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| CEPT (European reciprocal license) change! |
"From 4 February the US Technician and General class amateur licences
are no longer valid for CEPT reciprocal licensing. |
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I thought I would let everyone know about Andy Lopez. He is running for Sheriff of Bexar County and I know him personally, he is a great guy and would like our support. He likes Ham Radio and the support it can provide to the community. I am actually working on him getting his license but with his schedule right now that’s not possible, hopefully in the near future. If you would like to know more about Andy you can visit his site at http://www.andy4sheriff.info/default.asp
Thanks
Frank Sellers N6AQ |
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Posted by N6AQ Monday, January 21, 2008 (18:49:46) |
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| Monthly South Texas Section News Summary |
January has been a bad month for Silent Keys. January 1: Terry Parker,
KC5EFD, who will be missed by all who knew him. On January 12, Ray Miller,
W5REC, well known on all the nets. Also James Moehle, N5RSJ, on the same day
(January 12). I just got an e-mail from him last Friday night, and they found
him dead Saturday in his office. Same day as Hiram Percy Maxim II. |
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| Romney 'Disses' Amateur Radio |
Wednesday 16 November 2005 @ 15:48:10 | Eastern Massachusetts ARRL
Romney 'Disses' Amateur Radio In Televised Town Meeting Posted on Wednesday16 November 2005 @ 15:48:10
Governor Mitt Romney dismissed the role of Amateur Radio operators in emergency communications
during a televised 'town meeting' program last night on WCVB's 'When Disaster Strikes: Segment Two.'
The program featured public safety and volunteer organization officials from across Massachusetts
among its audience.
Host and moderator Natalie Jacobson asked an increasingly-agitated Governor Romney questions about
communications interoperability, and communication without commercial power. Romney was next asked
by Jacobson, '...so does it come down to ham radio?...' |
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SOLAR CYCLE 24 BEGINS: Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of a reversed-polarity sunspot to signal the start of the next solar cycle. The wait is over. Yesterday, a magnetically reversed sunspot (981) emerged at solar latitude 30 N, shown in this photo taken by Greg Piepol of Rockville, Maryland:
This marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 24 and the first step toward a new solar maximum. Intense solar activity won't begin right away. Solar cycles usually take a few years to build from solar minimum (where we are now) to Solar Max (expected in 2011 or 2012). It's a slow journey, but we're on our way!
Story from: Spaceweather.com
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Posted by W5ERX Saturday, January 05, 2008 (08:43:31) |
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| Exciting News ! Solar Cycle officially has arrived |
This announcement is from SIDC in Belgium: ...MDI images (ed: of the sun) show a
bipolar structure. This bipole is however the first of the new solar
cycle which actually develops into a visible sunspot group. Solar cycle
24 has arrived!" |
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| This is it guys!! High Latitude Sunspot ! |
High Latitude Sunspot ! / Solar Update
01/04/2008 by VE3EN at 15:00
A new high latitude sunspot has just emerged and yes this time it is a sunspot. It also has the correct magnetic signature of a Cycle 24 spot. Pictures at Solarcyle24.com!
Courtesy of VE3EN and Solarcyle24.com |
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| Sunspot 980 / Happy 2008 01/01/2008 by VE3EN at 22:10 |
Sunspot 980 / Happy 2008
01/01/2008 by VE3EN at 22:10
Sunspot 980 is making itself shown on the eastern limb. You can see the rest of this area on the STEREO Behind image. This area has been producing C-Class and B-Class flares. A C8.3 flare took place late Sunday night and a CME was associated with it. This CME is not earth directed and will not effect us.
For most of the day today, the solar X-Ray Flux has seemed to have been very quiet. Perhaps this region is out of gas.
The solar flux is currently at 79.
Courtesy VE3EN at solarcycle24.com |
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Posted by W5ERX Wednesday, January 02, 2008 (06:41:57) |
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| 18th New Zealand/International 2007/2008 Scouts Jamboree |
18th New Zealand/International 2007/2008 Scouts Jamboree
To be held in Christchurch, New Zealand from December 29, 2007 to January 5, 2008.
Over 4,500 Scouts along with 1,000 plus Scout Leaders and support personnel from 14 Countries will participate in this event.
Amateur Radio will be there too with volunteers from local Radio Clubs headed by Paul ZL3TX who will have a fully operational HF/VHF/UHF station running under the Callsign ZM6JAM (OC-134).
The main activity will take place between the hours of 2000Z to 0800Z (9AM to 9PM NZDT) each day apart from New Years Eve when the station will remain active till 1200Z (1AM NZDT). Remember though that NZ is 13 hours ahead of UTC time and one of the first countries in the world to see in the New Year!
ZM6JAM will be active on 80 through 10 meters mainly SSB/Digital Modes along with Echolink via the ZL3CAR repeater Node 101553 and ILRP on 145.625 repeater Node 6900.
All Qsl's via ZL Buro or ZL3TX (See Qrz.com).
For further information or for those wanting to set up skeds please email: zm6jam@yahoo.co.nz
Bill ZL3NB
For Kiwi Dx List
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/kiwidxlist |
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Posted by W5ERX Sunday, December 23, 2007 (17:47:37) |
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| ARLP052 Propagation de K7RA |
ARLP052 Propagation de K7RA
ZCZC AP52
QST de W1AW
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 52 ARLP052
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA December 14, 2007
To all radio amateurs
SB PROP ARL ARLP052
ARLP052 Propagation de K7RA
Sunspot 978 made a strong showing this week, and daily sunspot
numbers are up as a result. The average daily sunspot number for
this week rose over 25 points to 36.7, and average daily solar flux
rose over 14 points to 87.2. The sunspot numbers on December 9-11
were 42, 43 and 44. Sunspot numbers haven't been nearly this high
since July 14-15 of 2007, when it was 41 both days. The daily
sunspot number hasn't been higher since June 2 to June 8 of this
year, when it was 45, 58, 58, 63, 47, 59 and 51.
You can make your own animation of the emergence and movement of
sunspot 978 with photos on http://www.spaceweather.com. Just click
on http://snurl.com/ss978 and in the URL field change /06dec07/ to
/07dec07/, hit the Enter key, then change it to /08dec07/, hit
Enter, and repeat until you reach /13dec07/ (14dec07 will probably
also work by the time you read this bulletin). Now you can use your
browser's forward and back keys to animate the sunspot and watch it
move. It is a big sunspot.
Geomagnetic activity was very low, although it was slightly
unsettled around December 11-12 at northern latitudes. But take a
look at the table at, http://snurl.com/geokna. Note the absence of
any geomagnetic activity in the far north, represented by the
strings of zeros for Alaska's College A and K index from November 30
to December 9. The K index is measured every three hours, or eight
times per day. Notice in the 64 readings from 1200z December 1 to
0900z December 9, the College K index rose from 0 to 1 only twice.
Tim Goeppinger, K6GEP of Orange, California wondered why, with the
higher sunspot numbers, he didn't see better propagation last
weekend in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. Recently this bulletin
mentioned unexpected 10 meter propagation when there were no
sunspots. This may be a case where this week's sunspot activity
wasn't enough to support F layer propagation at 28 MHz, but perhaps
recent 10 meter DX was actually supported by sporadic E propagation.
The US Air Force and the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
forecast solar flux at 95 for December 14-16, and 90 on December
17-19. This suggests a possible continuation of recent sunspot
activity, because sunspot numbers this week were 39-44 while solar
flux was 89-94.
They also predict a planetary A index for December 14-20 at 5, 5,
10, 20, 15, 15 and 10, so expect unsettled to active geomagnetic
conditions on Monday, December 17. Geophysical Institute Prague
predicts quiet conditions December 14-16, active December 17, and
unsettled December 18-20.
This week there are a slew of new articles from various sources on
solar science and Hinode. Rather than give you a multiple links,
let's try something new. Copy and paste or just type
http://snurl.com/sunmem1 to your web browser's URL field and hit the
Enter key to read the first article. For the second, paste again,
but change sunmem1 to sunmem2. Keep up that process through sunmem7
to read all seven articles.
Next week is Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, on
Saturday, December 22. After that the hours of daylight will
gradually grow longer, and the increased sunlight will improve
propagation on the higher bands. Three months away is the Spring
Equinox, and if we have more sunspots by then, so much the better.
In the interim, we can take advantage of the long nights and low
geomagnetic activity to enjoy the low bands, 160 and 80 meters.
If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers,
email the author at, k7ra@arrl.net.
For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL
Technical Information Service at,
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. For a detailed
explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin see,
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/k9la-prop.html. An archive of past
propagation bulletins is at, http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/. Monthly
propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas
locations are at, http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/.
Sunspot numbers for December 6 through 12 were 29, 24, 36, 42, 43,
44 and 39 with a mean of 36.7. 10.7 cm flux was 78.2, 82.2, 86.9,
88.9, 86.9, 93.4, and 93.9 with a mean of 87.2. Estimated planetary
A indices were 1, 1, 0, 2, 8, 12 and 7 with a mean of 4.4.
Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 1, 0, 1, 1, 5, 9 and 7, with a
mean of 3.4.
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Posted by W5ERX Friday, December 14, 2007 (16:23:08) |
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