Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Albania, ZA

Albania, ZA. Chris, HG5XA, will be active as ZA/HA5X from the town of Orikum and a beach on the Bay of Vlora between June 10-24th. Activity will be holiday style, but he plans to activate some lighthouses and/or WFF locations. Please listen to the operator's comments for possible Lighthouse and WFF references, if any. Chris will also focus on some 6 meters and portable battery operations. Also, please remember that this is not a DXpedition, but a family holiday with his XYL Marta, ZA/HA9WM, and twin 5 year old daughters. Operating times will be limited and of lower priority. QSL via LoTW and eQSL. If possible, please DO NOT send QSL cards. Paper QSLs will be available both direct and by the Bureau
using the OQRS (Online QSL Request System) to be launched and announced later. Bureau cards will be sent out using GlobalQSL. (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #957)
25 Apr. 2010 - 24 Jun. 2010.


Central African Rep., TL

Jan DJ8NK and Paul F6EXV are happy to announce their upcoming joint adventure as follows, Callsign: TL0A (guest operation at Christian’s station). 2 stations on simultaneously. Dates : 13th to 26th of May Modes : big emphasis on RTTY by Jan, and CW by Paul, Chris will continue his SSB operation and CW/RTTY from time to time after 26th of May. Bands: 40 through to 6m, maybe some 80/160 (late in the season for low bands, plus it is the rainy season in TL with daily storms). Standard DX frequencies, always SPLIT. QSL info: direct to qrz.com TL0A’s address. Neither Jan nor Paul will be able to confirm any contact, so we repeat, QSL info is ONLY via TL0A. We are unlikely to have internet access from the station. There will be no online log. This operation could not have taken place without Christian’s full support, help and cooperation. We already want to thank him a lot for making this possible to happen. So see you from the Central African Republic. Chris, TL0A, should definitively leave the Central African Republic in July 2010 and probably turn over to Niger (5U5U) next September. (Maurice F5NQL) 25 Apr. 2010 - 26 (CQ SIX - 50 MHz DX News by OZ6OM)

Monday, April 26, 2010

50MHz condx report week 16/2010

Period April 19th to April 22th is usually the beginning of Sporadic E season. We have had several openings inside EU and conditions will improve every day. As I reported before, highlight has been an opening yesterday afternoon between EA3 and A9 when I worked A92IO. It was a big surprise as is not usual to have double hop so early in the season. Dave, A92IO, was in for 30 minutes with signals between 419 and 529.

F2 Layer is not improving as solar flux doesn't want to increase and has been lower than 80. More to say, sun spots have been zero quite a number of days. But there have been good openings two or three days, all them at the southern mediterranean area (nothing here, only good video signals on 48.250)

No new stations heard, seen on cluster or reported: active ones TN5SN, TR8CA, Z22JE, D44TD.

On saturday i heard C37NL calling cq on 50.110. Hope C3 club station at 1800 m asl have more activity from now on.

Forecast for next week from EA:
  • Solar flux at 75 - 85 level.
  • F2 layer Nort-South below 40N: 50%.
  • F2 layer North-South above 40N: 10%.
  • F2 layer East-West: no.
  • sporadic E: 25%.
  • multihop sporadic E: 10%.

En el periodo del 19 al 25 de Abril acostumbra a empezar la temporada de esporádica en 50 Mhz. Ya se han producido varias aperturas dentro de Europa y las condiciones mejoran día a día. Como reporté ayer, el destacado ha sido la apertura entre EA3 y A9 de ayer tarde, que me permitió trabajar a A92IO. Fue una gran sorpresa porque no es habitual trabajar multi salto tan al inicio de la temporada. Dave llegó durante casi 30 minutos con señales entre 419 y 529.

La capa F2 no mejora pues el flujo solar está bajísimo, parece que el sol se haya tomado unas pequeñas vacaciones después del primer esfuerzo del ciclo. Las manchas solares han sido casi toda la semana cero cero cero cero.... Así y todo se han producido aperturas desde el mediterraneo sur con las estaciones habituales: TN5SN, TR8CA, Z22JE, D44TD.

A destacar que el sábado escuché llamando a C37NL en 50.110 cw. Espero que salga muchas más veces esta temporada y que desde el qth del club a 1800 m snm pueda hacer muchos qsos.

Previsión para la próxima semana desde EA:
  • Flujo Solar entre 75 - 85.
  • Capa F2 Norte-Sur por debajo latitud 40 N: 50%.
  • Capa F2 Norte-Sur por encima latitud 40N: 10%.
  • Capa F2 Este-Oeste: no.
  • sporadica E: 25%.
  • sporadica E- multisalto: 10.
73 y muchos dx en 6 metros

Sunday, April 25, 2010

wkd A92IO today on 6m

Worked today at 18.18 utc A92IO on 6 meters for my dxcc # 159. Think it is first A9-EA on 6m.

Trabajado hoy a las 18.18 utc A92IO en 6 metros. Es mi pais del dxcc nr. 159 y el primero nuevo que consigo este año 2010. Dave trabaja con una antena de 5 el y un ACOM 1000. Estuvo entrando cerca de media hora con señales 419 y picos de señal de 529. Supongo que es el primer contacto entre A9 y EA en la banda.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

50 MHz condx report week 15/2010


Sunday evening and nil on the band. Solar activity has been very low this week with flux under 80s. Anyway this is The Magic Band and there has been some good openings, most below 40N latitude as usual, from EA5,EA6,EA7 and EA8 with Africa and South America. Two new stations reported this year, TL0A and 9J2BO, both well known and worked last years. More interesting is hearing again activity from Ascension Island, EA8AK worked ZD8RH on April 17th.


There has been some sporadic-E openings, on April 15th a big one between EA and EA8 did the first hop to arrive at F2 layer and EA3LL worked PP5XX.

Forecast for next week from EA:
  • Solar flux at 75 - 85 level.
  • F2 layer Nort-South below 40N: 50%.
  • F2 layer North-South above 40N: 10%.
  • F2 layer East-West: no.
  • sporadic E: 10%.
  • multihop sporadic E: no.

Domingo por la tarde y no se oye nada de nada. La actividad solar ha sido muy baja toda la semana con flujo solar por debajo de 80. A pesar de ello ésta es la Banda Mágica y se han producido algunas aperturas, la mayoría por debajo de la latitud 40N, desde EA5, EA6, EA7, EA8 con Africa y Suramérica. Dos nuevas estaciones han sido reportadas esta semana TL0A y 9J2BO, ambas conocidas y trabajadas anteriormente. Quizás lo más interesante es que hay nueva actividad desde la Isla de la Ascensión, EA8AK trabajó a ZD8RH el 17 de Abril.

Han aparecido las primeras aperturas por esporádica E, como la del día 15 que duró varias horas entre EA y EA8. Esta apertura hizo de enlace con la capa F2 y permitió a EA3LL trabajar a PP5XX.

Previsión para la próxima semana desde EA:
  • Flujo Solar entre 75 - 85.
  • Capa F2 Norte-Sur por debajo latitud 40 N: 50%.
  • Capa F2 Norte-Sur por encima latitud 40N: 10%.
  • Capa F2 Este-Oeste: no.
  • sporadica E: 10%.
  • sporadica E- multisalto: no.
73 es gd dx on 6m

Calendari DX 6m

He añadido una nueva página en el blog donde iré actualizando las noticias de DX en 6 metros

New page with 6 meters DX news and calendar

http://ea3aky.blogspot.com/p/calendari-dx-6m.html

73 Josep EA3AKY

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Logbook of the World

Have upload my log with 34.425 QSOs.

Ya tengo mi log subido a LOTW (Logbook of the World). En total son 34.425 QSOs de los indicativos de llamada:

AM3AKY
AN3AKY
AO3T
EA3AKY
EH3AKY

73s
Josep Ma.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

50 MHz condx report week 14/2010

Solar activity has been very low this week and is expected to be very
low next days, with a chance for C-class events during 07-14 April.
As Region 1059 and new Region 1061 (N14, L=232, class/area Dso/050 on 5 April)
rotate off the visible disk. Predicted values from
Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center are:

45-DAY F10.7 CM FLUX FORECAST
11APR10 075 12APR10 075 13APR10 075 14APR10 075 15APR10 075
16APR10 075 17APR10 075 18APR10 075 19APR10 075 20APR10 075
21APR10 075 22APR10 075 23APR10 080 24APR10 080 25APR10 080
26APR10 080 27APR10 080 28APR10 080 29APR10 080 30APR10 080
01MAY10 080 02MAY10 080 03MAY10 080 04MAY10 085 05MAY10 085

There have been 50 MHz reports from southern Europe to the usual active stations and beacons,
and interesting ones were 3B8MM and FR1GZ in southern Italy, and V51PJ and
ZS6WAB from southern Italy and southern Spain.

Nothing interesting higher than 40ºN latitude, and i don't expect any better conditions
next week if sun doesn't surprise us with an increase of activity.

This week we have seen first sporadic E reports from EA6 to YU. We may expect one
opening per week until May.


La actividad solar ha sido muy baja esta semana y se espera que sea muy
baja los próximos días, con una oportunidad de evento clase C entre los dias
07-14 de abril. Las previsiones indican un flujo solar entre 75 y 80 para las dos
próximas semanas con lo que no mejorará la propagación en la banda de 6m por capa F2.

Se han reportado contactos desde el sur de Europa con las estaciones habitualmente
activas y las balizas africanas,
destacamos desde el sur de Italia con
3B8MM y FR1GZ, y desde EA6 con V51PJ y ZS6WAB.

Nada interesante por encima de 40º de latitud Norte, y no espero ningún tipo de
condiciones en F2 para
las próximas semanas a menos que el sol no nos sorprenda con
un aumento de actividad.

Esta semana hemos visto los primeros qsos en esporádica E desde EA6 con YU.
Se puede esperar una
apertura a la semana hasta mayo y a partir de entonces mejorará
paulatinamente hasta llegar a las mejores semanas en el periodo del 1/6 al 15/7.


73 es GD DX on 6m




Friday, April 9, 2010

Navacerrada 48.250 QRT

Al mediodía de hoy (9 de abril) Navacerrada ha finalizado las emisiones en el canal 2 de VHF, dejando limpia la banda de seis metros en toda la zona centro de EA.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Arecibo again QRV EME 432 Mhz 16-17-18 April

info de K1JT en la lista de correo moon-net:

In less that two weeks the Arecibo Observatory Amateur Radio Club will again put the 1000-foot radio telescope on the air for 432 MHz EME.
The scheduled times of operation are:

April 16: 1645 - 1930 UTC
April 17: 1740 - 2020 UTC
April 18: 1840 - 2125 UTC

Callsign: KP4AO
Tx Frequency: 432.045 MHz
Rx Frequency: 432.050 to 432.060+
Tx power: 400 W
Antenna gain: 60 dBi
System noise temp: 120 K (cold sky)
System noise temp: 330 K (when pointed at moon)

KP4AO can be heard with a small hand-held yagi pointed at the moon, and a good receiver. A 15 dBi antenna and 100 W will be enough to work us on CW.

Operators at KP4AO will do their best to work as many stations as possible. Each session will start with a brief announcement and CQ in SSB. SSB QSOs may continue for 30 minutes to an hour, if the QSO rate remains high. The mode will be shifted to CW as soon as it is judged that higher QSO rates would result.

We will listen for calls at frequencies 5-15 kHz higher than our own, and even higher if QRM warrants. Callers who s-p-r-e-a-d o-u-t are more likely to be copied.

If you've already worked us in any mode, please do not call again -- give others a chance.

If we call "CQ QRP", we will listen for stations running 100 W or less to a single yagi. Please do not answer such a CQ if you are running more power or have a larger antenna.

On April 18, if we reach a condition where most calling stations have been worked, and we judge that operating in the digital mode JT65B would produce a higher QSO rate, we will switch to JT65B.

Note that any of these planned operating strategies may be changed as circumstances dictate.

We are extremely fortunate to have been granted access to the world's largest radio telescope for this amateur radio good-will event. We look forward to working as many stations as possible in the alloted time!

50 MHz condx report week 13/2010

Condx were not better in week 13, and still waiting for good openings more north.

Las condiciones no mejoraron la semana pasada y se realizaron los qsos habituales de las últimas semanas. Seguimos esperando que empiecen aperturas más al norte de los 40N. Este es el resumen de los spots vistos en el cluster:

4-4-2010 EA to D44TD
3-4-2010 EA to Z21SIX/B, TR8CA, S9SIX/B, 6W1SJ, EA8 to CP6UA, CE3AA, LW3EX, ZD8VHF/B
2-4-2010 EA8 to ZD8VHF/B
1-4-2010 EA to TN5SN; EA8 to LU, CX, TR8CA, ZD8VHF/B,
31-3-2010 no reports
30-3-2010 EA to D44TD; EA8 TO TN5SN, ZD8VHF/B
29-3-2010 EA8 to ZD8VHF/B

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Resultados CQ WPX CW 2009

Ya han publicado los resultados del concurso WPX CW del año 2009 en la web de CQ. Los podéis encontrar en

http://www.cqwpx.com/results.htm


73 Josep Ma.