A Ham Minute & Band Sweep
Week #17 April. 25th 2009 00:00 UTC

URGENT

HB2377 is one of the mobile communication bills in the house that impacts Ham Radio, and it is heading to the House Floor for a vote in the next 7-10 days. We need your help TODAY to try and defeat this bill. The only exemption for Ham Radio in the bill is during emergency or public service activities. Please write your representative and ask them to vote against the bill.

For more Information http://www.valleyradioclub.org/HB2377.html


The March of Dimes Event was today. It was very fun! The WX was good, a bit
cool, but not bad. And the food was great. Tnx to all that came to help & Tnx to
Dan and the E.A.R. Com Van. Looking foreword to next year


Solar Weather
:Product: 0424RSGA.txt
:Issued: 2009 Apr 24 2201 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
# Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity SDF Number 114 Issued at 2200Z on 24 Apr 2009 IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 23/2100Z to 24/2100Z: Solar activity was very low. No flares were detected. The visible disk was spotless. IB. Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be very low. IIA. Geophysical Activity Summary 23/2100Z to 24/2100Z: Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels. However, a sudden impulse (SI) occurred at approximately 24/0050Z (10 nT, as measured by the Boulder-NOAA magnetometer). There was no obvious source for the SI. IIB. Geophysical Activity Forecast: Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels through the forecast period (25 - 27 Apr).
The forecasts are via: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/forecasts/RSGA/0424RSGA.txt





EVENT NEWS
The Club meeting will be on Friday May 1rd. 7:00 PM
at the Red Cross building. If you can not be there you may view a live Internet stream presentation of the meeting by visiting this link
Local Net to Start on "6m"

Hi guys, Marv and I are starting up the 6m net again on Tuesdays ant 7pm
or there abouts on 50.125 USB, been told the band is starting to go again
reports from So. America, East Coast etc so lets get together and have some
fun more the merrier See you all there
wj7s Larry

Contests for the Week #18
25th 0f Apr. to 8th of May

SP DX RTTY Contest 1200Z, Apr 25 to 1200Z, Apr 26
Helvetia Contest 1300Z, Apr 25 to 1259Z, Apr 26
QRP to the Field 1500Z, Apr 25 to 0300Z, Apr 26
Florida QSO Party 1600Z, Apr 25 to 0159Z, Apr 26 and
1200Z-2159Z, Apr 26
Nebraska QSO Party 1700Z, Apr 25 to 1700Z, Apr 26
May, 2009
NCCC Sprint Ladder 0230Z-0300Z, May 1
AGCW QRP/QRP Party 1300Z-1900Z, May 1
MARAC CW QSO Party 0000Z, May 2 to 2400Z, May 3
MARAC SSB QSO Party 0000Z, May 2 to 2400Z, May 3
10-10 Int. Spring Contest, CW 0001Z, May 2 to 2359Z, May 3
10-10 Int. Spring Contest, Digital 0001Z, May 2 to 2359Z, May 3
Microwave Spring Sprint 0600-1300 local, May 2
7th Call Area QSO Party 1300Z, May 2 to 0700Z, May 3
Portuguese Navy Day Contest 1500Z, May 2 to 1500Z, May 3
Indiana QSO Party 1600Z, May 2 to 0400Z, May 3
New England QSO Party 2000Z, May 2 to 0500Z, May 3 and
1300Z-2400Z, May 3
ARI International DX Contest 2000Z, May 2 to 1959Z, May 3
RSGB 80m Club Championship, SSB 1900Z-2030Z, May 4
ARS Spartan Sprint 0100Z-0300Z, May 5
NCCC Sprint Ladder 0230Z-0300Z, May 8
SBMS 2 GHz and Up WW Club Contest 0600 local, May 9 to 2000 local, May 10

If You work a contest please make post about
how you did or how you see the band during the week

DX NEWS
In DX, NK0S says that he is currently converting the paper logs of VQ9HB, to electronic format so they can be uploaded to Logbook to the World. After the logs are uploaded NK0S will act as the QSL Manager for card requests for VQ9HB's operation between December of 1989 and May of 1990.

KB4CRT, will be active as from Monserrat as VP2MRT between June 12-19th. His operation will include CW, SSB, possibly PSK, and the June VHF Contest. Asian stations are suggested to look for him on 20 meters between 1200 and 1300 U-T-C. QSL via KB4CRT.


DU1UGZ has been ib Dhaka Bangladesh since April 12th and will be there until about June 20th. His callsign is S21UGZ and is operating SSB and RTTY mainly on 80 and 40 meters with some actibvity on the other High Frequency bands including 12 and 17 meters. QSL as he directs on the air.


K7WZB, and K9WZB, will stay on from the Cayman Islands through May 6. They will sign ZF2ZB using SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK 31on 160 through 6 meters. QSLs only direct to Garry Fisher, K9WZB.
Tunisian scout special event station TS1LYMC can be found working in CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK and SSTV 80 through 10 meters. It will be operational through April 30th. QSL only direct to TS1LYMC, 33 Rue Plaine Lune Borj Louzir, Ariana, 2073 Tunis, Tunisia.

DL2SBY and DF1SR will be active from Lichtenstein through May 4th on 80 through 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. There will also be some operation on 13 and 23 centimeters for weak signal E-M-E experimebnts as well. Two separate callsigns for this operation with DL2SBY portable HB0 for the High Frequency bands and DF1SR stroke HB0 used for E-M-E. QSL via DL2SBY, either direct or via the bureau.
Lastly, CT1FBF reports that the Portuguese ham radio national society has just concluded the installation of station CS5BLA which is the first multi-band beacon cluster in Portugal. Transmitters operate on 50.076 , 144.410, 432.425 MHz and 1.296.825 MHz.

I would like to thank the following people for visiting the Blog
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If the WebPage is down for some reason come here to the Blog to get the news on what is going on.
. If you hear of and Event Pse e-mail: webmaster@valleyradioclub.org
That is it for this Week
73 and GOOD DX
Your Web MastersDale - w7lk and Mike - kc7zfp

We may not have it all together,
but together we have it all!

A Ham Minute & Band Sweep
Week #14 April. 12th 2009 00:00 UTC
Happy Easter to all The Web Page is up and we are still Debugging some of it.
It is a on going job, but one Dale & I enjoy. There will only be a new posting
about every two week. Unless something Comes up that need to be Posted.

--------- Solar Weather -----------
Space Weather Message Code: ALTK04
Serial Number: 1409
Issue Time: 2009 Apr 11 0135 UTC
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 4
Threshold Reached: 2009 Apr 11 0128 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0000-0300 UTC
Station: Boulder
Active Warning: Yes

EVENT NEWS

The March of Dimes March for Babies

April 25 2009 Contact Jim (KI7AY)

at his Call AT Yahoo.com

DX NEWS

ON THE AIR: VO1MGY COMMEMORATES THE TITANIC

Ham radio will once again commemorate the loss of the fabled luxury liner the Titanic that sank in the North Sea on the morning of April 15, 1912. In remembrance of this disaster the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs will be operating on April 15th 2009, using the historic Titanic call sign suffix of MGY. This, from the Society's ham station located in the former British Admiralty wireless telegraphy station. Listen out for VO1MGY using CW on all bands where propagation permits. QSL confirmation will be available via the bureau. More is on the web at www.sonra.ca. (SONRA)

an international team of operators known as the Tifariti Gang will be on the air from Western Sahara through the 17th of April using the callsign S04R. Their activity will be on all bands from 160 to 10m using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via EA5RM

.G3RWL will be active as 8P6DR from Barbados until April 24th. He will operate holiday-style on 160 to 10 meters using CW and various digital modes. QSL via G3RWL, either direct or bureau.

OH2YL will be active as portable OH0 from the Aland Islands through the 14th of April. She will operate CW and SSB on the HF bands. QSL requests go directly to OH2YL.

Find out more on Amateur Radio Newsline™ report number 1652

Mp3 Link: http://www.arnewsline.org/

I would like to thank the following people for visiting the Blog

If you don't post I do not know you were here

SO POST PSE.

If the WebPage is down for some reason come here to the Blog to get the news on

what is going on. If you hear of and Event Pse e-mail: webmaster@valleyradioclub.org
That is it for this Week

Have A SAFE & FUN EASTER
73 and GOOD DX
Your Web MastersDale - w7lk and Mike - kc7zfp

We may not have it all together,
but together we have it all!

New Item on the Web Site

The Ham Band musical group has offered up their album for the web site. If you would like to listen to the album while cruising the web site, click on the link below the voting booth. It will open a player into a new window and play the title you click on. It will play through all the songs. Enjoyable listening I might add. If you click back on the original web site window the songs will continue to play while you surf. Be aware, High speed is really needed to get the full enjoyment. Just another add on to the page. It is our hope it will be enjoyed.

Mike kc7zfp and Dale w7lk

A Ham Minute & Band Sweep
Week #12 ver4.1 Mar. 28Th 2009 00:00 UTC

We are still working on the Web Page and it is mostly done just debugging.
The Page will be uploaded on Friday, April 3rd As it look for now ....

EVENT NEWS
The Club meeting will be on Friday April 3 rd. 7:00 PM
at the Red Cross building. If you can not be there you may view a live Internet stream presentation of the meeting by visiting this link http://www.ustream.tv/channel/valley-radio-club-meetings
The Newsletter will be out this week

Solar Weather

Friday night 30m- 20m was FAIR (day & night) first time in months

The 45 day forecast of planetary A index and solar flux from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force. For quite some time now, the solar flux forecast has been the same. The projection shows 45 days of solar flux at 70, with no variation. Because there is so little sunspot activity, and I hope that any increase in predicted solar flux values may coincide with renewed sunspot activity. But this method hasn't worked out very well in the past year or so.
Wednesday night, March 25, the 10.7 cm flux forecast showed 70 for March 26-27, then bumping up to 72 for March 28-31, then back to 70 for all of April and beyond. This is not much increase in activity, but with such a quiet Sun for the past few years, we become sensitive to small changes, and even optimistic at times.
Thursday, March 26 the prediction was nearly the same, except with the solar flux of 72 lasting two more days, through April 2.
The forecasts are via http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/index.html,

Contests for the Week
#13- 30th to 6th of April

Montana QSO Party PH,CW,DIGI RS(T), S/P/C or MT county http://www.fvarc.org/ Apr 4 0000Z - Apr 6 0000Z

3.5, 7 LZ Open 40 Meter Contest CW 6-digit serial and serial from previous QSO http://www.lzopen.com/
Apr 4 0000Z - Apr 4 0359Z

432, 5.7GEU EME Contest PH, CW TMO/RS(T) and "R" http://www.dubus.org/ May 31
Apr 4 0000Z - Apr 5 2400Z

1.8-28 QRP ARCI Spring QSO Party CW RST, S/P/C, power or QRP ARCI number http://www.qrparci.org/ 30 days
Apr 4 1200Z - Apr 5 2400Z 1.810,3.560,7.040,14.060,21.060,28.060

1.8-28 SP DX Contest PH, CW RS(T), serial or SP province http://www.spdxcontest/.
Apr 4 1500Z - Apr 5 1500Z

3.5-28 EA RTTY Contest DIGi RST, serial or EA province www.ure.es/contest
Apr 4 1600Z - Apr 5 1600Z

1.8-28 MO QSO Party PH CW RS(T), serial, MO county or S/P/C http://www.w0ma.org/ Jun 1
Apr 4 1800Z - Apr 5 2400Z CW 40 kHz from band edge; Phone--1.880,3.980,7.180,14.280,21.380,28.310.

1.8-28 50+ QCWA Spring QSO Party PH, CW, DIGI Call,year lic'd,name,QCWA chap or S/P/C www.qcwa.org/qso-party.htm 30 days
Apr 4 1800Z - Apr 5 1800Z

If You work a contest please make post about how you did or how you see the band during the week

DX NEWS

Word that NL8F will be active as E51COF for 14 days from Rarotonga Island through April 4th. Activity will be on 80 through 10 meters and possibly 17 meters on SSB only. QSL manager for this operation is K8NA
SV1QN, SV1AIN, SV1GYG and SW1GYN will be active through month's end using their personal calls from the Greek resort island of Zakynthos. They are purportedly operating on 160 through 6 meters using all modes. QSL via each operator's home call.

Lastly, sponsors are being sought for the next DXpedition to Mogador island. Mogador was last activated in 2002 and another DXpedition is planned for late April 2009. Check out their website at http://www.mogador2009.altervista.org for more details

I would like to thank the following people for visiting the Blog
Jim Cox-W7QIS, Harry-KY0TE

If the Web Page is down for some reason , come here to get the news on what is going on.
If you hear of and Event ,Pse e-mail: webmaster@valleyradioclub.org

That is it for this Week
73 and GOOD DX
Your Web Masters

Dale - w7lk and Mike - kc7zfp

We may not have it all together,
but together we have it all!

Welcome One and All to The Valley Radio Club Blog

First post for the Valley Radio Club Blog. Mike and I hope that this will help the club organize outings (Field Day etc), donation gathering, antenna parties, community service and the many other activities that surround this fantastic hobby of ours! Hows that for a sentence, hopefully there is no English majors out there. But you get the idea. Lets see how many ways this blog can help service us and the club.

Your humble web masters for the Valley Radio Club web site

Mike kc7zfp and Dale w7lk