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!