on December 7-8, 8 on December 9, 5 on December 10-12, then 10 and 8 on December 13-14, 5 on December 15-21, then 8, 10 and 8 on December 22-24, and 5 on December 25-30. Now that November is over, let's look at sunspot number averages. Our 3-month moving average is up following increased activity, and we now know the 3-month average centered on October (including all data from September 1 through November 30.) The three month moving average of daily sunspot numbers centered on January through October is 73.6, 80.7, 85.2, 106.4, 106.4, 97.5, 85.6, 77.4, 91.2 and 102.9. The monthly averages of daily sunspot numbers for June through November 2013 were 80.2, 86.2, 90.2, 55, 127.2 and 125.7. For those interested in whether recent activity is part of a second double peak in this cycle, the earlier peak at the end of 2011 had monthly averages for September through December of 106.4, 123.6, 133.1 and 106.4. On November 27, Dean Lewis, W9WGV of Palatine, Illinois sent this report about the fun he had on 10 meters during the CQ Worldwide CW DX Contest, with a very simple indoor antenna: Last weekend's 10 meter propagation was amazing; I worked three JAs; two on 10 meters, one on 15 meters; this may not sound like any great shakes to most, but being 'CCR-challenged,' I run 10 watts from an Icom 703 to a carefully pruned indoor end-fed 40 meter half-wave wire (full wave on 20 meters, three half-waves on 15 meters, two full waves on 10 meters with no feedline or RF ground, and a very simple small matching device). The signals were all well over S9 and no QSB; no fills, no repeats, no errors. Also worked a number of European stations, Niger, the Caribbean, and South America, plus KH6 and KL7. 10 was like the low end of 40 meters on a Winter night. Don't remember when last I had to use the 500-cycle CW filter on 10 meter, but I did on Saturday and Sunday. Dan Bates, N5TM of Katy, Texas also enjoyed 10 meters during the CQ Worldwide CW weekend: I've never seen 10 meters with stations all the way up to 28.160 as was the case on Sunday morning of the CQWW. Propagation opened to the Far East late in the contest and my last two Qs were to China and East Malaysia on 15 meters. Dan also has restricted antenna space and operates very low profile. 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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 November 21 through 27 were 85, 51, 65, 69, 52, 47, and 76, with a mean of 63.6. 10.7 cm flux was 141.2, 142.8, 135.6, 127.1, 119.1, 115.5, and 129, with a mean of 130. Estimated planetary A indices were 3, 3, 8, 2, 2, 2, and 2, with a mean of 3.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 1, 2, 6, 2, 2, 2, and 2, with a mean of 2.4. /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
[DX-NEWS] ARLP048 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP048 ARLP048 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP48 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 48 ARLP048 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 27, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP048 ARLP048 Propagation de K7RA Because of the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, we have a shortened bulletin two days early, and another one will follow on Monday, December 2 which will contain the data for our regular reporting week, which is November 21-27. But being one day short of a full week of data, we can see that so far, the average sunspot number for November 21-26 fell 131.8 points to 61.5, and average daily solar flux declined from 166.9 to 130.2. We all hope it comes back. Those numbers are compared to the previous seven days reported in last week's bulletin, November 14-20. The latest prediction has solar flux at 120 on November 27-30, 125 on December 1-2, 130 and 140 on December 3-4, 150 on December 5-6, 155 on December 7, 165 on December 8-14, then 160, 155 and 145 on December 15-17 and 140 on December 18-19. Predicted planetary A index is 8 on November 27, 5 on November 28 through December 3, 10 and 5 on December 4-5, then 15, 15 and 12 on December 6-8, 5 on December 9-12, 10 and 8 on December 13-14, and 5 on December 15-21. Jon Jones, N0JK of Lawrence, Kansas reported: I corresponded with Pat, WA5IYX about the November 9, 2013 opening. The November 9, 2013 6 meter F2 opening for North America to the Caribbean and northern South America was unique as it is probably the first morning F2 opening of Solar Cycle 24. There were a number of these 'morning F2' openings in Solar Cycles 22 and 23. Most frequent in the late fall and winter months, and often after or during a geomagnetic storm. Pat, WA5IYX reminded me of a much bigger opening like this on November 8-9, 1991. I recall working Africa, Central and South America in the morning, followed by Hawaii then Australia in the afternoon on 6 meters. The 2013 opening dissipated before moving west to the South Pacific. Pat's log of the November, 1991 event can be found at, http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/11081091.txt As for recent HF propagation, 10 meters was very good Sunday in the ARRL Sweepstakes. Rare sections such as Northwest Territories (VE8EV), Alaska, Canadian Maritime (VY2ZM), Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands were loud. 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD048 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD048 ARLD048 DX news ZCZC AE48 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 48 ARLD048 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 27, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD048 ARLD048 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MAURITIUS, 3B8. Operators Johnny, SM6JBC and Jan, SM6GOR are QRV as 3B8JB and 3B8/SM6GOR, respectively, until December 16. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters and possibly 30 meters using CW, SSB, PSK31 and PKS63. QSL to home calls. JAMAICA, 6Y. Valery, UN7LZ is QRV as 6Y5/UN7LZ until November 30. Activity is mostly on 80, 40, 15 and 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. CAPE VERDE, D4. Keith, G3TTC is QRV as D44TUE from Sao Vicente, IOTA AF-086, until November 30. Afterwards, he will be QRV from Santiago Island, IOTA AF-005, on December 1 and 2. Activity will be on 20 and 17 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Andrea, IK1PMR and Claudia, PA3LEO are QRV as EA8/home calls until January 7. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. REUNION ISLAND, FR. Jean-Pierre, F5AHO is QRV as FR5/F5AHO until December 4. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters using SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home call. ST. LUCIA, J6. Operators W3FF, AA4W, K3JDB, N9AW, NM4T, W4QO, W5EXJ and W6HFP will be QRV as J68FF and J6/home calls, respectively, from December 1 to 9. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home calls. WESTERN KIRIBATI, T30. Operators Ted, JF1CCH and Kazu, JA1FUF are QRV as T30TS and T30KN, respectively, until December 4. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters, and possibly 6 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL to home calls. SOMALIA, T5. Roger is QRV as 6O0LA and has been active on 20 meters using CW around 1640 to 1730z. QSL via LA4GHA. MICRONESIA, V6. Haru, JA1XGI will be QRV as V63XG from December 4 to 12. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes and entry in the upcoming ARRL 160 Meter contest. QSL to home call. AUSTRALIA, VK. Special event station VK2013TDF is QRV until the end of the year to commemorates the Tour de Freedom cycling event being held between Esperance and Perth. QSL via operators' instructions. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, VP2V. Ted, SP3IPB is QRV as VP2V/SP3IPB until November 30. QSL to home call. LAKSHADWEEP ISLAND, VU7. A large group of operators are QRV as VU7AG from Agatti Island, IOTA AS-011, until December 10. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. In addition, VU7KA is QRV from Kavaratti Island briefly during demonstration purposes for the local administration. QSL both calls via W4VKU. ALBANIA, ZA. Peter, DL4KM is QRV as ZA/DL4KM. Activity is on the HF bands. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call. ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. A group of operators will be QRV as ZD8UW from Green Mountain from December 2 to 6. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB and possibly WSPR. QSL via M0OXO. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The QRP ARCI Topband Sprint, RSGB 80-Meter Club CW Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, Feld Hell Sprint and the SARL Digital Contest are all on tap for the next few days and upcoming weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for December 3. Please see November QST, page 87, December QST, page 66 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP047 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP047 ARLP047 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP47 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 47 ARLP047 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 22, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP047 ARLP047 Propagation de K7RA Sunspot numbers made a profound leap over the past week, with the sunspot number on November 15 reaching 272, then 282 on November 17. This is a record for the current solar cycle, and this level of activity has not been observed for over a decade. Unfortunately the sunspot number declined rapidly since then, falling below 100. You can check in the ARRL Propagation Bulletin archives to see what activity at this level and higher was like over a decade ago. Go to http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation and check out (in reverse order) bulletins 44 and 45 in 2003, 35 in 2002, 32 in 2002, 19 in 2002, 56 in 2001, 40 in 2001, 38 in 2001, 26 in 2001, 14 and 15 in 2001, 29 and 30 in 2000, 20 and 21 in 2000, 14 in 2000, 46 and 47 in 1999, 27 in 1999, and prior to that there was no sunspot number higher than we saw this week since Cycle 22. The last several days with zero sunspots prior to this period are detailed in bulletins 2 and 3 in 1998. Note that for many of those periods, planetary A index was quite high. So the negative effects of all that high solar activity were geomagnetic storms. Solar activity was national news this week, and this link has plenty of information about solar flares: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/sun-fires-powerful-solar-flare-triggering-radio-blackout-2D11623878 . The heightened activity caused 10 meters to virtually explode, with the band full of signals from around the world. Average daily sunspot numbers rose more than 67 points from 126.1 to 193.3, while average daily solar flux rose 10 points, from 156.9 to 166.9. The latest prediction has solar flux at 135 on November 22-23, 130 on November 24-28, 140 on November 29-30, 135 on December 1-3, 130 on December 4, 135 on December 5-6, 130 and 135 on December 7-8, 140 on December 9-10, 135 on December 11-14 and 140 on December 15-18. Predicted values then bottom out at 115 on December 23-24, again on December 28-29, then jumping from 115 again on January 3-4 to 140 on January 5. This is a month and a half from now, so predictive value is dubious. But let's check that again in 2014. Predicted planetary A index is 5 on November 22 through December 3, then 8, 5 and 12 on December 4-6, 10 on December 7-8, 5 on December 9-11, then 8 on December 12-13, and 5 on December 14-30. OK1HH in Prague predicts geomagnetic activity will be quiet on November 22-25, quiet to unsettled November 26, quiet to active November 27, quiet to unsettled November 28, quiet November 29-30, active to disturbed December 1, mostly quiet December 2-3, quiet to unsettled December 4, mostly quiet December 5, quiet to active December 6-8, quiet December 9-12, active to disturbed December 13, quiet to unsettled December 14, quiet December 15-18. Scott Bidstrup, TI3/W7RI in Costa Rica reported back on November 9, Today was terrific. Worked dozens of Ukrainian and Eastern European stations this morning on 10 meter PSK with 30 watts into a 5/8 wave vertical. Band conditions were superb, and even now as I write this, more than an hour after sunset, I'm still seeing a few W5 stations, plus JA, VK and ZL on my waterfall, with the ZL stations the strongest. On November 15 Scott wrote (note this was just before this week's sunspot number peak) Looking at the current solar magnetograms, it looks like the southern hemisphere spots are becoming fewer but bigger and more intensely magnetized, which, as I understand it, is typical of early post-peak activity. On the other hand, the current imagery and the STEREO B imagery suggest there is a lot more southern hemisphere activity at the moment than there has been lately, so maybe we'll have some good conditions for awhile. I note that the 304a emission has been on an upward trend for some time, and shortwave X-ray has been active too, and is continuing to go up. Good news, at least for as long as it lasts. I've been on 10 meter PSK a lot lately, and have noticed that the waterfall isn't as crowded in the last few days as it has been (a week ago, it looked like 20 meters), and signals have generally been a bit weaker, in spite of the rise in solar activity of the last few days. As before, it's been mostly low latitudes. My friends on 6 meters report to me that they've never seen the trans-equatorial openings into Brazil and Argentina as active as now, and we had the Mother Of All F2 Openings into North America about a week ago (and several smaller ones since). The whole continent was accessible, and my friends are all telling me they worked a dozen or more new grid squares. The only working 6 meter radio I have is FM only, and I didn't hear a peep on 52.525 MHz through the whole thing. On November 15, N0JK wrote, On November 10, EA8DBM worked FK8CP at 0055 UTC. This was likely a
[DX-NEWS] ARLD045 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD045 ARLD045 DX news ZCZC AE45 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 45 ARLD045 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 7, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD045 ARLD045 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by KX9X, NC1L, WP3R, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TANZANIA, 5H. Carl, SM6CPY is QRV as 5H3CJ until November 12. Activity is on the HF bands, with a preference for the higher bands, using only CW. QSL to home call. SAMOA, 5W. Hiro, JF1OCQ is QRV as 5W7X from Apia, IOTA OC-097, until November 14. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. NEPAL, 9N. Toshi, JA8BMK is QRV as 9N7BM from Kathmandu and Nagalkot until November 28. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home call. JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS, CE0. A large group of operators are QRV as XR0ZR until November 20. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters, including 60 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY and EME. QSL via IV3DSH. REUNION ISLAND, FR. Stef, F5UOW is QRV as TO2R until November 17. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using mostly CW. QSL to home call. ST. VINCENT, J8. Gerd, DL7VOG is QRV as J87GU from Union Island, IOTA NA-025, until November 27. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW and RTTY and possibly SSB. He will be active in the Worked All Europe RTTY contest and the upcoming CQ World Wide DX CW contest. QSL to home call. HAWAII, KH6. Look for operators YT1AD, WD5COV and RZ3FW to be QRV as KH6/N9YU, KH6/WD5COV and KH6/N7AFW, respectively, from November 13 to 15. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL to home calls. AMERICAN SAMOA, KH8. A group of operators will be QRV using special event call sign W8A from the Village of Vaitogi on the coast of Tutuila Island, IOTA OC-045, from November 12 to 22. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using mainly CW with some SSB and RTTY. QSL via ZL3CW. WAKE ISLAND, KH9. Station K9W is QRV until November 15. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via OQRS. PUERTO RICO, KP4. Special event station KP4AO will be QRV from the control room of the Arecibo Observatory on November 10 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Radio Astronomy Science. Activity will be on 20 meters using SSB. QSL via operator's instructions. LUXEMBOURG, LX. Helmut, DF7ZS will be QRV as LX7I in the Worked All Europe RTTY contest. QSL via operator's instructions. NAMIBIA, V5. Klaus, DJ4SO is QRV as V5/DJ4SO until early December. Activity is on all HF bands, with the possible exception of 160 and 80 meters, using CW, RTTY, PSK and some SSB. He may also be active in the Worked All Europe RTTY contest and the upcoming CQ World Wide DX CW contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Special event station XV2V40J is QRV until November 24 in commemoration of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Vietnam 40 years ago. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via JF1HJZ. INDONESIA, YB. A group of operators will be QRV as YB8V from Banda Besar Island, IOTA OC-157, from November 10 to 15. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via YB9AU. TRISTAN da CUNHA and GOUGH ISLAND, ZD9. Bani, ZS1BM is QRV as ZD9G from Gough Island, IOTA AF-030, as a member of the 59th Winter Team and is here until August 2014. QSL via ZS1HF. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC Credit: Yemen, 7O2A, 2013 operation; Afghanistan, T6SM, Operations beginning August 14, 2012 to current. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The Worked All Europe RTTY DX Contest, 10-10 International Fall Digital Contest, Japan International DX Phone Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, OK/OM DX CW Contest, Kentucky QSO Party, CQ-WE Contest and the EANET Sprint are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The QRP CW Fox Hunt, RSGB 80-Meter Club SSB Sprint, NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for November 13. Please see November QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP44 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 44 ARLP044 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 1, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA It's been a lively couple of weeks, with plenty of sunspots and great HF propagation. The average daily sunspot number for the week was 161.6, unchanged from last week's average of 162. Solar flux values were up quite a bit though, rising from 139.6 to 158.3, quite a healthy jump. On October 26 the Penticton solar flux reading was 171.8, but NOAA downgraded it to 165, probably because the higher value was an outlier caused by solar events overloading the receivers at Penticton. Just before ARRL CW Sweepstakes this weekend, predicted daily solar flux for the near term is 140 on November 1, 135 on November 2, 130 on November 3-4, 135 on November 5, 140 on November 6-8, then 105, 110, 120, 125, 130 and 135 on November 9-14, 140 on November 15-18, 145 on November 19, 150 on November 20-21, with flux values peaking at 155 on November 22-25, then dropping to a minimum of 105 on December 6. Stable geomagnetic conditions are predicted for Sweepstakes weekend, with a predicted planetary A index at 5 on November 1-6, 8 on November 7-8, 5 on November 9, then 12, 15, 10 and 8 on November 10-13, 5 on November 14-25, 8 on November 26-27, 5 on November 28 through December 6, and 12, 15, 10 and 8 on December 7-10. As October ended yesterday, we can now calculate our 3-month moving average of daily sunspot numbers. The average daily sunspot number for the three-month period centered on September, 2013 (including all daily numbers from August 1 through October 31, 2013) was 91.2, reflecting the recent uptick in solar activity. So far in 2013 the averages are 73.6, 80.7, 85.2, 106.4, 106.4, 97.5, 85.6, 77.4 and 91.2. The monthly averages for June through October 2013 were 80.2, 86.2, 90.2, 55 and 127.2. You can see that the month just ended was a very strong period. You may recall in our last Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP043 that Ganesh, VU2TS joked (I think he was joking?) about the possibility that contesters might charge the ionosphere with some of the big antennas and power beamed skyward. Apparently K9LA took this seriously enough to do the math, and his comments are quite interesting, and show us just how far-fetched this idea is. Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA wrote, Recently a QST reader asked the same question. My response to him was that the power density needed to modify the E region is around 1 milliwatt per square meter (from 'Radio Techniques for Probing the Terrestrial Ionosphere,' Hunsucker, 1991). That translates to a huge ERP (effective radiated power). For example, the HF ionospheric modification facility (commonly called an ionospheric heater) at Tromso, Norway has an ERP of about 360 megawatts. Their transmitter puts out 1.4 megawatts and the gain of their antenna is 24 dBi, which results in about 3 milliwatts per square meter at 100 km. Now let's assume there are 1,000 contesters on the same band, each running 1 kilowatt into a 10 dBi antenna. Let's further assume they are all beaming to the same spot in the E region that's about 400 km down the road (in other words, they're all within an 800km diameter). And let's even further assume that all of these signals are on at the same instant of time and arrive at that spot in-phase. That works out to 0.08 milliwatts per square meter - which is still an order of magnitude less than needed. The F region is even worse, as the transmitted power density decreases due to the increased height. Thus I have a problem with the theory that many, many transmitted signals can enhance the ionosphere. I believe the bands are simply open more than we think, and a massive amount of activity (as in a contest) shows this. Note that 10-Meters was really good for several days before the contest - when the amount of people on was considerably less. Thank you, Carl. Nice to see the numbers applied to this concept. Solar activity made the news in the Los Angeles Times this week, concerning 28 solar flares in the previous week: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-solar-flare-20131031,0,7996603.story#axzz2jOYy1d19. And another news article about recent activity: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/boisterous-sun-fires-third-huge-solar-flare-many-days-8C11480451. Ted Leaf, K6HI sent us this: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/sun-emits-2nd-solar-flare-in-2-days/ Another L.A. Times piece, this time about an astronomer carrying on an old tradition, drawing sunspots by hand, sent to us by David Moore: http://www.latimes.com/local/columnone/la-me-c1-mt-wilson-sun-spots-20131028-dto,0,4430093.htmlstory#axzz2jOYy1d19. And here is an article about a magnetic storm a decade ago: http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/the-magnetic-storm-of-halloween-2003/364078. Mike Khokhlov, UA9CIR of Ekaterinburg in Asiatic Russia wrote,
[DX-NEWS] ARLD044 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD044 ARLD044 DX news ZCZC AE44 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 44 ARLD044 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT October 31, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD044 ARLD044 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by N7QT, NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. EASTER ISLAND, CE0Y. A group of operators are QRV as XR0YY from Hanga Roa, IOTA SA-001, until November 7. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using all modes. QSL direct via EB7DX. CAPE VERDE, D4. John, G4IRN will be QRV as D44TWQ from Boa Vista Island, IOTA AF-086, from November 5 to 12. Activity is holiday style on the newer bands using CW. QSL to home call. NIUE, E6. Look for JA1KJW, JA1JQY and JA8VE to be QRV as E6AK, E6AY and E6AA, respectively, from November 3 to 9. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using all modes. QSL to home calls. SCOTLAND, GM. Special event station GM100RSGB will be QRV from November 6 to December 2 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the RSGB. QSL via bureau. SAN ANDRES AND PROVIDENCIA, HK0. A group of operators are QRV as 5J0R from San Andres Island, IOTA NA-033, until November 10. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct via EA5RM. ANTARCTICA. Max, IA0MZ is QRV from Mario Zucchelli Station until February 2014. QSL via IW0EFA. ITALY, I. Special event call sign II8IDXC is QRV until May 2015 during the International DX Convention 2015 in Paestrum. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters using all modes. QSL via IZ8EDJ. SABA, ST. EUSTATIUS, PJ5. Rob, N7QT and Hugh, W4VAB will be QRV as PJ6/N7QT and PJ6/W4VAB, respectively, from Saba from November 7 to 17. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK and JT65. QSL to home calls. ANTARCTICA. Operators Oleg, UA1PBA, Alex, UA1PAW and Slava, UA1PAI are QRV as RI1ANR from Novo Runway until March 2014. Activity is on the HF bands with a focus on the low bands. QSL via RK1PWA. POLAND, SP. Special event station SN640OKA is QRV until December 31 to celebrate the 640th anniversary of Ostroleka, a town in Mazovia. QSL via Bureau. BANABA, T33. A group of operators will be QRV as T33A from Banaba Island, IOTA OC-018, from November 5 to 18. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with six stations active. QSL via W2IJ. TURKEY, TA. Members of the TC Special Wireless Activity Team are QRV as TC301B until November 17 to celebrate 30 years of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is recognized only by Turkey. QSL via the bureau. VIET NAM, XV. Toshi, JA3NHL and Take, JA6CNH will be QRV as XV2NHL and XV2CNH, respectively, from Ho Chi Minh City from November 2 to 8. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. VANUATU, YJ. Operators Nob, JA2AAU, Iwao, JA2LSS, Iku, JA2ATE and Tug, JA2ZS are QRV as YJ0AU, YJ0CJ, YJ0TE and YJ0ZS, respectively, from Iririki Island, IOTA OC-035, until November 11. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL YJ0AU and YJ0CJ direct via JA2ATE, YJ0ZS via JA2ZS and YJ0TE via JA2ATE. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC Credit: Afghanistan, T6MH, 2012 and 2013 operations. If you had this contact rejected in a recent submission, send an email to bmo...@arrl.org to be placed on the list for an update to your record. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. ARRL CW Sweepstakes Contest, North American Collegiate ARC CW Championship, NCCC Sprint, IPARC Contest, Ukrainian DX Contest, Himalayan Contest, IPARC Contest, High Speed Club CW Contest and the DARC 10-Meter Digital Contest are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for November 5. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for November 6. Please see November QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
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26 October 2013 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1173 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3A - Gil, F4FET will be active as 3A/F4FET from Monaco on 11-12 November. He will be QRV on 40-10 metres SSB. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. 5H - Jacques, HB9EYP will be active holiday style as 5H3JJ from Zanzibar Island (AF-032) on 2-9 November. He will be QRV on 20-6 metres SSB and digital modes with 10 watts. QSL via home call, bureau preferred. 5W - 9M6XRO, W6SZN, ZL1GO and ZL3CW will stopping over Samoa (OC-097) on their way back from KH8 (www.n8a.eu) and will be active as 5W8A from 27 November to 2 December. QSL via ZL3CW. 6W - Rob, DL7VOA will be active holiday style as 6V7D from near Toubab Dialaw, Senegal from 29 November to 7 December. He will operate mainly CW with some SSB on 40-10 metres, typically during his evening and night hours. He will run 100 watts into vertical dipoles for 10-20m and ground planes for 40 and 30m. QSL via DL7VOA, direct or bureau. Please note that 6V7D is a reissued callsign, as it was used back in 2011 by a Russian team. [TNX DL7VOA] C6 - C6ARU (N4UM), C6AUM (K4RUM) and C6AKQ (N4BP) will be active from Freeport, Grand Bahama (NA-080) from 19 November to 10 December. C6AUM and C6AKQ will operate mainly CW on 160-10 metres, while C6ARU will be mainly on digital modes on 30, 17 and 12 metres. Contest activity will include two single band entries in the CQ WW DX CW (C6AUM on 40m and C6AKQ on 80m), and a Multi-Single entry as C6AKQ for the ARRL 160 Meter (6-8 December). QSL via home calls. [TNX NG3K] D4 - John, G4IRN will be active holiday style as D44TWQ from Boa Vista (AF-086), Cape Verde on 5-12 November. He will operate CW only with a focus on 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL via G4IRN, direct or bureau, and LoTW. Logsearch on Club Log. [TNX NG3K] F - Gil, F4FET (www.f4fet.net) will be active as F4FET/p from IOTA group EU-058 on 9-10 November. He will operate SSB on 40-10 metres from Sainte Marguerite Island (on 9 November, from 6 to 14 UTC) and Saint Honorat Island (on 10 November, from 8 to 15 UTC). QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX rsgbiota.org] FK - Freddy, F5IRO will be active as FK/F5IRO from Plum, New Caledonia (OC-032) between 1 November and 1 March 2014. He plans to operate mainly CW with some PSK on 80-10 metres, running 100 watts into dipoles and long wire antennas. He will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as TX5W along with FK8IK. QSL via F5IRO, direct or bureau. He will upload his log to Club Log and Lotw in March 2014. [TNX DX World] FO - Heinz, DF1YP is active as FO/DF1YP from Moorea (OC-046), French Polynesia until 6 November. Look for him around 14252 kHz. QSL via home call, bureau preferred. GD - Special event station GB1SOI will be operated by the Isle of Man Amateur Radio Society on 8-15 November tocelebratethe construction and launching of the Star of India sailing ship 150 years ago. Particular activity times will be on 9-11 November from 16 to 23 UTC. QSL via the bureau. HK0_sa - 5J0R is the special callsign issued to the 1-10 November DXpedition to San Andres Island (NA-033) [425DXN 1155]. Target frequencies are: CW 1824, 3524, 7004, 10104, 14024, 18074, 21024, 24894, 28024 SSB1845, 3780, 7065/7160, 14195, 18145, 21295, 24945, 28494 RTTY 7035, 10140, 14080, 18100, 21080, 24921, 28080 Announced frequencies for 6 metres are 50105 (CW) and 50115 (SSB). Team members include EA1SA, EA2RY, EA5RM, EA7AJR, EA7KW, F8ATS, F9IE, HK3CW, HK6F, IN3ZNR, RG8K and RU1WM. QSL via EA5RM. Logsearch and OQRS on www.dxfriends.com/SanAndres2013/ J7 - Walter, HB9MFM is active as J79WTA from Dominica (NA-101) until 21 December. He expects to be QRV on 160-10 metres SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. Logsearch on Club Log. [TNX NG3K] KH8- 9M6XRO, JH3PRR, W6SZN, ZL1GO and ZL3CW will be active as W8A from Tutuila (OC-045), American Samoa on 12-22 November, and as N8A during the CQ WW DX CW
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26 October 2013 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1173 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 26/10 7P8GF: Lesotho1172 till 26/10 E51AAR: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cooks 1172 till 27/10 PD/DO1BEN and PD/DO1IQ: Texel Island (EU-038) 1172 till 27/10 VP9/N1SV and VP9I: Bermuda (NA-005) 1172 till 27/10 YB8XM/p: Pulau Dullah (OC-221)1173 till 27/10 YB9Y: Bras Island (OC-276, new one) 1172 till 28/10 BJ9TA and B9/BY9GA: China 1164 till 28/10 PY0F/PY3MM and PR0F: Fernando de Noronha(SA-003) 1171 till 28/10 T88AZ: Palau (OC-009) 1172 till 28/10 TK/SP7VC: Corsica (EU-014)1171 till 28/10 YF1AR/7 and YB0AI/7: Sebatik Island (OC-295) 1171 till 29/10 AH0K: Saipan (OC-086) 1172 till 29/10 C6ARW: Grand Bahama (NA-080) 1169 till 29/10 HB0/HA7JTR: Liechtenstein 1171 till 29/10 PJ6/K5AC and PJ6/W6IZT: Saba (NA-145) 1172 till 29/10 PJ6/KB1ZOJ, PJ6/K4UEE, PJ6/N4GRN: Saba (NA-145) 1172 till 29/10 SW8YY: Zakynthos Island (EU-052) 1165 till 29/10 VP5/WA2VYA, VP5/K4QE, VP5T: Caicos Islands (NA-002) 1171 till 29/10 XV4MN: Phu Quoc Island (AS-128) 1169 till 29/10 XW0YJY: Laos 1172 till 30/10 EI8GQB and EI1A: Ireland (EU-115) 1171 till 30/10 IG9Y: Lampedusa Island (AF-019) 1149 till 30/10 J3/N2MD and J3/N9ACC: Grenada (NA-024)1171 till 30/10 PR5C: Ilha do Mel (SA-047)1171 till 30/10 V31RL: Belize 1171 till 31/10 FS/N0TG, FS/AA4VK, FS/N1SNB: St. Martin (NA-105) 1172 till 31/10 LY75RMD: special callsign 1171 till 31/10 SW5CC: Rhodes (EU-001)1172 till 31/10 TC90TC: special callsign 1169 till 31/10 VP9/DJ4EL: Bermuda (NA-005) 1172 till 01/11 8R1A: Guyana 1169 till 02/11 FR/DJ7RJ: Reunion Island (AF-016) 1167 till 03/11 JD1BOI: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara1167 till 05/11 VX31763: special callsign 1169 till 06/11 FO/DF1YP: Moorea (OC-046), French Polynesia 1173 till 07/11 D44TXT: Sao Tiago (AF-005)1169 till 08/11 FO/F5LCI: Hao Atoll (OC-066), French Polynesia1164 till 09/11 E51NOU: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cook Islands1170 till 10/11 9L1BTB: Sierra Leone 1172 till 10/11 V47JA and V49J: St. Kitts (NA-104)1170 till 14/11 H44HP: Honiara (OC-047), Solomon Islands 1167 till 15/11 OQ4CLM: special event station 1159 till 15/12 R100MFF: special station 1171 till 16/11 5X1NH: Uganda 1168 till 19/11 VP8DNY: Falkland Islands (SA-002) 1171 till 23/11 HK3JCL: Colombia 1168 till 26/11 H44MS: Honiara (OC-047), Solomon Islands 1167 till November RU0ZM/0: Russian District KT-13 1155 till 15/12 C91GBA: Mozambique1155 till 15/12 JW9JKA: Bear Island (EU-027) 1153 till 21/12 J79WTA: Dominica (NA-101) 1173 till 31/12 4A1TD: special callsign 1143 till 31/12 9A280-9A289: special prefixes (Croatia) 1156 till 31/12 DL50FRANCE: special station 1131 till 31/12 DS4DRE/4: Hajo Island (AS-060)1150 till 31/12 EI13CLAN: special callsign1130 till 31/12 Gx100C: special callsign 1134 till 31/12 Gx100RSGB: special callsigns 1130 till 31/12 HA1973BA: special callsign
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SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP43 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 43 ARLP043 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA October 25, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity is increasing, suggesting that perhaps now in Fall 2013 we are in the midst of a second peak in Cycle 24. We hope it sustains. Sunspot numbers this week ran up all the way to 228, a level not seen in the past decade since October 27 through November 1, 2003 when the daily sunspot numbers were 238, 230, 330, 293, 266 and 277. Prior to that, on January 11, 2003 the daily sunspot number was 238. Average daily sunspot numbers increased over 35 points to 162 (when compared to the previous seven day period, October 10-16). Average daily solar flux increased over 13 points to 139.6. Geomagnetic indices indicate a quiet geomagnetic field. Predicted solar flux this week is 165 on October 25-27, then 160, 155, 145, 135, 130, and 115 on October 28 through November 2, 120 on November 3-5, 125 on November 6-10, 130 on November 11, 135 on November 12-13, then 130, 120, 115 and 120 on November 14-17, and 115 on November 18-20. Based on recurrence due to solar rotation, in 45 days flux values are predicted at 130. Predicted planetary A index is 16, 12, 8 and 20 on October 25-28, 8 on October 29-30, 5 on October 31 through November 9, then 12, 15, 10 and 8 on November 10-13, 5 on November 14-16, then 10 and 8 on November 17-18. After November 18 everything looks very quiet (A index of 5) until 44-45 days out, when the prediction shows A index values of 12 and 15 on December 7-8. Those predictions come from the United States Air Force Space Weather Squadron, and are made available to the public via NOAA. See http://www.afweather.af.mil/units/spaceweatheroperations.asp. This set of PDF slides gives a hint at some of the tools they use: http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/RoR_WWW/workshops/2012/Thursday_pdf/smithro_ccmc2012.pdf. As usual, OK1HH gives us his own predictions for geomagnetic activity. He sees quiet to active geomagnetic conditions on October 25, quiet to unsettled October 26, mostly quiet October 27, quiet to active October 28-29, mostly quiet October 30, quiet October 31 through November 3, mostly quiet November 4, quiet to active November 5, quiet to unsettled November 6, mostly quiet November 7, quiet to active November 8-12, quiet to unsettled November 13, quiet on November 14-19, and mostly quiet November 20. He does not expect any days with active to disturbed conditions. Pete Markavage, WA2CWA of Sayreville, New Jersey reports great conditions on 10 meters this week, but using AM and FM instead of CW or SSB. Pete wrote, Ten meters has been hot all week. During the late morning hours of October 22 I worked about 25 stations, all on AM, in a number of Eastern and Western European countries. AM power was about 90 watts into a 4 element tri-bander. In the late afternoon I worked a Japanese station on 10 FM direct with a 40 watt rig. On October 24 around 6:45 PM EDT, finally worked my first Japanese station on 10 AM. 6 meters has been dismal for openings here in the East, but 10 meter activity is making up for it. A week ago we got this from Jeff Hartley, N8II in West Virginia, but not in time for last week's bulletin: 10 meter and 12 meter propagation has been up and down with the degree of disturbed conditions, but almost every day the Middle East and Southern EU are booming in on 10 meters here. I listened Wednesday October 16 until 1430Z and 10 never opened well to Europe, but that evening about 75 minutes past sunset I was able to work a weak JA on 10 meter CW, heard one more and worked another on 12 meter CW around 2400Z when the band seemed to be closing rapidly. Jimmy BX5AA (Taiwan) was S7 on 15 phone about 0010Z and easily logged, so it seemed the K index lowered as the day progressed. A day or two before 10 was wide open to Scandinavia around 1300-1400Z as well as several southern UA3 area stations worked on CW. Paths to Africa have been open very late into the day with TN2NS (Congo) loud at 2130Z on 10 phone and even later on 12 CW. Chip Margelli, K7JA wrote (also last week): From what I was able to hear in a brief tune around 10 meters this morning (October 18), it is widely open to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Nice signals were observed from OD5ZZ and OD5NJ, several 4X/4Z stations, SU8JOTA (Boy Scout Jamboree On The Air in Egypt!), and generally signals from all of Europe were excellent. F6KHM (0.5 W) and MM3FYA (5 Watts to an attic dipole) were nice copy this morning (October 18) around 1600 UTC. Last night, 18 October at 0158 UTC, I worked FK8CP on 50.110.6 MHz. Remi peaked about 579 and was in for at least a half hour. QSB was very heavy, almost like meteor scatter at times, but he also became steady, solid copy at times, too. It's nice to have some prop! I run 200 Watts to a 7-element LFA Yagi on 6 meters, and the same 200
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SB DX @ ARL $ARLD043 ARLD043 DX news ZCZC AE43 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 43 ARLD043 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT October 24, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD043 ARLD043 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by KX9X, NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TUNISIA, 3V. A group of operators will be QRV as 3V7A as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL via LX1NO. AZERBAIJAN, 4K. Alim, 4K6FO will be a Single Op entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL direct to home call. SIERRA LEONE, 9L. Zbig, SP5BTB is QRV as 9L1BTB until November 10 while working for the UN in Freetown. He is active on all bands and modes. QSL direct to home call. QATAR, A7. A group of operators will be QRV as A73A in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest as a Multi/Two entry. QSL via A71A. BAHRAIN, A9. Special event call A91ACC is QRV until October 31 during the Arab Cycling Championship. QSL via IZ8CLM. TAIWAN, BV. A group of operators will be QRV as BV55D as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL via operators' instructions. CHILE, CE. Estebam, XQ7UP is QRV from Coyhaique until October 28. Activity is mainly on 20, 15 and 10 meters using SSB and PSK31 with PSK31 only on 30 meters. This includes being an entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL to home call. MOROCCO, CN. A large group of operators will be QRV as CN2AA as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL via UA2FM. CAPE VERDE, D4. A group of operators will be QRV as D4C from Sao Vicente Island, IOTA AF-086, in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest as a Multi/Multi entry. QSL via YL2GM. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Jaime, WP3A will be QRV as ED8P from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, IOTA AF-004, in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest as a Single Band/Low Power entry on 15 meters. QSL direct via NP3O. LIECHTENSTEIN, HB0. Laci, HA7JTR is QRV as HB0/HA7JTR from Masescha until October 29. This includes being an entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL to home call. ARUBA, P4. Valery, R5GA is QRV as P4/R5GA. He will be active as P40F in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL contest call via UA3DX and P4/R5GA to home call. SABA, ST. EUSTATIUS, PJ6. Operators KB1ZOJ, K4UEE, K5AC, N4GRN and W6IZT are QRV as PJ6/home calls from Saba Island, IOTA NA-145, until October 29. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and RTTY. They will be active as PJ6A as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL contest call via N4NX and all others via operators' instructions. DODECANESE, SV5. Rich, M5RIC is QRV as SW5CC from Rhodes Island, IOTA EU-001, until October 31. This includes an entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL via M0OXO. PALAU, T8. Tom, JN2AMD is QRV as T88AZ until October 28. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes being an entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL to home call. GUATEMALA, TG. A group of operators will be QRV as TG0AA from Monterrico in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL via bureau. HONG KONG, VR. A group of operators will be QRV as VR2PX as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL via IV3TAN. VIET NAM, XV. Mike, N0ODK is QRV as XV4MN from Phu Quoc Island, IOTA AS-128, until October 29. He will be a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. QSL to home call. LAOS, XW. Champ, E21EIC is QRV as XW0YJY. This includes being a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry in the CQ World Wide SSB DX contest. Before and after the contest he is active on the HF bands using some CW. QSL to home call. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC Credit: Afghanistan, T6JR, 2013 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL EME Contest and CQ Worldwide SSB DX Contest are scheduled for this weekend. Please see October QST, page 89, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP041 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP041 ARLP041 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP41 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 41 ARLP041 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA October 11, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP041 ARLP041 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity picked up over the seven days of our reporting week, October 3-9, and the outlook has improved somewhat. There now are no predictions for the solar flux dropping below 100 in the next 45 days. October 6 was the date of the last forecast predicting any flux values below 100. These predictions were for periods later in October and again in November. Average daily sunspot numbers increased by 47 points to 79, and average daily solar flux increased 3.8 points to 110.4. These averages compare the recent October 3-9 period with the previous seven days, September 26 through October 2. The latest prediction for solar flux is 125 on October 11-13, 120 on October 14-16, 115 on October 17, 105 on October 18-23, 100 on October 24-29, 105 on October 30-31, 100 on November 1-2, 105 on November 3-4, 100 on November 5-6, and 105 on November 7-15. Predicted planetary A index is 10 on October 11-12, 5 on October 13, 8 on October 14-15, 10 on October 16, 8 on October 17, 5 on October 18-20, 10 on October 21, 5 on October 22 to November 6, 10 on November 7-8, and 8 on November 9-12. OK1HH predicts geomagnetic activity as quiet to unsettled October 11, mostly quite October 12, quiet October 13, quiet to unsettled October 14-16, quiet to active October 17-18, quiet October 19-20, quiet to active October 21, mostly quiet October 22, quiet October 23-27, quiet to active October 28, and active to disturbed October 29-30. NBC news has an article about Tuesday's solar flare, which was strong considering how quiet the Sun has been lately, but was not aimed directly at Earth. Planetary A index rose to 24 on Wednesday, October 9, and Alaska's college A index hit 40. You can read the article at, http://www.nbcnews.com/science/strongest-solar-flare-months-unleashed-sun-8C11369482 Tomas Hood, NW7US, who writes propagation columns for CQ, CQ VHF and Popular Communications, sent a video he put together concerning a solar flare mentioned in last week's Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP040: http://g.nw7us.us/19hP1c3 Silverio, IK3IUL sent an inquiry, but replies to him seem to be bouncing. Perhaps he could try again via another email account. 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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 October 3 through 9 were 61, 84, 69, 53, 76, 99, and 111, with a mean of 79. 10.7 cm flux was 113.8, 109.1, 105.9, 106.5, 112, 111.9, and 113.4, with a mean of 110.4. Estimated planetary A indices were 6, 2, 1, 2, 6, 16, and 24, with a mean of 8.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 5, 2, 2, 3, 8, 12, and 21, with a mean of 7.6. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD041 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD041 ARLD041 DX news ZCZC AE41 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 41 ARLD041 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT October 10, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD041 ARLD041 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, PA3AD, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. VIET NAM, 3W. Look for Mike, 3W2DK to be QRV from October 17 to November 2. Activity will be on 20, 17, 15 and 10 meters. QSL via N0ODK. GUYANA, 8R. Alex, W1CDC plans to be QRV as 8R1A from October 13 to November 1. Activity will be holiday style on 80 to 10 meters with a focus on 80, 30, 17, 12 and 6 meters using CW. QSL to home call. SIERRA LEONE, 9L. Jerry, K4ZIN and William, N4WDT will be QRV as 9L1JT from October 15 to 22. Activity will be on the HF bands with a focus on 30, 17 and 12 meters with two stations active 12 hours each day. QSL direct via N4WDT. BHUTAN, A5. Operators JH3AEF, JH7EQW and JA3IVU are QRV as A52AEF, A52EQW and A52IVU, respectively, until October 20. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL to home calls. MOZAMBIQUE, C9. A large group of operators plan to be QRV as C82DX from October 15 to 22. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via operators' instructions. ANGOLA, D2. Joao, CT2HPM is QRV as D2CT from Luanda until November 15. Activity is on 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters using mostly RTTY and PSK31. QSL to home call. SOUTH COOK ISLANDS, E5. Fabio, IZ0YIV is QRV as E51YIV from Rarotonga Island, IOTA OC-013, until October 13 and then Aitutaki Island, IOTA OC-083, from October 13 to 17. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home call. ANTARCTICA. Max, IW0HEU will be QRV as IA0MZ from the Mario Zucchelli Base Station beginning after October 14 until January 31, 2014. Activity will be mainly on 20 meters SSB in his spare time. QSL via IW0EFA. SVALBARD, JW. LA9DL and LA7XK are QRV as JW9DL and JW7XK, respectively, until October 14. They will be active as JW5X in the Scandinavian Activity SSB contest. QSL via operators' instructions. LITHUANIA, LY. The national Lithuanian ham radio organization Lietuvos Radijo Megeju Draugija is QRV as LY75RMD during October in celebration of its 75th anniversary. QSL via bureau. SEYCHELLES, S7. Andrea, IZ1MHY is QRV as S79MHY from Praslin Island, IOTA AF-024, until October 17. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using all modes. QSL to home call. PALAU, T8. Kiichi, JF1LUT is QRV as T88IK from Arakabesan Island, IOTA OC-009, until October 15. Activity is on 17 to 6 meters using only SSB. QSL to home call. TURKEY, TA. Special event station TC90TC will be QRV from October 14 to 21 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. Activity will be on the HF bands with all modes. QSL via TA1HZ. CONGO (REPUBLIC OF), TN. Operators PA3A, PD1AEG, PA8AD and PA8AN will be QRV as TN2MS from October 12 to 24 while part of the 4th DAGOE Mercy Ships Radio DX-Pedition. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY as time permits. QSL via PA3AWW. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event station R100MFF will be QRV from October 15 to December 15 to commemorate the 100th birthday of the legendary radio operator Michail Fjodorowitsch Feofanov. QSL via UA4AM. ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ISLANDS, V4. John, W5JON and Cathy, W5HAM are QRV as V47JA and V47HAM, respectively, from St. Kitts until November 10. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and digital modes. W5JON will be QRV as V49J in the upcoming CQ WW SSB contest. QSL via operators' instructions. MICRONESIA, V6. Yuki, JH1NBN is QRV as V6P from Pohnpei until October 17. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using SSB in his free time. QSL to home call. LORD HOWE ISLAND, VK9L. Fred, VK3DAC plans to be QRV as VK9DAC from October 14 to 20. Activity will be on 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6 meters during his morning and evening hours. QSL to home call. INDONESIA, YB. Budi, YF1AR will be QRV as YF1AR/0 from Payung Besar Island, IOTA OC-177, from October 12 to 15. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using mainly SSB with some CW. QSL via N2OO. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. North American RTTY Sprint, Oceania DX CW Contest, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, NCCC RTTY Sprint Ladder, NCCC Sprint, Makrothen RTTY Contest, Microwave Fall Sprint, Scandinavian SSB Activity Contest, QRP ARCI Fall QSO CW Party, EU Autumn CW Sprint, Arizona QSO Party, Pennsylvania QSO Party, FISTS Fall CW Sprint, PODXS 070 Club 160-Meter Great Pumpkin PSK31 Sprint and the UBA ON CW Contest will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. Please see October QST, page 89, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /EX --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In
[DX-NEWS] ARLP040 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP040 ARLP040 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP40 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 40 ARLP040 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA October 4, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP040 ARLP040 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity weakened again, with the average daily sunspot number dropping from 75.6 to 52, and average daily solar flux down three points to 106.6, when compared to the previous week, September 19-25. Geomagnetic activity was up, with planetary A index at 39 on October 2, mid-latitude A index at 29, and the high latitude college A index at 64. The cause of the upset was a coronal mass ejection barreling toward Earth at 2,000,000 MPH on September 30, triggering a G2 class geomagnetic storm on October 2 and aurora displays well south of the Canadian border. Predicted solar flux values are 110 on October 4-5, 105 and 100 on October 6-7, 95 on October 8-13, 100 on October 14-15, 105 on October 16-18, and 110 on October 19-24. Predicted planetary A index is 20 on October 3, 8 on October 4, 5 on October 5-9, 8 on October 10-11, 5 on October 12-13, then 8, 10 and 8 on October 14-16, 5 on October 17-20, 10 on October 21, and 5 on October 22-26. OK1CC predicts a quiet to unsettled geomagnetic field on October 4, mostly quiet October 5, quiet on October 6, quiet to active October 7-10, quiet to unsettled October 11, quiet on October 12-13, quiet to active October 14, active to disturbed on October 15-16, quiet to active October 17-18, quiet October 19-20, active to disturbed October 21, mostly quiet October 22, quiet October 23-27, quiet to active October 28, and active to disturbed October 29-30. I've been keeping an archive of the 45-day solar flux and planetary A index predictions from NOAA/NASA, and it is interesting to see how they change over time. Conditions 30-45 days out must be pretty hard to predict, but I've noticed that the outlook seems to be increasingly pessimistic recently, suggesting weakening sunspot activity. For instance, the 45 day prediction for September 16 began on August 2, with a solar flux of 125. Then over time it drifted around, within a few days down to 105 (August 5-11), then back up to 125 on August 19-25, then the prediction begins to wither to 115 August 26 to September 8, declining again to 100 (September 9-12), then in the few days before the target date September 13-15 at 95, which was right on the nose with the end result being 94.5. This of course rounds up to 95, the whole number used in the prediction. I keep seeing predictions with solar flux values dropping below 100, even down to 90. Take a look at, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html. You can also see my own longer term archive in spreadsheet format at http://snurl.com/27xfhcg. Password is k7ra. This particular archive goes back to April 19. The column on the left shows the dates of the forecasts, and across the top are the dates that the data correspond to. The numbers in blue across the bottom are the actual flux values recorded on the dates for each column, or when the column and row intersect on the same date. A similar spreadsheet for the planetary A index can be downloaded from http://snurl.com/27xfgtc. Same password, k7ra. Today we have an addition to our three-month moving average data set, and I am now convinced that we may have already passed the now classic double-peak for Cycle 24 that some have predicted based on activity in previous cycles. As others have suggested, those peaks seem to be clearly centered around October to November 2011, and April to May 2013. For the 3-month period ending September 30 the average was 77.4 Starting from a three month average centered on January 2011 (data from December 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011), averages for that year were 35.3, 55.7, 72.3, 74.4, 65.9, 61.5, 63, 79.6, 98.6, 118.8, 118.6 and 110. For 2012 it was 83.3, 73.7, 71.2, 87.3, 91.5, 96.5, 91.9, 89.9, 81.2, 82.3, 74.4, and 82.8. So far in 2013 the averages are 73.6, 80.7, 85.2, 106.4, 106.4, 97.5, 85.6 and 77.4. Some solar scientists suggest a possible subsequent peak in 2014. I certainly hope so, but have no way of knowing. Our nearest star remains baffling and full of surprises. The body of knowledge and available tools expanded tremendously over the past couple of decades, yet accurate predictions elude us. Remember a few years ago when one of the more optimistic scientific papers suggested a record-breaking Cycle 24, perhaps approaching the levels of Cycle 19 in the late 1950s? The future looked bright. There is this interesting theory that the first cycle following the beginning of any century is weak. Could there also be a 100 year recurrence of Cycle 19? Tell your children or grandchildren. That would be over a century after my birth, and planning for it now would be a fool's errand. Thanks to Jimmy Mahuron, K9JWJ for reminding us about the 2007 book by Stuart Clark, The Sun Kings: The unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and
[DX-NEWS] ARLD040 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD040 ARLD040 DX news ZCZC AE40 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 40 ARLD040 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT October 3, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD040 ARLD040 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by K5JP, NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. NEPAL, 9N. Pekka, OH2YY is QRV as 9N2YY until October 5. Activity is during his free time during the evening and night hours on 17, 15 and 12 meters. QSL to home call. In addition, Fred, DL8BF is QRV as 9N7BF until October 12. Activity is on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters using QRP power. QSL to home call. BHUTAN, A5. After his Nepal activity, Pekka, OH2YY will be QRV as A52YY from October 6 to 10. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters. QSL to home call. PHILIPPINES, DU. Al, DU1KA is now QRV from Luzon, IOTA OC-042. Activity is generally between 2200 to 0200z, and 0800 to 1200z, on 20 to 6 meters using mainly CW. He will soon be active on 80, 40 and 30 meters. QSL via NR6M. MAYOTTE, FH. A large group of operators are QRV as TO2TT until October 17. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with four stations active. QSL direct via I2YSB. AUSTRAL ISLANDS. FO. Grant, KZ1W and Rob, N7QT are QRV as TX5D from Raivavae, IOTA OC-114, until October 14. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via N7QT. WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS, FW. Jean-Jacques, TK5JJ is QRV as FW5JJ from Wallis, IOTA OC-054, for the next two years. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes, with EME on 6 and 2 meters. QSL via F5RXL. GUERNSEY, GU. A group of operators are QRV as GP0PKT from Herm Island, IOTA EU-114, until October 8. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and digital modes with three stations. QSL via G6NHU. SOLOMON ISLANDS, H4. Bernard, DL2GAC and Hermann, DL2NUD are QRV as H44MS and H44HP, respectively, from Honiara until November 26. Activity is on the HF bands with EME as well. QSL to home calls. ST. VINCENT, J8. Fred, DH5FS will be QRV as J8/DH5FS from Union Island, IOTA NA-025, until October 10. He will be active on the HF bands using mostly CW. QSL via DM5JBN. CURACAO, PJ2. Jeff, K5JP, James, NT5V, and Lanny, W5BOS will be QRV as PJ2/home calls from October 8 to 15. Activity will be on the HF bands with an emphasis on the newer bands. QSL to home calls. UKRAINE, UR. A group of operators are QRV using special event call EN50N until October 30 to commemorate 50 years of the Vinnitsa TV tower, one of the tallest structures in Europe. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via operators' instructions. CANADA, VE. Robert, VE3RHE will be QRV as VX31763 in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of King George III from October 6 to November 5. Activity will be on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. QSL to home call. MEXICO, XE. Special event station XE3FMRE is QRV until October 7 during the national Mexican ham radio convention in Cancun. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and possibly WSJT. QSL via XE3RCC. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The Oceania DX Phone Contest, NCCC Sprint, YLRL DX/NA YL Anniversary Contest, 15-Meter SSTV Dash Contest, TARA PSK Rumble Contest, EPC Russia DX BPSK63 Contest, GTC CW Cup, TRC DX Contest, WAB HF Phone Contest, EU Autumn SSB Sprint, California QSO Party, International Hell-Contest, UBA ON SSB Contest and RSGB 21/28 MHz Contest will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for October 8. The NAQCC Straight Key/Bug CW Sprint, CWops Mini-CWT CW Test, 432 MHz Fall Sprint and RSGB 80-Meter Club CW Sprint are all scheduled for October 9. Please see October QST, page 89, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP039 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP039 ARLP039 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP39 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 39 ARLP039 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA September 27, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP039 ARLP039 Propagation de K7RA Our sun is still very quiet, but solar flux and sunspot numbers were higher this week than last. Average daily sunspot numbers rose from 42.3 to 75.6, and average daily solar flux rose from 95.3 to 109.6. There were no big geomagnetic events this week. Predicted solar flux is 110 on September 27 through October 2, then 105, 100, 95, 100, 105 and 100 on October 3-8, 95 on October 9-10, then 100, 105 and 100 on October 11-13, 95 on October 14-15, and all the way down to 90 on October 16-19. Predicted planetary A index is 5 on September 27-28, then 8, 10, 12 and 8 on September 29 through October 2, 5 on October 3-9, 8 on October 10-11, 5 on October 12-13, then 8, 10 and 8 on October 14-16, and 5 on October 17-19. This is unchanged from the forecast in Thursday's ARRL Letter. F.K. Janda, OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group predicts active to disturbed conditions September 27, quiet to active September 28, mostly quiet September 29, quiet on September 30, quiet to active October 1, quiet October 2-5, quiet to unsettled October 6-7, mostly quiet October 8, back to active to disturbed conditions October 9, as it was on the first day of this forecast. David Moore, a shortwave listener in Moro Bay, California is a frequent contributor here, and sends a New York Times article titled The Sun That Did Not Roar, about our current quiet sun. In reference to a weak solar event last week, it characterized a CME as what seemed like the halfhearted effort of a slacker star. See it at http://nyti.ms/1fd48GT . But 160 meter operators are not despairing a dearth of solar activity to come, as more solar activity correlates with higher geomagnetic activity, and they like things nice and quiet. Often the declining years of a solar cycle are marked by heightened geomagnetic activity (see http://www.spacew.com/gic/guidance.pdf for a treatise on this) and I can recall times during the decline of cycle 22 in the 1990s when it seemed like geomagnetic disturbances were constant. Although the record in its most easily accessible form doesn't go back as far as we would like, check out this geomagnetic index record from 1994: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/1994_DGD.txt Check out February 5-15, February 21-22, March 3, March 7-21, April 1-18 (especially April 17, with a huge planetary A index of 130!), May 1-17, May 28-31, Jun 25 to July 7, September 7-10, October 3-7, 23-24, and 29-31, and November 26-27. Note the very large planetary A index values throughout the year, and this represents week after week buffeted by high absorption and even radio blackouts. As if this wasn’t bad enough in the middle latitudes, I recall Vince Van Der Hyde, K7VV was living in Alaska at the time (possibly near the 65th parallel) and told me later that his favorite HF bands were unusable for months at a time, due to the concentration of geomagnetic energy toward the poles. In the table above, check out the College A index, which is measured near Fairbanks at the University of Alaska. It is in the middle column. See all those asterisks where there should be numerals? Those are periods when the magnetometer was unusable due to being swamped with too much energy from a coronal mass ejection, for instance. Now compare the numbers in 1994 to more recent readings: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/2012_DGD.txt http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DGD.txt There are a few relatively high numbers, but nothing like what we observed and sometimes suffered with two decades ago. A glance at this graph shows how far down we were on cycle 22 during 1994: http://standeyo.com/Geo_Solar/Solar_Cycles_22_23/cycle_22_review_01.gif By the way, the exact location for the magnetometer which generates the college A and K index is at 64.8742 degrees North latitude and 147.8597 degrees West longitude, roughly one half mile northeast of Smith Lake, 400 yards south of Yankovich Road, and one half mile east of Miller Hill Road in Fairbanks. This is about 117 miles or 188 km south of the Arctic Circle. You can see photos of the geomagnetic observatory at http://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/college/#photos and also at http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?cp=64.8742|-147.8597style=hlvl=17 Note on the overhead view on Bing Maps you can zoom in, and by clicking on Aerial, then the Bird's Eye dropdown you can see highly detailed images from four different directions. Just click on the arrows outside the compass rose in the upper right to see the observatory from a point of view in each direction. Dave Greer, N4KZ of Frankfort, Kentucky wrote about 10 meter openings on the autumnal equinox, last Sunday. Ten meters was open to southern Europe and South Africa on the
[DX-NEWS] ARLD039 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD039 ARLD039 DX news ZCZC AE39 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 39 ARLD039 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT September 26, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD039 ARLD039 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by I3VJW, N7QT, NC1L, W2GEZ, W3UR, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. ROTUMA ISLAND, 3D2. Operators 3D2RA, 3D2GC/p and 3D2DD/p are QRV until October 11. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, SSTV and PSK31. QSL 3D2RA via LZ2HM, 3D2GC/p via LZ1GC and 3D2DD/p direct to home call. SENEGAL, 6V. Luc, F5RAV will be QRV as 6V7T/p from N'gor Island, IOTA AF-045, during October. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using SSB and PSK. QSL direct to home call. CROATIA, 9A. Members of the Verona DX Team will be QRV as 9A/IQ3VO from Dugi Otok, IOTA EU-170, from September 28 to October 1. This includes being active from the Veli Rat Lighthouse, ARLHS CRO-183. Activity will be on all HF bands and 6 meters, except 160 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via IQ3VO. UGANDA, 9X. Nick, G3RWF is QRV as 5X1NH from the University of the Mountains of the Moon in Fort Portal, Western Uganda and occasionally from Kampala until November 16. QSL to home call. TAIWAN, BV. A group of operators will be QRV as BV60V until the end of 2013 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory Broadcasting Company. This includes being a Multi/Multi entry in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest. QSL via operators' instructions. BOLIVIA, CP. Peter, DF7NX is QRV as CP9/DF7NX until October 15. Activity is on the HF bands using only CW. QSL to home call. MADEIRA ISLANDS, CT3. A group of operators will be QRV as CR3A in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest as a Multi Op entry. QSL via operators' instructions. SABLE ISLAND, CY0. Operators VE1RGB, AI5P and WA4DAN will be QRV as CY0P from October 1 to 11. QSL direct via VE1RGB. ESTONIA, ES. Station ES9C will be QRV as a Multi/Multi entry in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest. QSL via operator's instructions. AUSTRAL ISLAND, FO. Grant, KZ1W and Rob, N7QT will be QRV as TX5D from Raivavae Island, IOTA OC-114, from October 2 to 14. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via bureau. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8J9ECZEN is QRV during October to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Echizen's Railway. QSL via bureau. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. Kazuo, JH8PHT plans to be QRV as AH0KT from Saipan from October 3 to 7. Activity will be on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB, various digital modes, along with AM and FM on 10 meters. QSL to home call. LUXEMBOURG, LX. Members of the Radio Club Leuven will be QRV as LX/OR5M in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest. QSL via ON4CP. FINLAND, OH. Members of the Reila Beachboys will be QRV as OH2ET and celebrating their 10th anniversary by participating in the CQ World Wide DX RTTY Contest as a Multi-2 entry. QSL via operator's instructions. ICELAND, TF. Mike, W2GEZ, will try to be QRV as TF3IRA the early part of October. Activity will be on all bands. QSL via operator's instructions. In addition, look for the Radio Foxes to be QRV as TF2R as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest. QSL via operators' instructions. COTE d'IVOIRE, TU. Dimitri, F5SWB is QRV as TU5DF until October 20. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using mostly CW with some SSB. QSL to home call. BERMUDA, VP9. Operators K3GP, WW3S and ND8L are QRV as VP9/home calls until September 30. In addition, they will be QRV as VP9I in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest. QSL VP9I direct via WW3S and all others to home calls. NEW ZEALAND, ZL. To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the first antipodal QSO between Shag Valley, New Zealand and London, England, special event station ZM90DX will be QRV from October 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via M0OXO. In addition, look for ZM1A to be a Multi-2/High Power entry in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest. QSL via operators' instructions. CHANGE IN OPERATING SCHEDULE. As reported in DX news ARLD038, the TN2MS Congo operation is scheduled for October 12 to 24. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL EME Contest, CQ Worldwide RTTY DX Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint Ladder, NCCC Sprint, AGCW VHF/UHF Contest and the Texas QSO Party are all on tap for his upcoming weekend. The 222 MHz Fall Sprint is scheduled for October 1. Please see September QST, page 79, October QST, page 89, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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
[DX-NEWS] ARLP038 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP038 ARLP038 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP38 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 38 ARLP038 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA September 20, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP038 ARLP038 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity continues to be weak, although there was an uptick on September 18-19 when solar flux rose to 104.1, then 107.9. September 18 was the first day with solar flux above 100 since September 6. Average daily sunspot number for the reporting week (September 12-18) rose to 42.3, up from 37.7 for the previous seven days. The daily sunspot number on September 18-19 rose from 59 to 85. Average daily solar flux dipped slightly, from 98.2 to 95.3 over the same seven day period. Average daily planetary A index and mid-latitude A index were both 6.3. For the near term, solar flux is predicted at 110 on September 20-22, 105 on September 23-24, 100 on September 25-30, 95 on October 1-13, and 100 on October 14-27. Over the past few days all of the short term predictions for solar flux have been adjusted downward. Predicted planetary A index is 8 on September 20, 5 on September 21-22, 8 on September 23-24, 5 on September 25-26, 8 on September 27, 12 on September 28, 5 on September 29 through October 9, then 10, 8, 5, 15, 10 and 8 on October 10-15, followed by 5 on October 16-18. OK1HH sent us another geomagnetic forecast, and he thinks the geomagnetic field will be quiet to unsettled on September 20-21, mostly quiet September 22, quiet to unsettled on September 23, quiet on September 24-25, mostly quiet September 26, active to disturbed September 27, quiet to active September 28, mostly quiet September 29, quiet on September 30, quiet to active October 1, quiet on October 2-5, quiet to unsettled October 6-7, mostly quiet October 8, and active to disturbed October 9. OK1HH also says a growing solar wind may cause remarkable changes in the magnetosphere and ionosphere on September 20-21, and on September 24. The Autumnal Equinox is just a couple of days away. Fall officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday, September 22 at 2044 UTC. Check out this science blog, with observation about the current weak cycle at, http://www.science20.com/news_articles/solar_activity_smallest_sunspot_cycle_1906-120785. The following interesting article has a lot of good information, surprising (to me) for an article from a financial and markets analyst who is not a science reporter. The only minor quibble I have is with his apparent confusion between number of sunspots and sunspot number, which are very different, but otherwise this article is quite a good effort: http://www.trust.org/item/20130918115439-cn7ub/?source=hpbreaking Howard Lester, N7SO sent this article from Sky Telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Glimpse-of-Suns-Interior-Befuddles-Theorists-223291961.html. Jon Jones, N0JK commented on N8II's recent report, and says that 10 meters has been good in Kansas as well, with F0/KH0PR on Disappointment Island worked on September 11 at 1955 UTC from his mobile using a modified CB mag mount on the roof. Roland Anders, K3RA also commented on N8II's experience, Jeff's excellent report about 12 meters prompts me to pass along that there was some 12 meter excitement in Maryland on Sept 10 around noon. I worked 9M6XRO at 1538Z on CW, and E20WKA on SSB at 1603Z. VOACAP modeling shows that possibility. European stations were coming through at the same time. Larry Godek, W0OGH sent these links for checking sunrise/sunset times around the world: http://www.gaisma.com/en/ and http://www.gaisma.com/en/dir/us-country.html . 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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 September 12 through 18 were 58, 40, 24, 12, 23, 80, and 59, with a mean of 42.3. 10.7 cm flux was 92.9, 91.6, 92.5, 92.8, 94.5, 98.7, and 104.1, with a mean of 95.3. Estimated planetary A indices were 7, 9, 6, 2, 5, 8, and 7, with a mean of 6.3. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 5, 10, 6, 3, 6, 8, and 6, with a mean of 6.3. --- 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] ARLD038 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD038 ARLD038 DX news ZCZC AE38 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 38 ARLD038 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT September 19, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD038 ARLD038 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by HA3JB, IZ1JLF, NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MONTENEGRO, 4O. Gab, HG3IPA will be QRV as 4O/HG3IPA from Budva from September 23 to 30. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. He will also be active from Sveti Nikola Island, IOTA EU-163. This includes being an entry in the upcoming CQ WW RTTY contest. QSL via HA3JB. SRI LANKA, 4S. Juergen, DL3JH is QRV as 4S7JG until September 29. He is active on all HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL direct to home call. UGANDA, 5X. Nick, G3RWF, will be QRV as 5X1NH from September 24 to November 16. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL to home call. ALGERIA, 7X. Members of the Mediterranean Sea Coast East group are QRV as 7T9A/p from Srigina Island, IOTA AF-104, until September 21. They will also be active from its Lighthouse, ARLHS ALG-023. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via bureau. TONGA, A3. Masa, JA0RQV is QRV as A35JP/H from Haapa, IOTA OC-169. His length of stay is unknown. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. OMAN, A4. A group of operators from the Omani Amateur Radio Society are QRV as A43MI from Masirah Island, IOTA AS-014, until September 24. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via A47RS. NAURU, C2. Yuki, JH1NBN is QRV as C21BN until September 26. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB during his free time. QSL direct to home call. REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HL. Station HL05GDB is QRV during the 5th Gwangju Design Biennale until November 3. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using all modes. QSL via HL4CEL. PANAMA, HP. Special event station HP500OP is QRV until September 30 to commemorates the year 1513 when the Spaniard Vasco Nunez de Balboa and others became the first Europeans to cross Panama and discover the Pacific coast. QSL direct via HP1RCP. ITALY, I. Members of the ARI's La Spezia section will be QRV as IP1T from Tino Island, IOTA EU-083, on September 21 and 22. Activity will be on the HF bands, including 70 MHz and 2 meters conditions permitting. QSL via IZ5JLF. SVALBARD, JW. Rene, DL2JRM and Netti, DO6XX are QRV as JW/home calls until September 23. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes being active in the Scandinavian Activity CW contest. QSL to home calls. BULGARIA, LZ. Special event station LZ2013HST will be QRV from September 22 to 26 as part of the World High Speed Telegraphy Championship in Borovets. QSL via LZ1BJ. MARKET REEF, OJ0. Pasi, OH3WS will be QRV as OJ0W from September 21 to 29 while on work assignment. Activity will be in his spare time on 40 to 10 meters using CW. This includes being an entry in the Scandinavian Activity CW contest. QSL to home call. CONGO (REPUBLIC OF), TN. Operators PA3A, PD1AEG, PA8AD and PA8AN will be QRV as TN2MS from September 22 to 27 while part of the 4th DAGOE Mercy Ships Radio DX-Pedition. QSL via PA3AWW. LORD HOWE ISLAND, VK9L. Tomas, VK2CCC will be QRV as VK9LL from September 22 to 29. Activity will be holiday style primarily on 160 and 80 meters and possibly on the higher bands as well. QSL to home call. CAMBODIA, XU. Alex, M6CFW plans to be QRV as XU7AEU with his new call from September 24 to 28. Activity will be on 20 and 10 meters, and possibly other bands as well, using PSK31/63 and other modes, depending on available time. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint Ladder, NCCC Sprint, AGB NEMIGA Contest, SARL VHF/UHF Analogue/Digital Contest, Scandinavian Activity CW Contest, South Carolina QSO Party, QRP Afield, Feld Hell Sprint, Washington State Salmon Run, UBA ON 6-Meter Contest and the BARTG Sprint 75 will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The 144 MHz Fall Sprint is scheduled for September 23. The SKCC CW Sprint and CWops Mini-CWT Test are scheduled for September 25. Please see September QST, page 79, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP037 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP037 ARLP037 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP37 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 37 ARLP037 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA September 13, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP037 ARLP037 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity was very, very quiet over the past week. For the reporting period September 5-11, the average daily sunspot number was only 37.7. Average daily sunspot numbers as reported in this bulletin have not been nearly this low since Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP024, reporting for June 6-12 of this year, when it was 39.6. The last time it was lower was June 21-27 of last year, when it was 26.3, as reported in Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP026 in 2012. Australia's IPS Radio and Space Services issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning at 2330 UTC on September 11. They expect increased geomagnetic activity due to a high speed solar wind stream spewing forth from a coronal hole. Coronal holes are magnetic gaps in our Sun's corona which allow some of the Sun's tremendous energy to blast out into space. Occasionally some of it reaches our planet, depending on which way the hole points. Australia's IPS expects unsettled to active conditions on September 12, with a chance of isolated minor storm levels, unsettled to active conditions again on September 13, and quiet to unsettled conditions on September 14. Predicted planetary A index from NOAA/USAF is 15 and 8 on September 13-14, 5 on September 15-16, 15 and 10 on September 17-18, 15 and 8 on September 19-20, 5 on September 21-25, 10 and 15 on September 26-27, 10 on September 28-29, and 5 on September 30 through October 5. Predicted solar flux is 95 on September 13, 100 on September 14-17, 105 on September 18-20, 120 on September 21-22, 115 on September 23-30, then 110, 105 and 100 on October 1-3. It then goes to a minimum of 95 on October 4-5, and rises to a maximum of 120 on October 18-19. F.K. Janda, OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group predicts geomagnetic conditions will be quiet today on September 13, mostly quiet September 14, quiet again on September 15-16, quiet to active September 17, active to disturbed September 18, quiet to unsettled September 19-21, mostly quiet again on September 22, quiet to active September 23, quiet again on September 24-25, mostly quiet September 26, active to disturbed September 27, quiet to active September 28, mostly quiet September 29, quiet again on September 30, quiet to active October 1, and quiet again on October 2. A fascinating article appears this weekend concerning reconciliation of various sunspot records, on the http://HispanicBusiness.com web site, which might seem a little odd, but of course we welcome good verifiable information wherever we can find it. Read it at http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/9/12/spot_of_bother.htm but note that you may have to click on the URL twice. First time for me, I saw it redirect to another page on the site, but a second click goes to the article, Spot of Bother, by Brian Owens, dated September 14, 2013. Another interesting article, this time (yet again) concerning our Sun's shifting polarity: http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2013/09/the_suns_poles_are_switching_p.html. Jeff Hartley, N8II wrote on September 11 from West Virginia (FM19cj): Back on August 30 there was some Es excitement with unusual openings into Bear Island, JW9JKA (Svalbard, see http://dx-world.net/2013/jw9jka-bear-island-svalbard/) on 12 meter phone at 1823 UTC, then around 2100 UTC S5 (Slovenia) and F (France) were worked on 12 meter phone as well as EI6JK (59) and DL5RBW (2212 UTC) on 10 meter phone with good signals as well as DL5AXX on scatter over the South Atlantic and IZ3NYG direct path on 10 CW. Also logged on 10 meters was EA8YB S9+ on SSB. 15 meters in the past 10 days has been open well to EU between about 1300-2000 UTC, sometimes much later and to Asia well after sunset on good days as well as to Indonesia in our mornings along with SE Asia. 12 meters has been in and out to EU with 10 meters mostly only open to SA and the south Pacific in the evening and late afternoon. On Sept 5, 12 meters opened well to all of EU except Russia logging YL, 4Z, 9A, S5, EG9 (Ceuta),and DL between 1528-1834 UTC. XW8XZ was worked on 15 phone earlier at 1336 UTC with an S5 signal. HS0 and XW0YJY were loud on 15 phone around 0050 UTC on the September 8. On the September 10, I had a nice run of stations on 12 CW from 1427-1452 UTC including many fairly weak Russians south of Moscow in the third call area. FO/KH0PR has been worked several times on 10 CW making a rare IOTA tour including today, September 11 at 1846 UTC. 12 meters seems to open well to EU some days and poorly others when the SFI is around 100 and K index is low, very difficult to predict. If the flux jumps up to around 120, 10 meters should come to life. Note we are only nine days away from the Autumnal Equinox, on September 22, 2013, at 2044 UTC. As we move from Summer toward
[DX-NEWS] ARLD037 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD037 ARLD037 DX news ZCZC AE37 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 37 ARLD037 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT September 12, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD037 ARLD037 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MADAGASCAR, 5R. Daniel, DF8UO is QRV as 5R8UO until September 20 while on work assignment. He is active on 40 to 10 meters using CW and digital modes in his spare time. This includes being an entry in the Worked All Europe SSB DX contest. QSL to home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Christian, DL2MDU and Heike, DO3HDA will be QRV as 8Q7CF from the Biyadhoo Island Resort from September 15 to 27. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters and possibly 160 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via DL2MDU. MADEIRA ISLANDS, CT3. Station DJ8OG is QRV as CT9/DJ8OG until September 17. He will be active as CR3L in the Worked All Europe SSB DX contest. QSL CR3L via DJ6QT and CT9/DJ8OG to home call. PANAMA, HP. A group of operators will be QRV as HP0INT/9 from Iguana Island, IOTA NA-203, from September 13 to 15, and then as HP0INT/4 from Colon Island, IOTA NA-088, from September 16 to 18. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via F5CWU. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JD1. Take, JG8NQJ is QRV as JG8NQJ/JD1 from Marcus Island, IOTA OC-073, until mid September while on work assignment. Activity is in his spare time on 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. SVALBARD, JW. A group of operators are QRV as JW5E from Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen Island, IOTA EU-026, until September 16. Activity is on all bands and modes. This includes being an entry in the WAE SSB contest. QSL direct. BONAIRE, PJ4. Frank, PH2M is QRV as PJ4M until September 26. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands. QSL this activity via PH2M. ST. MAARTEN, PJ7. David, AH6HY is QRV as PJ7/AH6HY until September 18. Activity is holiday style during his evening hours on 20, 17 and 15 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. POLAND, SP. Special event stations 3Z1JESIEN, 3Z3JESIEN, HF1JESIEN, HF3JESIEN, SN1JESIEN and SN3JESIEN will be QRV from September 16 to 26 during a welcome to the Autumn Season known as Witamy Jesien. QSL via bureau. GREECE, SV. Special event station SV130PAP is QRV until September 21 from several locations in commemoration of the 130th birthday of scientist George N. Papanicolaou. Activity is on 160 to 2 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK, JT65, FSK441 and Meteor Scatter. QSL via operators' instructions. MICRONESIA, V6. Gerben, PG5M is QRV as V6G from Yap Island, IOTA OC-012, until September 15. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. PALAU, T8. After his Micronesia operation, Gerben, PG5M will be QRV as T8GM from September 15 to 19. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. NAMIBIA, V5. Hans, DF2UU and Hardy, DF3GY are QRV as V55V from Omaruru. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. This also includes being an entry in the Worked All Europe SSB DX contest. QSL via DJ8VC. BERMUDA, VP9. Christoph, DL1YAF is QRV as VP9/DL1YAF until September 25. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands using CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL to home call. MYANMAR, XZ. Zorro, JH1AJT will be QRV as XZ1Z from Nay Pyi Taw from September 18 to 23. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL September VHF Contest, North American SSB Sprint, Worked All Europe SSB DX Contest, FISTS Get Your Feet Wet CW Weekend, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint Ladder, NCCC Sprint, FOC CW QSO Party, Kulikovo Polye CW Contest, CIS DX QPSK63 Contest, Arkansas QSO Party and the WAB 144 MHz QRO Phone are all on tap for this weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest is scheduled for September 16. Please see September QST, page 79, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP036 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP036 ARLP036 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP36 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 36 ARLP036 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA September 6, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP036 ARLP036 Propagation de K7RA Conditions were quieter again this week. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 77 to 69, and average daily solar flux was off by 9.5 points to 106.9, when compared to the previous seven days, August 22-28. Predicted solar flux for the near term is 105 on September 6-10, 100 on September 11-12, 110 on September 13, 120 on September 14-15, 115 on September 16-17, 110 on September 18, 105 on September 19-20, 110 on September 21-22, 105 on September 23-24, and 100 on September 25-28. It then is expected to reach a minor peak of 115 on October 4-5, then 120 on October 9-12. These predictions come from a 45-day forecast. Yesterday, September 5, the solar flux was 110.1. The first prediction for that date in this series pegged it at 135, which maintained from July 22-28, then 105 on July 29 through August 4, 115 on August 5-11, 105 on August 12-18, 110 on August 19-28, 112 on August 29, 115 on August 30, 118 on August 31, 112 on September 1-2, and then they nailed it at 110 again on September 3-4. Note that these aren't the flux readings on those dates. They are the predicted values for September 5, as they varied from day to day in the daily forecast for the previous 45 days. You can see those daily forecasts here: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html The planetary A index is in the same forecast. The latest has predicted planetary A index at 5 on September 6-8, 10 on September 9-10, 12 on September 11, 8 on September 12-14, 5 on September 15-16, then 12, 18 and 15 on September 17-19, 5 on September 20-22, and 8 on September 23-24. The Autumnal Equinox (September 22 at 2044 UTC) is a little over two weeks away. Fall is always a great time for HF DX, when the sun casts an even glow over our northern and southern hemispheres. Although solar activity is weak, if this is Cycle 24's peak, now may be the best time for enjoying HF propagation for some years to come. Or the Sun could fool us again. Remember that day-to-day variations in solar activity can swing wildly above and below any predicted smoothed or averaged sunspot or solar flux number. But we haven't seen much of that lately. F.K. Janda, OK1HH offers his geomagnetic forecast. Mostly quiet conditions September 6-7, quiet to unsettled September 8, quiet to active September 9, quiet to unsettled September 10, quiet to active September 11, active to disturbed September 12, quiet September 13, mostly quiet September 14, quiet September 15-16, quiet to active September 17, active to disturbed September 18, quiet to unsettled September 19-21, mostly quiet September 22, quiet to active September 23, quiet September 24-25, mostly quiet September 26, active to disturbed September 27, quiet to active September 28, mostly quiet September 29, quiet September 30, quiet to active October 1, and quiet on October 2. Last week's Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP035 mentioned average sunspot numbers, but we were missing two days of data (from August 30-31) to get the complete average. As it turns out, those two days had low enough sunspot numbers that it actually dragged the 3-month moving average and the monthly average for August lower. So the three month moving averages of sunspot numbers for periods ending in January through August 2013 were 82.8, 73.6, 80.7, 85.2, 106.4, 106.4, 97.5 and 85.6. The average daily sunspot number for the month of August was 90.2, up from 80.2 and 86.2 in June and July. Thanks so much to Scott Bidstrup, TI3/W7RI in Costa Rica who sent a link to a fascinating article in Phys.Org News and Astronomy and Astrophysics about yet another failure to replicate earlier studies claiming a correlation between planetary positions and solar activity. In this case, the authors found several serious statistical errors in the earlier analysis. Read the article and abstract at, http://phys.org/news/2013-09-evidence-planetary-solar.html and http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=966Itemid=277. Note that for a limited time, the full text of the paper is available for free by clicking on the Register Now button on that last page. NASA has an updated prediction for sunspot Cycle 24, and like last month, they predict the peak for Summer 2013 (that's now!) but they have downgraded the expected smoothed sunspot number from 67 to 66. Read it and weep at, http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml. They do not have any archive of past predictions, but never fear, I have been keeping careful track. A year ago, they sounded an optimistic note, when the September 2012 update changed from a peak of 60 in Spring 2013 to a peak of 76 in Fall 2013. A month later in October it changed to a peak of 75 in Fall 2013, then in November it dropped to 73 in Fall 2013. In December the
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #1166 [Calendar]
7 September 2013 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1166 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 07/09 T8GM: Koror (OC-009), Palau 1157 till 08/09 FO/KH0PR: Ahe Atoll (OC-131), French Polynesia1165 till 08/09 HP0INT/3: Isla Boca Brava (NA-071)1165 till 08/09 Maramures Mountains Natural Park * by YO5AJR and HAs 1166 till 08/09 UA0L/p,UA0LTE/p,UB0LFM/p,RK0LXX/p: Lazovsky Reserve 1166 till 08/09 YB9GV/p and YB9IUS/p: Bungin Island (OC 150) 1166 till 08/09 YB9KA/p and YC9JIN/p: Bungin Island (OC 150) 1166 till 09/09 SV8/PA1FJ/p: Chios Island (EU-049)1164 till 09/09 TK9ZM: Corsica (EU-014) 1163 till 10/09 PA6SAIL: special callsign 1159 till 10/09 R20RRC/0: Russkiy Island (AS 066) 1166 till 10/09 XW8XZ and XW1YC: Laos 1159 till 11/09 D44TXP: Ilha do Sal (AF-086) 1165 till 12/09 A25JK and A25CF: Botswana 1165 till 12/09 HC2IOH: Ecuador 1160 till 12/09 YS1/AI5P: El Salvador 1165 till 13/09 3B9EME: Rodrigues Island (AF-017) 1164 till 13/09 TK/IZ5JMX: Corsica (EU-014) 1165 till 14/09 PD5MVH/p: Schiermonnikoog Island (EU-038) 1164 till 15/09 EG5VCE: special event callsign1164 till 15/09 JG8NQJ/JD1: Minami Torishima (OC-073) 1161 till 15/09 UE80RWW: special event station1161 till 16/09 V63DDD and V63LU: Pohnpei (OC-010), Micronesia1165 till 20/09 OO: special prefix (Belgium) 1159 till 27/09 HC8/G8OFQ: Galapagos Islands (SA-004) 1164 till 30/09 SN150PS: special callsign 1157 till OctoberT6MH: Afghanistan 1125 till 08/11 FO/F5LCI: Hao Atoll (OC-066), French Polynesia1164 till November RU0ZM/0: Russian District KT-13 1155 till 15/12 C91GBA: Mozambique1155 till 15/12 JW9JKA: Bear Island (EU-027) 1153 till 31/12 4A1TD: special callsign 1143 till 31/12 9A280-9A289: special prefixes (Croatia) 1156 till 31/12 DL50FRANCE: special station 1131 till 31/12 DS4DRE/4: Hajo Island (AS-060)1150 till 31/12 EI13CLAN: special callsign1130 till 31/12 Gx100C: special callsign 1134 till 31/12 Gx100RSGB: special callsigns 1130 till 31/12 HA1973BA: special callsign1148 till 31/12 HA30S: special callsign 1136 till 31/12 HB30OK: special callsign 1130 till 31/12 OU1RAEM: special callsign 1130 till 31/12 RI1ANP: Progress Station (Antarctica) 1132 till 31/12 S5300TP: special callsign 1130 till 31/12 Z320RSM and Z320A-Z320Z: special callsigns1130 till Jan 2014 HC/IZ1DPS: Ecuador1164 till Feb 2014 VK0JJJ: Mawson station (Antarctica) 1135 till Feb 2014 ZS7V: SANAE IV station (Antarctica) 1136 till Dec 2014 5Z4/LA4GHA: Kenya 1145 till Dec 2014 6O0LA: Somalia1145 07/09-08/09 C37AC: Andorra1166 07/09-08/09 IL7/IK7SUO and IL7/IZ7XFC: Tremiti Islands (EU-050) 1166 07/09-08/09 IL7/IZ7KHR and IL7/IZ7ECT: Tremiti Islands (EU-050) 1166 07/09-10/09 J44LH: Trikeri Lighthouse 1166 07/09-08/09 JI5RPT/6: Koshikijima Islands (AS-037)1165 07/09-13/09 OJ0W: Market Reef (EU-053)1166 07/09-15/09 W6B-W6T: Route 66 special event 1166 08/09HP0INT/1: Isla Naos (NA-072) 1165 08/09-18/09 IG9/IW5ELA: Lampedusa Island (AF-019)
[DX-NEWS] ARLD036 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD036 ARLD036 DX news ZCZC AE36 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 36 ARLD036 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT September 5, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD036 ARLD036 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, SV4FFL, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. CROATIA, 9A. Dave, K1ZZ is QRV as 9A/K1ZZ until September 7. QSL to home call. BOTSWANA, A2. Arnold, WB6OJB and Frosty, K5LBU are QRV as A25JK and A25CF, respectively, from the Lotsane Game and Safari Lodge until September 12. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and PSK with two stations. QSL A25JK direct via WB6OJB and A25CF via K5LBU. ANDORRA, C3. Members of the new association Associacio Radioaficionats Divulgant Andorra al Mon will be QRV using special event call C37AC on September 7 and 8 during the festivities in Meritxell. QSL direct. ST. PIERRE ET MIQUELON, FP. Peter, DJ4TC and Hermann, DL2NUD will be QRV as FP/home calls from Miquelon Island, IOTA NA-032, from September 10 to 21. Activity will be primarily on 2 meters, 70 and 23 cm using JT65B and JT65C. QSL to home calls MARKET REEF, OJ0. Pasi, OH3WS will be QRV as OJ0W from September 7 to 13 while doing volunteer work. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB in his spare time. QSL to home call. PAPUA NEW GUINEA, P2. Akira, JA1NLX will be QRV as P29NVX from Lissneung Island, IOTA OC-008, from September 8 to 13. Activity will be on 30 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL direct to home call. BANGLADESH, S2. Rana, S21R is active from Dhaka until mid September. Lately he has been active on 20 meters using SSB around 1400z. In addition, Sohel, S21S has been QRV on 20 meters also around 1400z. QSL S21R via N4VA and S21S via operator's instructions. GREECE, SV. A group of operators are QRV as J44LH from the Trikeri Lighthouse on Point Kavoulia on the Pagasitikos Gulf until September 15. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via SV4FFL. PALAU, T8. Gerben, PG5M is QRV as T8GM from Koror, IOTA OC-009, until September 7. He will again be active from September 15 to 19. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. NAMIBIA, V5. Operators Hardy, DF3GY, and Hans, DF2UU will be QRV as V5/home calls from Omaruru from September 7 to 15. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. They will be QRV as V55V in the IARU Region 1 SSB Field Day and the upcoming Worked All Europe SSB contests. QSL via DJ8VC. MICRONESIA, V6. After his Palau activity, Gerben, PG5M will be QRV as V6G from Yap Island, IOTA OC-012, from September 8 to 15. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. LAOS, XW. Operators 9M6DXX and 9V1YC are QRV as XW8XZ and XW1YC, respectively, from Vientiane until September 10. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL XW8XZ via M0URX and XW1YC via W5UE. In addition, look for Champ, E21EIC to be QRV as XW0YJY in the All Asian DX Phone contest as a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry. QSL to home call. INDONESIA, YB. Operators Budi, YF1AR, Fan, YB0AI and Adhi, YB3MM will be QRV as home calls/9 from Pulaus Kimaam Island, IOTA OC-275, and the Kimaam Lighthouse, ARLHS IDO-148, from September 10 to 16. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes with three stations active. QSL YF1AR/9 via N2OO, YB0AI/9 direct to home call and YB3MM/9 to home call. ROMANIA, YO. Operators Istvan, HA0KA, Pista, HA0DI, Mate, HA0MT and Miki, YO5AJR are QRV as YO/home calls/p and YO5AJR/p from Munti Maramuresului until September 8. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL to home calls. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations have been approved for DXCC credit: Jordan, JY9FC, current operation beginning August 2013; Myanmar, XZ1Z, 2013 operation. If you've had XZ1Z rejected in a prior application, send a note to bmo...@arrl.org to be placed on this list for an update to your record. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint Ladder, NCCC Sprint, PODXS 070 Club Jay Hudak Memorial 80-Meter Sprint, G3ZQS Memorial Straight Key CW Contest, All Asian DX Phone Contest, Russian World Wide RTTY Contest, Wake-Up. QRP CW Sprint, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, AGCW Straight Key CW Party, RSGB SSB Field Day, IARU Region 1 SSB Field Day, Ohio State Parks on the Air, QCWA Fall QSO Party, North American CW Sprint and the DARC 10-Meter Digital Contest will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The CWops Mini-CWT CW Test, NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint and RSGB 80-meter Club SSB Sprint are scheduled for September 11. Please see September QST, page 79, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /EX --- To unsubscribe or
[DX-NEWS] ARLP035 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP035 ARLP035 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP35 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 35 ARLP035 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA August 30, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP035 ARLP035 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity slipped this week, with the average daily sunspot number declining nearly 50 points to 77, and average daily solar flux down nearly 10 points to 116.4. In fact, those nearly numbers were 49.9 and 9.9. The latest prediction from NOAA/USAF (Thursday, August 29, 2013) has solar flux at 108, 105 and 108 on August 30 through September 1, 110 on September 2-3, 112 on September 4-5, then 115 and 120 on September 6-7, 125 on September 8-14, 120 on September 15, 115 on September 16-17, 110 on September 18, 105 on September 19-21, then 110 and 105 on September 22-23, and 100 on September 24-25. Until August 27-28, the forecast had solar flux dropping below 100 on August 30 through September 2, but the outlook was upgraded for this period. But note that flux values are predicted to drop below 100 on September 26-28. Predicted planetary A index is 20 on August 30-31, 12 on September 1, 5 on September 2-3, 8 on September 4, 5 on September 5-9, then 10, 15 and 18 on September 10-12, 8 on September 13-14, 5 on September 15-16, then 12, 18 and 15 on September 17-19, 5 on September 20-21, 12 and 8 on September 22-23, and 5 on September 24-26. Every day (usually between 2100-2200 UTC) you can see an update of all the above data at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html. Today I notice that the August 29 prediction (this bulletin is written every Friday long before 2100 UTC) was revised and re-released at 0839 UTC today, about 11 hours after the earlier version. I need to re-check those numbers! Much talk lately has centered around a possible dual peak in the current solar cycle. This would follow a patter established in recent solar cycles. If this is so, the first peak probably occurred in the Fall of 2011. Now it appears that perhaps the second peak was in Spring 2013. We are just a day away from the end of the month, so we won't see the actual averages until next week, but we can get a pretty close reading knowing the actual numbers for 29 of the 31 days in August. The average daily sunspot number for the first 29 days of August was 92.2. This is above the levels for June and July, 80.2 and 86.2, but lower than April and May. This also pegs the 3-month average of daily sunspot numbers (centered on July) around 86.1, based on data from 90 of the 92 days in that period. This is above all of the 3-month moving averages centered on September 2012 through March 2013, but lower than the previous three periods centered on April and May (106.4) and 97.5 for June. The two stand-out periods were both when the 3-month moving average was above 100. Those were centered on October through December 2011 (118.8, 118.6 and 110) and April and May of this year, when averages were both 106.4. We began tracking a three month moving average in early 2007, in the February 9 bulletin (see http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive/ARLP006/2007) and have continued in each or the 78 months since then. For those unfamiliar with this concept, a moving average is used to smooth out the day-to-day variations in noisy data to make it easier to spot trends. If you wanted to create a 30-day moving average of any data, such as stock prices, temperature or sunspot numbers, you would add all the numbers for the previous 29 days to today's value, then divide by 30. Tomorrow you would drop off the first number in the series and include tomorrow's number. This continues, day after day, and what emerges is a graph that smooths out day-to-day variations, making it easier to spot trends. Because this bulletin was always text-based - 47 years ago as a child, I copied my predecessor's weekly propagation bulletins in Morse code from W1AW - I needed a simple way to present a moving average without the aid of graphics, in order to spot trends in the upcoming cycle. In this simple method, I would do an arithmetic average (adding all the daily sunspot numbers, then dividing by the number of days) for a three-month period. On the first day of April I would add all the numbers from January 1 through March 31, then divide by 91 in a leap year, and 90 in all other years. This reveals an average either described as centered on February, or the period ending in March. On May 1 I could average all the data for February through April, so every month, one old month drops off, and a new month is added. Wikipedia has a page explaining this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average, and you can see there are many ways to slice and dice the data. Next week we will present the data described above, we will see the two peaks and decline since then. For some reason (it's Summer?) there were no reports from readers this week. I haven't looked at this site in a long time, and I see it has added many
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #1165
31 August 2013A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1165 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** DX INFORMATION === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW A2 - WB6OJB as A25JK and K5LBU as A25CF will be active with two stations from Botswana on 5-12 September. Look for A25JK to operate SSB on 20-10 metres (possibly with some 40 and 80m), while A25CF will be doing some PSK on what ever bands might be open and A25JK is not on. QSL via home calls. [TNX NG3K] D4 - Barry, M0DGQ will be active as D44TXP from Ilha do Sal (AF-086), Cape Verde until 11 September. He operates CW only on 40 and 20 metres. QSL via M0URX (OQRS preferred). FO - Yoshi, JJ8DEN will be active as FO/KH0PR from three IOTA groups in French Polynesia as follows: 3-8 SeptemberAhe AtollOC-131 9-16 September Napuka Atoll OC-094 18-25 September Reao Atoll OC-238 He will operate CW and digital modes on 80-10m. QSL via JJ8DEN. [TNX DX World] HB0- Look for HB0/DL4AAE and HB0/DL3TU (www.mydarc.de/dl3tu/)to be active from Liechtenstein on the second or third full weekend of September. Weather permitting, they will try to operate from the summit of Augstenberg (2359 metres a.s.l.) using CW only on the higher bands with an emphasis on working Asia. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau. Direct cards via home calls. HP - Invoker Team members Christian EA3NT, Raul EA5KA, Vincent F4BKV and Col MM0NDX will be active from the six IOTA groups allocated to Panama as follows: 5 September HP0INT/1 Naos NA-072 6-8 September HP0INT/3 Boca Brava NA-071 8 Septemper (evening) HP0INT/1 Naos NA-072 9-11 SeptemberHP0INT/2 Ogobsibu (San Blas)NA-170 11-13 September HP0INT/2 Grande NA-202 13-15 September HP0INT/9 Iguana NA-203 16-18 September HP0INT/4 Colon (Bocas del Toro) NA-088 They will operate CW and SSB on 40-10m. QSL via F4BKV (direct) or F5CWU (bureau), OQRS preferred for both options. Logsearch at www.invokerteam.com/hp0int/ [TNX DX World] I - The Calabria DX Team will be active as II8LH from the lighthouse at Scilla on 31 August. QSL via HB9FHZ (bureau) or IK8YFU (direct), LoTW and eQSL. I - Riccardo, IZ5JMX reports that he will be active as TK/IZ5JMX from Corsica (EU-014) on 1-13 September. He will operate SSB on 40-10 metres. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via bureau. JA - Makoto, JI5RPT will be active as JI5RPT/6 from the Koshikijima Islands (AS-037) on 7 and 8 September. He will operate CW and digital modes. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX JN6RZM] KH9- The tentative dates for the K9W DXpedition to Wake Island are 5-19 October, with 7-18 October as QRV days (schedule based on Wake time, which is UTC +12 hours). The expedition's operating plan, QSL routes, propagation charts and other information can be found at www.wake2013.org SV8- A team of eight operators from Germany (Rich DK8YY, Hansi DL1AOB, Dieter DL1AWD, Ralf DL3JJ, Dan DL5SE, Felix DL6JF, Lu DL8ALU and Eddy DM5JBN) will be active as SW8YY from the island of Zakynthos (EU-052) on 17-29 October, including entries in the Worked All Germany (WAG, 19-20 October) and CQ WW SSB contests. They will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on 160-10 metres. QSL via DH7WW, direct or bureau (OQRS on Club Log), and LoTW. Further information can be found at http://sw8yy.weebly.com/ [TNX DX World] T8 - Will be active as T88TV from Palau on 10-16 September. He will operate CW only on all bands, with an emphasis on 160 and 80 metres. QSL via W5MJ. [TNX NG3K] UA - R7AM, R7LP, RA6DE, RU5D, RU6AX, UA6MF and UA6YW will be active as R20RRC/6 from Eyskaya Kosa Island in the Sea of Azov (RRA RR-17-02, not IOTA) from 30 August to 1 September. They will operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSL via RZ3EC. [TNX RU5D] V6 - Look for Hiroo, JA2VWG (V63DDD) and Seihachi, JA7LU (V63LU) to be active from Pohnpei (OC-010), Micronesia on 4-16 September. They will be QRV on
[DX-NEWS] [425ENG] 425 DX News #1165 [Calendar]
31 August 2013 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1165 === *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** CALENDAR *** === Edited by I1JQJ IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW PERIOD CALL REF till 31/08 EA8/G7COD: Gran Canaria (AF-004) 1159 till 31/08 YB3MM/p: Kangean Islands (OC-217) 1165 till 01/09 9M2SE: Indah Island (AS-074) 1164 till 01/09 EH200D: special callsign 1162 till 01/09 NE1RD/1: Lovells Island (NA-148) 1165 till 01/09 R20RRC/6: Eyskaya Kosa Island (RRA RR-17-02) 1165 till 01/09 YB8S: Gangga Island (OC-236) 1165 till 02/09 EF3EGB: Medas Islands (EU-078)1164 till 04/09 9A/PA4JJ: Croatia 1164 till 09/09 SV8/PA1FJ/p: Chios Island (EU-049)1164 till 10/09 PA6SAIL: special callsign 1159 till 11/09 D44TXP: Ilha do Sal (AF-086) 1165 till 12/09 HC2IOH: Ecuador 1160 till 14/09 PD5MVH/p: Schiermonnikoog Island (EU-038) 1164 till 15/09 EG5VCE: special event callsign1164 till 15/09 JG8NQJ/JD1: Minami Torishima (OC-073) 1161 till 15/09 UE80RWW: special event station1161 till 20/09 OO: special prefix (Belgium) 1159 till 27/09 HC8/G8OFQ: Galapagos Islands (SA-004) 1164 till 30/09 SN150PS: special callsign 1157 till OctoberT6MH: Afghanistan 1125 till 08/11 FO/F5LCI: Hao Atoll (OC-066), French Polynesia1164 till November RU0ZM/0: Russian District KT-13 1155 till 15/12 C91GBA: Mozambique1155 till 15/12 JW9JKA: Bear Island (EU-027) 1153 till 31/12 4A1TD: special callsign 1143 till 31/12 9A280-9A289: special prefixes (Croatia) 1156 till 31/12 DL50FRANCE: special station 1131 till 31/12 DS4DRE/4: Hajo Island (AS-060)1150 till 31/12 EI13CLAN: special callsign1130 till 31/12 Gx100C: special callsign 1134 till 31/12 Gx100RSGB: special callsigns 1130 till 31/12 HA1973BA: special callsign1148 till 31/12 HA30S: special callsign 1136 till 31/12 HB30OK: special callsign 1130 till 31/12 OU1RAEM: special callsign 1130 till 31/12 RI1ANP: Progress Station (Antarctica) 1132 till 31/12 S5300TP: special callsign 1130 till 31/12 Z320RSM and Z320A-Z320Z: special callsigns1130 till Jan 2014 HC/IZ1DPS: Ecuador1164 till Feb 2014 VK0JJJ: Mawson station (Antarctica) 1135 till Feb 2014 ZS7V: SANAE IV station (Antarctica) 1136 till Dec 2014 5Z4/LA4GHA: Kenya 1145 till Dec 2014 6O0LA: Somalia1145 31/08-06/09 HP1/AI5P: Panama 1165 31/08II8LH: Scilla lighthouse 1165 August RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139 August S5##EB: special callsigns 1163 August TU5DF: Cote d'Ivoire 1153 01/09-13/09 TK/IZ5JMX: Corsica (EU-014) 1165 02/09-13/09 3B9EME: Rodrigues Island (AF-017) 1164 02/09-09/09 TK9ZM: Corsica (EU-014) 1163 03/09-08/09 FO/KH0PR: Ahe Atoll (OC-131), French Polynesia1165 04/09-16/09 V63DDD and V63LU: Pohnpei (OC-010), Micronesia1165 05/09-12/09 A25JK and A25CF: Botswana 1165 05/09HP0INT/1: Isla Naos (NA-072) 1165 05/09-10/09 XW8XZ and XW1YC: Laos 1159 06/09-08/09 HP0INT/3: Isla Boca Brava (NA-071)1165 06/09-07/09 T8GM: Koror (OC-009), Palau
[DX-NEWS] ARLD035 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD035 ARLD035 DX news ZCZC AE35 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 35 ARLD035 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 29, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD035 ARLD035 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. RODRIGUEZ ISLAND, 3B9. Members of the Verona DX Team plan to be QRV as 3B9EME from September 2 to 13 from Rodriguez Island, IOTA AF-017, Grid Square MH10. Their main objective is EME operation on 6 and 2 meters and 70 cm. In addition, they will also be active on the HF bands, mainly on the newer bands, with two stations. QSL direct to I3LDP. WEST MALAYSIA, 9M2. Members of the Malaysian Special Expedition Team will be QRV as 9M2SE from Pulau Indah, IOTA AS-074, from August 31 to September 1 during a celebration of the 56th anniversary of Malaysia's Independence Day. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via operators' instructions. NEPAL, 9N. Satish, 9N1AA has been active on 15 meters using CW between 1120 and 1215z. QSL via N4AA. CAPE VERDE, D4. Barry, M0DGQ is QRV as D44TXP from Sal Island, IOTA AF-006, until September 11. Activity is on 40 and 20 meters using CW. QSL via M0URX. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Ivan, EA8YG will be QRV as EE8YG from Isla de la Graciosa, IOTA AF-004, from September 1 to 15. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. FRENCH POLYNESIA, FO. Yoshi, JJ8DEN plans to be QRV as FO/KH0PR from Ahe Atoll, King George Islands, IOTA OC-131, from September 3 to 8. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, RTTY, PSK31 and JT65A. QSL to home call. ITALY, I. Members of the Calabria DX Team plan to be QRV as II8LH from the Lighthouse on Scilla, ARLHS ITA-050, on August 31. QSL via HB9FHZ. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JD1. Take, JG8NQJ/JD1 has been active on 15 meters using CW between 0900 and 1100z. QSL via JA8CJY. JORDAN, JY. Jovica, E78A is on work assignment with the UNHCR and now holds the call sign JY9FC. He is active from Amman during his free time on the HF bands using mainly CW with some SSB and various digital modes. QSL via E73Y. LITHUANIA, LY. Special event station LY777A is QRV until September 30 to celebrate 777 years of the city of Siauliai. QSL via LY5A. BULGARIA, LZ. Special event station LZ1406SK commemorates the orthodox St. Cyprian during the month of September. QSL via LZ1KCP. BANGLADESH, S2. Rana, S21R is active from Dhaka until mid September. QSL via N4VA. POLAND, SP. Special event stations HF330VW and SN330VW are QRV until September 22 to commemorate the victory of the Polish King Jan Sobieski against the Turkish army near Vienna in 1683. QSL HF330VW via SP9PRR and SN330VW via SP9KJU. MOUNT ATHOS, SV/A. Monk Apollo has been active on 17 meters using SSB around 1425 to 1530z. QSL direct. CORSICA, TK. Sebastian, IK2WZM plans to be QRV as TK9ZM from September 2 to 8. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home call. MALI, TZ. Fernando, TZ6BB has been active on 15 meters using CW around 1900z. QSL via W3HNK. MICRONESIA, V6. Operators Hiroo, JA2VWG and Seihachi, JA7LU will be QRV as V63DDD and V63LU, respectively, from Pohnpei Island, IOTA OC-010, from September 4 to 16. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL direct to home calls. INDONESIA, YB. Bert, PD1SA plans to be QRV as YB1/PD1SA from West Java, IOTA OC-021, until September 28. Activity is mostly on 20 meters and possibly on 80 and 40 meters as well. QSL to home call. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation has been approved for DXCC credit: Clipperton Island, TX5K, 2013 operation. If you've had this rejected in a prior application, send a note to bmo...@arrl.org to be placed on this list for an update to your record. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Feld Hell Sprint, CWOps CW Open, Colorado QSO Party, Tennessee QSO Party and the MI QRP Labor Day CW Sprint are all on tap for this weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for September 3. Please see August QST, page 73, September QST, page 79, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP034 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP034 ARLP034 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP34 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 34 ARLP034 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA August 23, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP034 ARLP034 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity picked up this week, with average daily sunspot numbers for August 15-21 up nearly 42 points (forty-nine percent) to 126.9, when compared to the previous seven days. Likewise, average daily solar flux increased from 111.7 to 126.3. The latest prediction from USAF/NOAA has solar flux at 130, 125, 120, and 115 on August 23-26, 110 on August 27-29, 105 on August 30, 95 on August 31 through September 1, 100 on September 2, 105 on September 3-4, 110 on September 5-8, 115 on September 9-11, 120 on September 12-13, and 125 on September 14-16. It then drops below 100 to 95 again on September 27-28. Predicted planetary A index is 15, 25, 20, 12, and 8 on August 23-27, 5 on August 28-30, then 12, 15 and 10 on August 31 through September 2, 5 on September 3-9, then 10, 15 and 18 on September 10-12, 8 on September 13-14, then 5, 15, 22, 12 and 8 on September 15-19 and 5 on September 20-26. OK1HH predicts in his geomagnetic activity forecast that August 23-24 will be active to disturbed, quiet to active conditions on August 25, quiet to unsettled August 26, mostly quiet August 27-29, quiet August 30, active to disturbed August 31 and September 1, quiet to unsettled September 2, quiet September 3-5, mostly quiet September 6-7, quiet September 8-9, quiet to active September 10-11, active to disturbed September 12-13, quiet September 14, mostly quiet September 15, quiet September 16, quiet to active September 17 and active to disturbed September 18. On Saturday, August 17, 2013 the Penticton observatory recorded solar flux values of 123.2, 149.7 and 129 at 1700, 2000 and 2300 UTC. The local noon value at 2000 UTC is always reported as the official flux value for the day, but NOAA reported it as 125 instead of 149.7. They do this when the noon number appears to be an outlier caused by overload of the 2.8 GHz receiver used to produce these numbers. I suspect the overload was caused by a significant and long duration M3 class solar flare, erupting from sunspot 1818 at 1824 UTC. The NOAA estimate is produced by selecting a number somewhere between the morning and afternoon readings. A look at the weekly Preliminary Report and Forecast for August 5, 2013 (see http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly/pdf/prf1979.pdf) shows the most recent prediction for smoothed sunspot numbers peaking in January and February 2014. The Arizona Daily Star ran an interview with Matt Penn, the astronomer who predicted the possible disappearance of future sunspots based on weakening solar magnetic fields. Read it at http://azstarnet.com/news/science/don-t-flip-out-about-the-sun/article_ce93e4cf-0178-51bf-882e-fee8e5e8de91.html. David Dary, W5ZAX of Norman, Oklahoma sent in an interesting article about a different method for tracking the complexity of the solar magnetic field. It posits that the sun may be more active than it appears. Read it at http://www.universetoday.com/104023/is-the-sun-more-active-than-it-looks-an-innovative-method-to-characterize-the-solar-cycle/. Note they give a link to the original journal article. You may be able to access the article in the Astrophysical Journal online for free via an account at your local public library. Roland Anders, K3RA of Elkridge, Maryland reports on August 19: 15 meters continues to be fantastic into Indonesia from 8 am until past 1 pm EDST. Besides the many strong YB stations, in the past several days during the 1300 to 1745Z time period on 15 I've worked JA, BY, BV, 9M2, 9M4, V8, 9V, HS, 4S, VU, and UN. And the EU signals are crushingly loud! But when 15 is that good to EU, it is a clue to try 12 meters. I've found 12 open in the morning hours several times in the last week. Today, I called CQ on 12 (dead band) and worked 2 IT9 stations at 12:45Z. After some more CQs with no answers, I returned to 15. I'm sure 12 was open to EU from time to time during the morning -- maybe all morning, but I didn't get back to 12 until 1612Z. For the next hour I worked DX over a wide area: Starting with a walloping signal from CU8AS, I then worked stations as far North as TF and east to SV and HZ. But the biggest surprise was at 1644 when I worked YB0NFL S9 over the North Pole. Arif worked a lot of EU and NA DX over the half hour or so--that's 12 meters at midnight Jakarta time! And, there were a couple of EU stations heard on 10 meters when 12 was open. So, it seems like we're getting into fall conditions on 12 and 10 meters. This much maligned sunspot cycle has a lot to offer! Later he wrote: Went back to 12 meters at 2100Z, and the band was wide open to EU. Some stations VERY loud. Then, at 2130Z I heard JAs answering an LU CQ, so I call CQ with beam to JA and worked seven JAs, several very strong. Viva 12! Laurence, GJ3RAX from the Isle of Jersey sent
[DX-NEWS] ARLD034 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD034 ARLD034 DX news ZCZC AE34 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 34 ARLD034 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 22, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD034 ARLD034 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. NEPAL, 9N. Satish, 9N1AA has been QRV on 20 meters around 0100z and 15 meters around 0730z. QSL via N4AA. BAHRAIN, A9. David, A92IO is generally active on 30 meters between 0130 and 0300. He is also active on 80 to 4 meters, including 60 meters. QSL via operator's instructions. JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLAND, CE0. Mario is QRV as CE0ZEL and is here for six months. Activity is as time permits. QSL via CE3RAC. PALESTINE, E4. Peri, HB9IQB is QRV as E44PM from Bethlehem until August 31. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters. QSL to home call. NIUE, E6. Adam, K7ST is QRV as E6ST. His length of stay is unknown. Activity is generally on 40, 20, 17 and 15 meters using SSB. QSL via EA5GL. FRENCH POLYNESIA, FO. Jean-Marc, F5LCI is QRV as FO/F5LCI from Hao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, IOTA OC-066, until November 8 while with the local military unit. He is active on 40 to 10 meters using QRP power on CW and JT65-JT9. QSL direct to home call. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, HC8. Geoff, G8OFQ is QRV as HC8/G8OFQ from Isabella Island, IOTA SA-004, until the end of September. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters generally during 2200 and 0600z and during the weekends. QSL to home call. PERU, OA. Arno, DL1CW plans to be QRV as OA1/DL1CW near Tumbes from August 26 to September 2. Activity will be on the HF bands using only CW. QSL to home call. NETHERLANDS, PA. Special event station PF31CAVENTE will be QRV from August 27 to 30 from a holiday camp for kids in Vaassen. They will be active on 40, 20 and 10 meters using RTTY and PSK. QSL via PA7HPH. BANGLADESH, S2. Rana, S21R is QRV from Dhaka and is here for one month. He is active on the HF bands. QSL via N4VA. POLAND, SP. Special event station 3Z45MFFZG is QRV until August 31 during the 45th International Folklore Festival in Zakopane. QSL via SP9PTG. DODECANESE, SV5. Hans, ON6ZK is QRV as SV5/ON6ZK/p from Kos, IOTA EU-001, until August 30 while on holiday. Activity is on 20 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. COTE d'IVOIRE, TU. Dimitri is QRV as TU5DF until October 31 and has been active on 15 meters using CW around 1330z. QSL via F5SWB. INDONESIA, YB. Adhi, YB3MM will be QRV as YB3MM/p from Bawean Island, IOTA OC-197, on August 24 and 25, weather-permitting. Activity will be on 20 and 15 meters. QSL via IZ8CCW. VENEZUELA, YV. A group of operators are QRV as YW5X from Orchila Island, IOTA SA-054, until August 26 to commemorate the 2013 Venezuelan Navy Day. QSL via DM4TI. COUNTRY NAME CORRECTION. As listed in DX News ARLD033, the T40C operation in the ILLW from the Roncali Lighthouse, ILLW CU-0002, took place from Cuba, not Chile. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation has been approved for DXCC credit: Angola, D2CT, 2013 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The Hawaii QSO Party, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC CW Sprint Ladder, SCC RTTY Championship, YO DX HF Contest, Kansas QSO Party, QRP ARCI Welcome to CW QRP, Ohio QSO Party, CVA DX SSB Contest and the SARL HF CW Contest are all on tap for this weekend. The SKCC CW Sprint and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for August 28. Please see August QST, page 73 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP033 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP033 ARLP033 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP33 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 33 ARLP033 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA August 16, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP033 ARLP033 Propagation de K7RA Again this week, solar activity was unchanged, with average daily sunspot numbers slipping from 85.4 to 85, and average daily solar flux increasing 4.4 points to 111.7. Geomagnetic conditions were stable. The latest solar flux prediction from USAF/NOAA has flux values of 125 on August 16, 130 on August 17-18, 120 on August 19-20, 110 on August 21-23, 105 on August 24, 110 on August 25-26, 115 on August 27-29, 110 on August 30, 105 on August 31 through September 6, then 110 and 115 on September 7-8 and 120 on September 9-11. Predicted planetary A index is 12 and 8 on August 16-17, 5 on August 18-19, then 12 and 15 on August 20-21, 8 on August 22-23, 5 on August 24-30, then 12, 15, and 10 on August 31 through September 2, and 5 on September 3-7. OK1HH issues his own weekly geomagnetic activity forecast, and he sees mostly quiet geomagnetic conditions August 16-17, quiet to active August 18, quiet on August 19, mostly quiet August 20, quiet August 21, active to disturbed August 22, quiet to unsettled August 23, quiet to active August 24, quiet to unsettled August 25-28, quiet August 29-30, active to disturbed September 1, quiet to unsettled September 2, quiet on September 3-5, mostly quiet September 6-8, active to disturbed September 9, quiet to active September 10, and active to disturbed September 11. OK1HH says a positive storm phase is expected August 22, and a growing solar wind may cause remarkable changes in the magnetosphere and ionosphere on August 16, and 21-22, and September 1-2, 6-7, and 11. At 0318 UTC on August 16, the Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a geomagnetic warning, saying a high speed wind stream is spewing from a coronal hole. Unsettled to active geomagnetic levels are expected today, August 16, and minor storm levels are possible. Scientific American has a 60 second podcast explaining why the changing magnetic polarity of the sun is nothing to worry about. Listen at http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=solar-magnetic-field-flip-poses-no-13-08-15. We get our solar flux data directly from the observatory in Penticton, British Columbia where they measure and report the numbers. It has been available at ftp://ftp.geolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_flux/daily_flux_values/fluxtable.txt but this week that server seemed unreachable. I poked around for quite some time and finally found the same data in html rather than plain text format at http://www.spaceweather.ca/data-donnee/sol_flux/sx-5-flux-eng.php. Al Kaiser, N1API of Meriden, Connecticut asked, If you have two flares at the same time from two different sunspot areas on the sun, do they add up to give a bigger class of flare, or just end up as one longer event? They are counted and rated separately. And if the flares are on different areas of the sun, they are probably pointing in different directions, so one or both might not affect earth. Randy Crews, W7TJ of Spokane, Washington has long been fascinated by the idea that the current solar cycle 24 may turn out to have two peaks, like the last few cycles. He writes, There have been several predictions that cycle 24 might have a second peak. Well maybe - maybe not. Cycle 21 had a definite single peak: November of 1979. Cycle 22 had two peaks: September of 1989 and January of 1991. Cycle 23 also had two peaks: April/July of 2000 and December of 2001. K9LA presented some interesting analysis regarding the declining magnetic strength of sunspots since 1995 and especially cycle 24. See http://myplace.frontier.com/%7ek9la/Looking_Ahead_To_Solar_Cycle_25.pdf Randy continues, Anyone who brings up a NASA photo of sunspots during Cycle 21-23 will see many large magnetically complex sunspots vs. Cycle 24's 'freckles' of small magnetically simple spots. So we MAY see a second peak IF the magnetic strength of the sunspots holds, or better yet increases. If not, a second peak is doubtful, and chances are the peak of activity has passed (as defined by the average monthly solar flux and average monthly sunspot count). The Sun is always full of surprises. During the CQWW Contest of October 2003 the solar flux punched up to 290! Ah, Randy, wouldn't that be nice to see again! In fact, your current author's stewardship of this bulletin began in 1991, not because of any particular expertise regarding astrophysics, but due to a similar sudden burst of solar activity, which happened to coincide with the former (and only other) author of this bulletin becoming too ill to write (see http://oldqslcards.com/W1HDQ.pdf). The event was Thursday, January 31, 1991 when the solar flux reached 357. Someone needed to write about this. I had no idea when I alerted folks in Newington that it would be me. For more information
[DX-NEWS] ARLD033 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD033 ARLD033 DX news ZCZC AE33 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 33 ARLD033 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 15, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD033 ARLD033 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by IZ1JLF, NC1L, PS7DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. SRI LANKA, 4S. Members of the Radio Society of Sri Lanka plan to be QRV as 4S7LGT from the Dondra Head Lighthouse, ILLW LK-0001, during the ILLW. Activity will be on 40 to 15 meters. QSL via 4S7LGT. WEST MALAYSIA, 9M2. Operators 9M2YOT, 9M2AUR, 9M2ESM, 9M2ARR, 9M2TRX, 9M2UST, 9W2GSG, 9W2EJT, 9W2JUM, and 9W2FNN will be QRV from the Pulau Undan Lighthouse, ILLW MY-0017, on Undan Island, IOTA AS-097, for the ILLW. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL direct via 9M2YOT. CHILE, CE. Look for a group of operators to be QRV as T40C in the ILLW from the Roncali Lighthouse, ILLW CU-0002. Activity will be on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via EA7FTR. PORTUGAL, CT. Members of the ARVM will be QRV as CS2HNI from the Farol do Forte do Cavalo Lighthouse, ILLW PT-0012, during the ILLW. Activity will be on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters using SSB. QSL via CT1RVM. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Members of the Grupo DX Gran Canaria and URE Las Palmas will be QRV as AO8LH from the Punta de la Aldea Lighthouse, ARLHS CAI-032, during the ILLW. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via EA8AKN. WALES, GW. Peter, G8CQH and Matt, G4WMH will be QRV as GC0OBS during the ILLW. QSL via G4WMH. REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HL. Members of the Gwangju DX Club are QRV as D7G from Jindo Island, IOTA AS-060, until August 18. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via 6L0NJ. ITALY, I. Members of the La Spezia ARI Team will be QRV as IP1T from Tino Island, IOTA EU-083, during the ILLW. Activity will be on the HF bands including 6, 4 and 2 meters. QSL via IZ5JLF. BELGIUM, ON. Francois, ON4LO plans to be QRV as ON4LH/LH from the Antwerpen Harbor Lighthouse, ARLHS BEL-042, during the ILLW. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters. QSL to home call. GREENLAND, OX. Operators Unni, LA6RHA, Mio, JR3MVF, Chae, HL1KDW, Kay, WA0WOF and Solveig, SM6KAT are QRV as OX5YL from the club station in Kangerlussuaq, IOTA NA-018, during the Greenland YL Expedition 2013. QSL via PA5YL. NETHERLANDS, PA. Special event station PA6SAIL will be QRV from August 19 to September 10 during the maritime event Sail de Ruyter in Vlissingen. Activity will be on the HF bands, including 6 and 2 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via PA3GEO. In addition, look for station PA6WOSHELL to be QRV from Shell Tower during the ILLW. QSL via PA1WO. BRAZIL, PY. Look for ZX7T to be QRV in the Verde Amarelo contest. QSL via PS7HD. POLAND, SP. Operators SP2BIK, SP2BRN, SP2IZC and SP2TQW will be QRV as SN2NP from the Nowy Port Lighthouse in Gdansk during the ILLW. QSL via SP2BIK. DODECANESE, SV5. Alex, UR5FAV is QRV as SV5/EM5F until August 24. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL to home call. AUSTRALIA, VK. A group of amateurs are QRV as VK5CWL until August 20. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and PSK. This includes an entry in the ILLW from the Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, ILLW AU-0095. QSL via VK5PAS. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation has been approved for DXCC credit: Republic of South Sudan, Z81X, 2013 operation. If you had this rejected in a prior application, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to be placed on the list for an update to your record. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. ARRL Rookie RTTY Roundup, ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest, North American SSB QSO Party, International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (ILLW), QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, SARTG World Wide RTTY Contest, Russian District Award Contest, Keyman's Club of Japan CW Contest, Feld Hell Sprint, CVA DX CW Contest and the SARL HF Digital Contest are all scheduled for this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest and NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint are scheduled for August 19. Please see August QST, page 73 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD032 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD032 ARLD032 DX news ZCZC AE32 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 32 ARLD032 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 8, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD032 ARLD032 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MAURITIUS, 3B8. 3B8/HB9ARY is QRV until August 11. Look for him on 1830 kHz on CW at local sunrise, 0130Z. He expects to return to 3B8 every six months. QSL direct via HB9ARY or through the Swiss bureau. GREENLAND, OX. Station OX5YL will be a group of YL operators QRV from August 16-20. At the radios will be HL1KDW, JR3MVF, LA6RHA, SM6KAT and WA0WOF. QSL direct or via bureau to PA5YL. ST. PIERRE and MIQUELON ISLANDS, FP. Peter, FP/DJ4TC and Hermann, FP/DL2NUD will be QRV from September 10-21. They will be QRV only on 2 meters, 70 centimeters and 23 centimeters using JT65B and JT65C. QSL via their home calls. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Bob, DL7VOA will be operating as EA8/DL7VOA until August 17. Listen for him during his evenings mostly on CW. QSL to DL7VOA, direct or via the Bureau. Members of the Grupo DX Gran Canaria and URE Las Palmas will be active as AO8LH from Puna de la Aldea Lighthouse. Activity will be on all HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via EA8AKN and LoTW. Andrew, G7COD, will be active as EA8/home call from Gran Canaria from August 9-31. Activity will be on 30 through 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via his home call sign, direct, by the Bureau or eQSL and LoTW. ALAND ISLAND, OH0. OH0/DM2ECM, will be active until August 16. His main activity is meteor scatter work during the peak of the Perseids meteor shower, with a random operating schedule and plan. RODRIGUEZ ISLAND, 3B9. The Verona DX Team will be QRV for EME activity on 144 and 432 MHz as well as HF operations from September 1-9. The team is currently awaiting approval of the call sign 3B9EME. Operators include Walter, I3VJW; Luc, I3LDP; Rony, IZ3KIF and Alessandro, IK5MIC. They will have two stations on at the same time on the HF bands, with an emphasis on 160, 80, 40, 30, 17 and 12 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY, JT65hf and PSK31. MONTENEGRO, 4O. Operators Goran, YT7AW and Ivan, YT4RA/IV3CTS will be active as 4O/home calls until August 15. Activity will be starting from Durmitor National Park (4OFF-002), and then followed by seaside activity, with a possible stopover on EU-163 (Crna Gora). QSL via their home calls per QRZ.com. TANZANIA, 5H. Byron, KF8UN will be QRV as 5H3BB until August 20. Look for him on 40 through 15 meters, but mostly on 20 meters using SSB with some CW. QSL direct via his home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Operators Herbert, DL7AHF and Michael, DG8MH will be active as 8Q7HF and 8Q7MH, respectively, until August 11. QSL via their home call signs. ECUADOR, HC. Emanuelle, IK2OHG, will be active as HC2IOH from Guayaquil between August 10 and September 12. Activity will be holiday style on 40-10 meters, including 30, 17 and 12 meters, using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his home call sign, direct, by the bureau or LoTW. PALAU, T8. Masashi, JL1FUQ will be QRV as T88GJ from September 20-24. Activity will be limited or dates may change because of his work, but look for him on 20, 17, 15, 12, 10 and 6 meters using SSB and possibly AM, PSK31 and RTTY. QSL via his home call sign, by the bureau or direct. NAMIBIA, V5. Winfried, DK9IP will be active as V55V from V52W's QTH in Omaruru for the Worked All Europe DX CW Contest, August 10 and 11, as a Single-Op/High-Power entry. QSL via DJ8VC. Before and after the contest, he will sign V5/DK9IP. Activity will be on 160-10 meters, possibly with some RTTY and 6 meter operation, until August 13. QSL V5/DK9IP via his home call sign. VIETNAM, XV. Masanobu, JR5JAQ is active as XV2JJ. His length of stay is unknown. Activity has been on 20, 17 and 15 meters, mainly CW with some SSB. QSL via JH5RXS, direct or by the Bureau. LAOS, XW. Champ, E21EIC will be active as XW0YJY during the Worked All Europe CW Contest as a Single-Op/All-Band/Low-Power entry. Outside of the contest, Champ will try 6 meters some days around 50.112 MHz. He is expected to be QRV until September 14 on on 160-2 meters. QSL via E21EIC and LoTW. PORTUGAL, CT. The Associacao de Radioamadores da Vila de Moscavide will be active as CS2HNI from the lighthouse at Forte do Cavalo (PT-0012 - ARLHS POR-021) during the International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend 2013, August 17 and 18. Look for them using SSB on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres. QSL via CT1RVM, bureau preferred. JUAN FERNANDEZ, XR0. XR0ZR will be QRV from November 8 to 20. Activity will be on 160-6 meters. Operations will include 6 meter EME and possibly 2 meter EME. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. Somalia, T5TC, 2013 operation; Laos, XW2CW, 2012 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The Worked All Europe
[DX-NEWS] ARLD031 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD031 ARLD031 DX news ZCZC AE31 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 31 ARLD031 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 1, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD031 ARLD031 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. LIBYA, 5A. Abubaker, DL1AL is now QRV as 5A1AL from Tripoli. He is active on the HF bands plus 6 meters using CW, SSB and PSK. QSL to home call. GHANA, 9G. Jeff, W7JVN is QRV as 9G5AC while he and Beverly, WB7NLY are here on missionary work. Activity is mainly on 20 and 15 meters using SSB. QSL via K7JH. MOZAMBIQUE, C9. John, ZS5J is QRV as C91J until August 3. Activity is on 40, 20 and 15 meters. QSL via operator's instructions. REUNION ISLAND, FR. A large group of operators will be QRV as TO1PS from the volcano and UNESCO World Heritage site Piton de la Fournaise on August 3 and 4. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via FR1GZ. JERSEY, GJ. Operators ON8ZZ, ON8ZL and ON5NQ are QRV as MJ/OT9Z until August 9. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK with two stations. QSL via ON8ZL. SARDINIA, IS0. Massimo, I0PNM is QRV as IM0/I0PNM from San Pietro Island, IOTA EU-165, until August 20. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters using SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL direct to home call. DOMINICA, J7. Gerry, WA6POZ is QRV as J79GF until August 7 from the Northeast coast. Activity is on 20, 15 and 10 meters. This includes a possible entry in the 10-10 International Summer SSB contest. QSL to home call. BULGARIA, LZ. Members of the Radio Club Blagovestnik are QRV using special event call sign LZ1105PIO during August to commemorate Saint Ioakim Osogovski. Activity is on all bands. QSL via LZ1KCP. LEBANON, OD. Special event station OD5ARMY is QRV for three days in recognition of the Lebanese Army. QSL via operators' instructions. FAROE ISLANDS, OY. Ulf, DL3UB is QRV as OY/DL3UB until August 9. Activity is holiday style on 30, 17 and 12 meters using CW. QSL to home call. GREECE, SV. Operators SV8GXQ and SV8JTP are QRV as SX8HOMER from Chios Island, IOTA EU-049, until August 13. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and PSK. QSL direct to SV8GXQ. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event station R863LC is QRV until October to celebrate the 1150th anniversary of Smolensk. QSL via R3LC. NAMIBIA, V5. Sergey, UX0HX, Max, UZ1HZ and Alex, UT5UY are QRV as V5/home calls until August 8. Activity is holiday style on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL all calls via UT5UY. CANADA, VE. Members of the Radio Amateur Club of l'Estrie are QRV as VC2CGJCS until August 17 for the XXIV Canada Games in Sherbrooke. QSL via VE2RAE. VENEZUELA, YV. Members of the Caracas DX Group are QRV as YW5X from Orchila Island, IOTA SA-054, until August 31. QSL via DM4TI. PRINCE EDWARD AND MARION ISLANDS, ZS8. Nadia, ZS8A plans to soon be QRV from Marion Island. In addition, Carson, ZS8C and David, ZS8Z are active as time permits. QSL via operators' instructions. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Sri Lanka, 4S7NZG, 2013 operation; Somalia, 6O0LA, 2013 operation; Spratly Islands, 9M4SLL, 2012 and 2013 operations; Democratic People's Republic of the Congo, 9Q6CC, 2010 and 2011 operation; Rwanda, 9X0EME, 2013 operation; Afghanistan, T6JM, 2012 operation; Laos, XW0YJY, 2013 operation; Laos, XW4XR, current operation; and South Sudan, Z80ID, Special 1-Day operation for Independence day celebration on July 9, 2013. If you've had any of these rejected in a prior application, send a note to bmo...@arrl.org to be placed on the list for an update to your record. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL August UHF Contest, North American CW QSO Party, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, TARA Grid Dip Shindig, 10-10 International Summer SSB Contest, European HF Championship, The RSGB RoPoCo CW and the SARL HF Phone Contest are all scheduled for this upcoming weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for August 6. Please see August QST, page 73, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP030 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP030 ARLP030 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP30 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 30 ARLP030 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA July 26, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP030 ARLP030 Propagation de K7RA At 2330 UTC on July 24, Australia's IPS Radio and Space services issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning. Increased geomagnetic activity is expected due to a coronal mass ejection. They predict quiet to unsettled conditions on July 25, active to minor storm on July 26, and active conditions on July 27. As this bulletin nears release early Friday morning, the planetary A index was 4 on four recent readings, followed by 2 on the last one. But the mid-latitude K index was 4 on three recent readings, then 5 on the last two. Geomagnetic activity is increasing, as expected. Over the past reporting week, compared to the previous period (July 11 to 17) average daily sunspot numbers decreased by less than four points to 73.4, while average daily solar flux declined slightly more than three points to 110.6. NOAA/USAF predicts Planetary A Index at 18 on July 26, 12 on July 27, 8 on July 28, 5 on July 29 to 31, 8 on August 1, 5 on August 2 to 8, 8 on August 9 to 11, 5 on August 12 and 13, 8 on August 14 and 15, 5 on August 16 and 17, 10 on August 18, 15 on August 19 to 22, and then 8, 5 and 8 on August 23 to 25. The outlook for solar flux calls for 105 on July 26 and 27, then 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 130, 125, 120, 125, 120 and 125 on July 28 through August 8, 120 on August 9 to 12, 115 on August 13, 120 on August 14 to 17, 125 on August 18, 120 on August 19 and 20, and 125 on August 21 to 23. The latest projection shows a short term solar flux peak at 135 on September 4 and 5 after a minimum of 100 on August 27 and 28. OK1MGW from the Czech Propagation Interest Group sees quiet to active geomagnetic conditions on July 26 and 27, quiet to unsettled July 28 and 29, quiet on July 30 and 31, quiet to unsettled August 1, quiet to active August 2, active to disturbed August 3, quiet August 4, mostly quiet August 5, active to disturbed August 6 and 7, quiet to unsettled August 8 to 11, quiet August 12 and 13, quiet to active August 14 and 15, and quiet to unsettled August 16 and 17. Juan Carlos, CO8TW lives in Santiago de Cuba, about 600 miles southeast of Havana. He put up a new propagation web site that has many useful features and an interesting mix of information. Check it out at http://www.qsl.net/co8tw/pro.htm. Another interesting propagation page I ran across recently is at http://qrzcq.com/page/propagation. G4CJC has a 10 meter report at http://www.southgatearc.org/bands/10metres/. The NOAA/NWS Space Weather Prediction center has a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/NOAA-NWS-Space-Weather-Prediction-Center/232532740131296. Note the July 16 article about the K index,and a map of North America showing how high the planetary K index has to be in order to see aurora borealis from any location. For my location near Puget Sound, it seems to say a K index at 8 or higher would be good. But for Northern Minnesota and North Dakota a K index of only 4 seems adequate. Of course on Facebook is the always timely and useful page from NW7US titled Space Weather and Radio Resources at HFRadio.org, at https://www.facebook.com/pages/NOAA-NWS-Space-Weather-Prediction-Center/232532740131296. David Moore sent an interesting article from The Guardian about the Met Office now offering coverage of space weather. Met originally was short for meteorological but now is the official name for the British weather and climate service. Read it at http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2013/jul/23/met-office-space-weather-forecasting. There also is yet another article about the current solar cycle being the weakest in the past 100 years, this time from Sky and Telescope: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/The-Weakest-Solar-Cycle-in-100-Years-216752671.html. Jeff Hartley, N8II of Shepherdstown, West Virginia wrote in response to the comment last week about the lack of 6 meter openings into DM04. Jeff is in FM19, and wrote on July 20, It has not been a good Es season from here, but we have had several multi-hop openings since July 1 mostly out into Arizona and New Mexico along with one to Oregon, Washington, and VE7. Only once did I catch Europe and it was only to France and Portugal. So, I am not too surprised that many are disappointed with their 6 meter openings this year. Even the 20 meter E-skip is much less frequent than normal this year. Today, July 20 there was a Russian sponsored contest and in a few short minutes I heard/worked strong stations from HS, YD, BH8, UN, and UA9 on 15 meter CW around 1245Z. This was the best shape in which I have heard 15 in some time. On July 19, Jon Pollock, K0ZN of De Soto, Kansas wrote, Even though sunspot numbers have been modest, I was on last night (July 18) between about 0130-0330 UTC (on 17 meters) and from my QTH in Eastern
[DX-NEWS] ARLD029 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD029 ARLD029 DX news ZCZC AE29 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 29 ARLD029 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT July 18, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD029 ARLD029 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MONTENEGRO, 4O. Alex, UA3RF, and Nick, RK3RB will be QRV as 4O/home calls from July 21 to 24. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home calls. CYPRUS, 5B. Operators 5B4MF, 5B4ZN, 5B4AHE and 5B4AMF are QRV as home calls/p from Agios Georgios Island, IOTA AS-120, until July 21. Activity is primarily on 20 and 17 meters using SSB with two stations active simultaneously. This may include 30 meters using CW as well. QSL to home calls. GHANA, 9G. Jeff, W7JVN is QRV as 9G5AC from Asamankese while on a 16-month missionary assignment. Activity is on 20 and 15 meters, using mostly SSB with some CW and PSK as his work permits. QSL via K7JH. CHINA, BY. A number of members of the Marconi Radio Club in Weihai plan to be QRV as BY4IB/4 from Jiming Island, IOTA AS-146, from July 21 to 29. Activity will be on the HF bands using all modes. This includes being active in the upcoming IOTA contest with several stations. QSL via BY4IB. MOZAMBIQUE, C9. Gert, ZS6AYU is QRV as C91GR from Bilene until July 23. Activity is holiday style on 40 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. ENGLAND, G. Special event station GB558VUL will be QRV beginning July 20 to September to commemorate the support effort behind getting the last Vulcan XH558 aircraft back into the air. QSL via bureau. THAILAND, HS. Look for stations HS0AC, E2E, HS4AK, HS5AM and others to be QRV in the CQ World Wide VHF contest. QSL via operators' instructions. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8J1AKIBA is QRV until August 31 during the Akiba Daisuki festival being held in Tokyo's shopping district Akihabara. QSL via bureau. SVALBARD, JW. Winfried, DL2GW is QRV as JW/DL2GW from Longyearbyen, IOTA EU-026, until July 23. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL to home call. LITHUANIA, LY. Special event station LY55SOP is QRV until the end of July during the annual Sea of Peace activity. QSL via LY5W. FERNANDO DE NORONHA, PY0F. Leo, PP1CZ will be QRV as PY0F/PP1CZ from July 25 to 30. Activity will be on the HF bands, primarily on the newer bands, using mostly CW and RTTY with some SSB. He may also try 160 meters. This includes being an entry in the upcoming RSGB IOTA contest. QSL via operator's instructions. POLAND, SP. Special event station HF450NS is QRV from Nowa Sol until then end of 2013 in celebration of the city's 450 years of settlement and 270 years of city rights. QSL via SP3KEY. CRETE, SV9. Gordon, MM0GOR plans to be QRV as SW9GG from July 23 to 30. Activity will be on the HF bands. This includes an entry in the upcoming RSGB IOTA contest. QSL to home call. ASIATIC RUSSIA, UA0. Look for station R20RRC/0 to be QRV from Shikotan Island, IOTA AS-062, from July 20 to 27 during the celebration of the RRC's 20th anniversary. QSL via RZ3EC. ROMANIA, YO. Members of the radio club in Miercurea-Ciuc are QRV with special event call sign YO1000LEANY during July to support the folk festival The Day of Thousand Szekely Girls. QSL via bureau. ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. Bob, VP8LP is QRV as ZD8LP until August 5. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using SSB and PSK. QSL to home call. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Bill, W5SJ is QRV as ZF2EZ while on holiday. Activity is on the HF bands. He will also be active in the CQ World Wide VHF contest. QSL via W5JAY. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ Worldwide VHF Contest, North American RTTY QSO Party, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, Russian Radio Team Championship, VK/Trans-Tasman Multi-Mode Contest, DMC RTTY Contest, Feld Hell Sprint and the RSGB Low Power CW Contest are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest is scheduled for July 22. The SKCC CW Sprint and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for July 24. Please see page 80 in the July 2013 issue of QST and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP028 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP028 ARLP028 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP28 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 28 ARLP028 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA July 12, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP028 ARLP028 Propagation de K7RA Average daily sunspot numbers over the past week rose over 23 points to 109.4, compared to the previous reporting week. Average daily solar flux was up nearly 21 points to 127.9. Two days, July 6 and July 10, had the most geomagnetic activity, with a planetary A index of 25 on July 10. Planetary A index on July 6 was 21. The forecast issued on July 7 had a predicted solar flux of 145 on July 11 and 12, and 150 on July 13 to 15, but alas, this has been scaled back. The latest forecast calls for solar flux at 110 on July 12 to 14, then 105, 110, 115 and 120 on July 15 to 18, 125 on July 19 and 20, then 120, 110 and 105 on July 21 to 23, 100 on July 24 and 25, 105 on July 26, 110 on July 27 and 28, then 120, 125 and 130 on July 29 to 31. Predicted planetary A index is 8, 15, 25, 12, 8 and 10 on July 12 to 17, then 15 on July 18 to 21, 8 on July 22, 5 on July 23 to August 3, and 10 on August 4 and 5. OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group has his own geomagnetic forecast, and he foresees a mostly quiet geomagnetic field on July 12, active to disturbed on July 13, quiet to active July 14, quiet July 15, mostly quiet July 16, quiet to unsettled July 17, quiet to active July 18, quiet to unsettled July 19, active to disturbed July 20, quiet to active July 21, quiet to unsettled July 22, quiet July 23 and 24, quiet to unsettled July 25, quiet to active July 26, quiet to unsettled July 27 and 28, quiet July 29 to 31, mostly quiet August 1, quiet to active August 2, active to disturbed August 3, quiet August 4 and 5, and active to disturbed again on August 6 and 7. Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA is now hosting the installation file for the W6ELprop Propagation Prediction Program, which is free, and runs on computers running the Windows operating system. The file disappeared from the W6EL web page, and now you can find it by going to http://k9la.us/ and clicking on Tutorials on the left side. The file is W6ELPropInst270.exe. Ted Leaf, K6HI sent a link to an article about a large sunspot group, http://earthsky.org/space/large-sunspot-group-comes-into-view. The article says activity in the Sun's southern hemisphere is finally picking up. It goes on to claim that this could be an indication of a double sunspot peak, with a second peak emerging as late as early 2014. I would love to see our Sun peppered with energetic spots. Unfortunately in this cycle, when they do emerge they tend to be weak, evidence of the overall listless nature of this cycle. K9LA talks about a second peak in his article from May 2013 at http://k9la.us/Will_Cycle_24_Have_a_Second_Peak.pdf . Several articles this week of interest to sun watchers: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-space-weather-table-effective-video.html http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/Now-Playing-A-Huge-Sunspot-Group-214525531.html http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail14/story119902/when-and-where-sunspots-will-emerge-can-be-predicted-1-day-in-advance.html http://phys.org/news/2013-07-scientists-solar-precursors-sunspots-emerge.html The ON4AA site, not mentioned here in some time: http://www.stroobandt.com/propagation/software.html From N0NBH: http://www.hamqsl.com/solar3.html A real-time 160 meter propagation tool: http://solar.spacew.com/www/160pred.html Sorry, no reports from readers this week. For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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 July 4 through 10 were 109, 113, 115, 112, 143, 98, and 76, with a mean of 109.4. 10.7 cm flux was 137.7, 140.8, 134.2, 125.6, 119.3, 119.9, and 117.9, with a mean of 127.9. Estimated planetary A indices were 5, 9, 21, 8, 6, 9, and 25, with a mean of 11.9. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 4, 10, 20, 7, 7, 8, and 20, with a mean of 10.9. /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 ---
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SB DX @ ARL $ARLD028 ARLD028 DX news ZCZC AE28 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 28 ARLD028 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT July 11, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD028 ARLD028 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by IZ2DPX, NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. CYPRUS, 5B. Tony, RT9T is QRV as 5B4ALB from Pachyammos, IOTA AS-004, until July 16. Activity is on all HF bands and modes. He will be active with the contest station P3N in the IARU HF World Championship. QSL 5B4ALB direct to home call and P3N via operators' instructions. MADAGASCAR, 5R. Flavio will be QRV as 5R8NE from Nosy-Be Island, IOTA AF-057, from July 16 to 30. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using SSB. This includes an entry in the upcoming RSGB IOTA contest. QSL via IK2DUW. SAN FELIX AND SAN AMBROSIO, CE0. Mike, WU2D is QRV as CE0X/WU2D on San Felix until July 15. Activity is on 20, 17 and 15 meters using SSB and some CW. QSL to home call. CUBA, CO. A group of operators will be QRV as T49C in the IARU HF World Championship. They will be active from the La Habana, Villa Clara and Las Tunas provinces. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via K8SIX. ANGOLA, D2. Joao, CT2HPM is QRV as D2CT from Luanda until July 26. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters using mostly PSK31 and RTTY. QSL to home call. SOUTH COOK ISLANDS, E5. Andy, AB7FS is QRV as E51AND and along with Kathy, E51KC will be active from Mangaia Island, IOTA OC-159, from July 15 to 19. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL via operators' instructions. IRELAND, EI. Olivier, ON4EI is QRV as EI8GQB and EI1A until July 31 while using green energy. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters. He will be active in the IARU HF World Championship and the upcoming CQ WW VHF and RSGB IOTA contests. QSL via PA3249. ETHIOPIA, ET. Ken, K4ZW is QRV from club station ET3AA until July 19. Activity is on the HF bands using mostly CW and possibly RTTY. This includes an entry in the IARU HF World Championship. QSL via N2OO. MARQUESAS ISLANDS, FO. Vadym, UT6UD is QRV as FO/UT6UD from Hiva, IOTA OC-027, until July 13. Activity is on 30 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. AUSTRAL ISLANDS, FO. After his Hiva operation, Vadym, UT6UD will be QRV as FO/UT6UD from Juli Rurutu, IOTA OC-050, from July 14 to 22. Activity will be on 30 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON, FP. Eric, KV1J is QRV as FP/KV1J from Miquelon Island, IOTA NA-032, until July 16. Activity is on the HF bands using mainly SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. ECUADOR, HC. Members of the Quito Radio Club are QRV as HD082QRC until July 23 to commemorate their club's 82nd anniversary. Activity is on 160 to 2 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct via HC1JQ. THAILAND, HS. Dej, E21YDP will be QRV in the IARU HF World Championship as a Single Op/Low Power CW entry. QSL via operator's instructions. GREENLAND, OX. Operators N2IEN, W2RE and WW2DX are QRV as OX/home calls from Narsarsuaq until July 15. Activity is on 40 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. They will be active as OX2DX in the IARU HF World Championship. QSL to home calls and contest call via operators' instructions. SWEDEN, SM. Special event station SF2013WE is QRV all of July during the European Championship in Women's Football. QSL via operators' instructions. SUDAN, ST. Sam, K0YAK is QRV as ST2SF from Khartoum until August. Activity is on the HF bands using mainly CW and digital modes. During power disruptions he will be active using QRP power. QSL to home call. GREECE, SV. A group of operators will be QRV as SW2UT from Neoi Poroi from July 16 to 26. Activity will be on 80 to 6 meters using CW with some SSB and RTTY. QSL via HA8UT. UKRAINE, UR. Members of the Ukrainian Radioamateur QRP Club are QRV as EO15QRP until August 12 to celebrates its 15th anniversary. QSL via UT2AB. LAOS, XW. Champ, E21EIC will be QRV as XW0YJY in the IARU HF World Championship as a Single Op/Mixed Mode/Low Power entry. QSL to home call. SERBIA, YU. Members of the Radio Club Novi Sad are QRV as YU88BPQ until December to commemorate the club's 88 years of history. QSL via YU7BPQ. MACEDONIA, Z3. Vlado, N3CZ is QRV as Z3/N3CZ until July 19 while on holiday. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The IARU HF World Championship, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint, FISTS Summer CW Sprint, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon and the CQC Great Colorado CW Gold Rush should keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. Please see page 80 in the July 2013 issue of QST and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest web sites for details. /EX --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the
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SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP027 ARLP027 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP27 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 27 ARLP027 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA July 5, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP027 ARLP027 Propagation de K7RA This week solar activity fell and then rose again, with average daily sunspot numbers down 23.6 points to 86.1. Average daily solar flux fell from 122 to 107.2. The solar flux on Thursday, July 4 rose to 137.7, the highest since May 16, fifty days earlier. There was an active geomagnetic day on Saturday, June 29 when planetary A index was 51, high latitude college A index was 73, and mid-latitude A index was 40. The high geomagnetic activity actually occurred on Friday night on the West Coast, with a planetary A index of 6 at 0300 UTC (Saturday UTC time) and 7 at 0600 UTC. My friend Diana Sorus has been asking me when to go out to see aurora, and I've told her to go to a dark place and look north when the K index is high. I suggested watching http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DGD.txt and the daily predictions at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html and to hope for clear skies. The usual problem in the Puget Sound basin of the Pacific Northwest is we have so many overcast days, the chances of seeing aurora are limited. You need just the right combination of high K index (5 or 6 or more), dark skies, and clear weather. Diana wanted to be sure to catch the next one, so she subscribed to a service from spaceweather.com which calls or texts her whenever the K index reaches some threshold designated by her. Last Friday evening she got that call, but unfortunately was too tired from working that day to venture out of the city to watch for aurora. This is unfortunate, because aurora was visible that night in many places, including areas far south of us (aurora is more intense the further away you are from the equator). Skies here have been clear for days, and we had a heat wave over the weekend. I don't know when she will get that chance again. Could be next week, next month or next solar cycle. I wasn't watching conditions closely enough to go out and observe for myself. As you can see at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/oldindices/2013Q2DGD.txt, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/oldindices/2013Q1DGD.txt, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/oldindices/2012DGD.txt and http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/oldindices/2011DGD.txt the right combination is rare. Back on March 1, 2011 the numbers look high enough, but locally the peak activity was during daylight. March 11, 2011 also had a peak at daylight, although the evening hours may have been good also, but March in Seattle tends to be overcast. I tried to find weather records online that would tell me the sky conditions, clear or overcast, but it seems I found everything but that. I did find visibility, which is typically 8-10 miles. An alternative for us is to hop on Interstate 90 and head east 100 miles over the Cascade mountain range to Eastern Washington, where skies are often clear. The latest prediction (Thursday, July 4) has solar flux relatively high for the next few days, at 140 on July 5 and 6, 135 on July 7, 140 on July 8 to 10, then 135, 130 and 120 on July 11 to 13, 125 on July 14 to 16, 130 on July 17 to 19, then 120 and 115 on July 20 and 21, and 110 on July 22 and 23. The forecast shows solar flux reaching a minimum of 100 on July 26 and 27, then another minimum at 95 on August 2, and another peak at 130 on August 13 to 14. Predicted planetary A index is 20 on July 5, 15 on July 6, 8 on July 7, 5 on July 8 to 16, followed by 10 on July 17, 15 on July 18 to 20, 18 on July 21, and 5 on July 22 to 26. The geomagnetic indices then show active conditions for the following six days. OK1HH tells us he predicts geomagnetic conditions as mostly quiet on July 5, quiet to active July 6, quiet to unsettled, July 7, quiet July 8 to 15, mostly quiet July 16 and 17, quiet to active July 18 and 19, active to disturbed July 20, quiet to active July 21, mostly quiet July 22, quiet July 23 and 24, quiet to unsettled July 25, and quiet to active July 26 and 27. At the beginning of the new month, it is now time to look at our 3-month moving average of daily sunspot numbers. The average for the three months centered on May, 2013 (April 1 through June 30) was 106.4, the same as the 3 month average centered on April, 2013 (March 1 through May 31). Actually the two averages were not exactly the same, with the latest 3 months lower by .028. The early period had a sum of 9,792 divided by 92 days, and the latest total was 9,683 divided by 91 days. The daily sunspot number average for June was just 80.2, a drop from 125.6 in May. The progression of our moving 3 month average for the past year, centered on June 2012 through May 2013 was 96.5, 91.9, 89.9, 81.2, 82.3, 74.4, 82.8, 73.6, 80.7, 85.2, 106.4 and 106.4. Some radio amateurs have said that perhaps this will be a
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SB DX @ ARL $ARLD027 ARLD027 DX news ZCZC AE27 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 27 ARLD027 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT July 3, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD027 ARLD027 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. SRI LANKA, 4S7. John, NZ9Z is active as 4S7NZG until July 7. Listen for him around 1200-1800z, typically from 1200-1400z on 15 meters and 1700-1800z on 20 meters. QSL via NZ9Z. ISRAEL, 4X. Members of the Israel Amateur Radio Club (IARC) will activate 4X19MG in honor of the 19th Maccabiah Games from July 18 to 30. QSL via 4Z1TL. CYPRUS, 5B. Tony, RT9T will be QRV as 5B4ALB from July 6 to 16. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via RT9T direct only. Tony will also participate in the IARU HF Championships as a member of the P3N team. RWANDA, 9X. Operators Allan, G3XAQ, Nick, G3RWF and possibly others will be active as 9X0XA and 9X0NH, respectively, during the CQWW DX CW Contest. QSL both call signs via G3SWH. UKRAINE, UR. Members of the Ukrainian Radioamateur QRP Club are celebrating their 15th anniversary and will activate special call sign EO15QRP from July 12 to August 12. QSL via UT2AB, via the Bureau or direct. FERNANDO DE NORONHA, PY0F. Leo, PP1CZ will be QRV from July 25 to 30. He will be active as PY0F/PP1CZ and taking part in the RSGB IOTA Contest. Before and after the contest Leo will be on the newer bands, mostly CW and RTTY with some SSB. ECUADOR, HD. Members of the Quito Radio Club (HC1QRC) will be operating as HD082QRC from July 13 to 23 to celebrate its 82nd anniversary. Activity will be on 160 to 2 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via HC1JQ direct. CHINA, BA. Ma, BA4MY will be active as BA4MY/4 from Jiming Island from July 21 to 29. Activity will be on the HF bands. He will also be an entry in the RSGB IOTA Contest. QSL via BA4EG direct, by the Bureau, LoTW or eQSL. FAROE ISLANDS, OY. Ulf, DL3UB will be QRV as OY/DL3UB from July 29 to August 9. Activity will be holiday style, primarily using CW on 30, 17 and 12 meters. QSL via this home call sign, direct or via the Bureau. CHILE, CE. A group of operators will be QRV as XR77RG during the month of July to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Radio Club Rancagua. Activity will be on all bands using SSB and PSK. QSL via CE4RG. In addition, a group of operators will be QRV as XR3PN during the month of July to commemorate the birth of Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda. Activity will be on all bands using SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via CE3OEV. SWEDEN, SJ. Eric, SM1TDE will operate as SJ1SOP for the Sea Of Peace (SOP) award until July 31. Activity will be CW only on 160 to 6 meters. During the RSGB IOTA Contest, Eric will be signing SA1A from Gotland Island (SM1), IOTA EU-020. QSL via SM1TDE, preferably by the Bureau. KAZAKHSTAN, UP. Members of the Traveling Radio Amateurs Group (UP44WFF), Mountains Committee of Kazakhstan and Almaty Radio Amateur League will be active as UP4WWF between July 5 and 7. Operations will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. MARSHALL ISLANDS, V7. Mike, KJ6MZ (ex-V73/KJ6BBP) is active as V73MZ from Kwajalein Island (OC-028) for the next few months. QSL via Mike Szelazek, P.O. Box 22409, San Diego, CA 92192, USA. LAOS, XW. Larry, AG6OU is active as XW6OU. It is not known how long he will be there. Activity is on 20 meters. QSL direct (see QRZ.com) or via E21EIC. ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON, FP. Eric, FP/KV1J will be QRV from July 6 to 16, using mostly SSB and RTTY with some CW and PSK31, on 160 to 10 meters. QSL direct or via bureau to his home call, LoTW or eQSL. HAITI, HH. Tom, HH5/KC0W will be active from the northern tip of Haiti from July 6 to 25, using CW only, on 160 to 6 meters. QSL direct only via KC0W. ACTIVITY NOT SCHEDULED. The operation from Ghana mentioned in bulletin ARLD026 will not take place. There is no operation scheduled at this time. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The 070 Club Firecracker PSK31 Sprint, Venezuelan Independence Day Contest, DL DX RTTY Contest, DARC 10 Meter Digital Corona and QRP ARCI Summer Homebrew are all on tap for this weekend. The Michigan QRP July 4th Sprint is on July 4. The ARS Spartan Sprint and OK1WC Memorial Contest are on July 9. The CWops Monthly Mini-CWT Test is on July 10. Please see page 80 in the July 2013 issue of QST and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[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 28, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP026 ARLP026 Propagation de K7RA Conditions were good for Field Day weekend last week. Only unsettled geomagnetic conditions (even quiet at times) affected us, no big flares or geomagnetic storms, and sunspot numbers also cooperated by peaking at 135 and 137 on Friday and Saturday. Geomagnetic instability was caused by a brisk solar wind, which was over by June 24. At K7RA I used the ARRL Field Day Locator map at http://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator to contact a few club groups earlier in the week to see if they could use another CW operator. I've found in years past that with so many newer licensees who were not required to learn Morse code, that CW ops can be in demand at some sites. Not only are CW operators wanted at many Field Day locations, but the newer licensees are fascinated to see Morse code in action. I really don't think that some of us old-timers who worry about some imagined demise of CW have much to worry about. At the last minute I changed my mind and decided to drag some gear accumulated over the past decade but never put on the air, and operate Class 1C, mobile single operator. Everything was last minute, including the antenna installation and power connections, with the radio sitting between the dashboard and the windshield. The antenna was a very heavy kilowatt-rated screwdriver type antenna, about 20 pounds excluding any mounting hardware or a whip, although I swore it weighed twice as much. The plan was to mount it on a very heavy duty magnetic mount on the roof, perhaps with guying (this is not recommended by the manufacturer), but during assembly I discovered this would not work, as the mounting was not compatible with the antenna. So instead, during a fit of hacker improvisation, I leaned the heavy screwdriver assembly out the right-rear passenger window, (resting on the seat), and rolled up the window as far as I could to hold it in place. I cut the coax with PL-259 off the magmount, stripped back the other end, and attached the center wire to the base of the antenna. The next surprise was that although I had a 7 foot whip, I lacked the adaptor that would screw into the top of the antenna assembly. So what to do? Just stick it in the hole, let it roll around, and pray. I now had an antenna (of sorts) leaning out the right rear of my old car, about 35 degrees above horizontal, at best. To hook the DC cable from the radio to the car battery, I needed to go through the firewall below the dashboard. Despite finding diagrams and advice specific to my 13-year-old car model online, I could not get the cable through. So I grabbed one of those portable starter batteries (fully charged), put it on the front passenger seat, and duct-taped the massive car battery connection clips (which are like jumper cables) to the DC cable from the radio, and another 12 VDC pair to the antenna tuning motor. In addition, to keep the battery charged, I tied in a very flimsy looking 12 VDC lighter plug in parallel with the whole mess, and plugged it into the dashboard lighter socket. This connector with wire was still in the bubble pack in my junk box after 20 years or more. To finish it all off, I ran a couple of long counterpoise wires from the base of the antenna, out the rear doors and along the ground, attaching them to the coax shield broken out at the base of the antenna. I ran a heavy wire from the ground lug on the radio to a metal screw beneath the dashboard that seemed good for ground, at least at DC. The whole thing worked, at least on 80 and 20 meters. 15 meters was marginal, and 40 meters I could not tune at all. Starting late Saturday evening, operating both SSB and CW, I lasted until about 1730 UTC Sunday morning. Most of the operation was from a local Seattle cemetery, on a nearby hilltop overlooking Lake Washington, east of the University of Washington. Very quiet, with power lines far away at the perimeter. Back to solar activity, from the previous week, average daily sunspot numbers were up nearly 13 points to 109.7, and average daily solar flux rose nearly 7 points to 122. Geomagnetic activity was greater than the previous week, with average daily planetary A index rising from 4.3 to 12, and average mid-latitude A index rising from 4.9 to 11.9. Ideally we would like to see the solar flux and sunspot numbers as high as possible, and the A index low, at least for 40 through 10 meters. On 160 meters we would like to see sunspot numbers low as well. I hear lots of complaints about this weird, weak solar cycle, but the 160 meter operators have absolutely no problem with the low activity. Yesterday on Thursday, June 27 the solar flux dipped below 100 to 99.5, which is below the average for the previous seven days (122). Nothing significant about 100, it is just one of those nice
[DX-NEWS] ARLP025 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP025 ARLP025 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP25 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 25 ARLP025 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA June 21, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP025 ARLP025 Propagation de K7RA Here we are at the Summer Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere, which was at 0504 UTC today, June 21. If you are west of the Central time zone, to you it was last evening. Today is the longest day of the year, but the length of your day varies considerably depending on your latitude. In San Diego, the sunrise is at 5:48 AM, and it sets 14 hours later at 7:53 PM. In Seattle the Sunrises today at 5:21 AM and sets at 9:01 PM, 15 hours and 40 minutes later. But in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Sun rises today at 3:39 AM and doesn't set until tomorrow at 12:06 AM, 20 hours and 27 minutes later! Right now many of us are interested in what HF radio conditions should be for this weekend during ARRL Field Day. Until June 3, the prediction for June 21-23 was for quiet geomagnetic conditions, with a planetary A index of 5 for all three days. Then on June 3 it changed, and the predicted planetary A index for those days was 25, 18 and 10, quite a difference. On June 15 the forecast changed to 10, 18 and 10, then on June 19 it became 18, 12 and 8, and finally yesterday it changed to 25, 15 and 10, closer to what it was on June 3. Remember, we want those numbers to be low. You can check http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html for daily updates after 2100 UTC, and at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DGD.txt it is updated every three hours with new K indices. As of Thursday afternoon, the predicted solar flux is 130 on June 21, 135 on June 22-24, 130 on June 25, 125 on June 26-27, 120 on June 28, 115 on June 29-30, hitting a minimum of 100 on July 5-7 and rising to a peak of 130 on July 19-21. The predicted planetary A index is 25, 15 and 10 on June 21-23, 5 on June 24-27, then 30, 20, 10 and 8 on June 28 through July 1, then 5 on July 2-4, 10 on July 5-6, then 5 on July 7-13, and 8 on July 15-16. Over the past week average daily sunspot numbers rose from 39.6 to 97, and average daily solar flux was up from 99.2 points to 115.3. Petr Kolman, OK1MGW predicts quiet to active geomagnetic conditions June 21-23, quiet to unsettled June 24, quiet June 25-26, quiet to active June 27, active to disturbed June 28-29, quiet to unsettled June 30 through July 2, quiet to active July 3-4, and mostly quiet July 5-6. Pavel Costa, CO7WT sent this observation: In past winters I have noticed that when a cold front is passing over Cuba, the front of the wave some times acts as a very good reflector for VHF signals, precisely the 2 meter band that is commonly used here in Cuba for FM signals. As Cuba is a kind of thin and long island, the propagation behaves differently depending on the angle of the incoming cold front. Sometimes when the front comes perpendicular to the island, the propagation is good for signals bouncing off the front of the wave. Other times when the wave comes parallel to the island the propagation is improved island wide. This phenomenon is not always seen with all cold fronts, and its duration is from 1 to 4 hours for ranges about 100 to 500 Km, I have noticed. Last winter I remember a cold front that made possible communications from hand held radios on 2 meter simplex with rubber duck antennas from two locations around 100 km apart with about 5 watts. That was around last December, maybe E-skip helped that time, but I think the cold front was responsible for that. K1KT, Ken Tata of Warwick, Rhode Island noted on June 18 an intense 2 meter opening in Europe, and said a MUF map showed a spot over the Adriatic with MUF of 280 MHz. Jeff Hartley, N8II of West Virginia mentioned on June 16, The bands have sounded pretty good despite the low solar flux, except for 12 and 10 meters. 15 meters is often open in our evening into Europe. 17 meters is open most days to Europe and Western Asia around 0200-0300Z, and I worked about 10 European and Asian stations on 15 meters via Es into F2 (beacon from VE1 heard on 10M) on Friday at 0230-0315Z. 15 meters was fantastic over long stretches in the All Asia contest, JAs were loud Sunday for over 2 hours 1330-1530Z. This is a fairly rare opening for us. 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at http://arrl.org/propagation. Instructions for starting or
[DX-NEWS] ARLD025 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD025 ARLD025 DX news ZCZC AE25 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 25 ARLD025 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT June 20, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD025 ARLD025 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. CYPRUS, 5B. Operators Stavros, 5B4AFM and Philip, 5B4ZN will be QRV as home calls/p from Agios Georgios Island, IOTA AS-120, on June 22 and 23. Activity will be on 40, 30 and 20 meters using mostly CW. QSL to home calls. BAHRAIN, A9. Dave, A92IO has been QRV on 17 meters around 0400z. He is active until December 2013. QSL to home call. PORTUGAL, CT. Members of the Cascais Radio Club will be QRV as CQ75SMA during Field Day on June 22. Activity will be on the HF bands, including VHF, UHF, Satellite and digital modes. QSL via operators' instructions. PHILIPPINES, DU. Tim, KC5DCT will be QRV as DU6/KC5DCT from Lakawon Island, IOTA OC-129, on June 22. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW and SSB with QRP power. QSL to home call. IRELAND, EI. Members of the North Cork Radio Group are QRV as EI75GP until June 23 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Cork Grand Prix. QSL via bureau. IRAN, EP. Mohsen, EP3SMH has been active on 15 meters using CW and RTTY at various times. QSL to home call. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HI. Juergen, DL4SDW is QRV as DL4SDW/HI3 until July 26. Activity is in his spare time on the HF bands using mainly CW with some SSB and digital modes. QSL to home call. ITALY, I. Members of the Calabria DX Team will be QRV as II8LH from the Capo Suvero Lighthouse, ARLHS ITA-045, on June 22. QSL via operators' instructions. ALASKA, KL. Rick, K6VVA will be QRV as K6VVA/KL7 from Sarichef Island, IOTA NA-152, from June 25 to 27. Activity will be on 40, 30, 20 and 17 meters using primarily CW with some SSB. QSL via N6AWD. FAROE ISLANDS, OY. Operators G3ZAY, M0GXM, M0ZXA, M1BXF and MD0IGD are QRV as OY/home calls until June 23. Activity is on 40 to 6 meters using mainly SSB with some CW. QSL OY/M0ZXA and OY/M1BXF via G3ZAY and all others to home calls. SWEDEN, SM. Bernd, DL8AAV is QRV as SD1B/6 from Orust Island, IOTA EU-043, until June 29. Activity is holiday style on or near the usual island and IOTA frequencies. QSL to home call. CRETE, SV9. Gianni, SV2FPU is QRV as SV9/SV2FPU from Gaydox Island until June 30. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct to home call. SOMALIA, T5. Roger, LA4GHA is QRV as 6O0LA and has been active on 12 meters around 1130z. QSL to home call. CAMEROON, TJ. Nicolas, TJ3SN has been active on 6 meters around 2000z. QSL via IZ1BZV. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event station R1963VT is QRV from the Vostok 6 spacecraft until June 23 in commemoration of Valentina V. Tereshkova, the first woman in space. QSL via RK3MWA. BELIZE, V3. Jimmy, W6JKV is QRV as V31IV from San Pedro until July 1. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using CW. QSL to home call. CHAGOS ISLAND, VQ9. Jim, ND9M will be QRV as VQ93JC from Diego Garcia from June 22 to July 7. He will be active most days from 1230 to 1615z. QSL to home call. HONG KONG, VR. Kazuhiko, JH1OGX is QRV as VR2KF from Ma Wan Island, IOTA AS-006, until 2014. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters. QSL via operator's instructions. LAOS, XW. Alex, RK3DT is QRV as XW3DT until June 23. Activity is on 17 and 15 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via operator's instructions. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. ARRL Field Day, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint, His Majesty King of Spain SSB Contest, Ukrainian DX DIGI Contest and the Marconi Memorial HF CW Contest are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The SKCC CW Sprint and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for June 26. Please see June QST, page 79 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD024 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD024 ARLD024 DX news ZCZC AE24 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 24 ARLD024 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT June 13, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD024 ARLD024 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by E20YLM, NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. BOTSWANA, A2. Roger, ZS6RJ, will be QRV as A25RJ from Tuli Block beginning June 15 and be here for 4 or 5 days. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW and RTTY. QSL direct to home call. BHUTAN, A5. Yuki, JH1NBN is QRV as A52W until June 19. Activity is mainly on 40, 20, 17 and 15 meters using SSB. QSL direct to home call. CHILE, CE. Members of the Chilean Pacific DX Group are QRV as XR80PDI during June to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Chilean Investigation Police. Activity is on all bands using SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via XQ7UP. ST. MARTIN, FS. John, K9EL is QRV as FS/K9EL until June 28. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters. QSL to home call. SOLOMON ISLANDS, H4. A group of operators will be QRV as H44IOTA from Stewart Island, IOTA OC-285, from June 17 to 24. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via NR6M. HONDURAS, HR. Look for a group of operators to be QRV as HQ8S from Swan Island, IOTA NA-035, from June 16 to 25. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct via KD4POJ. THAILAND, HS. Members of the Radio Amateur Association of Khon Kaen are QRV as HS4AK until June 17 in celebration of the association's 22nd anniversary. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. This includes being a Multi/Single entry in the All Asian DX CW contest. QSL via E20YLM. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JD1. Take, JG8NQJ is QRV as JD1NQJ/JD1 from Marcus Island, IOTA OC-073, while on work assignment at the local weather station. Activity is in his spare time on 17 to 10 meters using mainly CW with some SSB. QSL direct via JA8CJY. SVALBARD, JW. Svein, LA9JKA may be QRV as JW9JKA from Bear Island, IOTA EU-027, from June 16 until mid December. Activity will be in his spare time on the HF and VHF bands. QSL direct to home call. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. Tony, JA6CNL will be QRV as KH0N from Saipan, IOTA OC-086, during the All Asian DX CW contest. QSL to home call. ALAND ISLANDS, OH0. Pete, OH2BEE and Raimo, OH2BCI are QRV as OG0W until June 17. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using only CW. This includes being active in the All Asian DX CW contest. QSL via OH2BEE. BELGIUM, ON. Ivo, ON7IVO will be QRV from the castle Zandvliet during the World Castles Weekend. QSL to home call. BRAZIL, PY. Special event station PS2013CCB will be QRV from June 15 to 30 during Brazil's hosting of this year's FIFA Confederations Cup. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via PS7AB. POLAND, SP. Special event station SN675B is QRV until June 30 in commemoration of the town of Blonie gaining city rights under the Magdeburg Law back in 1338. QSL via SP5KOG. EGYPT, SU. Vlad, UA4WHX is now QRV as SU9VB. Of late he has been active on 17 meters. QSL to home call. TURKEY, TA. Kadri, TA1D will be QRV in the IARU Region 1 50 MHz contest from grid locator KM39bp. QSL to home call. CORSICA, TK. Ale, IW5ELA will be QRV as TK/IW5ELA from June 15 to 19. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands, QSL via bureau. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, VP2V. Dave, W9DR is QRV as VP2V/W9DR from the north shore of Anegada Island, IOTA NA-023, until June 28. Activity is on 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. LAOS, XW. Champ, E21EIC will be QRV as XW0YJY from June 15 to September 14 while on work assignment. Activity will be on 160 to 2 meters. This includes being a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry in the All Asian DX CW contest. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. Kid's Day SSB Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, All Asian DX CW Contest, IARU Region 1 50 MHz Contest, SMIRK Contest, Ukrainian DX Classic RTTY Contest, AGCW VHF/UHF Contest, QRP ARCI QRP Shootout, Stew Perry Topband CW Challenge, World Castles Weekend, West Virginia QSO Party, Feld Hell Sprint and the WAB 50 MHz Phone are all scheduled for this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest and NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint are scheduled for June 17. Please see June QST, page 79 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD023 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD023 ARLD023 DX news ZCZC AE23 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 23 ARLD023 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT June 6, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD023 ARLD023 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. BAHAMAS, C6. Operators N2RFA, K2KJI, KC4PX and K2TTT will be QRV as C6ABB, C6ALC, C6APX and C6ATT, respectively, from New Providence Island, IOTA NA-001, from June 8 to 15. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using SSB, RTTY, SSTV, PSK31 and JT65. This includes activity in the ARRL June VHF contest. QSL direct to home calls. CUBA, CO. A group of operators will be QRV as T46A from Cayo Santa Maria Island, IOTA NA-204, from June 13 to 17. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY, possibly with more than one station. QSL direct via EA5GL. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Look for EH8FSJ to be QRV from Lomo Jurgon bei Arucas on Gran Canaria from June 10 to 24. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL via EA8RKL. ETHIOPIA, ET. Ken, K4ZW will be QRV from club station ET3AA from June 8 to 10 using mainly CW on the HF bands. QSL via N2OO. HUNGARY, HA. Special event station HG7DANUBE is QRV during the month of June to celebrate Danube Day, which occurs on June 29. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL via HA7VY. REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HL. Special event station DT60US is QRV during 2013 to celebrate the 60-year long partnership between South Korea and the USA. QSL via WX8C. ST. LUCIA, J6. Bill, K9HZ will be QRV as J68HZ from June 8 to 22. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. Tony, JA6CNL will be QRV as KH0N from Saipan, IOTA OC-086, from June 13 to 17. Activity will be on the HF bands. This includes an entry in the upcoming All Asian DX CW contest. QSL to home call. BULGARIA, LZ. Members of the Radio Club Blagovestnik are QRV as LZ1534GWS to honor the Saint and martyr Georgi Sofiiski. QSL via LZ1KCP. AUSTRIA, OE. Special event station OE200TH is QRV until June 14 to celebrate the 200th birthday of noted designer and engineer Theophil Hansen. QSL via OE3PVC. CZECH REPUBLIC, OK. Special event station OL140FIRE is QRV until June 14 to celebrate the 140th jubilee of the local fire brigade in Horni Marsov and the nationwide meeting of firefighters in Litomerice. QSL via operators' instructions. GREECE, SV. A group of operators will be QRV as SV68FF from Agios Mamas lagoon on June 8 and 9. Activity will be on 80 through 10 meters SSB. QSL via SV2GWY. UKRAINE, UR. A group of operators are QRV as EM5F from Ochakovskiy Island, IOTA EU-182, until June 9. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters. QSL via UR5FAV. INDONESIA, YB. Operators YB3EDD, YB3VPP, YB3GZS and YB3BOA are QRV as YE3I from Gili Ketapang, IOTA OC-237, until June 9. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL direct via YB3EDD. GIBRALTAR, ZB. Ernest, ZB2FK is QRV as ZB54FK until June 27 to commemorate The Union of European Football Associations acceptance of Gibraltar as its 54th member. QSL direct to home call. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC credit: Lakshadweep Islands, VU7KV, May 2013 operation. If you had this contact rejected in a recent submission, send an email to bmo...@arrl.org to be placed on the list for an update to your record. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL June VHF Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, HA3NS Sprint Memorial CW Contest, DRCG Long Distance RTTY Contest, VK Shires Contest, Asia-Pacific SSB Sprint, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, Portugal Day Contest, GACW WWSA CW DX Contest and the REF DDFM 6-Meter Contest are all scheduled for this weekend. The NAQCC Straight Key/Bug CW Sprint, CWops Mini-CWT CW Test and RSGB 80-Meter Club CW Championship are all scheduled for June 12. Please see June QST, page 79 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD022 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD022 ARLD022 DX news ZCZC AE22 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 22 ARLD022 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 30, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD022 ARLD022 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. GHANA, 9G. Hans, PB2T will be QRV as 9G5AA from June 2 to 7. QSL to home call. BHUTAN, A5. Shin, A52SV has been active on 17 meters around 1400 to 1500z. QSL via JA2PSV. QATAR, A7. Mark, G0MGX plans to be QRV as A71/G0MGX until the end of 2013. Activity will be mainly during the weekends using RTTY and JT65 on the HF bands. QSL direct to home call. CAPE VERDE, D4. Harald, DF2WO will be QRV as D44TWO from June 3 to 20. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL via M0OXO. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Oliver, DK7TX will be QRV as DK7TX/p from Wangerooge Island, IOTA EU-047, from June 5 to 10. Activity will be holiday style on 20 to 10 meters. QSL to home call. SPAIN, EA. Special event station EG5SUB will be QRV on June 1 and 2 for the Museum Ships Weekend. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via operators' instructions. SAINT BARTHELEMY, FJ. Jeff, K5WE and Erik, N5WR will be QRV as FJ/home calls from June 3 to 10. Activity will be on 80 to 6 meters using mostly CW with some SSB and RTTY as well. QSL to home calls. FRENCH GUINEA, FY. Christian, F5UII will be QRV from the FY5KE radio club in Kourou from June 5 to 14 while on business there. Activity will be limited to generally 1000 to 1100z and then after 2100z. He may also be QRV as FY/F5UII/p from Isle Royale, IOTA SA-020. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL via operator's instructions. ITALY, I. Special event station II4BTK will be QRV on June 1 and 2 for the Museum Ships Weekend. This station will be near what is left of the Elettra, a two-masted steam yacht that Marconi used as a floating laboratory. QSL via IQ4FE. ALASKA, KL7. Jeff, KL2HD will be QRV as KL7NWR on Attu Island, IOTA NA-064, in the Aleutian Islands. Activity will be on 20, 17 and 15 meters as propagation permits. QSL via operator's instructions. LITHUANIA, LY. Sam, LY5W is QRV as LY605W until June 20 in celebration of 605 years of Kaunas. QSL to home call. MARKET REEF, OJ0. Harry, OJ0VM will be QRV June 2 to 6. He is a member of the Finnish Lighthouse Society and repairs Lighthouses together with his fellow members. QSL to home call. BONAIRE, PJ4. Steve, 9M6DXX plans to be QRV as PJ4V beginning either June 4 or 5 until June 16. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using SSB. QSL via M0URX. ASIATIC RUSSIA, UA0. Special event station R155C is QRV until June 30 to honor 155 years of the city of Chabarowsk. QSL via RZ0CWA. MARSHALL ISLANDS, V7. Mike, KJ6MZ will be QRV as V73MZ from Kwajalein Island, IOTA OC-028, beginning in June and active for a few months. QSL via operator's instructions. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, VP2V. Kevin, K6TOP is QRV as VP2V/K6TOP until June 6. QSL to home call. INDONESIA, YB. Adhi, YB3MM will try to be QRV as YB3MM/p from Karangjamuang Island, IOTA OC-237, on June 1 and 2. Activity will be on 15 meters using SSB. QSL via IZ8CCW. LATVIA, YL. Eddie, ES2TT will be QRV as YL0WANTED from June 5 to 9 during the American Cars Fan Meeting. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. IARU Region 1 CW Field Day, RSGB National CW Field Day, 10-10 International Open Season PSK Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, DigiFest, Wake-Up. QRP CW Sprint, Maritimes QSO Party, Museum Ships Weekend, SEANET Contest, UKSMG Summer Contest and the Alabama QSO Party are all on tap for this weekend. The RSGB 80-Meter Club Data Championship is scheduled for June 3. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for June 4. Please see May QST, page 80, June QST, page 79 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP021 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP021 ARLP021 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP21 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 21 ARLP021 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA May 24, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP021 ARLP021 Propagation de K7RA Overall, solar activity is still pretty quiet, but one positive sign was on May 16, when the daily sunspot number was 212. I eyeballed the records, and had to keep searching further and further back to find a higher sunspot number. One year, six months and one week earlier, on November 9, 2011 the sunspot number was nearly that high, at 208. We look clear back seven years, 10 months and 12 days to July 4, 2005, another near miss at 192. To find activity beating the May 16 number we have to go back nearly a decade, to November 1, 2003 when the daily sunspot number was 277. This was way back on the downward slide of cycle 23, nine years, six months and 15 days earlier than our recent high number. Let's hope for many more days like this. That seems likely, as the peak of this solar cycle is predicted for this fall, which begins about four months from now, on Sunday, September 22. Compared to the previous period (May 9-15) average daily sunspot numbers this week were down over 12 points to 144. Average daily solar flux sank nearly 6 points to 134.2. Geomagnetic activity was higher, with average daily planetary A index up 3.7 points to 9.7, and average daily mid-latitude A index up 4.4 points to 10.3. It should be noted that five of the eight daily geomagnetic readings which make up the A index were not recorded for May 16 at the mid- latitude observatory, so the mid-latitude A index of 12 for that day is an estimate. The latest prediction from NOAA/USAF has solar flux at 135 on May 24-25, 130 on May 26-27, 135 on May 28-29, and then 130, 115, 105 and 110 on May 30 through June 2, 120 on June 3-5, and 125 on June 6-8, before rising to a short-term peak of 140 on June 12-13. This prediction is a bit far off, but it also shows a minimum flux value of 100 on June 26-27. Turning to geomagnetic activity, predicted planetary A index is 15, 20, 12 and 8 on May 24-27, 5 on May 28 through June 10, and then 8, 12 and 8 on June 11-13, 5 on June 14-17, and then 15, 12, 8 and 5 on June 18-21. On June 24, a month and about one solar rotation from now, they show planetary A index rising from 5 to 15, perhaps an echo of current geomagnetic activity. OK1HH predicts active to disturbed geomagnetic conditions May 24, quiet to active May 25, mostly quiet May 26-27, quiet to active May 28, quiet to unsettled May 29, quiet May 30, quiet to unsettled May 31 through June 1, mostly quiet June 2, quiet to unsettled June 3, quiet June 4-8, mostly quiet June 9-10, quiet to active June 11, active to disturbed June 12-13, quiet to unsettled June 14, and mostly quiet June 15-16. The CQ World Wide WPX Contest, CW weekend begins tonight/tomorrow at UTC May 25. The geomagnetic activity predicted for this weekend may add some additional challenge to the test, which has a new set of rules. The multiplier used is the number of unique call sign prefixes of stations worked. See details at http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm. The current geomagnetic activity is due to a May 22 M5 class solar flare, which is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our geomagnetic field today, May 24. Jon Jones, N0JK reports that during a six meter e-layer opening last Sunday evening observed from coast to coast in North America, a rare Australia to North America opening took place. From 2355 UTC on May 19 until 0032 UTC on May 20 on CW VK4MA worked W9FF, NW0W, K9ZM, WZ8D, W9WZJ and K0GU. It appears the longest distance was to WZ8D, about 9,041 miles. N0JK believes the propagation path was via e-layer linked to trans-equatorial propagation. Last Friday, May 17 Jim Smith, K3RTU took his backpack rig into Ridley Creek State Park in Southeast Pennsylvania (FM29). He wrote: After some hiking I set up my Buddistick vertical and new KX3 about 1730. I tried 15 meters first, but had no luck and only heard a few stations, so I readjusted the antenna for 17 meters and after a few minutes worked Duncan, EA5ON/M with SSB and got a 54 report. Not too bad for vertical to vertical, but the QRN on his end was troublesome. Duncan told me it was raining there with lots of atmospheric noise and later contacts with Western Europe confirmed the bad weather was pretty wide spread. Then over the next two hours worked Dave VP5/W5CW (my report 59), Mario DJ2OR (55), Carolyn W5/G6WRW near Santa Fe, NM (53), Al VE7WJ (53), Joe DF9ZP (59), KB5AVE (56), and last, Mike IF9ZWA (55) on Favignana Island off the coast of Sicily. What amazed me the most was that I had good propagation both east and west of my location which I don't always find to be the case. And finally, I just ran across a previously overlooked email from Wayne Mills, N7NG of Jackson Hole, Wyoming sent on January 4, 2013, reflecting on cycle 19. Wayne said, I
[DX-NEWS] ARLD021 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD021 ARLD021 DX news ZCZC AE21 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 21 ARLD021 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 23, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD021 ARLD021 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by HA0HW, K1SFA, NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. AZERBAIJAN, 4K. Alim, 4K6FO plans to be active in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via operator's instructions. GEORGIA, 4L. Vaho, 4L8A will be a Single Op/Single Band on 20 meter entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via operator's instructions. CYPRUS, 5B. A group of operators will be QRV as P3N as a Multi/Single entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via RW3RN. MADEIRA ISLANDS, CT3. Operators DL8LAS, DL9EE and DK9IP are QRV as CT9/homecalls. They will be active as CR3L in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL CR3L via DJ6QT and all others to home calls. CANARY ISLANDS, EA8. Luis, EA8AY will be QRV as EE8X from Tenerife, IOTA AF-004, in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL direct via W2GR. FRANCE, F. Special event station TM100USA will be QRV from the Montfaucon American Monument on May 25 and 26 as a special tribute to the American troops who served here during the first World War. Activity will be on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via F6KUP. JERSEY, GJ. Kazu, M0CFW is QRV as MJ0CFW from St. Brelade until May 27. He will be active as MJ5Z in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL both calls direct to home call. SVALBARD, JW. Operator DK8FD is QRV as JW/DK8FD until May 27. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL to home call. LUXEMBOURG, LX. Look for LX7I to be a Multi/Two entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via LX2A. ALAND ISLANDS, OH0. Tomi will be QRV as OH0Z from Fasta Aland, IOTA EU-002, in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via W0MM. CZECH REPUBLIC, OL. Special event station OL2013DIG is QRV until June 6 during the international DIG-meeting. QSL via OK1AR. GREENLAND, OX. Henning, OZ1BII is QRV as XP2I from Kangerlussuaq until May 27. Activity is on the HF bands using only CW. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL to home call. SABA, ST. EUSTATIUS, PJ5. A group of operators are QRV as PJ6A from Saba, IOTA NA-145, until May 27. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via N4NX. GREECE, SV. Laci, HA0HW is QRV as SW8WW from Thassos Island, IOTA EU-174, until June 5. Activity is on all HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest as a Single Op/All Band entry. QSL to home call. TURKEY, TA. Special event station TC1919ATA is QRV in commemoration of the landing of Kemal Atatuerk in Samsun in 1919. QSL via TA6P. CANADA, VE. Ron, VA3RVK is QRV as XL3T until June 23 to commemorate the Canadian Arctic Expedition that took place from 1913 to 1916. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL via VE3AT. AUSTRALIA, VK. Special event station VI103WIA is QRV until May 27 from Freemantle, Western Australia during the Wireless Institute of Australia AGM and National Conference. QSL via bureau. VANUATU, YJ. Bill, K2PO is QRV as YJ0PO from Efate Island, IOTA OC-035. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL to home call. NEW ZEALAND, ZL. Holger, ZL3IO will be QRV from Hawke's Bay on the North Island, IOTA OC-036, as a Single Op/All Band entry in the CQ WW WPX CW contest. QSL direct to home call. PRINCE EDWARD AND MARION ISLANDS, ZS8. David, ZS8Z has been QRV on 20 meters using SSB around 1340 to 1500z and 10 meters around 1230z. QSL via ZS1HF. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC credit: North Cook Island, E51WL. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ World Wide WPX CW Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Portuguese Navy Day Digital Contest, QRP ARCI Hootowl CW Sprint and the SARL Digital Contest will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The MI QRP Memorial Day CW Sprint is scheduled for May 27 and 28. Please see May QST, page 80, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[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 17, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP020 ARLP020 Propagation de K7RA This is, after all, the peak of the current solar cycle, or close to it, so no surprise that solar indices are up. But based on past solar cycles, many of us expected more. The latest forecast predicts a peak for this cycle in Fall 2013, but of course that will be determined afterward, and based on a long running average of sunspot numbers. So don't miss this one. Don't wait until a year after the peak, then lament not being on back when. Today may have the best Spring propagation for a long time. The past week saw average daily sunspot numbers increase by more than 34 points to 156.1. Average daily solar flux was up by nearly three points to 140.1. On Wednesday, May 15 the daily sunspot number was 186, the highest number since January 6-7, when the sunspot numbers were 186 and 196. Predicted solar flux for the near term is 145 on May 17-18, 140 on May 19, 135 on May 20, 130 on May 21, 125 on May 22, 120 on May 23-24, 160 on May 25, 170 on May 26, 160 on May 27-28, 155 on May 29-30, 150 on May 31, 155 on June 1, 160 on June 2-3, 155 on June 4, 150 on June 5, and 145 on June 6-8. Predicted planetary A index is 15 on May 17, 8 on May 18-19, 5 on May 20, 8 on May 21, 15 on May 22, 12 on May 23, 8 on May 24, 5 on May 25-27, 15 and 10 on May 28-29, 5 on May 30 through June 8, 8 on June 9, and 5 on June 10 and 12 on June 11. Http://Spaceweather.com reports this morning (May 17) that a CME may strike Earth today from an X1 flare two days ago, but it is expected to be a glancing blow instead of a direct hit. NOAA predicts a 40% chance of polar geomagnetic storms. This is from sunspot group 1478, which should be pointing directly at Earth in a few days. ZDnet ran a story on this today: http://www.zdnet.com/active-sunspot-fires-solar-flares-cme-toward-us-715460/ Http://space.com ran a mid-week piece on sunspot group 1478, complete with video and cinematic score: http://www.space.com/21150-huge-solar-flares-busy-sunspot.html OK1HH predicts quiet to active geomagnetic conditions May 17-18, mostly quiet May 19, quiet on May 20, mostly quiet May 21, active to disturbed May 22, quiet to active May 23-24, mostly quiet May 25-26, quiet May 27, quiet to active May 28, active to disturbed May 29, quiet to unsettled May 30, mostly quiet May 31 and June 1, quiet to unsettled June 2-3, mostly quiet June 4, and quiet on June 5-8. David Moore sends along a link to a video from Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog on http://slate.com. This one shows time-lapse photography of aurora from Northern Michigan: http://vimeo.com/65504232 This is a pretty high bandwidth HD video, so if you have an average broadband connection, you may want to turn off the audio and walk away from the computer for a while and let the buffer load up on data, then run the video from the beginning. Phil Plait's commentary on the video is well worth reading, and you can find it on http://slate.com if you select Health and Science across the top, then page down to Time Lapse Video. There are a couple of space weather pages on Facebook of interest to hams. You will have to sign up for Facebook to read these, but it is free and painless. Check out http://www.facebook.com/232532740131296 and http://www.facebook.com/spacewx.hfradio. Check out http://www.ipellejero.es/hf/english/index.html, an interesting and useful page found just by fooling around with a popular web search engine. Search about one-fifth down the page for Solar Flux Index and Sunspots. You'll see an interesting plot correlating proton flux, solar flux and sunspot number. Today (May 17) at 0915 UTC the http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en site issued this alert: There was a huge eruption on the Sun observed with class M3.21. At 0952 UTC their website said In the past two hours there was a big solar flare with a class of M3.21. Lee Gordy, W4KUT of Cartersville, Georgia sent this report about what he was up to over the past few days, along with a propagation query about solar flares and HF blackouts: I participated in a GEMA/FEMA/Homeland Security exercise at Stone Mountain, Georgia this week. I was with Paulding County EMA/ARES. There were a couple dozen EMA, Fire Rescue, LEO and National Guard MCVs gathered from all over the state for the four day event. My guess is an MCV must be a Mobile Command or Communications Vehicle, and of course a LEO is a Law Enforcement Officer. I think EMA must be an Emergency Management Agency. The exercise was Monday through Thursday, May 13-16. Lee continues, We were tasked with many activities, including checking-in to the statewide Georgia ARES HF net (80 and 40 meters) every hour, from 0900 through 1700 local, May 14-15, using CW, Voice (LSB), and PSK31. ARES played a big part in the exercise. The HF conditions
[DX-NEWS] ARLD020 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD020 ARLD020 DX news ZCZC AE20 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 20 ARLD020 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 16, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD020 ARLD020 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by CS5CRE, F5TRO, NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. CYPRUS, 5B. Tony, RT9T is QRV as 5B4ALB until May 28. Activity is on all HF bands and modes. This includes being an entry in the upcoming CQ WPX CW contest, possibly with a different call sign. QSL direct to home call. SENEGAL, 6V. Vlad, RK4FF is QRV as 6V7S from Le Calao in Ngaparou until May 30. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. PORTUGAL, CT. Special event station CS25ARVM will be QRV from May 20 to 26 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ARVM. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters, as well as 2 meters and 70 cm, using CW and SSB. QSL via CT1VM. In addition, special call sign CR5AT will be QRV on May 18 from the castle Amieira do Tejo. QSL via CS5CRE. FRANCE, F. A group of operators will be QRV as F6KUF/p from May 18 to 20 from the Ile de Noirmoutier. Activity will be on 80 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with three stations. QSL via F6KUF/p. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, E7. Special event station E720SRRS is QRV until the end of 2013 in celebration of 20 years of the Savez radio-amatera Republike Srpske. QSL via bureau. BELARUS, EW. Special event station EV196VTAP is used to commemorate the 70th anniversary of a military regiment. QSL via EW8LL. GALAPAGOS, HC8. Alex, HD2A and Alberto, HC2AQ are QRV as HD8A from Isla de Santa Cruz, IOTA SA-004, until May 20. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL direct via HD2A. COLOMBIA, HK. A large group of women operators will be QRV as 5K3YL on May 18 during the Days of YLs contest. Activity will be on 40 and 20 meters using SSB. QSL via EA3DUF. REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HL. Kang, DS4DRE/5, will be active from Hajo Island, IOTA AS-060, until December. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via home call. US VIRGIN ISLANDS, KP2. Look for Fred, K9VV to be QRV as NP2X and Bob, WP2XX to be QRV from May 21 to 28 from the Radio Reef DXers Super-Station on St. Croix Island, IOTA NA-106. During the upcoming CQ WPX CW contest, they will be active as KP2M. QSL KP2M direct to AI4U, NP2X direct via K5WW and WP2XX direct. BONAIRE, PJ4. John, K4BAI will be QRV as PJ4/K4BAI from May 22 to 27. Activity will be on the HF bands. He plans to be active as PJ4A in the upcoming CQ WPX CW contest. QSL both calls via K4BAI. SLOVENIA, S5. Special event station S545DSW is QRV until May 31 in celebration of the founding of Radio Club Mozirje 45 years ago. Activity is on the HF bands using mainly SSB and digital modes. QSL via S51DSW. GREECE, SV. A group of operators are QRV as SZ8S from Samos Island, IOTA EU-049, until May 30. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands. QSL direct via G1LAT. TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, VP5. Dave, W5CW is QRV as VP5/W5CW from Caicos Island, until June 11. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. FALKLAND ISLANDS, VP8. Andy, M0HLT is QRV as VP8DOH while on work assignment for the coming two years. He is active on the higher bands using SSB in his spare time. QSL via operator's instructions. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations have been approved for DXCC credit: Ghana, 9G5EME, 2013 operation; Cocos Island, TI9CCC, February 15 through February 28, 1984 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint, The Day of YLs, UN DX Contest, EU BPSK63 DX Contest, Aegean RTTY Contest, His Majesty King of Spain CW Contest, Feld Hell Sprint, Baltic Contest and the UA2 QSO Party are all on tap for this weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest is scheduled for May 20. The SKCC CW Sprint and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for May 22. Please see May QST, page 80, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP019 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP019 ARLP019 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP19 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 19 ARLP019 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA May 10, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP019 ARLP019 Propagation de K7RA Average daily sunspot numbers remained about the same this week, with the number nudging up from 120.9 to 121.7. The average of the daily solar flux numbers went from 136.5 to 137.5. An odd thing happened too. For two weeks in a row the average planetary A index was the same as the mid-latitude A index. Last week they were both 9.9, and this week both values were 8. Predicted solar flux for the near future is 125 on May 10, 115 on May 11-13, 110 on May 14, 105 on May 15-16, 110 on May 17, 120 on May 18, 130 on May 19-20, 135 on May 21-22, then rising to 160 on May 28. Predicted planetary A index is 5 on May 10-11, 8 on May 12-13, 5 on May 14-20, then 15, 10 and 15 on May 21-23, 5 on May 24-27 and 15 and 10 on May 28-29. F.K. Janda, OK1HH predicts the geomagnetic field will be quiet to unsettled on May 10, quiet to active May 11-12, and quiet to unsettled May 13-19. The forecasts from OK1HH have been getting shorter. At first the text was shorter because there was less variation over the forecast period. So instead of shifting between five different levels of activity over the course of nearly four weeks, we've seen two levels, as in this week's forecast. When I checked every bulletin since the first of the year, I found that the number of days the forecast covers varied. The first two bulletins of 2013 each covered 23 days, the next was 25 days, then the fourth bulletin was 23 days, followed by 24 days on each of the next three. The eighth (Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP008) covered just 17 days, and the next six weeks varied from 21-24 days. For bulletins ARLP014 through ARLP019 (this bulletin) the coverage was 23, 19, 25, 24, 17 and 10 days. So the predictions for this bulletin and the previous two all end on the same date, May 19. I will see if I can find out what his methods are, and if perhaps variation in conditions leading up the date of the forecast in some way limits the number of days that are predicted. At 0119 UTC today (May 10) I received an alert from http://SpaceWeatherLive.com (not to be confused with http://spaceweather.com). The message is in Dutch, and it looks like it says there was a Class M3.95 solar flare. But the message does not say whether the flare was geo-effective (Earth directed) or how long it lasted. I note that http://spaceweather.com says the flare was just over the Sun's eastern horizon, so it was not aimed at Earth, but it will move toward Earth in the days ahead. An event at the eastern horizon should take about a week to move into a position where it is aimed toward Earth, although another variable is the latitude of the region. The English version of their web site is http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en. In the group of six graphs at the top, five of them cover the previous two hours, and the Kp Index covers the previous 24 hours. At the bottom of the page is a flattened version of the STEREO image at http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/. Instead of watching the rotating globe, you see all sides of the sun at once. David Moore sent a link to Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog (see http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/08/solar_eruption_different_spacecraft_see_a_solar_eruption_from_different.html) with an article and an impressive NASA video showing a May 1 solar event, as seen from SOHO, SDO and STEREO. You can see Phil's website at http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html. Bad Astronomy refers to Phil's attempts to correct popular misconceptions about science. Lance Collister, W7GJ of Frenchtown, Montana wrote about recent 6-meter adventures: Well, I think the SFI being over 145 on Saturday May 4 probably moved the TEP further north than usual - and with the early onset of Es, which just happened to connect me to Texas just at the right time of late afternoon - I got my first ionospheric link to South America on TEP this cycle. Saturday I completed CW contacts with CX3AN, LW3EX, LU2DPW, LU5FZ, CX9AU, LU5FF, and PY3FF. CX1FK, LU2DEK, LU9DO, CX5CR, LU6DC, PY3OR and LU9EHF were worked on SSB. On Sunday, May 5, the SFI was still over 135 and I worked CE2AWW weakly on CW, although I didn't seem to have a good strong Es link like on Saturday. Still searching for HC, CP and PZ. TEP refers to Trans-Equatorial Propagation. Check the W7GJ website at http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/. Lance invites us to use EME (moonbounce) and check some of the references on his website. Paul Harden, NA5N of Socorro, New Mexico wrote about a fascinating project at the Very Large Array, the world's largest radiotelescope, where he works: I am an electronics engineer at the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope. My current project is our low-band system (60-500 MHz) and the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) for 10-88 MHz. Though a few years away,
[DX-NEWS] ARLD019 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD019 ARLD019 DX news ZCZC AE19 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 19 ARLD019 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 9, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD019 ARLD019 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. AZERBAIJAN, 4J. Special event stations 4J20RO and 4K20RO are QRV to the end of 2013 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Baku. Activity of late has been on 30 to 10 meters using mainly CW. QSL both calls via 4J6RO. MALDIVES, 8Q. Jim, G3VDB will be QRV as 8Q7EJ from Komandoo Island, IOTA AS-013, from May 13 to 26. Activity will be holiday style mainly on 20 meets using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. CUBA, CO. Lazaro, CO2WL, Gustavo, CO2NO, and Rene, CO2RVA will be QRV as T42T for the Volta World Wide RTTY Contest. QSL via HA3JB. JERSEY, GJ. Members of the Jersey Contest Group will be QRV with special call sign GH3IT on May 11 and 12. The purpose of this operation is for pile-up training purposes prior to major contests. Activity will be on all HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL via operators' instructions. SCOTLAND, GM. Members of the Camb-Hams are QRV as GS3PYE/p from the Isle of Mull, IOTA EU-008, until May 16. Activity is with five stations on 160 to 10 meters, including 60 meters and possibly 6, 4 and 2 meter with some EME if conditions allow. They may also be active on 472 kHz. QSL via operators' instructions. GALAPAGOS ISLAND, HC8. Operators Alex, HD2A and Alberto, HC2AQ will be QRV as HD8A from Santa Cruz Island, IOTA SA-004, from May 15 to 19. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL direct via HD2A. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HI. Ronny, OT4R is QRV as HI7/OT4R from Punta Cana, IOTA NA-096, until June 1. Activity is on 20, 15 and 10 meters each day around 2000 to 2200z. QSL to home call. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8J2KSG7X is QRV until October 31 in celebration of the 70 year jubilee of the city of Kasugai. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via bureau. FAROE ISLANDS, OY. Carsten, OY1CT is QRV as OW75FOC during the month of May in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the First Class CW Operators' Club. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL to home call. NETHERLANDS, PA. A group of operators will be QRV as PF24MILL on May 11 and 12 in celebration of Holland's National Windmill Day. Activity will be on 40, 20 and 10 meters using SSB and digital modes. QSL via bureau. POLAND, SP. Special event station HF500PILA is QRV until May 31 in celebration of 500 years of the city Saw and 100 years of Pila airport. QSL via SP3YAC. DODECANESE, SV5. A group of operators are QRV as SX5KL from Kalolimnos Island, IOTA EU-001, until May 20. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via SV1GRM. CRETE, SV9. Alessandro, IK4ALM and Carlo, IZ4WJA will be QRV as SV9/home calls from May 13 to 20. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home calls. ANGUILLA, VP2E. Rich, KE1B and Anna, W6NN are QRV as VP2EAQ and VP2EAR, respectively, until May 16. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. INDONESIA, YB. Members of the Organisasi Amateur Radio Indonesia will be active as YE30P from Merauke from May 15 to 17 in celebration of the 30th Anniversary and Provincial Congress of ORARI Daerah Papua. Activity will be on all HF bands and modes with two Stations. QSL via YB9WR. PRINCE EDWARD AND MARION ISLANDS, ZS8. Carson, ZR6CWI and David, ZS1BCE will be QRV as ZS8C and ZS8Z, respectively, from Marion Island, IOTA AF-021, while on work assignment until April 2014. QSL via ZS1HF. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ-M International DX Contest, Portuguese Navy Day Contest, FISTS Spring CW Sprint, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Slobozhansky Sprint Contest, VK/Trans-Tasman 80-Meter Phone Contest, EUCW Fraternizing CW QSO Party, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, VOLTA World Wide RTTY Contest, HPC World Wide DX BPSK63 Contest, Nevada Mustang Roundup and the 50 MHz Spring Sprint will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The RSGB 80-Meter Club Data Championship is scheduled for May 15. Please see May QST, page 80, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD018 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD018 ARLD018 DX news ZCZC AE18 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 18 ARLD018 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 2, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD018 ARLD018 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TONGA, A3. Masato, JA0RQV is QRV as A35JP from Tongatapu Island, IOTA OC-049, until May 22. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. MOZAMBIQUE, C9. Gert, ZS6AYU is QRV as C91GR from Bilene, Gaza Province, until May 7. Activity is holiday style on 40 to 10 meters. QSL to home call. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DR0PALAEON is QRV until March 31, 2014 in commemoration of the discovery of the oldest human-made weapons in an archaeological exploration near Schoeningen. The discovered spears date back approximately 30 years. QSL via bureau. SOUTH COOK ISLANDS, E5. Bruce, ZL1AAO is QRV as E51AAO from Rarotonga Island, IOTA OC-013, until May 14. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. AUSTRAL ISLANDS, FO. Yoshi, JJ8DEN will be QRV as FO/KH0PR from Raivavae Island, IOTA OC-114, from May 8 to 15. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, RTTY, PSK31 and JT65A. QSL to home call. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, HC8. Daniel, DL5YWM will be QRV as HC8/DL5YWM from May 4 to 11. Activity will be holiday style on 40 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. ALAND ISLAND, OH0. Members of the Radio Club of Lyly Signals Depot are QRV as OH0/OI3V from Eckero Island until May 5. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via OI3V. BRAZIL, PY. Special event station ZW1CCOM54 celebrates the graduation of the Signal Corps' Academy 54th class. QSL via operators' instructions. EGYPT, SU. Operators SU1SK, SU1AO, SU1AR and SU3YM are QRV as SU8N from Nelson's Island, IOTA AF-109, until May 10. This is the first time this island will be activated. QSL direct via SM5AQD. NORFOLK ISLAND, VK9N. A group of operators are QRV as VK9NT until May 13. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via VK2CA. CAMBODIA, XU. Alex, M6CFW has his permit as XU7WXA and plans to soon be QRV during his job-related visits. He will be active on the HF bands using SSB, PSK31 and PSK63. QSL direct to home call. MYANMAR, XZ. Simon, HS0ZIB is QRV as XZ1K from Tanintharyi State until June 30. Activity will be on the HF bands using only PSK31 and in his spare time. QSL via operator's instructions. INDONESIA, YB. A group of operators are QRV as YE90PK until May 5 to commemorate 90 years of the Radio Malabar station in the south of Bandung. QSL via YB1LZ. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The New England QSO Party, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Araucaria VHF Contest, Microwave Spring Sprint, ARI International DX Contest, 7th Call Area QSO Party, Indiana QSO Party, MIE 33 Contest and the WAB LF Phone are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. RSGB 80-Meter Club SSB Championship is scheduled for May 6. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for May 7. The CWops Mini-CWT Test and NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint are scheduled for May 8. Please see May QST, page 80, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP017 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP017 ARLP017 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP17 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 17 ARLP017 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA April 26, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP017 ARLP017 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity quieted this week. The average daily sunspot number declined nearly 23 points to 90.6. Average daily solar flux values were down nearly 13 points to 109.1. The most active day was April 24, with a planetary A index of 19 and mid-latitude A index of 15. But that is still quite moderate activity. The average daily mid-latitude A index was the same this week as last, 4.9. The predicted solar flux is 120 on April 26-29, 125 on April 30 through May 1, 130 on May 2-3, 125 on May 4-5, 120 on May 6, 115 on May 7-8, 120 on May 9-11, 115 on May 12-13, 110 on May 14-15, 105 on May 16-18, 110 on May 19 and 120 on May 20. The predicted planetary A index is 12 on April 26, 5 on April 27 through May 4, 8 on May 5, 5 on May 6-18, and 8, 12, 12, 15, 12 and 5 on May 19-24. F.K. Janda, OK1HH predicts the geomagnetic field will be quiet to active April 26, quiet to unsettled April 27 to May 10, quiet to active May 11-12, and quiet to unsettled May 13-19. The Australian government's Ionospheric Prediction Service issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning at 0503 UTC on April 26. Increased geomagnetic activity is expected due to a high speed solar wind stream from a low-latitude coronal hole. Minor storm levels are possible. Active to minor storm levels are expected April 26, and unsettled to active levels are expected April 26-27. See http://www.ips.gov.au/. You can go to http://www.ips.gov.au/mailman/listinfo/ to subscribe to their alert messages. Bob Logan, NZ5A lives in Manor, a tiny town in central Texas. On Sunday, April 14 at 2032 UTC he was surprised to work HC2UA (Ecuador) on 6 meter CW. Bob ran 4 watts with a Flex 1500. The antenna was unusual, an 80 meter inverted vee with the center at 35 feet, fed with ladder line and an HF antenna tuner, which Bob says is not designed to tune 6 meters, but it does! He also worked them at 2043 UTC on SSB, although they were not able to copy his report. Quite exciting for me! says Bob. Jeff Hartley, N8II of Shepherdstown, West Virginia wrote on April 19: 10 and 12 meters have been quite poor with the recent solar activity decline, but 15 and lower continue to delight with 20 open to western EU and the middle East thru most if not all of their night. There were tremendous signals on 10 meters from south central and SE EU during the recent flux in 140s, the best days being April 10th and 11th. The highlight of propagation was working VK9CZ (Cocos-Keeling) on 10 CW easily around 1400 UTC and hearing JAs around 2230-2330 UTC on 10 one night with one JA QSO. I had a run of JAs on 12 meter SSB with the loudest over S9. Scott Bidstrup, TI3/W7RI sent an article about a study with a pair of sounding rockets to see if turbulence in the E-region of the ionosphere at sunset could serve as a warning of disturbance in the F-layer an 1-2 hours later. Read it at http://phys.org/news/2013-04-rocket-mission-disrupts-radio.html. NASA has a new video of the Sun showing three years of continuous images. In that time, if the Sun rotates relative to Earth about every 27.5 days, then this video should show 398 rotations of the Sun, in less than 4 minutes. Watch it at, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light-3rd.html. 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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 April 18 through 24 were 86, 101, 101, 76, 83, 95, and 92, with a mean of 90.6. 10.7 cm flux was 105, 99.4, 104.9, 109.3, 112.9, 117.5, and 114.7, with a mean of 109.1. Estimated planetary A indices were 3, 2, 4, 3, 4, 7, and 19, with a mean of 6. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 15, with a mean of 4.9. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD017 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD017 ARLD017 DX news ZCZC AE17 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 17 ARLD017 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT April 25, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD017 ARLD017 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by 5T0JL, NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TUNISIA, 3V. A group of operators will be QRV as TS8TI from Djerba Island, IOTA AF-083, from April 29 to May 6. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY and various PSK modes. Italian stations QSL via IK7JWX and all others via IK2DUW. ISRAEL, 4X. A group of operators will be QRV as 4X75FOC during the month of May in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the First Class CW Operators' Club. QSL via 4Z4KX. CYPRUS, 5B. Gabriele, I2VGW is QRV as 5B4/I2VGW until May 2 from various locations along the coast of Cyprus. QSL to home call. MAURITANIA, 5T. Jean, 5T0JL will be QRV as 5T1FOC from May 1 to 31 in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the First Class CW Operators' Club. QSL to home call. NIGER, 5U. Pierre, HB9AMO is QRV as 5U9AMO until May 30. Activity is holiday style on 80 to 10 meters using CW. QSL via M0URX. SENEGAL, 6V. Luc, F5RAV is QRV as 6V7T from Somone until May 5. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and PSK. QSL direct to home call. PHILIPPINES, DU. Victor, R6AF will be QRV as DU1/R6AF from Busuanga Island, IOTA OC-090, from April 27 to May 3. QSL to home call. ENGLAND, G. Look for GB75FOC and M0RSE to be QRV during the month of May in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the First Class CW Operators' Club. QSL via operators' instructions. OGASAWARA, JD1. Harry, JG7PSJ is QRV as JD1BMH from Chichijima Island, IOTA AS-031, until May 4. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. A group of operators will be QRV as NH0J from Tinian Island, IOTA OC-086, from April 27 to May 1. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via JJ2VLY. LITHUANIA, LY. Special event station LY550W is QRV until May 20 in celebration of the 1463 expansion of the privileges of the city of Kaunas, led by Kazimieras Jogailaitis. QSL via LY5W. LEBANON, OD. Walid, OD5ZZ has been QRV on 17 meters using SSB around 1530z. QSL via NI5DX. GABON, TR. Thorbjorn, SM7RME is QRV as TR0A/p from Port Gentil, Mandji Island, IOTA AF-098, until April 29. QSL via SM7EHU. ANTIGUA, V2. Paul, KB4GYT will be QRV as V25PM from Falmouth Harbor from April 27 to May 4. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using mainly CW with some SSB and PSK31. QSL direct to home call. BELIZE, V3. Joe, K8JP will be QRV as V3FOC during the month of May in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the First Class CW Operators' Club. QSL via V31JP. MICRONESIA, V6. Takio, JH3QFL and Keizo, JH3AZC will be QRV as V6H and V6S, respectively, from Pohnpei, IOTA OC-010, from April 29 to May 5. Activity will be on 80 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and JT65. QSL to home calls. MONTSERRAT, VP2M. Nao, JN1RVS will be QRV as VP2MRV from April 27 to May 3. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and RTTY. QSL via JA1HGY. LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS, VU7. Krish, W4VKU will be QRV as VU7KV from Kavaratti Island, IOTA AS-011, from May 2 to 5. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and some RTTY. QSL to home call. INDONESIA, YB. A group of operators are QRV as YE8B from Banggai Island, IOTA OC-208, until May 2. They are active on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, and RTTY. QSL direct via YB8BRI. SOUTH SUDAN, Z8. Olli, OH0XX is QRV as Z81X from Juba. Of late, he has been active on 17 and 15 meters using CW. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The 10-10 International Digital Spring Contest, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, SP DX RTTY Contest, Helvetia Contest, QRP to the Field, Florida QSO Party and the BARTG Sprint 75 are all scheduled for this weekend. The AGCW QRP/QRP CW Party is scheduled for May 1. Please see April QST, page 84, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP016 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP016 ARLP016 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP16 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 16 ARLP016 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA April 19, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP016 ARLP016 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity weakened over the current reporting period (April 11-17), and geomagnetic conditions were stable as well. The predicted geomagnetic storm did not happen last weekend, with both the planetary and mid-latitude A index only rising to 10 on Sunday April 14 in response to a glancing blow from a CME. Average daily sunspot numbers declined nearly 25 points to 113.3, and average daily solar flux was down over 17 points to 121.7. Predicted flux values for the near term are 95 on April 19, 90 on April 20-23, 95 on April 24-25, 100 on April 26, 110 on April 27-28, 115 on April 29-30, 120 on May 1-2, 125 on May 3-6, 120 on May 7-8, and 115 on May 9-12. Predicted planetary A index is 5 on April 19-22, 12 on April 23-25, 15 on April 26, 5 on April 27 to May 4, 8 on May 5, 5 on May 6-11, and 8 on May 12. F.K. Janda, OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group predicts the geomagnetic field will be quiet to unsettled April 19, quiet April 20, mostly quiet April 21, quiet to unsettled April 22, quiet to active April 23, active to disturbed April 24, quiet to active April 25, active to disturbed April 26, quiet to unsettled April 27-28, mostly quiet April 29-30, quiet May 1-4, mostly quiet May 5, quiet May 6-7, mostly quiet May 8, quiet May 9, mostly quiet May 10, quiet to unsettled May 11-12, and mostly quiet May 13. Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA maintains a great website devoted to propagation information, but it moved recently to a new domain. Check http://k9la.us/. Paul Drahn, KD7HB of Crooked River Ranch in Central Oregon wrote: I must take exception to your comment about 'great news for HF propagation.' It's very difficult for local evening nets on 75 meters. I am active on the Oregon Emergency Net on 3980 from 6pm to 7pm. Just prior to our net, the Tennessee phone net operates on the same frequency. Afterward, several Tennessee hams use the frequency as a local rag chew net. At times, like the last two evenings, they are stronger in Oregon than many of the local check-in stations. Last night there were at least three conversations going on from Tennessee, all on 3980. They could not hear each other, and could not hear the OEN. We expect this interference in the Winter, but only is a problem at other times when the propagation allows it. Fortunately the folks in Tennessee go to bed early! As we move later in the Spring and toward Summer, the signals should be weaker around net time. It might help if the folks in Tennessee used NVIS type antennas for local coverage, as they don't have a low angle of radiation. There are several pages that describe the NVIS, or Near Vertical Incident Skywave antenna, such as http://www.hamuniverse.com/nvisbeam.html or http://www.w0ipl.net/ECom/NVIS/nvis.htm or https://www.txarmymars.org/downloads/NVIS-Antenna-Theory-and-Design.pdf. 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. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/. 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 April 11 through 17 were 121, 128, 148, 111, 99, 97, and 89, with a mean of 113.3. 10.7 cm flux was 137.1, 137.9, 125.1, 116.8, 113.3, 113.3, and 108.1, with a mean of 121.7. Estimated planetary A indices were 5, 5, 6, 10, 5, 3, and 3, with a mean of 5.3. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 4, 4, 6, 10, 6, 2, and 2, with a mean of 4.9. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD016 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD016 ARLD016 DX news ZCZC AE16 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 16 ARLD016 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT April 18, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD016 ARLD016 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TANZANIA, 5H. Bodo, DF8DX, will be QRV as 5H1DX and 5H1DX/3 from IOTAs AF-075, AF-063 and AF-032 from April 20 to 28. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters near the IOTA frequencies using mostly CW, with EME on 70 and 23 cm using JT65 and CW. QSL to home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Pai, VU2PAI and Krish, W4VKU will be QRV as 8Q7KP from Bodu Finolhu Island, IOTA AS-013, from April 23 to 30 with two stations. QSL via operators' instructions. CROATIA, 9A. Operators HA5AUC, HA7PC and HA5BWW will be QRV as 9A/homecalls from Rab Island, IOTA EU-136, from April 21 to 28. Activity will be on the HF bands including 6 meters using mainly CW. QSL direct to home calls. FRANCE, F. Marconi special event station TM114M will be QRV on April 20 and 21 in celebration of the 114th anniversary of the first wireless radio link between Wimereux, France and South Foreland, England on March 27, 1899. QSL via F5JYD. MARTINIQUE, FM. A group of operators are QRV as TO4IPA until May 2. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL via HA3JB. HUNGARY, HA. Special event station HG50NOHAB is QRV until March 31 2014 in celebration of the modernization of the Hungarian Railway 50 years ago. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via bureau. SOMALIA, T5. Roger, LA4GHA is QRV as 6O0LA from Puntland while working as a member of the UNODC-mission. He is active in his spare time on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home call. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event station R40AST is QRV until April 22 from multiple Astronomical Observatories in the North Caucasus of Russia during the International Day of Astronomy. QSL via UA6GG. KAZAKHSTAN, UN. A group of operators will be QRV as UP44WFF from the Talgar region on April 20 and 21 during the International Day of Astronomy. Activity will be on 40 through 10 meters using SSB and various digital modes. QSL via operators' instructions. CHAGOS ISLAND, VQ9. Jim, ND9M is QRV as VQ9JC from Diego Garcia until sometime in July. He may also be active using the special callsign VQ975FOC during the month of May to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the First Class CW Operators Club. He is active Field Day style from 1230 to 1615z most days. QSL to home call. PRINCE EDWARD AND MARION ISLANDS, ZS8. Look for Carson, ZR6CWI and David, ZS1BCE to soon be QRV as ZS8C and ZS8Z, respectively, from Marion Island. They may be joined by other operators as well. Activity will eventually be on 40 to 10 meters using mainly SSB with some digital modes. QSL via ZS1HF. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL SSB Rookie Roundup, NCCC RTTY Sprint, Holyland DX Contest, TARA Skirmish Digital Prefix Contest, ES Open HF Championship, Worked All Provinces of China DX Contest, Nebraska QSO Party, CQ Manchester Mineira DX CW Contest, EU SSB Spring Sprint, Michigan QSO Party, EA-QRP CW Contest, North Dakota QSO Party, Ontario QSO Party, South Dakota QSO Party, Feld Hell Sprint and the YU DX CW Contest will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest is scheduled for April 22. The SKCC CW Sprint, CWops Mini-CWT Test and 432 MHz Spring Sprint are scheduled for April 24. Please see April QST, page 84, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP013 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP013 ARLP013 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP13 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 13 ARLP013 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 28, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP013 ARLP013 Propagation de K7RA This bulletin is issued a day early this week due to the Good Friday holiday. Solar activity was down this week, with the average daily sunspot number less than half last week's figure, at 49.6. Average daily solar flux dropped 22 points to 97. Geomagnetic activity was quiet also. The predicted solar flux is 95 and 100 on March 28-29, 105 on March 30-31, 110 on April 1-3, 115 on April 4, 120 on April 5-7, 125 on April 8-10, 120 on April 11-13, 115 on April 14, 110 on April 15, then it drops below 100 on April 20-24. The predicted planetary A index is 22, 18 and 8 on March 28-30, 5 on March 31 through April 22, then 8, 18, 15 and 8 on April 23-26, and 5 through the end of April and into the first week in May. Lee Gordy, W4KUT of Cartersville, Georgia wrote to say he just finished reading Carl Luetzelschwab's article The Sun and the Ionosphere in the March 2013 QST for the third time. Lee wrote, For me, It's consoling to know that knowledgeable professionals such as Carl Luetzelschwab are having exciting difficulties rounding up Ol' Sol's secrets. There's a fine and mystical line between prophesy and prognosis, and the even bigger consolation prize I've taken away from Luetzelschwab's informative writings is a closer understanding of songwriter Joni Mitchell's wonderful composition, 'Both Sides, Now' -- 'It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all.' I was there for Cycle 19. It was mystical and magical, and I have every hope that I'll experience a like ionospheric folly before I send my final SK. Who knows, maybe this cycle will have another peak, and we'll hear non-stop, worldwide 10 and 6 meter activity. In the meantime, it's fun to try and outguess Solar Mojo. It's a big part of the infectious excitement and thrill of amateur radio. Lee added later, Regarding the Sun, we can literally see 'both sides now.' And it just seems like the more we know about it, the less we really know! W4KUT must be referring to the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory project, or STEREO (http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/), which does allow us to observe both sides of the Sun, with real time images, too, updated every few minutes. Bill Tynan, W3XO of Kerrville, Texas (in grid square EM00kd) wrote, The CME of March 15 apparently caused a major North/South opening on 6 meters. Sunday, March 17 at 2122 UTC, I worked HC5VF. He was S-9 with 50 Watts. I did not hear any Central American stations, so my conclusion is that it was via F2, not multi-hop Es. I rule out TEP as HC is above the magnetic equator. Then beginning from 2154 to 2256 UT, I worked LUs 7YA, 9EHF, 1DA, 3EX and 7YS. I also heard but did not work, a CX. These could have, of course, been TEP, since they are south of the geomagnetic equator. But, since they followed so closely on the HC, it makes me wonder. Bill has an interesting bio and description of his current station activities on his QRZ.com page, at http://www.qrz.com/db/W3XO. You'll need to log in, but the account is free. His email signature says 700 watts to an 11 element M2 Yagi at 70 feet. I assume that is for 6 meters. 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 March 21 through 27 were 60, 54, 56, 45, 56, 41, and 35, with a mean of 49.6. 10.7 cm flux was 106.1, 100.9, 98.2, 96, 92.6, 92.4, and 93, with a mean of 97. Estimated planetary A indices were 12, 4, 11, 5, 4, 3, and 14, with a mean of 7.6. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 11, 2, 10, 6, 3, 2, and 9, with a mean of 6.1. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD013 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD013 ARLD013 DX news ZCZC AE13 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 13 ARLD013 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 28, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD013 ARLD013 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, XE1H, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TONGA, A3. Jacek, SP5EAQ is QRV as A3EAQ from Tongatapu Island, IOTA OC-049, until April 16. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using only SSB. QSL to call. QATAR, A7. Operators A71BX, A71CO, A71CV, A71AM and RA9CKQ will be QRV as A71AM from Dukhan in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest as a Multi/2 entry. QSL via bureau. BAHAMAS, C6. Chuck, KG9N is QRV as KG9N/C6A from Grand Bahama Island, IOTA NA-080, until April 4. This includes an entry in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL to home call. CUBA, CO. Members of the Las Tunas Contest Crew will be QRV as T48K from Las Tunas in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL via F5FYO. PHILIPPINES, DU. Operators DU1BP, DL2KGS and LA6FJA will be QRV as DZ1B from Luzon, IOTA OC-042, in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL via DU1BP. REUNION ISLAND, FR. Cyril, FR4NT will be QRV as a Single Op/Low Power entry in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL direct to home call. JERSEY, GJ. Richard, M5RIC is QRV as MJ5RIC until March 31. He will be active as GJ2A in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL both calls via M5RIC. HONDURAS, HR. Ray, WQ7R will be QRV as HQ9R from Isla de Roatan, IOTA NA-057, in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL direct via K5WW. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. Members of the Saipan BBQ Contest Club will be QRV as AH0BT from Saipan, IOTA OC-086, in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL via 7L1FPU. BULGARIA. LZ. Special event station LZ134SOF is QRV in celebration of the 134th anniversary of the capital city of Sofia. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via LZ1KZX. DENMARK, OZ. Operators DL1TM and DJ4MG will be QRV as OZ7TM and 5P4MG, respectively, from April 1 to 18. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using SSB and PSK. They may also be active as OU1RAEM. QSL OZ7TM via DL1TM, 5P4MG via DJ4MG and OU1RAEM via DF5LW. TUVALU, T2. Tim, NL8F is QRV as T2TT from Funafuti Island, IOTA OC-015, until April 2. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using mostly SSB with some digital modes. He will also be active in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest as either a Single Op/All Band or Single Band on 10 meters entry. QSL via K8NA. SOMALIA, T5. Tevfik, TA1HZ will be QRV as T5TC from Mogadishu in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest as a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry. QSL to home call. COCOS (KEELING) ISLAND, VK9C. Operators GM3WOJ and GM4YXI plan to be QRV as VK9CZ from March 30 to April 13. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and some RTTY. QSL via operators' instructions. MEXICO, XE. Special event station 4A1TD will be QRV as a Multi Op entry in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of Club de Radio Experimentadores de Occidente. QSL via XE1GZU. LAOS, XW. Steve, 9M6DXX will be QRV as XW8XZ near the capital of Vientiane from March 30 to April 3. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using SSB. QSL via M0URX. INDONESIA, YB. Operators YB8BRI and YB8HZ are QRV from Balang Lompo Island, IOTA OC-236. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with two stations active. This may also include an entry in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. QSL via operators' instructions. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ World Wide WPX SSB Contest, ARLHS Annual Spring Lites QSO Party, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint and the NCCC Sprint will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The Low Power Spring CW Sprint, 144 MHz Spring Sprint and RSGB 80-meter Club CW Championship are scheduled for April 1. The ARS Spartan Sprint is scheduled for April 2. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for April 3. Please see March QST, page 84, April QST, page 84, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP012 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP012 ARLP012 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP12 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 12 ARLP012 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 22, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP012 ARLP012 Propagation de K7RA Average daily sunspot numbers over the past week (March 14-20) were up 16.2 points to 101.1, while average daily solar flux remained about the same, rising from 118.5 to 119. An eruption on March 15 caused a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) which struck Earth on March 17, causing the planetary A index to jump to 46. The predicted solar flux is 105 on March 22, 100 on March 23-27, 105 on March 28, 100 on March 29-30, 105 on March 31, 110 and 120 on April 1-2, 125 on April 3-6, 120 on April 7-8, 115 on April 9, 110 on April 10-11, then 105, 100, 120, 115 and 110 on April 12-16. The planetary A index is predicted to be 8 on March 22-23, 5 on March 24-26, 12 on March 27-28, 10 on March 29, 5 on March 30 through April 16, and 8 on April 17. F.K. Janda, OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group predicts the geomagnetic field will be quiet to active March 22, quiet to unsettled March 23, quiet March 24, mostly quiet March 25, quiet March 26, active to disturbed March 27-28, quiet to active March 29 and mostly quiet March 30-31. He continues with quiet April 1-3, mostly quiet April 4, quiet April 5, quiet to unsettled April 6, quiet April 7, quiet to unsettled April 8, quiet April 9, mostly quiet April 10, quiet to unsettled April 11 and active to disturbed April 12. Last weekend on March 16-18 the planetary A index was 10, 46 and 7. How well did our sources of geomagnetic forecasts foresee this? From late January through March 11, NOAA/USAF predicted a planetary A index value of 5 for all three days. This seems to be their default predicted value for low activity. I've never seen them issue a prediction for an A index value below 5, even though since the first of the year the planetary A index has been below this value on January 1-12, 15, 21-24, 28-31, February 1, 3-6, 9-12, 15, 18, 24-25, 27, March 4-8, 10 and 13. Their forecast was revised on March 12, when the values changed to 10, 5 and 5. That changed to 12, 5 and 5 on March 13-14, and on March 15, the forecast for March 16-18 was 12, 39 and 20. So two days prior to the event, they predicted 39 for March 17, which is not bad. What did OK1HH predict for those dates? On February 28 the prediction was quiet to unsettled on March 16, and mostly quiet March 17-18. The March 7 prediction was quiet to unsettled on March 16-17 and quiet March 18. The March 14 prediction was quiet to unsettled March 16-17 and mostly quiet March 18, echoing the prediction from two weeks prior. Of course, the U.S. government source has the advantage of releasing a new prediction every day. Spaceweather.com issued an alert about the event on Friday, March 15 at 2355 UTC. The message titled Geomagnetic Storm Warning said, A magnetic eruption on the Sun during the early hours of March 15th hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward Earth. NOAA forecasters estimate a 70% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when the CME arrives on March 17th. Jack Kelley, K4WY of Fairfax Station, Virginia had an unusual experience on a seemingly dead band on Sunday. He wrote, I had some interesting propagation in the wake of the CME last weekend. After checking the bands (160-10) the sole station I found was 5T0JL at S9 on 30 meters - we worked each other easily - and after listening to Jean's following QSOs I found he was working W6s almost exclusively. Again no other signal, anywhere. So how did this occur? The path was assumed to be east-west, and in darkness, but all the W6 QSOs stumped me, particularly after the worst of the CME effects. A similar scenario happened with 6V7S later that same evening as he plowed through the extremely high QRN. This was Sunday night local time, 0130-0200z Monday. We ran this by Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, who indicated that the path through low latitudes was the key to success. He wrote, The effects from elevated K indices due to a CME include modification to the worldwide F2 region ionization. Generally the mid and high latitudes see a depletion of electrons, whereas low latitudes aren't affected too much (or even see an enhancement). He ran some numbers using the Space Weather Prediction Center STORM model, and said, In both hemispheres the F2 region ionization was depleted significantly around 0200 UTC on 18 March. But the ionization at low latitudes in both hemispheres fared much better. Additionally, was there perhaps some 'spotlight' propagation going on? Could be. The ionosphere is very dynamic, especially under disturbed conditions. The day after the big blast, the New York Times ran an interesting article on solar flares and possible effects on the power grid, satellites and communications. Check it out at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/19/science/space/0319-solar.html and don't forget to
[DX-NEWS] ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP011 ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP11 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 11 ARLP011 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 15, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP011 ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA Solar indicators were mixed this week, with the average daily sunspot number down 8.4 points to 84.9, but average daily solar flux up 5.9 points to 118.5. Geomagnetic indices were much quieter, with the average planetary A index down 4.7 points to 4.4, and the average mid-latitude A index down 5 points to 3.9. The main reason for this is there weren't any active days this week, such as March 1-2 in the previous week's report. The predicted solar flux for March 15-17 is 120, then 115 on March 18-19, 110 on March 20, 105 on March 21, 95 on March 22-24, 100 on March 25-26, 105 on March 27, 110 on March 28-31, 115 on April 1-3, then solar flux peaks around 120 on April 4-11. This prediction for solar flux at 120 on April 4-11 is fairly recent, first appearing in the March 11 forecast. Prior to that date, values were predicted around 100-105, and back before February 25, 95 was the predicted level. The predicted March 15-17 flux value of 120 is also recent. On March 6 the predicted values were 95 for that period. The average of predicted solar flux for the next five days, March 15-19 is 118, right around the average of 118.5 for the past reporting week, March 7-13. The predicted planetary A index on March 15-16 is 17 and 12, indicating more geomagnetic activity similar to March 1-2. The predicted planetary A index is 5 on March 17-20, 8 on March 21, 5 on March 22-27, 18 and 10 on March 28-29, and 5 again on March 30 through April 16. OK1HH predicts the geomagnetic field will be active to disturbed on March 15, quiet to unsettled March 16-17, mostly quiet March 18, quiet to unsettled March 19-21, active to disturbed March 22, quiet to active March 23, quiet March 24-25, mostly quiet March 26, quiet to active March 27-28, quiet to unsettled March 29-30, mostly quiet March 31, and quiet on April 1-4. At 0600 UTC on March 15 the Australian Space Forecast Centre reported that a sudden impulse of 22 nT was detected in magnetometers at 0527 UTC. Due to a CME, increased geomagnetic activity is predicted on March 15-16. Minor storm periods at high latitudes are possible. The coronal mass ejection and M1 class solar flare were from sunspot group 1692, right in the center of the visible solar disc viewed from Earth, and was Earth-directed. In recent online articles about a possible two-peak Cycle 24, they were talking about the peak in late 2011 and another in 2013. But I noticed recently that solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA is suggesting a peak in late 2013 and another in 2015. Check the last line of the first paragraph of this article posted yesterday on the ARRL website: http://www.arrl.org/news/solar-cycle-24-may-have-double-peaks-says-nasa-solar-physicist. Robert Elek, W3HKK sent these observations about the TX5K operation on Clipperton Island: Kudos to the ops at TX5K! And to their nifty web site. I love the world map, spotting of call signs, almost instantaneous log updates, QSO totals, etc. It lets you see the propagation on a visual basis, call by call. I had not realized TX5K was on the air until, during our club effort at WW8OH for the ARRL SSB DX Contest on March 2-3, we worked them. Post-contest, and after catching up on my sleep Sunday night and most of Monday, I turned on the rig, right after dinner, and TX5K was EVERYWHERE, with big sigs! I worked them on 12, 15, 17, 30, 40 and 160 meters, many bands on both SSB and CW, during an amazing three hour stretch of operating! The station here is modest: 100 watts to an assortment of single band ground planes, and an inverted L for 160m. Working them so quickly, often on the very first or second call, was mind-blowing. Their pile-ups were HUGE. It had to be a miracle of good timing, plus a little experience to boot. I have since worked them on 160 thru 10m. Great job by TX5K! Thanks, guys! For a peek at the vertical antennas at W3HKK, click the photo on the upper right on his QRZ.com page at http://www.qrz.com/db/W3HKK. Note you will have to log in, but accounts are free. Brian Alsop, K3KO of Henderson, North Carolina commented that DXers shouldn't overlook VOACAP while chasing new ones. He sent a couple of circuit reliability plots from his location to ZL9CI and 9M4SLL on Spratly, and noted that the times he worked them lined up with the predictions. I recently downgraded to 500 watts, a 2 element tri-bander at 40 feet and rotary dipole for 30/17/12 at 42 feet. I need all the help I can get. Besides the DX cluster, knowing what paths at what time may be possible helps. K9LA has a tutorial on the ARRL web site for using VOACAP, and you can see it at http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/propagation/Voacap.pdf. Finally, at http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php is a handy tool for converting a street
[DX-NEWS] ARLD011 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD011 ARLD011 DX news ZCZC AE11 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 11 ARLD011 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 14, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD011 ARLD011 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. SPRATLY ISLANDS. Members of the Borneo Amateur Radio Club are QRV as 9M4SLL from Pulau Layang Layang, IOTA AS 051, until March 18. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with five stations active. QSL via M0URX. ISRAEL, 4X. Dimitry, UT5UGR is QRV as 4X/UT5UGR until March 18. This includes being active as 4X0W in the Russian DX contest. QSL both calls to home call. SENEGAL, 6W. Hans, PB2T will be QRV as 6W/PB2T from March 17 to 21. QSL to home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Noel, F6BGC will be QRV as 8Q7NC from Rihiveli, South Male Atoll, IOTA AS-013, from March 19 to 29. Activity will be holiday style on 40 to 6 meters using mostly SSB with some CW and RTTY. QSL to home call. THE GAMBIA, C5. Pedro, ON7WP will be QRV as C5WP from the Kololi area and also from the inland Buntu village from March 20 to 27. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL direct to home call. SPAIN, EA. Members of Team Cartagena will be QRV with special event call sign EH5SIP from March 17 to 31 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the launching of the submarine Isaac Peral. Activity will be on the HF bands using SSB, RTTY, SSTV and PSK31. QSL via EA5HRD. IRAN, EP. Mohsen, EP3SMH has been active on 20 and 15 meters between 1500 to 1600z using RTTY. QSL direct to home call. JERSEY, GJ. Kazu, M0CFW is QRV as MJ0CFW until March 17. This includes entries in the Russian DX and BARTG HF RTTY contests. QSL to home call. TEMOTU PROVINCE, H40. A group of operators are QRV as H40T from Nendo Island, IOTA OC-100, until March 23. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via DL7DF. LITHUANIA, LY. Special event station LY63S is active during the month of March in remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the Polish-Lithuanian uprising against Russia. QSL via LY3BY. HUNGARY, HA. Special event station HG52FC is QRV until May 31 during the 52nd FIRAC Congress event being held in Hungary. Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via HA5BSW. ECUADOR, HC. Rick, NE8Z will be QRV as HC1MD from March 21 to April 11. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via K8LJG. ARGENTINA, LU. Members of the Radio Club Ushuaia will be QRV as LT5X from Isla Redonda, IOTA SA-049, on March 23 and 24. Activity will be with three stations on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL via LU8XW. TURKEY, TA. Special event station TC18M will be QRV from March 16 to 18 in remembrance of the Naval Victory of March 18, 1915. QSL via bureau. MARSHALL ISLANDS, V7. Ted, JF1CCH will be QRV as V73TS from March 21 to 26. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using mostly CW. QSL to home call. CANADA, VE. David, VE3VID is QRV as VY0/VE3VID from Igloolik Island, IOTA NA-174, for the next three weeks. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB, RTTY, PSK31, Olivia and Feld-Hell. QSL to home call. AUSTRALIA, VK. Members of the Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club are QRV as VI100ACT during the 100th anniversary celebration of Canberra. QSL via VK1ACA. ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. Mick, G1EUZ plans to be QRV as ZD8RAF from March 18 to 22. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL to home call. CHATHAM ISLANDS, ZL7. Jim, ZL1LC is QRV as ZL7LC until March 20. Activity is on the HF bands using only PSK31. QSL direct to EB7DX. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The BARTG HF RTTY Contest, North American SSB Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC Sprint, SARL VHF/UHF Analogue/Digital Contest, Russian DX Contest, Oklahoma QSO Party, AGCW VHF/UHF CW Contest, Virginia QSO Party, Feld Hell Sprint and the UBA Spring 2-Meter Contest will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest and Bucharest Contest are scheduled for March 18. The CLARA HF Contest is scheduled for March 19. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for March 20. Please see March QST, page 84, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP009 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP009 ARLP009 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP09 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 9 ARLP009 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 1, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP009 ARLP009 Propagation de K7RA Solar and geomagnetic activity over the past week (Thursday through Wednesday, February 21-27) declined, with the average daily sunspot number dropping nearly 21 points to 57.7. Average daily solar flux softened by 4.7 points to 100.9, and average daily planetary A index declined 6.4 points to 5.1. This isn't much of a change, but geomagnetic activity was low already, and this is even lower. Predicted solar flux for the near term is 110 on March 1-3, 105 on March 4-7, 100 on March 8, 95 on March 9-14, 100 on March 15-16, 105 on March 17, and 110 on March 18-20. Solar flux then reaches a peak of 120 on March 25-27, and on March 28 through April 6 maintains an average around 113. The predicted planetary A index is 12 and 8 March 1-2, 5 on March 3-4, 8 on March 5, 7 on March 6-7, 5 on March 8-10, 7 on March 11-12, and 5 on March 13-20. OK1HH predicts quiet to active geomagnetic conditions on March 1, mostly quite March 2, quiet to unsettled March 3, quiet on March 4, mostly quiet March 5, quiet to unsettled March 6, quiet to active March 7, quiet on March 8, mostly quiet March 9-10, quiet to active March 11-12, quiet to unsettled March 13-16, mostly quiet March 17-18, quiet to unsettled March 19-21, active to disturbed March 22 and quiet on March 23-24. It is interesting to note that OK1HH predicts active to disturbed conditions on March 22, but NOAA and USAF predict a benign planetary A index of only 5 on that date. This weekend is the ARRL International Phone DX Contest, from March 2, z to March 3, 2400z. If you are on the West Coast, and use Pacific Standard Time, that would begin at 4:00 PM on Friday, ending at 4:00 PM on Sunday. For more info, check http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx. With February ended, let's look at some updated averages. Our most recent 3-month moving average does not impress. The three months centered on January 2013 had an average daily sunspot number of 73.6. This is below every three-month moving average for last year, except the three months centered on March 2012, which was 71.2. The 3-month moving averages of daily sunspot numbers centered on January 2012 through January 2013 were 83.3, 73.7, 71.2, 87.3, 91.5, 96.5, 91.9, 89.9, 81.2, 82.3, 74.4, 82.8 and 73.6. Jim Henderson, KF7E sent a link to an impressive NASA clip of solar activity from last July. Note that you can set this video to HD resolution, and it looks great on full screen. See it at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130226.html. Also check out the photo gallery of solar events at http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10015988.html and note the dramatic composite image number 4. Walt Knodle, W7VS sent an article about artificial ionosphere produced by the HAARP facility in Alaska with a 3.6 megawatt signal on 69 meters. Note that they are only able to produce the effect for 45 seconds. Read about it at http://phys.org/news/2013-02-scientists-densest-artificial-ionospheric-plasma.html. I think the Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program gives a pretty good overview of the HAARP project. Also the September 1996 issue of QST has a nice article by K3NS titled, The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. ARRL members can find and download it from the ARRL website with a search at http://www.arrl.org/arrl-periodicals-archive-search. Jim Smith, K3RTU operated on HF CW from Ridley Creek State Park in Southeast Pennsylvania (FM29) on February 25. He wrote, I hooked up with EA8BVP in the Canary Islands. 'Bal' EA8BVP was using a FT-817 and a vertical, and I was using my FT-817 and my trusty Buddistick vertical. This CW QSO took place early in the afternoon on 18.086 MHz. I had been trying to make a contact on 20 meters and was having no luck so I QSYed to 17 meters and almost within minutes heard EA8BVP calling CQ. Both of our signal levels were S4 to S5. I frequently operate on 17 meter CW while out backpacking and more often than not it provides me with good long distance contacts. It looks like the path from the park to the Canary Islands would be good in the early afternoon, with the best 17 meter signals that day from 1200-2200 UTC. 17 meters does look like a better bet, with 20 meters not catching up until after 2000 UTC. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLD009 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD009 ARLD009 DX news ZCZC AE09 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 9 ARLD009 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 28, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD009 ARLD009 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. BELIZE, V31. Operators N8LJ, AC8W and KB8TXZ plan to be QRV as V31LJ, V31AC and V31VJ, respectively, until March 5. This will include a multi-single entry in the ARRL DX SSB Contest. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, RTTY and SSB. QSL V31LJ via K8ESQ. QSL V31AC and V31VJ via KB8TXZ. CROATIA, 9A. Charlie, NF4A will be operating with the 9A1A group in the ARRL DX SSB Contest. Before and after the contest, he will be QRV as 9A5PC, until March 5. QSL to NF4A. UGANDA, 5X. Alan, G3XAQ will be active as 5X1XA on the HF bands using CW, through March 14. QSL via G3SWH. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. During the ARRL DX SSB Contest look for Chris, HB9ELV to be operating as ZF2EL from Grand Cayman. QSL via LoTW. SINT MAARTEN, PJ7. Randy, N0TG, Ron, AA4VK and Jeff, N1SNB plan to be QRV as PJ7/N0TG, PJ7/AA4VK and PJ7/N1SNB from March 15 to 23. The new QSL route is via AA4VK. BELARUS, EW. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Dalnye Strany Radio Club, special event station EV50WB will be QRV during March. QSL for SSB QSOs via EU1AZ and via EU1DX for CW and RTTY QSOs. They will also use LoTW. RWANDA, 9X. Nick, G3RWF (5X1NH) plans to be QRV from March 4 to 12. He applied for the call sign 9X0NH and hopes to be back later this year for another visit. He will operate mostly CW from Kigali. QSL via G3RWF or LoTW. FRENCH GUIANA, FY. Marc, F1HAR will use the call sign FY5KE in the ARRL DX SSB Contest in the SOSB 15m HP category. QSL to F1HAR via the bureau, FY5KE direct, or LoTW. Herve, F5HRY will also be QRV from Kourou in this contest, signing TO1A in the SOSB 10 meter category. QSL via LoTW only. TURKEY, TA. Willi, DJ7RJ will be on the bands as TA4/DJ7RJ until March 18, with a preference for the lowbands in CW and SSB. QSL via home call. COSTA RICA, TI. Juan Carlos TI2JCY, Carlos TI2KAC, Mauricio TI4ZM, Eddie K4UN, Bob W4BW, Keith W4KTR, and Lex W4XO will take part in the ARRL DX SSB Contest as TI8M in one of the multi operator categories. Before and during the contest they will be active on all HF bands. QSL via TI2KAC. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, W. Dave, K3FT and Rob, N3RW will be active in the ARRL DX SSB Contest from the USS New Jersey battleship as NJ2BB, using the ship's antennas and possibly some military surplus equipment. QSL via KB2BRR. CAMBODIA, XU. Eddy, ON4AFU will undertake a one man DXpedition from March 3 to 14 as XU7AFU, using CW. QSL via home call. AFGHANISTAN, YA. Eric, K9GY (T6MO) will take part in the ARRL DX SSB Contest in the SOAB LP category, with a focus on 20 meters. If conditions permit he will also work 15 and 10 meters. QSL via home call. NICARAGUA, YN. Scott, K7ZO will use his new short call, YN5Z in the ARRL DX SSB Contest in the SOAB HP category. QSL via home call or LoTW. ALBANIA, ZA. Max, IZ4JMA will be QRV as ZA/IZ4JMA for at least 18 months on all bands and in all modes. QSL via IZ4JMA. RODRIGUES ISLAND, 3B9. Operators Toshi, JA8BMK, Ken, JN1THL (AB1GJ) and Yoshiko, JQ1LCW (KF7JXL) will be active as 3B9DX from March 1 to 10. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via EA5GL direct only. LESOTHO, 7P. Peter, EI7CC will be active as 7P8PB from March 6 to 26. Activity will be limited because he will be on a family holiday and will operate when circumstances permit. QSL to EI7CC, via the bureau or direct. BARBADOS, 8P. Gerry, W1VE will be QRV as 8P9RM until March 1. Then for the ARRL DX SSB Contest he will sign 8P1V. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters, but with a concentration on low-band CW, and then SSB during the contest. QSL both call signs via his home call sign, direct only, no bureau. Also, Tom, W2SC will be active as 8P5A during the contest as a Single-Op/All-Band/High Power entry. QSL via NN1N. ARUBA, P4. Andy, AE6Y will be active as P49Y during the ARRL DX SSB Contest as a Single-Op/All-Band/High-Power entry. QSL via LoTW or AE6Y. MICRONESIA, V6. Operators Sho, JA7HMZ (V63DX) and Kei, JA7GYP (V63T) will be active from Pohnpei Island from April 15 to 20. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via their home call signs. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC Credit, 4S7DXG, Sri Lanka, only operations in 2008 and 2011. 8Q7VR, Maldives, only operations in 2008 and 2011. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL International Phone DX Contest and Open Ukraine RTTY Championship are on tap for this weekend. The NS Weekly Sprint is March 1. The OK1WC Memorial Contest
[DX-NEWS] ARLP008 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP008 ARLP008 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP08 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 8 ARLP008 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA February 22, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP008 ARLP008 Propagation de K7RA Average daily sunspot numbers over the past seven days, February 14-20, rose modestly by 27 points to 78.3. Average daily solar flux was up marginally, only 1.6 points to 105.6. Geomagnetic indices rose also, with the planetary A index from 5.6 to 6.4, and the middle latitude A index from 5.1 to 6. This is compared to the previous seven days, February 7-13 reported in last week's bulletin. There was a more substantial rise in both solar flux and sunspot numbers for a recent three days, at 104.7, 112.4 and 113.5 for solar flux, and 92, 117 and 106 for sunspot numbers. But that turned around when the sunspot number dropped from 106 to 75 on Thursday, February 21 and solar flux declined from 113.5 to 108.5. The predicted solar flux is 105 on February 22-23, 100 on February 24, 95 on February 25-26, 100, 105 and 110 on February 27 through March 1, 100 on March 2-3, 95 on March 4-14, 100 on March 15-16, 115 on March 17, and 120 on March 18-20, which represents a peak for the next 45 days. The predicted planetary A index is 8 on February 22, 10 on February 23, 8 on February 24, 5 on February 25-28, 10 and 8 on March 1-2, 5 on March 3-10, 7 on March 11-12, and 5 on March 13-27. Over the next month we can look forward to improving HF conditions as we progress toward the Spring Equinox, which occurs on Wednesday, March 20 at 1102z. Using a propagation prediction program such as W6ELprop gives us a rough idea of what the seasonal improvement might be. Running two instances of the program simultaneously, once for February 21 and the other on March 21, but with the same solar flux (I used 107) allows me to flip back and forth between the results. I did one for Seattle to Japan, and the 15 meter opening from 2200z to 0030z on February 21 shows up as a 2130-0500z opening on March 21. Similarly, a 17 meter opening from 2130-0230z on February 21 stretches to 2030-0500z on March 21. OK1HH predicts the geomagnetic field as quiet to active on February 22, active to disturbed on February 23, mostly quiet February 24-25, quiet on February 26-28, quiet to unsettled March 1, quiet to active March 2, mostly quiet March 3, quiet to unsettled March 4, quiet March 5-6, mostly quiet March 7-8, quiet March 9, and quiet to active March 10. Several news articles, such as http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/02/20/NASA-instrument-sees-giant-sunspot-forming/UPI-80691361403797/ and http://www.science20.com/news_articles/giant_sun_spot_size_6_earths_grows_48_hours-104269 mentioned a huge growing sunspot group 1678 that might spit out solar flares. But this spot is way over on the western horizon (yes, the right side is referred to as west on the Sun) and about to slip away from view. It is not geo-effective, which it would be if it appeared in the center of the visible solar disc. Jon Jones, N0JK of Lawrence, Kansas (where I was born!) has long enjoyed working 6 meter E-skip and even DX using very modest and even compromised antennas. Jon reported on February 16: Julian, XE2JS DL68 had a nice 6 meter Es opening to the Midwest Saturday evening (February 17 UTC). I worked Julian while I was mobile on highway 40 west of Lawrence, KS EM28 with 58 to 59 signals at 0135 UTC. My 6 meter mobile antenna is a 2 meter 5/8 mag. mount whip (quarter-wave on 6 meters). Saw ZL1RS worked TI5/N5BEK earlier at 2254 UTC February 16. Yes, Jon feeds that 2 meter whip directly on 6 meters, no change in loading or any modification. That distance between him and XE2JS is a little less than 1,000 miles. On February 19, Jon reported: The whip I currently use has a 1.1 to 1 SWR, as-is on 6 meters. Some 2 meter mag antennas don't match well on 6 and may need to be trimmed. ZL1RS later worked KD5PBR, N5DG, NW0W and a few other stations on 6 meters around 0230 UTC on Feb. 17. Likely an Es link on to TEP. (Jon means sporadic-E propagation linked to trans-equatorial propagation. See http://www.ips.gov.au/Category/Educational/Other%20Topics/Radio%20Communication/Transequatorial.pdf or http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net/index.php?title=Trans-Equatorial_Propagation for info on TEP). On February 21 Jon wrote, Even better, I heard ZL1RS CW on February 20 at 2300 UTC on 50.087 MHz, about a 339 RST. This was on an attic dipole. I am sure I could have worked him with better antenna. Jeff Hartley, N8II of Shepherdstown, West Virginia wrote on February 17: I had limited time due to working 1700Z-0230Z over the weekend, but found conditions at least on 80, 15 and 10 meters to be excellent during the ARRL CW DX contest. In just a few hours on 80 meters around 0140-0440Z Saturday the February 16 and 0230-0400Z Sunday, I managed to work 270 QSOs and 67 DXCC countries with a 1/4 wave ground plane. Conditions were overall the best to
[DX-NEWS] ARLD008 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD008 ARLD008 DX news ZCZC AE08 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 8 ARLD008 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 21, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD008 ARLD008 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. RWANDA, 9X. Nick, G3RWF (5X1NH) plans to be QRV from March 4 to 12. He has requested the call sign 9X0NH, and the license should be valid for 2013 because he could return later in the year. Activity will be mainly CW. QSL via G3RWF. SOLOMON ISLANDS, H44. Operators Phil, G3SWH and Jim, G3RTE will be active from Honiara, Guadalcanal, until February 28. QSL via G3SWH, either via the OQRS facility on Phil's Web site, direct with SAE and adequate return postage or via the Bureau. DOMINICA, J7. Rick, KK4GV will be active as J79GV from Calibishie between March 8 and 17. His activity will be holiday style and SSB only. QSL via his home call sign, direct or via the Bureau. EL SALVADOR, YS. John, NO7B will be QRV as YS1/NO7B until March 12. Listen for him on SSB only on 40 to 10 meters. QSL via home call. ALAND ISLANDS, OH0. Kim, OH6KZP will be active as OH0X during the ARRL DX SSB Contest, March 2 and 3, as a Single-Op entry. QSL via LoTW or to OH2TA. BELIZE, V3. Lee, N8LJ will be active as V31LJ from Placencia between February 27 and March 6. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL via K8ESQ. MONTSERRAT, VP2M. Operators John, KB8RJ and XYL Crissie, WD8KUR will be active as VP2MRS and VP2MUR, respectively, until March 14. Activity will be holiday style on 80 to 10 meters, including the WARC bands, using mostly SSB and some PSK. QSL both call signs via KB8RJ. RODRIQUES ISLAND, 3B9. Operators Toshi, JA8BMK; Ken, JN1THL (AB1GJ) and Yoshiko, JQ1LCW (KF7JXL), plan to be active from March 1 to 10. Activity will be on 80 through 10 meters using SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK31. If time permits Toshi will operate from Mauritius Island as 3B8/JA8BMK on February 27 and 28. QSL via EA5GL, direct only. ST. LUCIA, J6. Rob, N7QT, will be QRV as J6/N7QT between April 5 and 16. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY or PSK, as well as operating field portable (battery only) either from the St. Lucia beaches or scenic mountain tops. During field portable operations, they will sign /P. QSL J6/N7QT via LoTW, eQSL, by the Bureau, or direct to his home call sign with SASE. J69DS will only accept direct QSLs with a SASE. No Bureau QSLs. BONAIRE, PJ4. Operators Janusz, SP9FIH and Kazik, SP6AXW will be active as PJ4/home calls between April 8 and 20. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL via SP9FIH: Janusz Wegrzyn, P.O. Box 480, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, VP2V. Dave, W9DR will be active as VP2V/W9DR from the north shore of the Island of Anegada (NA-023) between June 14 and 28. Activity will be on 50.115 MHz (SSB) and 50.115.6 MHz (CW). He will also be running a beacon on 50.115.6 when the band is not open. QSL to home call. GREECE, SV. Rich, M5RIC will be active as SV8/M5RIC from Zakynthos Island (EU-052) from July 23 to 30. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL via M5RIC. MIQUELON ISLAND, FP. Eric, KV1J will be QRV as FP/KV1J from July 6 to 16. He plans to be on 160 through 6 meters, primarily on SSB and RTTY but some CW, PSK-31 and Feld Hell. QSL via KV1J either direct, via the bureau or LoTW. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The REF SSB Contest, UBA CW Contest, Mississippi QSO Party, North American RTTY QSO Party, North Carolina QSO Party, and the CQC Winter QSO Party are all on tap for this weekend. The CQ WW 160 Meter SSB Contest is on February 22. Please see February QST, page 90, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP007 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP007 ARLP007 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP07 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 7 ARLP007 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA February 15, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP007 ARLP007 Propagation de K7RA Low levels of solar activity continue, the same as the past few weeks. Sunspot numbers remain remarkably consistent, with average daily numbers for the four reporting weeks since January 17 at 56.4, 55.7, 50.7 and finally 51.3 for the past week. As you can see, average daily sunspot numbers rose less than a point from the previous week to the past week. Average daily solar flux receded 2.4 points to 104. Geomagnetic conditions remain calm. The ARRL International DX CW Contest is this weekend. Conditions will probably be about the same as last year, because solar activity is about the same as this time in 2012. See http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx for contest details. The latest prediction for solar flux shows values of 100 for February 15-16, 105 on February 17-19, 100 on February 20-22, 115 on February 23-24, 110 and 105 on February 25-26, 100 on February 27 through March 3, 95 on March 4-9,115 on March 10 and 120 on March 11-13. The predicted planetary A index is 5 on February 15-20, 9 on February 21-22, 8 on February 23, 5 on February 24-28, then 10 and 8 on March 1-2, and 5 on March 3-17. Every week F.K. Janda, OK1HH gives us his thoughts on geomagnetic conditions over the next few weeks. Generally for HF propagation, particularly for the higher bands (10-20 meters) we would like to see very little geomagnetic activity, but with as many sunspots and as much solar flux as possible. We have seen a lot of quiet geomagnetic conditions over the past few years, but not much in the way of sunspots or high solar flux values. OK1HH suggests the geomagnetic field will be quiet to unsettled on February 15-16, quiet on February 17-21, quiet to active February 22, active to disturbed February 23, mostly quiet February 24-25, quiet February 26-28, quiet to unsettled March 1, quiet to active March 2, mostly quiet March 3, quiet to unsettled March 4, quiet March 5-6, mostly quiet March 7-8, quiet March 9, and quiet to active on March 10. Don't miss the article in the March issue of QST, by Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA titled The Sun and the Ionosphere. It begins on page 48, gives an update on Cycle 24, and discusses measuring the Sun and ionosphere and relating solar flux to MUF, or Maximum Usable Frequency. Neil Shapiro, W2NLS of Bethpage, which is on New York's Long Island, asked about relating the information in these bulletins to practical on-the-air results. I suggested checking out the resources listed at the bottom of each bulletin, from the ARRL Technical Information Service and also the resources from the K9LA website. One useful tool is to download the free program W6ELprop (which works on the Windows operating system) from http://www.qsl.net/w6elprop/. You will need to enter your latitude and longitude for your default station location, and a useful tool for converting street addresses to geographical coordinates is at http://www.latlong.net/convert-address-to-lat-long.html. You can use an average of the previous 5 days sunspot numbers from here: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt For the K index, either use the latest Middle Latitude numbers from here: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DGD.txt Or use the planetary number from WWV: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/wwv.txt I ran the numbers for Neil on February 15, from his QTH to the Czech Republic. It looks like 15 meters is a good bet from 1430-1700z, 17 meters 1330-1800z, and 20 meters over the same period as 17 meters, but stronger signals on 17 meters (assuming power levels and antennas are equal). It looks like 30 meters should open up around 1800z, and have strongest signals 2130-0100z, and 40 meters 2000-1000z, with best signals around 2230-0630z. An alternative to sunspot numbers would be to use solar flux. You can set W6ELprop to default to either type, or change it on the fly by entering F103 (for example) as solar flux of 103, or S66 as sunspot number of 66. The engine used for driving W6ELprop was originally designed to work with the predicted smoothed sunspot number for the month, and it doesn't really work well to try to use the latest day's numbers. So an average for the past 5 days is a compromise. Another useful tool is a new one from Stu Phillips, K6TU of Woodside, California: http://k6tu.net/. This one is interesting. You subscribe to this service (but I think there is a free trial) and tell it what kind of prediction you want to run, then after making the calculations, it emails a link that you use to display them. For each band, you can step through hour-by-hour to see maps showing where your signals will be strongest, with different colors used to express different signal levels. It is interesting to see how the coverage areas shift, hour-by-hour. We
[DX-NEWS] ARLD007 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD007 ARLD007 DX news ZCZC AE07 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 7 ARLD007 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 14, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD007 ARLD007 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. CYPRUS, 5B. Roman, UR0MC will be QRV as 5B/UW2M in the ARRL DX CW contest. QSL via US0LW. JAMAICA, 6Y. Yuri, VE3DZ is QRV as 6Y2T until February 19. This includes being active in the ARRL DX CW contest as a Single Op/All Band/High Power entry. Outside the contest, he is active on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. MALTA, 9H. Operators Adam, DJ0IF and Mek, SP7VC are QRV as 9H3RX and 9H3KK, respectively, from Gozo Island until February 19. They will be QRV as 9H3RX in the ARRL DX CW contest as a Single Op/All Band entry. Outside of the contest they are active on the HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL to home calls. BURUNDI, 9U. A group of operators are QRV as 9U4U from Bujumbura until February 23. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with four stations. QSL via M0URX. TONGA, A3. Werner, DJ9KH is QRV as A35WH from Tongatapu Island, IOTA OC-049, until February 23. Activity is on the HF bands. After this operation, he will be QRV as A35WH/p from Vava'u Island, IOTA OC-064, until March 3. QSL to home call. MOROCCO, CN. Operators EA5CP, EA5YU and EA9BLJ will be QRV as 5C5T in the ARRL DX CW contest as a Multi/Single entry. They are active before and after the contest until February 18. QSL via EA5YU. MADEIRA ISLANDS, CT3. Operators Rasto, OM3GI, Tibor, OM3RM and Julo, OM7JG will be QRV as CR3A in the ARRL DX CW contest. QSL via OM2VL. ESTONIA, ES. Toomas, ES5RY will be QRV as ES95Q from Tartu in the ARRL DX CW contest as a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry. This special call sign celebrates the 95th anniversary of Estonia. QSL direct to home call. ETHIOPIA, ET. Ken, K4ZW will be QRV from the ET3AA club station during the second half of the ARRL DX CW contest. QSL via N2OO. FRENCH GUYANA, FY. Larry, F6FVY will be QRV as FY5KE in the ARRL DX CW contest as a Single Op/Single Band/High Power entry on 20 meters. QSL direct via FY5KE. JERSEY, GJ. Mathieu, MJ0ASP will be QRV as GJ2A in St. Brelade in the ARRL DX CW contest. QSL via operator's instructions. US VIRGIN ISLANDS, KP2. Operators Phil, KT3Y, Fred, K9VV and Bob, WP2XX will be QRV as KP2M from St. Croix Island in the ARRL DX CW contest. QSL direct via AI4U. TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, VP5. Jeff, K0UU is QRV as VP5/K0UU from Grand Turk Island, IOTA NA-003, until February 21. Activity is mainly on the newer bands. He will sign VQ5RP in the ARRL DX CW contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Georg, DD8ZX, Juergen, DH0RAK, Juergen, DH6ICE, Bernd, DK7TF and Zrinko, DK8ZZ will be QRV as XV2DLH from Mui Ne from February 16 to 25. Activity will be on all bands using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via DK8ZZ. INDONESIA, YB. Ucok, YB6AR and other operators are QRV as home calls/p from Pulau Bunta, IOTA OC-245, until February 17. Activity is on 40, 30, 20, 15 and 10 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL direct to home calls. ROMANIA, YO. Members of the Sportclub of the University Transylvania Brasov will be QRV using special event call sign YO2013EYOWF from February 16 to 24 in celebration of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via operators' instructions. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Uganda, 5X8C, current operations commencing 2012; Afghanistan, T6BP, current operation commencing 2012; Afghanistan, T6TJ, current operation commencing 2012; and Republic of South Sudan, Z81A and Z81D, current operations commencing 2012. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL International DX CW Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Russian World Wide PSK Contest and the Feld Hell Sprint will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for February 18. The QRP CW Fox Hunt and AGCW Semi-Automatic CW Key Evening are scheduled for February 20. Please see February QST, page 90, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP006 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP006 ARLP006 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP06 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 6 ARLP006 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA February 8, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP006 ARLP006 Propagation de K7RA Average daily sunspot numbers hardly changed from last week and the week prior, but average daily solar flux bounced back to about the level it was from two weeks ago. Average daily sunspot numbers were down five points to 50.7, and average daily solar flux was up 7.7 points to 106.4. Predicted solar flux values are 105 on February 8-10, 110 and 105 on February 11-12, 100 on February 13-14, 110, 115 and 110 on February 15-17, 115 on February 18-19, 110 on February 20-21, 105 on February 22, 115 on February 23-24, then 110, 105 and 100 on February 25-27, 95 on February 28 through March 2, 115 on March 3-4, 120 on March 5-6, and 125 on March 7-8. The predicted planetary A index is 22, 15 and 10 on February 8-10, 5 on February 11-18, 8 on February 19, 5 on February 20-21, then 15, 10 and 8 on February 22-24, 5 on February 25-28, 10 and 8 on March 1-2, 5 on March 3-7, and 8 on March 8-9. OK1HH says geomagnetic activity should be quiet to unsettled on February 8, quiet to active February 9-10, quiet to unsettled February 11-12, quiet to active February 13-14, quiet to February 15-16, quiet February 17-21, active to disturbed February 22-23, quiet to unsettled February 24-25, quiet on February 26-27, mostly quiet February 28, quiet to active March 1, quiet to unsettled March 2, and mostly quiet on March 3. I've been looking at the predictions for planetary A index and solar flux, and it is interesting to note how they change over time. The planetary A index prediction for February 3 for over a month was a value of 5, until January 31, when it changed to 18. Then on February 1 it was 15, and the same on February 2. But on February 3, the actual value was 4. A similar thing happened with the February 4 prediction. It was 5 up until January 31, when it changed to 15, then for March 1 and 2 it was 12, then it changed back to 15 on March 3. The following day, March 4, the actual value was 4 again, just as it was the day earlier. On February 7 the planetary A index prediction for February 8 is 22, and on February 6 the prediction for February 8 was 8. Prior to that it was 5. We will see the actual value at the end of the day today, February 8. We heard from Fabrizio Valdirosa, a shortwave listener in Italy, who inquired about the average sunspot number for all of 2011. We mentioned recently that it was 29.9, but Fabrizio thought this was too low while looking at the monthly averages at, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/weekly/RecentIndices.txt. I recalculated by again totaling all of the daily sunspot numbers for 2011, which is 29,239. Divide that by 365 days, and we get an average daily sunspot number for that year of 80.1. I have no idea how 29.9 was previously calculated, except that I somehow came up with a total for the year of 10,913 instead of 29,239 and it was my own error. So the average yearly sunspot numbers for 2008-2012 were 4.7, 5.1, 25.5, 80.1 and 82.3. Don Street, HS0ZEE wrote to ask about seasonal variations mentioned in the bulletin, and asked, Here in Asia, Spring and Fall are not so well defined, perhaps for reader like me it would be helpful to mention which month you refer to. We are just referring to the seasons as the time between Equinox and Solstice, Solstice to Equinox, etc. This page gives the dates for the seasonal changes: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/longest-day/equinox-solstice-2010-2019.htm. Don also likes the HAP charts for HF propagation produced by the Australian government and notes, I find the charts near to actual band conditions. Unfortunately they are based on the previous hours observed conditions, but still very useful. Here is the link Don refers to: http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems/6/6/1. Bill Bliss, W1WBB of Portsmouth, Rhode Island wrote: Don't believe I've seen these two new forecast products from the SWPC mentioned in your weekly column, found via link on their home page: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html They are issued twice daily and I've found them helpful as an additional tool for predicting near-term propagation on the HF/MF amateur bands. Links for feedback on both the 3-Day Forecast and the Forecast Discussion are also provided. Positive feedback on these 'experimental' products from the amateur community (accepted up through Feb. 12) may help ensure they become a permanent part of SWPC's Data and Products area. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLD006 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD006 ARLD006 DX news ZCZC AE06 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 6 ARLD006 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 7, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD006 ARLD006 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. UGANDA, 5X. A large group of operators are QRV as 5X8C until February 18. Activity is with six stations on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, and PSK. QSL via F1NGP. JAMAICA, 6Y. Yuri, VE3DZ will be QRV as 6Y2T as a Single Op/All Band entry in the CQ World Wide WPX RTTY contest. QSL to home call. PHILIPPINES, DU. Chris, OE9MON, is QRV as DU6/OE9MON from Panay Island, IOTA OC-129. Activity is holiday style on 160 to 6 meters. His length of stay is unknown. QSL via LZ1JZ. HUNGARY, HA. Special event station HG66MALEV is QRV until march 31 to commemorate the former Hungarian airline MALEV. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL direct via HG4I. GRENADA, J3. Roy, KE4TG is QRV as J38RF until March 8. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters, and possibly 60 meters, using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL to home call. GUINEA-BISSAU, J5. A group of operators will be QRV as J52HF from Cumura from February 10 to March 2 while helping with mission work. Activity will be in their spare time on the HF bands, including 6 meters, using SSB. QSL via I3LDP. GUAM, KH2. Bob, 5B4AGN will be QRV as KH2/G3ZEM from February 9 to 13. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters and possibly 160 meters. QSL via M0URX. LUXEMBOURG, LX. A group of operators will be QRV as LX7I from Eschdorf in the CQ World Wide WPX RTTY contest as a Multi-2 entry. They will be a Multi/Single entry in the upcoming ARRL DX CW contest. QSL via LX2A. MICRONESIA, V6. After his Guam operation, Bob, 5B4AGN will be QRV as V63ZM from Pohnpei, IOTA OC-010, from February 13 to 23. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters. QSL via M0URX. MONTSERRAT, VP2M. Will, AA4NC will be QRV as VP2ME from February 13 to 20. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes an entry in the upcoming ARRL DX CW contest. QSL via operator's instructions. CAMBODIA, XU. John, KF0RQ will be QRV as XU7ACQ from February 10 to March 18. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home call. SOUTH SUDAN, Z8. Massimo, IZ0EGB is living in Juba and now QRV as Z81B. Activity is on 40 to 6 meters using SSB and various digital modes. He may be active from other areas as well. QSL to home call. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Dave, N4QS is QRV as ZF2DP from Georgetown, Grand Cayman, IOTA NA-016, until February 12. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and SSB. This includes being active in the CQ World Wide WPX RTTY contest. QSL to home call. TOKELAU, ZK3. Dieter, DJ2EH is QRV as ZK3T until February 20. Activity may be holiday style on 160 to 10 meters using mostly CW with some RTTY. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, SKCC Weekend Sprintathon, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, YLRL YL-OM Contest, YL-ISSB CW QSO Party, SARL Field Day Contest, Asia-Pacific Spring CW Sprint, Dutch PACC Contest, KCJ Topband CW Contest, Louisiana QSO Party, OMISS QSO Party, New Hampshire QSO Party, FISTS Winter CW Sprint, RSGB 1st 1.8 MHz Contest and the AWA Amplitude Modulation QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The ARRL School Club Roundup runs from February 11 to 15. The Classic Phone Exchange is scheduled for February 11. The NAQCC Straight Key/Bug CW Sprint, CWops Mini-CWT CW Test and QRP CW Fox Hunt are scheduled for February 13. Please see February QST, page 90, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD005 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD005 ARLD005 DX news ZCZC AE05 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 5 ARLD005 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT January 31, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD005 ARLD005 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. FIJI, 3D2. Bob, W7YAQ and Bill, N7OU will be QRV as 3D2NB and 3D2OU, respectively, from Nadi, IOTA OC-016, from February 2 to 7. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using mainly CW with some SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. TOGO, 5V. Jackie, F8AEJ will be QRV as 5V7JD from Lome from February 4 to March 15. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using mostly digital modes. QSL to home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Andrew, G7COD plans to be QRV as 8Q7AK from Kaafu Atoll, IOTA AS-013, for three weeks in February while on holiday. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands generally during 0730 to 1100z, 1300 to 1500z and then 1730 to 1800z. QSL to home call. AZORES, CT3. Hermann, CT3FN will be QRV as CR2V in the Mexico International RTTY Contest as a Single Op entry. QSL via HB9CRV. CAPE VERDE, D4. Mats, SM7GIB is QRV as D44TIB until February 6. Activity is holiday style on 160 to 10 meters. QSL to home call. GUADELOUPE, FG. Jean-Pierre, F6ITD will be QRV as FG/F6ITD from February 1 to 25. Activity will be on the HF bands using SSB and digital modes. QSL to home call. NEW CALEDONIA, FK. Oku, JK1KSB is QRV as FK/JK1KSB until February 3. Activity is holiday style on 80 to 10 meters using CW, RTTY and PSK31. QSL to home call. ECUADOR, HC. Elena, RC5A will be QRV as HC2/RC5A from February 5 to March 9. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. This includes being a Single Op/All Band/Low Power entry in the upcoming ARRL DX CW contest. QSL to home call. ANTARCTICA. Nick, RW6ACM will be QRV as RI1ANP from the Russian Antarctic Base Progress from February 1 until the end of 2013. QSL via RN1ON. SEYCHELLES, S7. Bert, CX3AN will be QRV as S79AN from Mahe Island, IOTA AF-024, from February 4 to 11. Activity will be on 80 to 6 meters using mainly CW and SSB. QSL via EB7DX. SUDAN, ST. Sam, K0YAK is QRV as ST2SF until the mid of April. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL to home call. TURKEY, TA. TC Special Wireless Activity Team members are QRV as TC1BW during February in remembrance of Asil Feri, TA1BW. QSL via bureau. MALI, TX. Fernando, EA4BB is QRV as TZ6BB from Bamako. His length of stay is unknown. He is active on 40 to 10 meters. QSL direct via W3HNK. SOUTH SUDAN, Z8. Massimo, IZ0EGB will soon be QRV as Z81B. QSL to home call. ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. Steve, G3ZVW is QRV as ZD8N until February 5. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL to home call. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Bruce, K0BJ is QRV as ZF2BJ until February 2. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home call. TOKELAU, ZK3. Dieter, DJ2EH is now QRV as ZK3T and will be here until February 20. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. North American CW Sprint, 10-10 International Winter SSB Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, Mexico RTTY International Contest, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Vermont QSO Party, Triathlon DX Contest, EPC World Wide DX BPSK63 Contest, Black Sea Cup International, FYBO Winter QRP Sprint, Minnesota QSO Party, AGCW Straight Key CW Party, British Columbia QSO Party and the Delaware QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The RSGB 80-Meter Club SSB Championship is scheduled for February 4. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for February 5. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for February 6. Please see February QST, page 90, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD004 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD004 ARLD004 DX news ZCZC AE04 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 4 ARLD004 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT January 24, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD004 ARLD004 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by K1SFA, NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. SENEGAL, 6W. Jean-Claude, F6IRS is QRV as 6W/F6IRS until February 7. Activity is holiday style on all HF bands using mostly SSB during his late afternoons into early evening. QSL to home call. GHANA, 9G. Marcel, AI6MS is QRV as 9G5MS until May 2013 while working as a volunteer with Medicine on the Move. This includes being active in the upcoming ARRL School Club Roundup. QSL to home call. FRANCE, F. Gil, F4FET/p is QRV from the Lighthouse Boulogne sur mer, ARLHS FRA-089, until January 31. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB. QSL to home call. REUNION ISLAND, FR. Pierre, F8APV and Stephane, F8EOI are QRV as FR/home calls until February 9. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters with an emphasis on 30 meters CW and 20 meters using SSB. QSL to home calls. THAILAND, HS. Eddy, ON4AFU is QRV as HS0ZJF/8 from Koh Samui, IOTA AS-101, until February 18. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW only. He plans to be active from IOTA group AS-126. QSL to home call. GUINEA-BISSAU, J5. Peter, HA3AUI is QRV as J5UAP until March 10. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using mainly CW and digital modes. QSL direct to home call. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. Joe, JA1LZR is QRV as NH0Z until January 28. This includes an entry in the CQ 160 Meter CW contest. QSL via JJ2VLY. NETHERLANDS, PA. Special event station PH00ZWAT is QRV until January 27 from the former Radio Nederland Wereldomroep antenna park in Zeewolde. QSL via operator's instructions. SWEDEN, SM. A group of operators are QRV as SI9AM from the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Amateur Radio Society station in Ragunda until January 28. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. This includes an entry in the UBA DX contest. QSL via SM3CVM. EGYPT, SU. Gerd, DJ5IW is QRV as SU/DJ5IW from El Fardous until February 8. Activity is on 20 meters and above. QSL to home call. TURKEY, TA. Members of the Turkish Radio Amateur Club from the Bursa Branch are QRV using special callsign TC16BURSA until March 10. Activity is on all bands using CW, SSB, PSK and ROS modes. QSL via operators' instructions. CHAD, TT. Sergiy, US3EZ is QRV as TT8/US3EZ until March. QSL to home call. KAZAKHSTAN, UN. Tony, RT9T is QRV as UN/RT9T. This includes an entry in the CQ 160 Meter CW contest. QSL to home call. ANTARCTICA. Craig, VK6JJJ is a member of the Antarctica Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 2013/14 and is QRV as VK0JJJ from Mawson Base in the Mac Robertson Land until January 2014. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using SSB and digital modes. QSL via K7CO. AUSTRALIA, VK. Radio amateurs in Australia may substitute their normal VK prefix for AX on January 26 in commemoration of Australia Day. MEXICO, XE. Dario, LU3DR is QRV as XE3/LU3DR from the Quintana Roo State until January 28. He is active using SSB on 20, 17, 15 and 10 meters. QSL to home call. SERBIA, YU. Members of the Old Timers Club of the Amateur Radio Union of Serbia are QRV as YU15OTC during 2013 in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via YU6A. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Ted, K8AQM will be QRV as ZF2TA from January 26 to February 2. Activity will be holiday style on 20 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC Credit: Laos, XWPA, 2010 to 2011 operation; Laos, XW4XR, current operations. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ 160-Meter CW Contest, BARTG RTTY Sprint, NAQCC Straight Key/Bug CW Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, REF CW Contest, UBA DX SSB Contest, SPAR Winter Field Day, WAB 1.8 MHz Phone Contest and the QRP ARCI Fireside SSB Sprint are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The Classic CW Exchange is scheduled for January 28. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for January 30. Please see January 2013 QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP003 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP003 ARLP003 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP03 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 3 ARLP003 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA January 18, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP003 ARLP003 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity pulled back over the past week, following a stellar performance in the week prior. Average daily sunspot numbers were down 34.3 points to 129, but average daily solar flux actually rose 9.7 points to 157.4. This was because solar flux values seemed to lag behind last week's activity, raising this week's average in the first few days of the current week. The current prediction is for solar flux at 125 on January 18-20, 120 on January 21-22, 115 on January 23-24, 130 on January 25, 135 on January 26-28, 130 and 135 on January 29-30, 140 on January 31 through February 1, 150 on February 2, 155 on February 3-4, 150 on February 5-11, then 145, 140, 135, 140 and 145 on February 12-16. The predicted planetary A index is 10, 15 and 18 on January 18-20, 8 on January 21-22, 5 on January 23 through February 4, 8 on February 5, 5 on February 6-8, 8 on February 9-10, and 5 on February 11 through the beginning of March. The most active geomagnetic day was January 13, but only in relation to very, very quiet recent conditions. The mid-latitude A index was 10, and the K index only reached 4 in one three-hour period. The college A index (from Fairbanks, Alaska) was 11 and 12 on January 13-14, with the K index reaching 4 in two 3-hour periods on February 13 and 5 in one 3-hour period on February 14. The reading before that K index of 5 had a K index of 0. There is a possibility of aurora on Sunday, January 20. NOAA reports the geomagnetic field is expected to be at minor storm levels today (January 18), active levels on January 19, and minor storm levels again on January 20. A strong solar wind on January 17 was from the waning effects of a CME (coronal mass ejection) on January 13. On January 19 solar wind may rise again as the result of a coronal hole rotating into geo-effective position. A January 16 CME could cause a rise in geomagnetic activity on January 20. Effects should decrease into background levels by mid-day (UTC) on January 20. The Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a warning at 2335Z on January 17 about increased geomagnetic activity January 19-20 due to a CME. For January 19 they predict quiet to unsettled conditions, but with active to minor storm periods after 1200Z. For January 20 they predict unsettled to active conditions, with minor storm levels possible. OK1HH predicts geomagnetic activity will be quiet on January 18-19, mostly quiet on January 20-21, quiet to unsettled January 22-23, mostly quiet January 24-26, quiet January 27 through February 1, mostly quiet February 2-3, quiet to active February 4-5, quiet February 6-7, quiet to unsettled February 8-9, active to disturbed February 10-11. Jon Utley, K7CO reports that on January 11 he was in the state of New York, and using a 5 element monoband Yagi at 100 feet he worked XV1X at 1334Z and XW4XR at 1600Z on 10 meter CW long path. Also on January 11, Jeff Hartley, N8II in West Virginia reported, I have operated every evening this week with poorer than expected results. Before Thursday January 10, 12 and 10 meters were closed here very shortly after sunset to all areas. A45XR was S9 on 10 meter long path Sunday morning January 6, but the band was never open well to Europe unless I rechecked it a bit late. VR2XMT was about S5-7 on 12 meter SSB long path as well Sunday. All of the higher bands still seem to close pretty early including 20 meters both west and north by 0200Z, but I expect by today things are better. On 10 meters Thursday, KH6 was heard until past 2250Z and there were west coast and South American stations on 10 until around 2230Z. I have been looking for Asia long path QSOs on 20 and 30 meters without much luck, but did manage to catch UK8OM on 30 meters short path around 0100Z. Rick Radke, W9WS of Balsam Lake, Wisconsin wrote: Just wanted to share an experience I had on Wednesday January 9. I was checking the bands for DX. As usual, I start on 10 and work on down to 20 to see what's open. Nothing was 'happening,' in fact there were very few signals at all. So I went to 40 just looking for a ragchew and out of nowhere there was ER4DX calling CQ with a big signal. We exchanged 59 reports and went our ways. This was 1400 local (2000Z) on a sunny afternoon in northern Wisconsin, a good three hours before grayline on this end. In almost 50 years of hamming I've never seen 5K+ miles of 40 meter propagation mid-day. Nothing special here, running 1 kW to a vertical with a bunch of radials. That is an interesting time to work Moldova. ER4DX is Vasily Romanyuk, and just doing an internet search with his callsign yields some clues that he operates a pretty serious big gun station. For instance, using a popular search engine to search that callsign, then hitting the Images option
[DX-NEWS] ARLD003 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD003 ARLD003 DX news ZCZC AE03 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 3 ARLD003 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT January 17, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD003 ARLD003 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, PS7DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TANZANIA, 5H. Sam, F6AML will be QRV as 5H1Z from Zanzibar Island, IOTA AF-032, from January 20 to February 28. Activity will be in his free time on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. This may include visits to IOTAs AF-054, AF-063 and AF-075. QSL via bureau to home call. SAMOA, 5W. Ralph is QRV as 5W0W from Apia until March. QSL via NR6M. BAHAMAS, C6. Operators W4BUW, W8GEX, W8CAA and AA4NN plan to be QRV as C6AGH and C6DX from Great Exuma Island, IOTA NA-001, from January 20 to 27. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with three stations. QSL C6AGH via W4BUW and C6DX via W8GEX. CHILE, CE. Jose, CE8DMT is QRV from Puerto Williams on Navarino Island, IOTA SA-050. Activity is on 40 and 15 meters using SSB. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call. ARMENIA, EK. Aram, EK6LP has been active on 12 meters around 1415z. QSL direct via RN4LP. REUNION ISLAND, FR. Operators F8APV and F8EOI will be QRV as FR/home calls from January 21 to February 8. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB with a focus on 30 meter CW and 20 meter SSB. QSL to home calls. ENGLAND, G. A group of operators will be QRV as GB6WLB from January 19 to 27 as part of the RNLI SOS Radio week. Activity will be on most of the HF bands. QSL via G6XOU. COLOMBIA, HK. Lothar, DK8LRF is QRV as HK3JCL from Restrepo until March 31. Activity is on 40, 20, 17, 15 and 10 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. DOMINICA, J7. Operators Bernie, W3UR and Tony, N3ME will be QRV as J77A and J76A, respectively, from January 22 to February 1 and January 22 to February 11, respectively. Activity will be during their spare time on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JD1. Take, JG8NQJ is QRV as JG8NQJ/JD1 from Marcus Island, IOTA OC-073, until mid April while on work assignment with the island's weather station. Activity will be mainly on 17 to 10 meters using CW. QSL to home call. ANTARCTICA. Robert is QRV as LU1ZG from the Ejercito General Belgrano II Base. Of late he has been active on 20 meters using SSB between 0425 and 0510z. QSL via LU4DXU. BRAZIL, PY. Members of the Natal Digital Group are QRV as special event station PW7F until January 20 to celebrate the 413th anniversary of Fortaleza dos Reis Magos located in the city of Natal. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via PS7HD. SUDAN, ST. Lourens, ZS6AKB is QRV as ST2/ZS6AKB in Kutum in the Darfur region of Sudan until June while on work assignment. Activity is in his spare time on 40, 30 and 20 meters. QSL to home call. EGYPT, SU. Gerd, DJ5IW is QRV as SU/DJ5IW from El Fardous until February 8. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW only in his spare time. QSL to home call. INDIA, VU. Gwalior, VU2JAU is QRV as ATS150 until January 20 to commemorate the 150th birthday of orator and philosopher Swami Vivekanada. Activity of late has been on 20 meters using SSB. QSL via operator's instructions. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC Credit: Republic of South Sudan, Z81Z, current operation commencing January 8, 2013. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL January VHF Contest, North American SSB QSO Party, AWA Linc Cundall Memorial CW Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Feld Hell Sprint, LZ Open CW Contest, YL-ISSB SSB QSO Party and Hungarian DX Contest are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest is scheduled for January 21. The SKCC CW Sprint, CWops Mini-CWT Test and QRP CW Fox Hunt are scheduled for January 23. Please see January 2013 QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD002 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD002 ARLD002 DX news ZCZC AE02 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 2 ARLD002 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT January 10, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD002 ARLD002 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, PP1CZ, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. RWANDA, 9X. Carl, SM6CPY plans to be QRV as 9X0PY from January 15 to 31. Activity will be holiday style using mainly CW on the HF bands. QSL to home call. BAHAMAS, C6. Rick, K6VVA is QRV as C6AVA from Bimini Island, IOTA NA-0148, until January 14. Activity is on the HF bands using CW. This includes a possible entry in the North American CQ QSO Party. QSL via N6AWD. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DB100AWPB is QRV to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Ausbesserungswerk Paderborn of the German Railway. QSL via DO6NIK. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JD1. Take, JG8NQJ will be QRV as JG8NQJ/JD1 beginning January 15 until the middle of April while on work assignment. Activity will be in his spare time. QSL to home call. PUERTO RICO, KP4. Members of the Caribbean Amateur Radio Group are QRV using special call N4D until January 25 on the occasion of the ARRL Puerto Rico State Convention which occurs the end of the month. QSL via WP4CRG. AUSTRIA, OE. Austrian stations have the option of using the special prefix OE2013 from January 15 to February 18 to commemorate the Ski World Cup in Schladming. QSL via operators instructions. FERNANDO DE NORONHA, PY0F. Leo, PP1CZ is on vacation on Fernando de Noronha, IOTA SA-003, from January 15 to 21. He will be QRV as PY0F/PP1CZ. Activity will be in his free time using CW, SSB and RTTY on the HF bands, with a focus on 160 and 80 meters using only CW. QSL to home call. POLAND, SP. Janusz, SP9YI will be QRV with special event call sign HF0A from January 15 to February 28 to celebrate the 10th Arctic Activity Week. QSL to home call. PALAU, T8. Mike, JA6EGL, Yas, JA6UBY and Yu, JE6DND are QRV as T88SM, T88CP and T88HK respectively, from Koror Island, IOTA OC-009, until January 14. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL direct to home calls. BELIZE, V3. Gerd, DJ4KW is QRV as V31YN until January 24. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters. QSL to home call. LORD HOWE ISLAND, VK9L. Operators JA3ARJ, JA3BZO, JA3HJI, AE6XY, W7AVO and W7PBL are QRV as home calls /VK9L until January 18. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via operators' instructions. NORFOLK ISLAND, VK9N. Lee, VK3GK is QRV as VK3GK/9 until January 15. Activity is in his spare time on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and some CW. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Sei, JA7LU and Hiroo, JA2VWG will be QRV as XV4LU and XV4DD, respectively, from Phu Quoc Island, IOTA AS-128, from January 12 to 16. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL direct to home calls. EL SALVADOR, YS. Roberto, I2JIN is QRV as YS3CW from Corinth until January 31. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using mainly CW. QSL to home call. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Pet, K8PGJ will be QRV as ZF2PG from Grand Cayman from January 12 to 20. Activity will be holiday style on 20 to 10 meters using mainly SSB. This includes an entry in the upcoming North American SSB QSO Party. QSL to home call. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC Credit: Conway Reef, 3D2C, 2012 operation. If you had cards previously rejected for this operation please send an email to bmo...@arrl.org to be put on a list for an update. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC CW Sprint Ladder, Old New Year Contest, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, MI QRP January CW Contest, UK DX BPSK63 Contest, WW PMC Contest, North American CW QSO Party, DARC 10-Meter Contest and the NRAU-Baltic CW and SSB Contest are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for January 14. The AWA Linc Cundall Memorial CW Contest and QRP CW Fox Hunt are scheduled for January 16. Please see January 2013 QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD001 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD001 ARLD001 DX news ZCZC AE01 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 1 ARLD001 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT January 3, 2013 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD001 ARLD001 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. KENYA, 5Z. Bertrand, DF3ZS and Tom, DL1QW will be QRV as 5Z4/DF3ZS and 5Z4/DL1QW, respectively, from Diani Beach from January 7 to 20. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL to home calls. SENEGAL, 6W. Francis, F6BLP is QRV as 6W7SK until January 18 from Saly Portudal. Activity is holiday style on 80 to 10 meters using mostly CW. This may include some activity on 160 meters. QSL to home call. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DL50FRANCE is QRV during all of 2013 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the French-German Treaty of Friendship, also known as the Elysee Treaty. QSL via DK8VR. PHILIPPINES, DU. Bob, WT3A is QRV as DU7TET and is usually active on 160 meters between 0945 and 1300z. QSL to home call. ST. VINCENT, J8. Al, W6HGF will be QRV as J8/W6HGF from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from January 9 to 24. Activity will be on all bands, with an emphasis on the higher bands when possible using mostly RTTY and other digital modes. QSL direct to home call. MONGOLIA, JT. Chak, JT1CO has been active on 30 meters around 2100z. QSL direct. PAPUA NEW GUINEA, P2. Nao, JA2VQP is working as a volunteer and teaching mathematics at the Divine Word University in Wewak for the next two years. He has recently been issued the call P29NO and plans to be active in the coming months. NETHERLANDS, PA. Special event station PD110MVV is QRV until January 14 to commemorate the 110th jubilee of the football club MVV Maastricht. QSL via PD3R. SLOVENIA, S5. Special event station S5300TP is QRV during all of 2013 to mark the 300 years since the Tolmin Peasant Uprising of 1713. QSL via S59DAP. MOUNT ATHOS, SV/A. Monk Apollo, SV2ASP/A has been active on 40 meters using SSB around 0600z to 0700z. He has also been active on 17 meters using SSB around 1400z. QSL direct to home call. NAMIBIA, V5. Ewald, DJ2BQ is QRV as V5/DJ2BQ until January 18. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using RTTY. QSL to home call. MONTSERRAT, VP2M. Bjorn, SM0MDG is QRV as VP2MSW until January 8. Activity is mainly on 17 and 15 meters, and possibly 10 meters if conditions permit. QSL via M0URX. LAOS, XW. Larry is now QRV as XW1A. Activity is on 160 to 2 meters using CW and SSB. This will eventually include RTTY. QSL via E21EIC. ROMANIA, YO. Members of the Radioclub QSO Banat Timisoara are QRV as YP10KQT during all of 2013 to celebrate their 10th anniversary. QSL via YO2KQT. MACEDONIA, Z3. To commemorate the assignment of the Z3 prefix 20 years ago, special event station Z320RSM is QRV. Also, Special event stations Z320A to Z320Z are also QRV. QSL via operators' instructions. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL RTTY Roundup, Kid's Day SSB Contest, EUCW 160-Meter CW Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, PODXS 070 Club PSKFest and the QRP ARCI Pet Rock CW Celebration are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for January 8. The CWops Mini-CWT CW Test and QRP CW Fox Hunt are scheduled for January 9. Please see January 2013 QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD010 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news ZCZC AE10 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 10 ARLD010 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 8, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, The Weekly DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. LESOTHO, 7P. Gert, ZS6AYU is QRV as 7P8GF until March 13. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using only CW. QSL to home call. MALTA, 9H. Peter, G3PHO is QRV as 9H3C from Gozo Island, IOTA EU-023, until March 15. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters and possibly 160 meters. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. KUWAIT, 9K. Some members of the Kuwait ARS are QRV as 9K2F from Failaka Island, IOTA AS-118, until March 12. QSL via 9K2HN. TONGA, A3. A group of operators are QRV as A35YZ until March 24. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, SSTV and PSK31 with several stations active. QSL via DL7DF. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DQ0STRATEX is QRV until January 31, 2013 to commemorate the March 10 and March 24 launches of the stratospheric balloon projects named StratexB. Activity is on all bands and modes. On the balloons an APRS beacon will be on 144.800 MHz and a speech beacon on 430.375 MHz FM. QSL via DK4REX. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, E7. Special event station E720RS is QRV until the end of 2012 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. QSL via E78CB. DOMINICA, J7. Simon, G7SOZ is QRV as J79SZ until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8N5KOCHI is QRV until March 22 to mark an ARISS school contact from Kochi on Shikoku Island, IOTA AS-076. QSL via bureau. DENMARK, OZ. Stefan, DL7AOS is QRV as 5P5K until March 24. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters. This includes an entry in the upcoming Russian DX contest. QSL to home call. SLOVENIA, S5. Members of the Radio club Skofja Loka are QRV as S540DKR until the end of April in celebration of its 40th jubilee. QSL via S59DKR. SEYCHELLES, S7. Tom, DL5NEN and Claudia, DO5NEN will be QRV as S79NEN from Mahe and La Digue, both IOTA AF-024, from March 12 to 28. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes entries in the upcoming CQ WPX SSB and BARTG HF RTTY contests. QSL via DO5NEN. CHAD, TT. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as TT8ES from N'Djamena until March 18. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and digital modes. QSL via IK3GES. BERMUDA, VP9. Bob, G3PJT is QRV as VP9/G3PJT until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Retu, OH4MDY, plans to be QRV as XV2RZ from March 14 to April 16. QSL to home call. CHATHAM ISLANDS, ZL7. Dave, VO1AU is QRV as ZL7/VO1AU until March 13. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and SSB. This includes being a Single Op/All Band entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL via VO1MX. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Somalia, 6O0M, 2011 operation. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Burundi, 9U3TMM, reported as December 2011 and January 2012. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Afghanistan, T6BP, current operation commencing in 2011. Macquarie Island, VK0TH and AX/VK0TH, current operations. If you had VK0TH rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The North American RTTY Sprint, RSGB Commonwealth CW Contest, AWA John Rollins Memorial CW DX Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, AGCW QRP CW Contest, QRP ARCI HF Grid Square CW Sprint, EA PSK63 Contest, Idaho QSO Party, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, UBA Spring CW Contest, NSARA SSB Contest and Wisconsin QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for March 12. The CW QRP Fox Hunt, RSGB 80-meter Club CW Championship and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for March 14. Please see March QST, page 86 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD010 DX news
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[DX-NEWS] ARLD010 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news ZCZC AE10 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 10 ARLD010 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 8, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, The Weekly DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. LESOTHO, 7P. Gert, ZS6AYU is QRV as 7P8GF until March 13. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using only CW. QSL to home call. MALTA, 9H. Peter, G3PHO is QRV as 9H3C from Gozo Island, IOTA EU-023, until March 15. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters and possibly 160 meters. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. KUWAIT, 9K. Some members of the Kuwait ARS are QRV as 9K2F from Failaka Island, IOTA AS-118, until March 12. QSL via 9K2HN. TONGA, A3. A group of operators are QRV as A35YZ until March 24. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, SSTV and PSK31 with several stations active. QSL via DL7DF. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DQ0STRATEX is QRV until January 31, 2013 to commemorate the March 10 and March 24 launches of the stratospheric balloon projects named StratexB. Activity is on all bands and modes. On the balloons an APRS beacon will be on 144.800 MHz and a speech beacon on 430.375 MHz FM. QSL via DK4REX. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, E7. Special event station E720RS is QRV until the end of 2012 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. QSL via E78CB. DOMINICA, J7. Simon, G7SOZ is QRV as J79SZ until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8N5KOCHI is QRV until March 22 to mark an ARISS school contact from Kochi on Shikoku Island, IOTA AS-076. QSL via bureau. DENMARK, OZ. Stefan, DL7AOS is QRV as 5P5K until March 24. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters. This includes an entry in the upcoming Russian DX contest. QSL to home call. SLOVENIA, S5. Members of the Radio club Skofja Loka are QRV as S540DKR until the end of April in celebration of its 40th jubilee. QSL via S59DKR. SEYCHELLES, S7. Tom, DL5NEN and Claudia, DO5NEN will be QRV as S79NEN from Mahe and La Digue, both IOTA AF-024, from March 12 to 28. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes entries in the upcoming CQ WPX SSB and BARTG HF RTTY contests. QSL via DO5NEN. CHAD, TT. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as TT8ES from N'Djamena until March 18. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and digital modes. QSL via IK3GES. BERMUDA, VP9. Bob, G3PJT is QRV as VP9/G3PJT until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Retu, OH4MDY, plans to be QRV as XV2RZ from March 14 to April 16. QSL to home call. CHATHAM ISLANDS, ZL7. Dave, VO1AU is QRV as ZL7/VO1AU until March 13. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and SSB. This includes being a Single Op/All Band entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL via VO1MX. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Somalia, 6O0M, 2011 operation. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Burundi, 9U3TMM, reported as December 2011 and January 2012. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Afghanistan, T6BP, current operation commencing in 2011. Macquarie Island, VK0TH and AX/VK0TH, current operations. If you had VK0TH rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The North American RTTY Sprint, RSGB Commonwealth CW Contest, AWA John Rollins Memorial CW DX Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, AGCW QRP CW Contest, QRP ARCI HF Grid Square CW Sprint, EA PSK63 Contest, Idaho QSO Party, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, UBA Spring CW Contest, NSARA SSB Contest and Wisconsin QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for March 12. The CW QRP Fox Hunt, RSGB 80-meter Club CW Championship and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for March 14. Please see March QST, page 86 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD010 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news ZCZC AE10 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 10 ARLD010 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 8, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, The Weekly DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. LESOTHO, 7P. Gert, ZS6AYU is QRV as 7P8GF until March 13. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using only CW. QSL to home call. MALTA, 9H. Peter, G3PHO is QRV as 9H3C from Gozo Island, IOTA EU-023, until March 15. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters and possibly 160 meters. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. KUWAIT, 9K. Some members of the Kuwait ARS are QRV as 9K2F from Failaka Island, IOTA AS-118, until March 12. QSL via 9K2HN. TONGA, A3. A group of operators are QRV as A35YZ until March 24. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, SSTV and PSK31 with several stations active. QSL via DL7DF. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DQ0STRATEX is QRV until January 31, 2013 to commemorate the March 10 and March 24 launches of the stratospheric balloon projects named StratexB. Activity is on all bands and modes. On the balloons an APRS beacon will be on 144.800 MHz and a speech beacon on 430.375 MHz FM. QSL via DK4REX. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, E7. Special event station E720RS is QRV until the end of 2012 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. QSL via E78CB. DOMINICA, J7. Simon, G7SOZ is QRV as J79SZ until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8N5KOCHI is QRV until March 22 to mark an ARISS school contact from Kochi on Shikoku Island, IOTA AS-076. QSL via bureau. DENMARK, OZ. Stefan, DL7AOS is QRV as 5P5K until March 24. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters. This includes an entry in the upcoming Russian DX contest. QSL to home call. SLOVENIA, S5. Members of the Radio club Skofja Loka are QRV as S540DKR until the end of April in celebration of its 40th jubilee. QSL via S59DKR. SEYCHELLES, S7. Tom, DL5NEN and Claudia, DO5NEN will be QRV as S79NEN from Mahe and La Digue, both IOTA AF-024, from March 12 to 28. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes entries in the upcoming CQ WPX SSB and BARTG HF RTTY contests. QSL via DO5NEN. CHAD, TT. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as TT8ES from N'Djamena until March 18. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and digital modes. QSL via IK3GES. BERMUDA, VP9. Bob, G3PJT is QRV as VP9/G3PJT until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Retu, OH4MDY, plans to be QRV as XV2RZ from March 14 to April 16. QSL to home call. CHATHAM ISLANDS, ZL7. Dave, VO1AU is QRV as ZL7/VO1AU until March 13. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and SSB. This includes being a Single Op/All Band entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL via VO1MX. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Somalia, 6O0M, 2011 operation. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Burundi, 9U3TMM, reported as December 2011 and January 2012. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Afghanistan, T6BP, current operation commencing in 2011. Macquarie Island, VK0TH and AX/VK0TH, current operations. If you had VK0TH rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The North American RTTY Sprint, RSGB Commonwealth CW Contest, AWA John Rollins Memorial CW DX Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, AGCW QRP CW Contest, QRP ARCI HF Grid Square CW Sprint, EA PSK63 Contest, Idaho QSO Party, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, UBA Spring CW Contest, NSARA SSB Contest and Wisconsin QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for March 12. The CW QRP Fox Hunt, RSGB 80-meter Club CW Championship and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for March 14. Please see March QST, page 86 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD010 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news ZCZC AE10 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 10 ARLD010 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 8, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, The Weekly DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. LESOTHO, 7P. Gert, ZS6AYU is QRV as 7P8GF until March 13. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using only CW. QSL to home call. MALTA, 9H. Peter, G3PHO is QRV as 9H3C from Gozo Island, IOTA EU-023, until March 15. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters and possibly 160 meters. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. KUWAIT, 9K. Some members of the Kuwait ARS are QRV as 9K2F from Failaka Island, IOTA AS-118, until March 12. QSL via 9K2HN. TONGA, A3. A group of operators are QRV as A35YZ until March 24. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, SSTV and PSK31 with several stations active. QSL via DL7DF. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, DA. Special event station DQ0STRATEX is QRV until January 31, 2013 to commemorate the March 10 and March 24 launches of the stratospheric balloon projects named StratexB. Activity is on all bands and modes. On the balloons an APRS beacon will be on 144.800 MHz and a speech beacon on 430.375 MHz FM. QSL via DK4REX. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, E7. Special event station E720RS is QRV until the end of 2012 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. QSL via E78CB. DOMINICA, J7. Simon, G7SOZ is QRV as J79SZ until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8N5KOCHI is QRV until March 22 to mark an ARISS school contact from Kochi on Shikoku Island, IOTA AS-076. QSL via bureau. DENMARK, OZ. Stefan, DL7AOS is QRV as 5P5K until March 24. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters. This includes an entry in the upcoming Russian DX contest. QSL to home call. SLOVENIA, S5. Members of the Radio club Skofja Loka are QRV as S540DKR until the end of April in celebration of its 40th jubilee. QSL via S59DKR. SEYCHELLES, S7. Tom, DL5NEN and Claudia, DO5NEN will be QRV as S79NEN from Mahe and La Digue, both IOTA AF-024, from March 12 to 28. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. This includes entries in the upcoming CQ WPX SSB and BARTG HF RTTY contests. QSL via DO5NEN. CHAD, TT. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as TT8ES from N'Djamena until March 18. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and digital modes. QSL via IK3GES. BERMUDA, VP9. Bob, G3PJT is QRV as VP9/G3PJT until March 15. This includes an entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. VIET NAM, XV. Retu, OH4MDY, plans to be QRV as XV2RZ from March 14 to April 16. QSL to home call. CHATHAM ISLANDS, ZL7. Dave, VO1AU is QRV as ZL7/VO1AU until March 13. Activity is on the HF bands using CW and SSB. This includes being a Single Op/All Band entry in the RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL via VO1MX. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Somalia, 6O0M, 2011 operation. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Burundi, 9U3TMM, reported as December 2011 and January 2012. If you had this operation rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. Afghanistan, T6BP, current operation commencing in 2011. Macquarie Island, VK0TH and AX/VK0TH, current operations. If you had VK0TH rejected, send a note to bmoore (at) arrl.org to have your record updated. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The North American RTTY Sprint, RSGB Commonwealth CW Contest, AWA John Rollins Memorial CW DX Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, AGCW QRP CW Contest, QRP ARCI HF Grid Square CW Sprint, EA PSK63 Contest, Idaho QSO Party, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, UBA Spring CW Contest, NSARA SSB Contest and Wisconsin QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for March 12. The CW QRP Fox Hunt, RSGB 80-meter Club CW Championship and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for March 14. Please see March QST, page 86 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD008 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD008 ARLD008 DX news ZCZC AE08 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 8 ARLD008 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 23, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD008 ARLD008 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, The Weekly DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. EQUATORIAL GUINEA, 3C. Elmo, EA5BYP and Javier, EA5KM are QRV as 3C6A from Bioko Island, IOTA AF-010, until February 26. Activity is with two stations on the HF bands. QSL via EA5BYP. ANNOBON, 3C0. After their Bioko Island operation, look for EA5BYP and EA5KM to be QRV as 3C0E from Pagalu Island, IOTA AF-039, from February 28 to March 11. Activity will be with two stations on the HF bands. QSL via EA5BYP. SWAZILAND, 3DA0. Phil, G3SWH and John, G3OLU are QRV as 3DA0PW from the Hawane Resort until February 29. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW with two stations, propagation permitting. QSL via G3SWH. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, A6. Operators A65BT, A65BX and A61QQ are QRV as A65BT from Sa'diyyat Island, IOTA AS-021, until February 25 using mainly CW and some SSB. QSL direct to A65BT. THE GAMBIA, C5. Alan, G3XAQ will be QRV as C56XA from February 27 to March 15. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW. This includes an entry in the upcoming RSGB Commonwealth Contest. QSL via G3SWH. BAHAMAS, C6. Some members of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club will be QRV as C6ANM from Nassau, IOTA NA-001, in the CQ 160-Meter SSB contest as a Multi/Single entry. QSL direct via WA2IYO. CHILE, CE. Members of the Three Stars DX Group will be QRV as XR4CA from Cabo Carranza in the South American Lighthouse Weekend. Activity will be on 40, 20 and 10 meters using SSB. QSL via CE6AMN. CUBA, CO. Luis, CO6LP will be QRV in the CQ 160-Meter SSB contest as a Single Op entry. QSL via EA5GL. SPAIN, EA. A group of operators will be QRV as AO1POL in the CQ 160-Meter SSB contest. QSL via EA1GHT. GRENADA, J3. Harry, AC8G will be QRV as J37K from March 1 to 4. This includes an entry in the upcoming ARRL SSB DX contest. QSL direct to home call. DOMINICA, J7. Brian, K1LI will be QRV as J7Y from February 25 to March 13. This includes an entry in the upcoming ARRL SSB DX contest. QSL to home call. ARGENTINA, LU. Members of the Radio Club Mar Del Plata will be QRV as LT5D from Punta Mogotes in the South American Lighthouse Weekend. QSL via LU2DT. BRAZIL, PY. Operators Orlando, PT2OP and Fred, PY2XB are QRV as PV2PC and ZX2S, respectively, from Sao Sebastiao Island, IOTA SA-028, until February 27. This includes being active in the South American Lighthouse Weekend. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL PV2PC via PT2OP and ZX2S via PT7WA. SUDAN, ST. Robert, ST2AR has been active on 15 meters using CW between 1300 and 1500z. QSL via S53R. PALAU, T8. Kazue, JJ0LUH and Kiyoshi, JA0EKI will be QRV as T88XG and T88XH, respectively, from February 26 to March 2. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and JT65. QSL both calls via JA0EKI. MEXICO, XE. Look for XE1RCS to be QRV in the CQ 160-meter SSB contest. QSL via bureau. CAMBODIA, XU. Bernhard, DK7TF is QRV as XU7DLH until March 15. QSL to home call. ST. HELENA, ZD7. Nigel, G3TXF will be QRV as ZD7XF from February 29 to March 13. Activity will be mainly on 160 and 80 meters using CW. This includes being an entry in the upcoming RSGB Commonwealth contest. QSL to home call. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. John, K6AM will be QRV as ZF2AM from Grand Cayman Island, IOTA NA-016, in the CQ 160-Meter SSB contest as a Single Op/High Power entry. QSL to home call. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ 160-Meter SSB Contest, North American RTTY QSO Party, South American Lighthouse Weekend, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC CW Sprint Ladder, REF SSB Contest, UBA DX CW Contest, Mississippi QSO Party, High Speed Club CW Contest, SARL Digital Contest and the North Carolina QSO Party are all on tap for his weekend. The CQC Winter QSO CW Sprint is scheduled for February 27. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for February 29. Please see February QST, page 91 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP052 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP052 ARLP052 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP53 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 52 ARLP052 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA December 28, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP052 ARLP052 Propagation de K7RA An error crept into data reported in last week's bulletin. Solar flux on December 19 was 113.4, not 117.5. The average for the week, 117.5, was transposed into the solar flux number for the last day of the reporting period. The Winter Solstice was on the date of the last Propagation Forecast Bulletin, ARLP051, on Friday December 21, at 1112z. Average daily solar flux was down this week about four points to 113.4, which coincidentally was the solar flux number for the last reporting day of the previous week. Average daily sunspot numbers were down 6.7 points to 65.4. Geomagnetic indices were very low and stable, which should please 160 meter operators, who are also enjoying the long periods of darkness in the Northern Hemisphere. Predicted solar flux from NOAA and USAF are 110 on December 28-30, 115 on December 31 through January 4, 105 on January 5-7, 110 and 115 on January 8-9, 120 on January 10-12, 115 in January 13-19, and 120 on January 20-22. Predicted planetary A index is 8 on December 28-29, 5 on December 30 through January 12, 10 on January 13, and 5 on January 14-25. F.K. Janda, OK1HH has his own geomagnetic forecast, and he says conditions will be quiet to unsettled on December 28-29, mostly quiet December 30-31, quiet on January 1-3, mostly quiet January 4, quiet to unsettled January 5, mostly quiet January 6, quiet on January 7-9, mostly quiet January 10, quiet to unsettled January 11, mostly quiet January 12, active to disturbed January 13, quiet to unsettled January 14, mostly quiet January 15, quiet to active January 16, and quiet January 17-19. Jeff, N8II from West Virginia wrote with some observations: On Monday December 17 I got up early to find UA0ZN in zone 19 on 80 and finding not much else, decided to call CQ which resulted in a run of JAs around sunrise, most of which were very good copy ending with a JA5 who was S9+10dB! It was one of the best JA openings I have ever heard from here and my biggest 'run.' Signals from all over Australia were booming in on the Southern Cross net on 14.2385 MHz around 1300Z, and 12 meters was wide open to Central and Western Europe with a few Southern Europeans on 10 meters. VR2XMT was S7 on long-path on 12 meters around 1330Z. I finally had some spare time on a decent sunny day Sunday, December 23, and fixed my 160 meter sloper feedline. It still needs some work, but is working like a champ! With 200 watts I was getting thru to European stations Sunday night with ease. Worked UX0ZA, another UR, SM6MCW, two Gs, DJ2EH (S9+), another DL, F6 (S9), OE5O, OK1DQT, OM2XW, and ON4IA (S9+). I also heard 9K2MU who had many USA stations calling him he could not hear. He was mainly working Europe and calling CQ. Sunday morning was rather poor on 12 meters with some western EU Qs and a loud LA4. 10 was pretty close to dead, but there were a few western USA on in the afternoon. But 17 meters was wide open to Europe with good signals, whereas they would have been much weaker with higher SFI. If you are curious about Jeff's antennas, log into QRZ.com and check his page at http://www.qrz.com/db/N8II. Randy Crews, W7TJ of Spokane, Washington thinks we are past the peak of Cycle 24. He writes, It's pretty evident to me that unless we see another re-generation of new sunspots, November of 2011 will be the peak of Cycle 24 (short as the activity was) as actual solar activity as defined by average monthly sunspots and solar flux. Both measures have been slowly on the decline since that date. Then we will all have to prepare for the coming Propagation Winter. Brad Miskimen, N5LUL of Amarillo, Texas wrote: The design of the Yaesu FT857-D requires one to 'scroll' from one band to another rather than a simple push of a button. I had the rig set on 2 meters Tuesday evening (December 25), and planned to scroll down to 40 meters for the SKCC 2 hour sprint. Hokey Smokes! Voices on 6 when I hit that band section! Stopped and made a few contacts into Tennessee. I only caught things open from 12/26 0046z to 0050z. Not too impressive, but more contacts than I have made in the past 2 months on 6 meters. Looking forward to the January 19th VHF contest. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLD053 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD053 ARLD053 DX news ZCZC AE53 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 53 ARLD053 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT December 27, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD053 ARLD053 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by K1GI, NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. RODRIGUES ISLAND, 3B9. Juha, OH1LEG is QRV as 3B9/OH1LEG from Baie du nord, IOTA AF-017, until January 7. Activity is holiday style on 160 to 10 meters using SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL direct to home call. LESOTHO, 7P. Kiyo, JR1IZM is QRV as 7P8ZM from Maseru City until January 15. Activity is holiday style on 40 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via JO1CRA. WEST MALAYSIA, 9M2. Piju, 9M2PJU and others will be QRV as 9M2PJU/p near Kepong Metropolitan Lake Park, Kuala Lumpur from December 31 to January 1. Activity will be on 40, 20 and 15 meters using CW. QSL via 9M2PJU. ANGOLA, D2. Mike, UA1QV is QRV as D3AA from Vila de Catoca until February 15. QSL to home call. TEMOTU PROVINCE, H40. Sigi, DK9FN is QRV as H40FN until January 7. QSL via HA8DD. PERU, OA. Special event station 4T4RDP will be QRV from January 4 to 13 in recognition of the Rally Dakar Peru 2013. QSL via OA4O. DENMARK, OZ. A group of operators will be QRV as OU1RAEM from January 1 to December 31, 2013 to commemorate the 110th birthday and life of arctic explorer Ernst T. Krenkel. Activity will be on all bands and modes, as well as various contests and operating events. QSL via operators' instructions. ANTARCTICA. Alex, RD1AV is QRV as RI1ANC until February 17 while on work assignment at Vostok Base. QSL via RN1ON. EGYPT, SU. Vladimir is QRV as SU9VB and has been active on 160 meters around 0240z. QSL via operator's instructions. MOUNT ATHOS, SV/A. Monk Apollo, SV2ASP/A has been QRV on 17 meters using RTTY around 1430z. QSL direct to home call. PALAU, T8. Ryosei, JH0IXE is QRV as T8CW from Koror Island, IOTA OC-009, until January 6. Activity is on the HF bands using mostly RTTY, PSK31 and JT65A. QSL via JA0FOX. ASIATIC RUSSIA, UA0. Special event station RU20WC is QRV until January 5 during the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship taking place in Ufa. QSL via RV9WB. BELIZE, V3. After his Tlaxcala Mexico DXpedition, Markus, DJ4EL will be QRV as V31ME from Ambergris Caye, IOTA NA-073, and Long Caye, IOTA NA-123, from January 3 to 17. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. MONTSERRAT, VP2M. Nao, JN1RVS is QRV as VP2MRV until January 3. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW and RTTY. QSL via JA1HGY. BERMUDA, VP9. Masa, K1GI will be QRV as K1GI/VP9 from December 29 to January 2. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL direct to JG2BRI. MEXICO, XE. Markus, DJ4EL is QRV as XE1/DJ4EL from Tlaxcala, the smallest state of Mexico, until January 2. Activity is on 20 to 10 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. VANUATU, YJ. Michael, VK2BXE is QRV as YJ0MB from Port Vila until January 1. Activity is on all HF bands. QSL to home call. OPERATION APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operation is approved for DXCC credit: Mauritania, 5T0SP, 2012 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The NCCC Sprint, RAC Winter Contest, World Wide Iron Ham Contest, Stew Perry Topband CW Challenge, Original QRP CW Contest, The AGCW Happy New Year CW Contest, AGCW VHF/UHF Contest, AGB New Year Snowball Contest and SARTG New Year RTTY Contest are all scheduled for January 1. The ARRL Straight Key Night is scheduled for New Year's Evening. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for January 2. The Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party runs until January 2. Please see December QST, page 69, January 2013 QST, page 87, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLD052 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD052 ARLD052 DX news ZCZC AE52 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 52 ARLD052 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT December 20, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD052 ARLD052 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TEMOTU PROVINCE, H40. Sigi, DK9FN will be QRV as H40FN on CW from December 22 to January 7. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau. Direct QSL requests go via HA8DD. ANTARCTICA, VP8. Alex, RD1AV will be active from Vostok Base as RI1ANC from December 22 to February 17. QSL via RN1ON. LESOTHO, 7P. Kiyo, JR1IZM will be active as 7P8ZM from Maseru City in holiday style using CW, SSB and digital modes on 40-6 meters until January 15, 2013. QSL via JO1CRA. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HI. Alex, HI7/RO5D is working on 20, 15, 10 and maybe 40 meters until December 25. QSL via home call. LITHUANIA, LY. The Christman special event station LY12XMAS is QRV until December 31. QSL via LY2QT. EGYPT, SU. Gerd, DJ5IW received a license for Egypt and is active as SU/DJ5IW until December 21. QSL via home call. MEXICO, XE. Members of the Radio club Cancun announced the activation of special event station 4A0MAYA. They will be QRV using SSB, RTTY and PSK31 on 40-6 meters until December 23. QSL via XE3RCC. PALAU ISLAND, T8. Ryosei, JH0IXE will be QRV as T8CW from Koror Island using RTTY, PSK31 and JT65A on 160-6 meters from December 24 until January 6. QSL via home call, bureau or direct. KOSOVO, Z6. LA4MIA, Stein is QRV as Z6/LA4MIA and operates on SSB only on 40, 20 and 15 meters. He will be in the fledgling nation until January 8. QSL via LA4MIA. S52DD, Dusan is QRV as Z6/S52DD on 40 through 10 meters on CW, SSB and maybe some RTTY. QSL via his home address. No bureau requests. QSLs will be answered after his return home in late April or May 2013. Miko, Z6/SP5CJQ, is QRV on all modes for the next several months. QSL via home call. SWITZERLAND, HB9. The Tera Radio Club, HB9OK plans to be active with the special call HB30OK almost every day between January 1 and December 31, 2013, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the club. JAPAN, JA. Special event station 8N119T will be active on all modes on all HF bands between December 23 and March 25 to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Tokyo Fire Department. 119 is the emergency number in Japan for ambulance and firemen. QSL via bureau. PERU, OA. Martijn, OA4/PA3GFE will be working holiday style mainly on CW and digital modes on 40-10 meters until February 2. QSL via home call, LoTW. BERMUDA ISLANDS, VP9. Masa, VP9/K1GI plans to be QRV using CW, SSB and digital modes, on 160-10 meters from December 29 to January 2. QSL direct via JG2BRI, LoTW, ClugLog (OQRS). THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The QRP Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint and the AGB-Party Contest are on December 21. The Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party is December 22 and the RAEM CW Contest is December 23. Please see December QST, page 69 and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM Contest web sites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP50 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 49 ARLP049 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA December 7, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de K7RA We had some trouble getting the solar flux values this week, but found a work-around. We normally use ftp://ftp.geolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_flux/daily_flux_values/fluxtable.txt but it didn't seem to work yesterday. But another route was discovered that does work, http://www.spaceweather.ca/data-donnee/sol_flux/sx-5-flux-eng.php. It has the same data. We could use the NOAA site at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt, but we like getting the data with one more digit of resolution direct from the observatory in British Columbia. Solar activity declined again this week. Average daily sunspot numbers dropped from 78.9 to 61.1, and average daily solar flux declined from 121 to 101.6. The latest prediction from NOAA/USAF is for solar flux at 95 on December 7, 100 on December 8-9, 105 on December 10, 110 on December 11-12, 115 on December 13-14, 135 on December 15-17, then 130, 125 and 120 on December 18-20, 115 on December 21-23, 110 on December 24-27, 100 on December 28-29, 105 and 115 on December 30-31, 125 on January 1-2, 130 on January 3-7, and 135 on January 8-13. The predicted planetary A index is 8 on December 7-8, 5 on December 9, 8 on December 10, 5 on December 11-14, 8 on December 15, 5 on December 16-28, 8 on December 29-30, 5 on December 31 through January 1-6, then 10, 8 and 5 on January 7-9, and 8 on January 10-11. The above forecast is from Thursday, December 6, and is revised from the one issued a day earlier, which appeared in the ARRL Letter. The latest forecast has lower solar flux over the next few days with slightly more active geomagnetic conditions. We would like to see better conditions than currently forecast for the ARRL 10 Meter Contest this weekend. Recently I mentioned a spreadsheet I made to track changes in the 45-day solar flux forecast from NOAA/USAF. I am going to try to share the spreadsheet with you, and keep it updated online. To see the spreadsheet, go to https://sheet.zoho.com/public/tadcook/noaa-usaf-flux-prediction-archive-xls-1. Unfortunately, I have not quite figured out how to freeze the column headings across the top and the left column too, but you can look at the spreadsheet, download it and play with it. Note that the last entry is for December 6, 2012. If you go down the left column to that date, then go to the right to the December 6 column you will see the actual solar flux for that date. As you go up the December 6 column, you see all the past solar flux predictions for December 6, and see how they have varied over time. As you go to the right from December 6, you see numbers corresponding to the dates in each column, and those are the flux values as predicted on December 6, from the predictions at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/45DF.html. Last year on the Friday-Saturday-Sunday of the ARRL 10 Meter Contest weekend (December 9-11, 2011), the solar flux was 143.5, 140 and 134.3, and planetary A index was 1, 6 and 4. This year predicted for the three days of December 7-9 is a solar flux of 95, 100 and 100, and planetary A index of 8, 8 and 5. Note that the contest lasts only two days, but we include the day before also, as activity on that date should affect contest conditions. We prefer to see higher solar flux and a lower A index. There is also the possibility of enhanced propagation from ionized meteor trails. The Geminid shower this year peaks on December 13, but the Geminid activity runs from December 4-17, so we may see 10 meter propagation enhanced somewhat by the early part of the shower. Check http://www.arrl.org/10-meter for details on the contest. As usual, we received a geomagnetic forecast from OK1HH. He predicts quiet conditions December 7, mostly quiet December 8, quiet to active December 9, active to disturbed December 10-11, quiet December 12, quiet to unsettled December 13-14, quiet December 15-16, quiet to active December 17, active to disturbed December 18, mostly quiet December 19, quiet to active December 20-21, mostly quiet December 22, quiet to unsettled December 23, quiet December 24-27, quiet to active December 28, and mostly quiet December 29-30. Let's look at some moving averages for sunspot numbers. We have tracked a three-month moving average for quite some time now. The highest activity in this cycle was during the peak in fall 2011, when the three months centered on October 2011 had an average daily sunspot number of 118.8, and the November 2011 centered average was 118.6. Now that November has ended, we know the three month moving average for September 1 through November 30. The averages for this year centered on January through October were 83.3, 73.7, 71.2, 87.3, 91.5, 96.5, 91.9, 89.9, 81.2 and 82.3. The monthly averages of daily sunspot numbers for
[DX-NEWS] ARLP048 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP048 ARLP048 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP49 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 48 ARLP048 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 30, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP048 ARLP048 Propagation de K7RA The average daily sunspot number for the week was down nearly 38% to 78.9, when compared to last week's average, which was 126.9. The average daily solar flux dropped nearly 13% to 121 from 138.9. The seven day reporting period for these data ran from November 22-28. Predicted solar flux for the near term is 110 on November 30, 105 on December 1, 100 on December 2-4, 105 and 115 on December 5-6, 120 on December 7, 130 on December 8-11, 135 on December 12-15, 140 on December 16-17, 135 on December 18-19, 130 on December 20-22, 120 on December 23-24, 115 on December 25, 110 on December 26-28, 15 on December 29-30, 120 on December 31, 125 on January 1-2 and 130 on January 3-7. The current activity and forecast for the next few days is better than predictions we saw earlier in November. From November 5-18 we presented predictions showing the solar flux going below 100 on November 27 through December 2. Predicted planetary A index is 15 and 8 on November 30 through December 1, 5 on December 2-6, 10 on December 7-8, then 5 and 8 on December 9-10, 5 on December 11-15, 8 on December 16, 5 on December 17-31. The New Year is expected to begin slightly unsettled with predicted planetary A index at 10 on January 1-4. The following days through January 13 have a predicted A index of 5, except for January 6 and 12, with a predicted planetary A index of 8. OK1HH, F.K. Janda of the Czech Propagation Interest Group says the geomagnetic field should be quiet to unsettled November 30, mostly quiet December 1, quiet to unsettled December 2-3, quiet to active December 4, mostly quiet December 5-7, quiet December 8, quiet to active December 9-11, quiet December 12, quiet to unsettled December 13-14, mostly quiet December 15, quiet to unsettled December 16, quiet to active December 17, mostly quiet December 18, quiet December 19, quiet to active December 20-21, and quiet on December 22. Dick Grubb, W0QM of Boulder, Colorado sent some information forwarded some information on D-region absorption, which is interesting to look at when there is a Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) event. He sent this plot showing HF attenuation during the disturbance described by the PT0S operator in last week's Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP047: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/drap/data/2012/11/21/SWX_DRAP20_C_SWPC_20121121153300_GLOBAL.png. Backing up the URL hierarchy, we come to this directory: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/drap/data/ From there we select 2012, then November, which brings us here: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/drap/data/2012/11/ Select November 21, and it takes us here: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/drap/data/2012/11/21/ We can select data from any hour of the day, in this case he used the 1500 UTC hour: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/drap/data/2012/11/21/15.html Here we see a mind-boggling trove of data. The particular one he sent was the Global Plot from 1533 UTC. There are also north and south pole plots. You can see these minute-by-minute if you want, stepping forward and back in time. Here is a list of A and K index readings for the third quarter of 2012: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/2012Q3_DGD.txt Note the high numbers on July 15, 2012. It looks like the highest K index values were at the 0600 and 0900 UTC readings. At 0639 UTC, you can see a big effect: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/drap/data/2012/07/15/SWX_DRAP20_C_SWPC_20120715063900_GLOBAL.png. This looks like an interesting tool for examining some of the effects of solar flares. John Dyckman, WA3KFT of Aston, Pennsylvania is on a local 10 meter SSB net which meets daily at 1800-1900 UTC (actually 1-2:00 PM local time) on 28.435 MHz. On November 26 he and other stations on the net worked WA7DUH in Washington, KD0TBB, WB0Y and KD0QCF in Colorado, N3AAW in Montana and ZS6JPY in South Africa. 10 meters seemed open to the world, and signals were from S7 to 10 dB over S9 for the whole hour. So even with the somewhat depressed solar activity, 10 meters is still alive. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLD049 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD049 ARLD049 DX news ZCZC AE49 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 49 ARLD049 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 29, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD049 ARLD049 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, W3UR, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MAURITIUS, 3B8. Jacques, F1BCS is QRV as 3B8/F1BCS until December 14. Activity is on 20 and 15 meters using SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL to home call. MAURITANIA, 5T. A group of operators are QRV as 5T0SP until December 10. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via SP6FXY. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 9Y. Operator DL7VOG is QRV as 9Y4/DL7VOG from Tobago, IOTA SA-009, until December 3. Activity is on 160 to 6 meters using CW and RTTY. QSL to home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Claudio, HB9OAU is QRV as 8Q7AU until December 11. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB. QSL to home call. LIBERIA, EL. Lee, EL2LF has been active on 15 meters using SSB around 1800z. QSL via KY7M. BELGIUM, ON. Special event stations OR200HC and OP200HC will be QRV from December 1 to 31 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Belgian writer Hendrik Conscience. QSL OR200HC via ON3AIM and OP200HC via ON2CYV. ARUBA, P4. Tom, K8CX will be QRV as P40CX from December 3 to 10. Activity will be on all bands. This includes being active in the upcoming ARRL 10 Meter contest as a possible Single Op/Mixed Mode/High Power entry. QSL to home call. NETHERLANDS, PA. Fred, PA0FAW will be QRV as PG100NOM from December 1 to 28 from the De Hoge Veluwe National Park. Activity will be on 20, 15 and 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL to home call. BRAZIL, PY. Special event station ZZ100FC will be QRV from November 30 to December 3 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Calcanhar Lighthouse. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via PS7YL. SUDAN, ST. Mario, CT1FTR is now licensed as ST2FT. Activity will generally be on the HF bands using SSB and PSK31. QSL direct via CT2BGU. BENIN, TY. Patrice, TY2BP has been active on 20 meter using CW around 1630z. QSL via IK2IQD. MICRONESIA, V6. Haru, JA1XGI plans to be QRV as V63XG from Yap Island, IOTA OC-012, from December 5 to 12. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters, and possibly 160 meters, using mostly CW with some SSB, digital and JT65. QSL to home call. CAMBODIA, XU. A group of operators will be QRV as XU1A from December 5 to 17 while here to support a vocational training center for persons with disabilities. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters, and possibly 6 meters, using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via JH1AJT. VIET NAM, XV. Retu, OH4MDY is QRV as XV2RS until December 10. Activity is on 20 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL direct to home call. NICARAGUA, YN. Scott, K7ZO will be QRV as YN5ZO from December 4 to 10. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using SSB and RTTY. This includes being a Single Op/High Power/SSB entry in the upcoming ARRL 10 Meter contest. QSL to home call. AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS, ZL9. Members of the Hellenic Amateur Radio of Association of Australia will soon be QRV as ZL9HR from Campbell Island, IOTA OC-037. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct via EB7DX. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL 160-Meter CW Contest, ARRL EME Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, TARA RTTY Melee, Wake-Up. QRP CW Sprint, TOPS Activity CW Contest, AWA Bruce Kelley Memorial CW Contest, Ten-Meter RTTY Contest and the SARL Digital Contest are all scheduled for this upcoming weekend. The ARS Spartan CW Sprint is scheduled for December 4. The QRP CW Fox Hunt is scheduled for December 5. Please see December QST, page 69, and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP047 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP047 ARLP047 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP48 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 47 ARLP047 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 26, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP047 ARLP047 Propagation de K7RA This bulletin was delayed several days due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but is up-to-date as of Monday morning. In Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP046 on November 16, the average daily sunspot number on November 8-14 was 104.9. In the next seven day reporting period, November 15-21, the average was 126.9, a nice increase. With solar flux, the average over the previous period was 129.5. In the most recent period it increased to 138.9. In the four days (November 22-25) since the last reporting period ended, sunspot numbers were weakening at 93, 85, 87 and 64. Solar flux was 127,7, 126.7, 118 and 121.6. The latest prediction from NOAA/USAF on Sunday, November 25, has solar flux at 120 on November 26, 115 on November 27, 110 on November 28, 105 on November 29-30, 100 on December 1-3, 120 on December 4, 125 on December 5-6, 130 on December 7-11, 135 on December 12-15, and peaking at 140 on December 16-17. It then drops to a minimum of 110 on December 26-28 before rising again. The planetary A index is predicted at 11 and 15 on November 26-27, 8 on November 28-29, 10 on November 30, 8 on December 1, 5 on December 2-4, 10 on December 5-8, 5 and 8 on December 9-10, 5 on December 11-15, 8 on December 16, and 5 on December 17-31. OK1HH predicts quiet conditions November 26, quiet to unsettled November 27, active to disturbed November 28, mostly quiet November 29 through December 2, quiet to unsettled December 3, quiet to active December 4, quiet December 5-8, quiet to unsettled December 9, and quiet to active December 10-11. On November 19, Jon Jones, N0JK of Lawrence, Kansas reported 6 and 10 meter sporadic-E propagation. He wrote, I heard the W4CHA/b EL88 50.079 MHz on Es around 1740 UTC. No live ops around. About 10 minutes earlier I worked PT0S while fixed mobile on 10M SSB. I was running 100W and a mag mount whip antenna on the car. PT0S peaked up to 10 over S-9. I was on a high ridge with a clear shot to PT0S across the Wakarusa river valley, which helped. PT0S was the expedition to St. Peter and Paul Rocks, which sits in the mid-Atlantic Ocean at 0.9169 degrees north, 29.335 degrees west. We received another interesting report forwarded by Frank Donovan, W3LPL of Glenwood, Maryland. The report comes from last Thursday, November 22, and was written by George Wallner, AA7JV, who was on the expedition. Excerpts follow: During the short openings to JA, the demand is very strong and pile-ups have very high densities that make copy difficult. Still, we are happy as we have over 2500 JA contacts in the log. There was a very good opening late afternoon on 6 meters. Interestingly, just a few minutes before the opening 20, 17 and 15 meters went almost completely dead. I was operating 20 meter CW and had a huge pile-up. Within one minute the pile-up completely disappeared. There was not even one weak signal to be heard. Almost instantly, the 6 meter radio came alive and we had over 200 QSOs in 90 minutes, mostly with Southern Europe. A very nice surprise! 20, 17 and 15 meters recovered within a few minutes and we had big pile-ups going 15 minutes after the beginning of the disturbance. We got on 160 just after sunset at 2000Z. We could hear EU stations working each other, but nobody could hear us. We QSYed to 80 meters, where conditions were worse; 80 sounded like a bad 160. We then moved to 40 and worked both CW and SSB for a few hours, returning to 160 at 2145Z, by which time 160 was in decent shape and we were able to work a steady stream of EU stations until about 1230Z, when conditions deteriorated. We QSYed the main station between 40 and 160 meters a few times, trying to make QSOs while keeping our fingers in the 160 meter pie. We finished with 160 at sunrise but could not hear any JAs, just the odd NA caller, with mostly weak to very weak signals. We quickly QSYed to 40 at 0730Z where we were able to work a steady stream of JAs until about 0830Z, when the band suddenly closed to JA. Meanwhile, the second station was working NA, EU and JA on 80 meters, under good conditions until 0800Z. The disruptions George spoke of were no doubt triggered by one or more of the several coronal mass ejections that our Sun spewed forth last week. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLP046 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP046 ARLP046 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP47 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 46 ARLP046 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 16, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP046 ARLP046 Propagation de K7RA Suddenly this week we see an exciting and dramatic rise in sunspot activity. The daily sunspot number was 188 on Monday, November 12, higher than it has been in over a year. The last time the daily sunspot number was as high was on November 9, 2011, when it was 208. Prior to last November, we have to go back nine years into the previous solar cycle, November 26, 2003, to find a number this large. Back then the daily sunspot number was 209. The average daily sunspot number from November 8-14 was 104.9, over twice the previous week's average of 49.7. Average daily solar flux was 129.5, more than 32 points above the previous week's average. A coronal mass ejection on November 13 caused a geomagnetic storm on November 13-14, which drove the planetary A index to 33 on November 14. Aurora was visible across the Northern United States. NASA estimates a 40% chance of M-class solar flares today, and if any come from sunspot group 1614, they would be Earth-directed. The NOAA/USAF prediction on November 15 shows solar flux at 145 on November 16-19, 140 on November 20-21, 135, 125 and 105 on November 22-24, 100 on November 25-26, 95 on November 27, and 90 on November 28 through December 1. Then they predict 95, 100 and 105 on December 2-4, 110 on December 5-7, and 115 on December 8-11 Predicted planetary A index is 8 on November 16-17, 5 on November 18 through December 4, 10 on December 5-8, 5 on December 9, 8 on December 10, and 5 on December 11-15. OK1HH from the Czech Republic expects quiet conditions November 16-18, quiet to unsettled November 19, quiet November 20, mostly quiet November 21, quiet to unsettled November 22, mostly quiet November 23-24, quiet November 25-26, quiet to unsettled November 27, active to disturbed November 28, mostly quiet November 29 through December 2, quiet to unsettled December 3, quiet to active December 4, and quiet December 5-8. Conditions should be good for this weekend's ARRL SSB Sweepstakes. This is a domestic contest which counts ARRL Sections as multipliers, and you can find details at http://www.arrl.org/sweepstakes. Even if you aren't competing, it is fun to get on and just casually operate. If you do this toward the end of the contest, you will make some operators happy who are trying to squeeze out a few more points. Toward the end they have been at it for more than a day (the contest lasts 30 hours), while searching for new contacts they've heard the same calls over and over, and you joining in during the last few hours will generate fresh excitement. Max White, M0VNG of Worcester, UK calls our attention to an amateur astronomer in Bangladesh who runs a web page for monitoring Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances at http://radioastronomybd.com/onlinesid.html. Fortunately, I have not witnessed any SID events on this page. Check http://www.wunderground.com/blog/MAweatherboy1/comment.html?entrynum=53 for a frequently updated blog about space weather. Stu Phillips, K6TU has a fascinating and powerful new online tool that uses VOACAP, but automates the whole process and generates useful graphics. You can read a description of it at http://1vc.typepad.com/ethergeist/. VOACAP uses the predicted smoothed sunspot number for the month, and will generate the same prediction for the whole month. So there is no variation from day to day. With Stu's service you set up your location, select the month and year, decide if you want all HF bands or just the five bands contests use, select either a worldwide map or just North America, select typical antenna and transmit power configurations, and shortly you will receive an email with a link to PDF images for each hour for each band. It's fun to step through the hours and watch the propagation change. 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 November 8 through 14 were 71, 65, 68, 106, 188, 108, and 128, with a mean of 104.9. 10.7 cm flux was 104.1, 115.1, 122.2, 133.3, 143.8, 146.2, and 142.1, with a mean of 129.5. Estimated planetary A indices
[DX-NEWS] ARLP045 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP045 ARLP045 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP46 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 45 ARLP045 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 9, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP045 ARLP045 Propagation de K7RA Again this week solar activity retreated. Average daily sunspot numbers declined 8.7 points to 49.7, and average daily solar flux was down nearly 20 points to 97.2. The latest forecast (from Thursday, November 8) shows solar flux at 105 and 110 on November 9-10, 115 on November 11-17, 110 on November 18-20, 105 and 100 on November 21-22, 105 on November 23-24, and 100 on November 25-26. Flux values then drop below 100 on November 27 through December 2. The planetary A index forecast predicts an A index of 5 on November 9, 7 on November 10-12, 5 on November 13-18, 8 on November 19, 5 on November 20 through December 4, and 10 on December 5-8. Currently the Sun is peppered with a few weak spots, but there have been 1-2 new sunspot groups every day starting on November 3. November 3 had one new spot, November 4 had two, then two more on November 5, one on November 6 and another on November 7, and two new ones on November 8. OK1HH has a new geomagnetic forecast from Prague, and he predicts quiet to unsettled conditions November 9, active to disturbed November 10, quiet to active November 11, quiet to unsettled November 12, quiet November 13, mostly quiet November 14-15, quiet again November 16-19, mostly quiet November 20, quiet November 21, mostly quiet November 22-23, quiet November 24-26, quiet to active November 27, active to disturbed November 28, quiet to unsettled November 29, and quiet on December 1. NASA tweaked their forecast for the smoothed sunspot number at the peak of Cycle 24 next Fall. On October 2 they predicted a sunspot number maximum of 75 in Fall 2013, and on November 2 they changed that to 73. Scott Wright, K0MD of Rochester, Minnesota shared some brief observations on conditions during the CQ World Wide DX SSB Contest (October 27-28, two weekends ago). He wrote, I did not find the band openings nearly as good this year as last year. Ten meters was very good but not as good as 2011. Propagation was down on 40 meters with lower country totals from the Midwest than I saw last year. 160 was not very good but no surprise there, given it is October. Check out Scott's station at http://www.k0md.com/. The next CQ World Wide DX contest is the CW weekend, November 24-25. See http://www.cqww.com/. A week from now is the Phone weekend for ARRL Sweepstakes, a domestic contest. See http://www.arrl.org/sweepstakes. Scott noted the better propagation during the same contest last year. This year, the average daily sunspot number for the ten day period ending on Sunday, October 28, the last day of the contest, was 79.8. But for the same period last year, ending on Sunday, October 30, 2011 the average daily sunspot number was 111.6, quite a bit higher, by 40% in fact. Max White, M0VNG of Worcester, UK sent this article about a coronal hole and a disastrous solar wind back in January 1994: http://o.canada.com/2012/10/17/canadian-scientists-identify-suns-coronal-hole-as-culprit-in-1994-anik-satellite-failures/. We can check an archive of geomagnetic indices to get a sense of what the effect on Earth was: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/1994_DGD.txt Note there are days in January of that year when readings from the magnetometer near Fairbanks, Alaska (the College A index) that have asterisks instead of numbers. This is what we see occasionally when the magnetometer is completely overloaded with energy, and cannot produce any sort of meaningful results. We can see there was a lot of geomagnetic activity that year. I would like to refer back to propagation forecast bulletins from January 1994, but unfortunately the online archive at http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation doesn't begin until January 1995. If anyone has copies of the propagation bulletin prior to 1995, please contact me. Perhaps you have an old hard drive from a personal computer used for packet radio twenty years ago? K9LA has some great propagation resources on his web site at http://myplace.frontier.com/~k9la/index.html. He has download links for free pdf copies of both NM7M propagation books, and a slide presentation showing an update on Cycle 24 that he presented in July. If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint to watch the slides, you can download a free reader at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13. From two years ago, G0KYA has a downloadable pdf eBook titled Understanding LF and HF Propagation at http://g0kya.blogspot.com/2010/11/understanding-lf-and-hf-propagation.html. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLD046 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD046 ARLD046 DX news ZCZC AE46 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 46 ARLD046 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 8, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD046 ARLD046 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MONACO, 3A. Max, ON5UR and Marc, ON8AK are QRV as 3A/home calls until November 17. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB. QSL via M0URX. CYPRUS, 5B. Operators DL4ABO and DC8MH will be QRV as 5B/home calls from November 10 to 14. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL to home calls. MADAGASCAR, 5R. Eric, F6ICX will be QRV as 5R8IC from Nosy Boraha, IOTA AF-090, from November 10 to December 9. Activity will be holiday style on the HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK63. QSL to home call. WEST MALAYSIA, 9M2. Seppo, OH1VR and Henri, OH3JR will be QRV as 9M2/home calls from November 11 to 15 prior to their Lord Howe Island DXpedition. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct to home calls. BHUTAN, A5. Zorro, JH1AJT is QRV as A5A from Thimphu until November 15 while working for the Foundation for Global Children. Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters in his spare time. QSL to home call. TAIWAN, BV. Special event stations BM0LF and BV2013LF are QRV until March 10, 2013 in celebration of the Taiwan Lantern Festival 2013 in Hsinchu, IOTA AS-020. QSL via BM2JCC. THE GAMBIA, C5. Pedro, ON7WP will be QRV as C5WP from November 11 to 18. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters using SSB. QSL direct to home call. URUGUAY, CX. Special event station CW90A is QRV until the end of 2012 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first transmission of Radio Paradizabal, broadcast on Nov 6, 1922. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL direct to CX2ABC. SABLE ISLAND, CY0. Al, VE1AWW is QRV as CY0/VE1AWW until late December. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB, PSK and possibly 6 meter EME. QSL to home call. SOUTH COOK ISLANDS, E5. Look for stations E51C, E51ABS, E51BZD and E51CHX to be QRV from Aitutaki, OC-083, from November 12 to 30 while on holiday. Activity will be holiday style on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and PSK31 from 1900 to 1200z. QSL via operators' instructions. MARIANA ISLANDS, KH0. Operator JR1VAY is QRV as AH2J/KH0 from Saipan until November 12. This includes entries in the Japan International SSB DX and Worked All Europe DX RTTY contests. QSL to home call. CURACAO, PJ2. Operators DL5MFL, DB5IJ, DF9MV and DJ1MGK are QRV as PJ2/home calls from Signal Point Station until December 15. This includes an entry in the Worked All Europe RTTY contest. QSL to home calls. ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL ROCKS, PY0S. A group of operators will be QRV as PT0S from November 10 to 22. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters, and possibly 6 meters conditions permitting, with two stations using CW, SSB and possibly RTTY. QSL via HA7RY. SEYCHELLES, S7. Hardy, DL8NU is QRV as S79MU from Mahe Island, IOTA AF-024, until November 24. Activity is on the HF bands using mainly CW. QSL to home call. UZBEKISTAN, UK. Vlad, UA4WHX is QRV as UK/UA4WHX. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call. BRUNEI, V8. Members of the Mediterraneo DX Club will be QRV as V84SMD from November 11 to 23. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with up to five stations active simultaneously. QSL via IK2VUC. INDONESIA, YB. Special event station YB26SEAG will be QRV from November 11 to 17 during the 26th South East Asia Games in Jakarta taking place November 12 to 22. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via YB1GJS. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Chad, TT8TT, 2012 operation; Lakshadweep Islands, VU7M, 2012 operation, and Tristan Da Cunha and Gough, ZD9UW, 2012 operation. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. Worked All Europe DX RTTY Contest, Japan International DX Phone Contest, 10-10 International Fall Digital Contest, QRP CW Fox Hunt, NCCC Sprint, OK/OM DX CW Contest, Kentucky QSO Party, CQ-WE Contest, SKCC Weekend CW Sprintathon, EANET Sprint are all on tap for this upcoming weekend. The NAQCC-EU Monthly CW Sprint is scheduled for November 12. The RSGB 80-Meter Club SSB Sprint, QRP CW Fox Hunt and CWops Mini-CWT CW Test are scheduled for November 14. Please see November QST, page 91 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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
[DX-NEWS] ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP45 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 44 ARLP044 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA November 2, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA Solar activity quieted this week. Average daily sunspot numbers were down nearly 37 points to 58.4. Average daily solar flux declined 27 points to 116.9. Predicted solar flux values are 100 for November 2-3, 105 on November 4-5, 110 on November 6-9, 120 on November 10-11, 125 on November 12-13, 130 on November 14, and peaking at 135 on November 15-20, then 130, 125 and 120 on November 21-23, and 115 on November 24-26. It then drops to a minimum of 100 on November 29 through December 1, then back to a high of 135 by mid-December. The predicted planetary A index is 10 and 8 on November 2-3, 5 on November 4-5, 7 on November 6-7, then 10, 12 and 15 on November 8-10, 5 on November 11 through December 4, and 10, 20 and 15 again on December 5-7, followed by a quiet 5 again through December 16. A coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field at 1530 UTC on October 31. This sparked aurora and contributed to the planetary and mid-latitude A index of 17 on November 1, with the college A index (in Alaska) at a stormy 48. The activity is subsiding, with a declining A index through the weekend. This will be important to domestic HF contesters, as the ARRL November CW Sweepstakes is this weekend. Conditions should be pretty good for the contest. The geomagnetic forecast from OK1HH says quiet to unsettled activity November 2-3, mostly quiet November 4, quiet to active November 5-6, quiet to unsettled November 7-8, quiet to active November 9, active to disturbed November 10, quiet to active November 11, mostly quiet November 12-14, quiet November 15-18,.mostly quiet November 19, quiet November 20-22, and mostly quiet November 23-24. Last weekend (October 27-28) was the SSB portion of the CQ World Wide DX Contest. The CW weekend is right after Thanksgiving, November 24-25. Jeff Hartley, N8II in West Virginia reports: I operated 10 meters single band in the contest, but the band was nearly closed as expected at the start, so I migrated down for a few 20 meter Qs. 20 was open nearly world wide for the first 2 hours with excellent conditions over the pole from just west of JA all the way across to northern Europe; there were also a few very southwestern Europeans workable and the Middle East was loud as usual at that time of day. I worked many Russians including all call areas. RT4RO was S9+25-30 dB. BA, YE2, A7, VU, EY were all logged along with some very loud Africans (C5A, D4C, 5Z4EE). VK1CC called in via long path around 0100z, unusual to work that path so late. This was probably the best 20 meters has ever been at the contest start in my many years of contesting. The solar flux averaged around 120 over the weekend with Saturday being slightly better. This allowed excellent conditions to all of Europe and fairly long openings to Russia including zone 17 UA9s. But propagation was very limited to central Asia (worked two UNs with good signals Sunday) and the Far East (none logged) beyond JA; conditions were better to there last year. Good European conditions and activity allowed me to make over 2,150 QSOs with 1,000 in the log by 1715Z Saturday! There was activity up to above 28.8 MHz during the peak time to Europe. Even stations with poor antennas and running QRP were easy to work for hours. Conditions to the south Pacific were rather poor (worse than expected) except from 2300-2330z the last day; mid afternoon to late afternoon. Sunday was pretty much dead that direction except for KH6. KH2/KH0 stations were extremely loud from 2100z until 2300z, much louder than the JAs, about 10 stations were logged total from those 2 countries. Steve Brunt, K6AAB of Fresno, California reports, Conditions this weekend were fabulous! 10 meters was open until 0200z on the West Coast. Could have worked 10 single band, but didn't. 15 meters was also great with worldwide openings. 20 meters was open, but odd propagation. I could hear lots of Eastern Europeans, but couldn't work them. I completely missed Zone 15 on 20. Jon Jones, N0JK in Kansas reports, Sunday afternoon there were great conditions in the CQ WW SSB contest to the Far East. Many Japanese stations were 20 over S9 on 10 meters just before sunset Sunday afternoon. I worked AH2, AH0, Japan, China, and Hawaii with 100 watts and a CB mag-mount whip. Most stations worked on first or second call. 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
[DX-NEWS] ARLD045 DX news
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD045 ARLD045 DX news ZCZC AE45 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 45 ARLD045 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 1, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD045 ARLD045 DX news This weeks bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, W3UR, QRZ DX, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MAURITANIA, 5T. Sadao, JA1PBV is now active as 5T5BV until November 10. Activity has been on 30, 12 and 10 meters, using CW and RTTY. QSL via JA1PBV. TOGO, 5V. Wim, ON4CIT is active as 5V7TH until November 5. Activity is on 40 through 6 meters, including the 30, 17 and 12 meter bands, using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his home call sign, direct, by the Bureau, LoTW or by the ClubLog's OQRS. AZORES, CR2. Kim, OH6KZP will be active as CR2X from Ribeira Grande during the CQWW DX CW Contest, November 24 and 25, as a Single-Op/All-Band/High-Power entry. QSL via OH2BH. EAST MALAYSIA, 9M6. Satoshi, JE1JKL will be active as 9M6NA from Labuan Island, during the CQWW DX CW Contest as a Single-Op/All-Band entry. QSL via his home call sign, direct, by the Bureau or LoTW. DOMINICA, J7. Walter, HB9MFM is active as J79WTA from the Tamarind Tree Hotel near Salisbury until December 17. Activity is holiday style on 160 through 10 meters, using SSB, RTTY, PSK as well as SSTV, if possible. QSL via his home call sign, direct or by the Bureau. SINT MAARTEN, PJ7. Kazu, 7L4XDT and Masa, K1GI will be active as PJ7XK and PJ7I, respectively, from November 18 to 24. Activity will be on 160 through 6 meters using CW, SSB and the digital modes. QSL PJ7XK via 7L4XDT and PJ7I via JG2BRI. MICRONESIA, V6. Haru, JA1XGI will be active as V63XG from Yap Island (OC-012) from December 5 to 12. Activity will be on 40 through 6 meters, using mainly CW, with some SSB and the digital modes, and JT65. QSL via JA1XGI, direct or by the Bureau. AFGHANISTAN, T6. LZ1CNN will sign T6LG in the CQWW CW Contest. He plans to be Single-Op/All-Band/Low-Power. QSL via LZ1ZF. SLOVENIA, S5. Slovenian special event station S512IAPMC is QRV until January 15, from the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities in Slovenj Gradec. Activity is on all bands, using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via the Bureau. SINGAPORE, 9V. Koichi, JR1MLT has been active as 9V1KK on weekends only, on 160 through 10 meters, using SSB and CW. He hopes to get on the digital modes in the future as well. QSL via JH1ILX. BERMUDA, VP9. Paul, VP9KF will be active using CW from November 5 to 19. He plans to concentrate on grayline propagation to Japan. QSL direct only, via W4/VP9KF, Paul Evans, 6809 River Road, Tampa, FL, 33615, USA. SEYCHELLES, S79. Hardy, DL8NU plans to operate as S79NU from Mahe Island, from November 9 to 24. He will be mostly on CW on the HF bands. QSL via DL8NU. AUSTRALIA, VK. Special event call sign VI6ARG30 will be active November 5 to 18 for the 30th anniversary of the Peel Amateur Radio Group in Western Australia, VK6ARG. QSL via VK6VKS. MALDIVES, 8Q. Andrew, G7COD will be active as 8Q7AK from Embudu Island on the South Male Atoll, AS-013, for three weeks in February 2013. QSL via his home call sign, direct or by the Bureau. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL November Sweepstakes CW, ARRL EME Contest, Ukrainian DX Contest, Radio Club of America QSO Party, OK1WC Memorial Contest, Collegiate ARC Championship and the DARC 10 Meter Digital Corona will keep contesters very busy this weekend. Please see November QST and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest websites for details. /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 ---
[DX-NEWS] ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP44 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 43 ARLP043 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA October 26, 2012 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP043 ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA Good conditions should prevail for the CQ World Wide SSB DX Contest this weekend. A chance of solar flares has greatly diminished in the past few days, and the latest forecast has planetary A index at a steady and quiet 5 for this weekend and beyond, through the first week in November. The average of the daily sunspot number for October 18 through 24 was 95.3, down 1.7 points from the previous seven days. Average daily solar flux rose 14.7 points to 143.9. Geomagnetic activity was quieter, with all daily planetary A index measures in the single-digits. The current prediction (from October 25) from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force shows solar flux at 125 on October 26, 120 on October 27, 115 on October 28-29, 110 on October 30-31, 105 on November 1-2, 100 on November 3, then 105 and 110 on October 4-5, 115 on October 6-7, 120 on November 8-11, 125 on November 12-13, then peaking at 145 on November 18 and dropping back to 100 on November 29-30. It then rises to 120 on December 5-8. This is a substantial downward revision from the previous day's forecast, (presented in the October 25 ARRL Letter) which showed solar flux at 135 on October 25-26, 130 on October 27-29, 125 on October 30 through November 1, and 100 on November 2-3. Now that I use the spreadsheet I prepared last week for tracking the USAF/NOAA flux forecast changes, I can see a history of the changing flux forecast for today. Until October 1 a flux value of 150 was predicted for October 26, then it changed to 135 on October 1-14, 130 on October 15-17, 125 on October 18-19, 120 on October 20, 130 on October 21, back to 150 this week on Monday, October 22, then 140 on Tuesday, 135 on Wednesday, and yesterday 125 on October 25. You can check the actual solar flux directly from the Penticton, British Columbia observatory today some time after 2000 UTC at ftp://ftp.geolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_flux/daily_flux_values/fluxtable.txt. Three readings per day are shown at 1700, 2000 and 2300 UTC, and the local noon (2000 UTC) value becomes the official one for the day. The way to read it is to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, then in the first column is the date (expressed as 20121026) and the second is the time, 20 for 2000 UTC. Then for the observed solar flux, skip over to the fifth column to the right. You can see that yesterday the three values were 132.2, 130.0 and 129.2, and so 130 became the official flux value for October 25, as reported by NOAA at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt. Note the Penticton observatory resolves the number to one more decimal place than the report from NOAA, which rounds it to the nearest whole number. Predicted planetary A index is 5 on October 26 through November 7, 10, 20 and 15 on November 8-10, 5 on November 11-17, 10 on November 18-19, and 5 on November 20 through December 4. Our regular weekly geomagnetic forecast from F.K. Janda, OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interest Group shows quiet conditions today, October 26, active to disturbed on October 27-28, quiet on October 29, mostly quiet October 30, quiet October 31 and November 1, mostly quiet November 2-3, quiet to active November 4, active to disturbed November 5, quiet to active November 6, mostly quiet November 7, quiet to unsettled November 8-9, quiet to active November 10, active to disturbed November 11, quiet to unsettled November 12-13, mostly quiet November 14, and quiet November 15-17. I received OK1HH's forecast at 1618 UTC on October 25, and I don't know how long prior to that it was created. Based on the fact that the likelihood of solar flares dropped dramatically in the past few days, I think we can discount the dire prediction (active to disturbed on October 27-28) for the contest weekend. I received an email from him at 1132 UTC today (October 26) and he thinks there still could be a disturbance, because a coronal hole is position right in the center of our view of the Sun. Sunspot group 1598 emitted a powerful X1 class solar flare on October 23, and it is rotating into the center of the solar disc today. But it shrunk in the past couple of days, and now the chance of flares has declined to just 5%, according to NOAA forecasters quoted at http://www.spaceweather.com. The shrinking of the formerly giant sunspot led to declining solar flux predictions and should ease any worries from the OK1HH prediction about this weekend. Check this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRagLBBqAYM showing sunspot group 1598 and the recent flare. Note the position of the sunspot projected the flare away from Earth. Also please ignore the videos previewed on the right side of the screen, which on my display show nonsense about the end of the world, grand planetary alignments, phantom
