Volume 3 Number 1 January 1, 1999 Edited by Bernie Mcclenny, W3UR ______
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======================== *** The Daily DX _ *** ======================== Volume 3 Number 1 January 1, 1999 Edited by Bernie McClenny, W3UR _____________________________________________________________________ DX News _____________________________________________________________________ HAPPY NEW YEAR to all subscribers of The Daily DX. May this year bring you lots of new DX and good health to you and your family. Cedric, HB9HFN, received his FW5FN license yesterday for his upcoming trip to Uvea Island, Wallis (OC-054) which will take place from 23 February to 8 March. He will take a n IC-706 and Finn Fet FF-1001 amplifier to operate on 10 through 160 meters. Look for him mostly on CW with some SSB and RTTY. Antennas include a Cushcraft AP8A for 10 through 80 meters and an inverted vee for 160 meters. Logs and QSL requests will be available on the Internet at http://www.qsl.net/hb9hfn/log/fw_search.html For more information about this DXpedition check out the website http://www.qsl.net/hb9hfn/pacific99.html Hungarian's HA9RE and HA8IC have announced they are planning a DXpedition to several islands in the Pacific Ocean. Plans are still being worked out but they hope to activate T30 - West Kiribati, T32 - East Kiribati and T33 - Banaba sometime between January and the middle of March 1999. They will use CW, SSB and RTTY on all bands from 10 to 160 meters. More information is expected soon. Veteran contesters Jim, N6TJ, and Glenn, K6NA, plan to operate from Ascension Island as ZD8Z and ZD8A from 2 to 10 February. QSL ZD8Z via VE3HO. The 1999 officers for the North Shenandoah DX Association are : President Gregory Lanham, KU4AN Vice President John Kanode, N4MM Secretary/Treasurer Tracy Mawhinney, KF4ZFY _____________________________________________________________________ QSN _____________________________________________________________________ 3D2AG/P - ROTUMA ISLAND - Check the bottom of the 15 meter CW band for Antoine starting around 23:00 until about 05:00Z. QSL via CBA. 9M2AX - WEST MALAYSIA - Ross had a great signal on 7003 into the Southwest of the US via the long path around 23:30Z. CN8NK - MOROCCO - RTTY DXers found him on 21086 at 15:40 and on 14084 at 18:40Z. HZ1AB - SAUDI ARABIA - Europeans reported him on 160 meters CW at 15:00, 17:00 and 00:00Z. QSL via K8PYD. N1KS/VP9 - BERMUDA - Was working JA's on 14008 from 22:00 to 00:00Z. VK9CL - COCOS KEELING - Check for Hide on 40 meters CW from 16:00 to 23:30Z. US look via long path and short path starting around 22:00Z. QSL via JM1LJS. VQ9QM - DIEGO GARCIA - Dale showed up on 10106 around 21:15Z working Europe and East Coast US stations until about 22:30Z. He can not get on 160 meters yet as the antenna needs to be put up and hoped to do so soon. QSL via W4QM. _____________________________________________________________________ IOTA _____________________________________________________________________ The following IOTA stations were active yesterday. IOTA Call Freq. GMT IOTA Call Freq. GMT ------ ---------- ----- ---- ------ --------- ----- ---- AF-004 EA8/DL3DRN 10109 1850 NA-069 K2OLG/M 28460 1347 AF-014 CT3GU 21352 1509 NA-111 W2W 14260 1906 AS-031 JD1BIA 24940 0844 NA-180 V31MD 21275 1932 EU-020 SM1BIQ 21260 1304 OC-011 V63PD 14260 0758 EU-029 OZ/DL3ARM 21263 1152 OC-064 VK6LC 14247 0057 EU-042 DJ5DT/P 7007 1716 OC-137 VK4LV 21018 1031 EU-055 LA2PI 14262 1338 SA-002 VP8CRB 28022 2113 NA-055 AK1L 21017 1642 SA-008 LU1XT 14087 0123 Derek, F5VCR, and Ken, G3OCA, plan to operate from Banie Island (AF-043), Gabon during March of this year. IOTA frequencies - CW 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 SSB 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3765 _____________________________________________________________________ Calendar _____________________________________________________________________ From End Prefix Call Ref ------ ------ ------ ----------------------------- -------------- 1-Jan 1-Jan 3D2 3D2DK 2-230 2-227 1-Jan 1-Jan FG FG/F5NZO FG/F5SSM 2-223 1-Jan 1-Jan VP9 N1KS/VP9 2-232 1-Jan 1-Jan S2 S21YP 2-237 2-226 1-Jan 2-Jan JD/O JI1FLB/JD1 2-205 2-165 1-Jan 2-Jan KH4 NH4/NH6YK 2-193 1-Jan 2-Jan VK9Y VK9CL 2-205 1-Jan 3-Jan 3DA 3DA6Z 2-232 1-Jan 4-Jan ZK3 ZK3RW 2-228 2-223 1-Jan 6-Jan 3D2 3D2RY 3D2MA 2-229 1-Jan 7-Jan JD1/M JL1KFR/JD1 2-226 1-Jan 8-Jan 5A 5A1IC 2-235 1-Jan 8-Jan 6Y 6Y5/DL7VOG 2-232 1-Jan 8-Jan C9 C91CO/P 2-230 1-Jan 8-Jan VP2M VP2MHJ 2-231 1-Jan 9-Jan VP5 VP5/W8GEX 2-199 1-Jan 12-Jan VP8 VP8CRB 2-234 2-147 1-Jan 13-Jan 8Q 8Q7LE 2-223 2-212 1-Jan 16-Jan 9M6 9M6CT 2-191 1-Jan 31-Jan FT5W FT5WH by F5AGL 2-229 2-181 1-Jan KC4 FT5YG 2-229 1-Jan FT5Z FT5ZJ 2-229 1-Jan T33 T33VU 2-232 2-226 2-Jan 2-Jan VK VK6SJS 2-205 2-Jan 14-Jan T2 by German Group 2-227 2-225 3-Jan 3-Jan VK VK6SJS/HRP 2-205 _____________________________________________________________________ Today's Propagation Forecast _____________________________________________________________________ The sunspot number for December 30, 1998 was 186. The WWV numbers from Boulder, Colorado, for December 31, 1998, were as follows: Date Hour SFI A K Past 24 hours ; Next 24 hours ----------- ---- --- -- - -------------------------------------- 31-Dec-1998 21 175 3 2 Low/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 18 179 3 1 Low/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 15 179 3 1 Low/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 12 179 3 0 Low/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 09 179 3 0 Low/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 06 179 3 2 Low/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 03 179 3 2 Moderate/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled 31-Dec-1998 00 179 3 2 Moderate/Quiet;Moderate/Unsettled The forecast for Friday, 1 January: solar flux 165, A index 10, K index 2. Friday should be High Normal. The forecast for Saturday, 2 January: solar flux 160, A index 7, K index 2. Saturday should be Above Normal. The forecast for Sunday, 3 January: solar flux 170, A index 5, K index 2. Sunday should be Above Normal. _____________________________________________________________________ QSL Info _____________________________________________________________________ Call Manager Call Manager Call Manager ------ ------- ------ ------- ------ ------- 4S7YSG JA2BDR HZ1AB K8PYD V63PD VK4AAR 7Z1IS SM0OFG ON50GDV ON5PL VQ9QM W4QM AH6JN/4 K4AMI UK8OM IK2QPR C33BO - Archie, via U.R.A., P.O. Box 1150, Andorra la Vella, ANDORRA IK3ZAW - Veronica Della Dora, Piazza Fiume 14, 30126 Lido di Venezia VE, ITALY QSL cards recently received direct: 8R1J, KH0AS _____________________________________________________________________ On the WWW _____________________________________________________________________ A call book listing stations from Andorra can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sta.ad/ura/qsl.htm _____________________________________________________________________ Credits _____________________________________________________________________ Many thanks to the following for the above DX information: K3SWZ, KH6BZF Reports, N5CQ, NOAA, QRZ DX _____________________________________________________________________ Subscriptions _____________________________________________________________________ Subscriptions to THE DAILY DX are $28.00 for 6 months (25 weeks), or $49.00 for 12 months (50 weeks). 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Remember to tell all your DX friends about THE DAILY DX. ======================== *** The Daily DX _ *** ======================== Volume 3 Number 2 January 4, 1999 Edited by Bernie McClenny, W3UR _____________________________________________________________________ DX News _____________________________________________________________________ Chris, G3SVL, reports that he will operate in the CQ World Wide 160 SSB DX Contest from the island of Jersey. He hope to get a special GJ8 single suffix call and will let us know before the contest. Good news from Ron Wright, ZL1AMO/ZK3RW, he will be on Tokelau for another week. So far he has been on all bands except 30 and 160 meters. He did report he would be on 30 meter today. QSL via ZL1AMO. Gilles, FT5WH, is now active on 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters. A ground plane antenna is being used. Beam antennas can not be used as they would never survive for very long. Wind speeds can be as high as 180 kilometer per hour. He has not found the 600 to 700 watt amplifier as of yet. It is on the island he just needs to find it. He'll be there for one year. QSL via F6KDF. The German DXers at 3D2DK report they will not leave for Tuvalu (T2) prior to today as their plane is under repair. The group will continue to concentrate on 80 and 160 meters. QSL via DK7YY. Edin, T97M, now has a modem for digital communications and will be active on RTTY, AMTOR and PACTOR. QSL via K2PF. Dale, VQ9QM, will be active from Diego Garcia until March. Next week he hopes to be on 160 meters. QSL via W4QM. Pekka, OH1RY/3D2RY, and Jaakko, OH1MA/3D2MA, are currently active from Fiji will next go to the Marquesas Islands to operate as FO0KOL (Pekka) on CW and FO0SIL (Jaakko) on SSB from 7 to 13 January.