By David, on July 22nd, 2010%
SB DX @ ARL $ARLD029 ARLD029 DX news
ZCZC AE29 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 29 ARLD029 >From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT July 22, 2010 To all radio amateurs
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This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Daily DX, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all.
CROATIA, 9A. Operators HA6NL and HA6PS are QRV as 9A/home calls from Pasman Island, IOTA EU-170, until July 30. This includes an entry in the RSGB IOTA contest. QSL to home calls.
MALTA, 9H. A group . . .
To read the rest of this article, please click here: → DX Report July 22, 2010
By David, on July 21st, 2010%
In the event of a surge (nearby lightening strike), everything in the shack should always be at the same potential – even if that potential is many kilovolts above normal ground potential. But achieving that requires providing some protective measures.
If you have done nothing in your hamshack installation to handle lightning surges, AND you live in a high lightning incidence area, the best protection is to disconnect everything when not in use – do that until you have a good surge protection scheme installed.
Fortunately here in Hawaii, we are not a high lightening incidence area. Nevertheless, lightening does . . .
To read the rest of this article, please click here: → Lightening Protection and Grounding Around the Shack
By David, on July 18th, 2010%
Table of Olivia Calling Frequencies and Olivia MFSK Activity Frequencies, as per existing bandplans. . . .
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By David, on July 18th, 2010%
Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1718 – July 16 2010
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1718 with a release date of Friday, July 16, 2010 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a Q-S-T. An appeals court strikes down the FCC’s 2004 ban on indecent language broadcast on the airwaves, rule 97.113 changed to allow employees in emcomm drills, the next Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference to take place this fall on the island of Curaco, hams in Spain get called out in back to back emergency communications exercises and Amateur Radio Newsline announces the 2010 Young Ham of the Year. Find out whom it is on an expanded . . .
To read the rest of this article, please click here: → Newsline July 16, 2010
By David, on July 18th, 2010%
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 16, 2010 To all radio amateurs
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Two new sunspot groups appeared in the last week, groups 1087 and 1088. 1088 lasted just one day, on July 13, 2010 with a relative area of 10 (millionths of a solar hemisphere). Sunspot group 1087 had a relative area from July 9-15 of 30, 100, 120, 130, 70, 100 and 60.
Average daily sunspot numbers this reporting week (July 8-14) rose 2.9 points to 18.9, and average . . .
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