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
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.
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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!
