Daily DXER ham radio news 07/01/18
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- GB2RS News Script for 1 July 2018
Category: GB2RS News Scripts
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This weekend ARISS Russia is running a special slow-scan television event from the International Space Station.
Unfortunately we learned the details too late to include in last week’s bulletin.
The transmissions started around 0900UTC on Friday and continue until around 1830UTC, Sunday, 1 July 2018.
The cosmonauts will be sending images commemorating the various satellites that were deployed by hand from the ISS.
Transmissions will be on 145.800MHz using the PD-120 SSTV mode.
You can check when the ISS is within range of your location via a number of websites, for example heavens-above.com.
A simple 2m handheld and rubber duck aerial is sufficient to pick up signals strong enough to be decoded, albeit with some noise.
Category: Front Page News, GB2RS Headlines
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This Sunday is Alexanderson Day, the day when Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden fires up its Alexanderson alternator to transmit as SAQ on 17.2kHz VLF.
For those who don’t know the story, this is the last surviving high frequency alternator CW transmitter from the pre-electronic transmitter era.
Built in the early 1920s, it was used as an early long-wave transatlantic wireless telegraphy station, staying in operation until the 1940s.
During WWII it was Sweden’s only telecommunications link with the rest of the world.
Now preserved as an historical site, the transmitter is operated once a year with brief test transmissions that can be heard all over Europe and beyond.
This year’s transmissions start with tuning up at 0815UTC and transmission of a message at 0845UTC, with similar activations beginning at 1015UTC and 1215UTC.
The transmissions will be broadcast live on YouTube.
At the same time, amateur radio station SK6SAQ will be operating on one of 7.035MHz CW, 14.035MHz CW or 3.755MHz SSB.
Category: Front Page News, GB2RS Headlines
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For many, the first thing they do when getting into the car for the morning commute is turn on the radio. It can seem almost like background noise. However, for those camped around Hickam Cabin at Rock Bridge State Park, it is much more.
Today is National Amateur Radio Field Day. Radio hobbyists and professionals have gathered here to take part in this airwave interaction.
Bill McFarland is the Emergency Coordinator for Amateur Radio Emergency Services in Boone County. He became an amateur radio operator, often called ham radio, for over 40 years.
“I’m fascinated by the fact that you just take this wire and a signal comes off of it that someone can hear hundreds of miles away,†McFarland says.
For McFarland, the best part about this event is making connections. While he doesn’t like to talk on the radio very much, he loves to see that he connected with someone across the country. The fact that he can do that without heavy equipment fascinates him.
This field day features nearly 40,000 participants nationwide every year. The Central Missouri Radio Association hosts these local broadcasters who will work to make connections across the country for 24-hours.
McFarland has seen the ham radio community grow, which means every year there are more contacts to make. McFarland became interested in ham radio when he wanted to communicate with his wife from long distances.
“I was at the University working, and we wanted to be able to communicate with each other. So, we each got our ham license, there was a repeater in town. So, we could talk to each other from the car, from my office, or from my hand-held radio,†McFarland reminisces.
For David Isgur, who is the communications manager for the American Radio Relay League, the organizers of this national effort, his curiosity got the best of him.
“It’s infectious. Once they start to tell you about who they’ve talked to, how they’ve done it and it just encouraged me to want to want to get involved with it and I think it would to anybody who listened to them,†Isgur said.
He says while ham radio can be fun, it also serves a major role for the community. Operators can use ham radio in just about any condition, even in a natural disaster.
In 2011 a tornado tore through Joplin, causing mass destruction. Chris Swisher works at KOMU News and has seen that in natural disasters people can rely on ham radio.
“Even the public safety communications were down. Ham radio was easily moved into position and handled a lot of that information exchange that was impossible,†Swisher said.
Swisher knows cell phones and phone lines aren’t always going to work. That’s why today is also serves as a training exercise.
McFarland loves the communication side of ham radio, but as someone involved in emergency services, he understands the importance of amateur radio in emergencies.
“For me, I’m trying to make sure, should we have any real disasters and emergencies where ham radio is needed, that our ham radio community can respond well and be of service to the community,†McFarland said.
At the core, the field day is meant to educate and help serve the community. If this year’s event can do that, McFarland would consider it a success.
Read the full article at http://kbia.org/post/columbia-amateur-radio-operators-fill-airwaves-train-emergencies-during-national-field-day. STRAY SIGNALS does not claim ownership of the article.
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The Pontotoc County Amateur Radio Association participated Saturday and Sunday, June 23–24, in the American Radio Relay League’s annual worldwide Field Day 2018.
I know that’s a lot of names and terms that not everyone will find familiar, so let me break it down.
• What is amateur radio? Known to many as “ham radio,â†this branch of radio communications has its roots in the earliest radio communications. Amateur radio is a hobby and, by law, completely non-commercial. Operating a radio on any bands designated as amateur requires a license. More advanced licenses allow the use of more frequency bands.
• Who can become an amateur radio operator, and how can I becomee an amateur radio operator? There is no age limit for becoming a “ham.†Knowledge of Morse code is no longer required for any U.S. amateur radio license, and it is not even necessary to be a U.S. citizen. To become a “ham†radio operator requires you to take a 35-question test from a volunteer examiner. If you would like to do this, contact me at the address at the bottom of this article and I’ll put you in touch with one.
• What is a frequency, and what are some examples of amateur raddio frequencies? Commercial radio listeners are undoubtedly familiar with the FM radio band, which spans 88 MHz 108 MHz. “MHz†stands for one million hertz, named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves. One hertz is one cycle per second. Amateur radio frequencies are divided into bands and span the entire radio spectrum, from “shortwave,†starting above the AM band and stretching almost to the lowest television channel frequencies, upward through VHF, UHF, and extending into the microwave bands. Radio frequencies that travel around the world through a phenomenon known as “propagation†are generally those below 30 MHz.
• Is amateur radio the same as citizen’s band, “œCB?†No. Though they use many of the same principals, CB radio does not require a license to operate and is restricted to 40 channels in the 27 Mhz portion of the spectrum.
• What is “Field Day?†Every June, ARRL sponsorss Field Day, a worldwide contest meant to challenge and strengthen the ability to radio amateurs to communicate under adverse conditions in the field, simulating situations in which normal communications might not be available, such as during a natural disaster. Field Day, in my view, is one-way amateur radio can stay relevant in the 21st century.
As an amateur radio operator since 1996, I’ve seen the hobby change as fast as the technology scene in general. Meaningful use of the entire radio spectrum is increasingly significant in a world that depends on radio energy for everything from cell phone service to military communications aboard, and everything in between that uses any kind of wireless technology.
One of my favorite activities as a radio amateur is antenna spot. Antennas are to radio waves what lenses are to light, and I find them fascinating in the same ways. One thing I notice in our community is a number of antennas atop businesses that are no longer in use due to the transition to cellular smartphones. If you have an unused antenna on or in your business and you would like to donate it to the Pontotoc County Amateur Radio Association, contact me and I can find a good home for it.
Finally, if you have a police or public safety scanner and would like to listen to local amateurs, program it for 145.27 Mhz or 147.285, and start listening!
To contact Richard about becoming an amateur radio operator or with
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06/29/2018
The Canada Day Contest takes place on Sunday, July 1. The annual event celebrates the anniversary of Canada’s Confederation. Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) sponsors the Canada Day Contest and invites radio amateurs around the world to Canada’s birthday party on the air.
This event begins on July 1 at 0000 UTC (Saturday, June 30, in North American time zones) and continues until 2359 UTC. Available bands are 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, and 2 meter, on CW and phone. Suggested frequencies for CW are 25 kHz up from the band edge. Look for SSB activity centered on 1.850, 3.775, 7.075, 7.225, 14.175, 21.250, and 28.500 MHz.
Stations in Canada should send their signal report and province or territory. VE0s and stations outside Canada should send the signal report and serial number. Contacts with RAC official stations (RAC suffix) are worth 20 points.
A trophy is awarded for the highest single operator (no power classification), non-Canada participant. — Thanks to Radio Amateurs of Cannada
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Al Holt, who shares the decoded SSTV image above via Twitter and notes:
A two-fer, excellent!! Here’s what I caught during its pass over Florida @ ~0914z, a 3-star pass. Had my HT on freq. but dropped it on the floor and got a burp which produced the break in the upper 1/3 of the image…Doh! -73
Ha ha! Thanks for sharing, Al! Based on such a short gap in the image, you must have recovered that HT rather quickly!
Post readers: Has anyone else decoded SSTV during an ISS pass?
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who shares the following SSTV images transmitted by the International Space Station:
Wow! These are great catches, Mark! Thank you for sharing.
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(Source: Radio New Zealand via Richard Cuff)
There is a push in Australia to re-establish Radio Australia’s services to the Asia/Pacific region.
Supporters of RA in Australia hope people around the Pacific will join them in sending submissions to inquiries underway in Canberra.
It comes after savage cuts at RA that included shutting down shortwave transmission, which is seen as a critical service in many parts of the Pacific, particularly during natural disasters.
It has recently been reported that those transmission frequencies have been taken over by China Radio International.
Former RA journalist Sean Dorney said the group, of which he’s part, is trying to convince the Australian government to get back into that space.
“So there is a bit of concern in Canberra about this and I suppose the group that I’m part of are trying to convince the Australian government that it’s time to re-focus our attention on the broadcast to the region.â€
Click here to read the full article at RNZ.
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Southgate ARC — REF, DR@F and other national Societiess in France want an amateur radio Entry Level License (ELL)
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Southgate ARC — The Galt Herald reports that on Saturdday, June 16, a group of Amateur Radio operators held a ham radio event at the Galt library called ‘Kids Day’
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Southgate ARC — The ARRL reports attendance at 2018 Haamvention® fell by 900 compared to 2017
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Southgate ARC — Ever wondered how many radio amateurs have been in Space, is it 20, 40, 60? This list of Space Hams from ARISS may surprise you!
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Southgate ARC — The following ISWL club callsigns willl be used throughout the month of July 2018
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ARRL –
Conditions were good for Field Day weekend, with no major geomagnetic disruptions, while solar flux and sunspot numbers were relatively high for this part of the solar cycle. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the sunspot numbers were 41, 34 and 16 while solar flux was 80.3, 77.1 and 74.5.
Planetary A index was 4, 16 and 7 on Friday through Sunday. On Saturday the College A index in Alaska reached 2…
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ARRL –
Conditions were good for Field Day weekend, with no major geomagnetic disruptions, while solar flux and sunspot numbers were relatively high for this part of the solar cycle. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the sunspot numbers were 41, 34 and 16 while solar flux was 80.3, 77.1 and 74.5.
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ARRL –
Conditions were good for Field Day weekend, with no major geomagnetic disruptions, while solar flux and sunspot numbers were relatively high for this part of the solar cycle. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the sunspot numbers were 41, 34 and 16 while solar flux was 80.3, 77.1 and 74.5.
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ARRL –
Conditions were good for Field Day weekend, with no major geomagnetic disruptions, while solar flux and sunspot numbers were relatively high for this part of the solar cycle. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the sunspot numbers were 41, 34 and 16 while solar flux was 80.3, 77.1 and 74.5.
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Southgate ARC — How to get the best Amateur Radio gearr?
A recurring question for new entrants to our hobby, and truth be told, some experienced ones as well, is: ‘What’s the best hand held to buy?’, or the best antenna, or the best base station, the best coax, the best mount, the best software, the best something
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Southgate ARC — Dog Park Software is pleased to announnce that version 6.19 of MacLoggerDX has been released
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Southgate ARC — Ofcom has published its second annual report to the European Commission on monitoring open internet access, also known as ‘net neutrality’
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Southgate ARC — The RSGB Board Proceedings for the Jannuary-April 2018 meetings have been released
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Southgate ARC — Conditions were good for Field Day weeekend, with no major geomagnetic disruptions, while solar flux and sunspot numbers were relatively high for this part of the solar cycle
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Dear DX World friends, Just to inform that this year we decide to travel back to the Arctic Circle. The adventure will take place from July 30th until August 10th at the beautiful Lofoten islands, EU-076 at Artic Circle. The callsign will be LA/CT1BWW. The main purpose for this Amateur Radio Adventure is promoting DX […]
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Al Holt, who shares the decoded SSTV image above via Twitter and notes:
A two-fer, excellent!! Here’s what I caught during its pass over Florida @ ~0914z, a 3-star pass. Had my HT on freq. but dropped it on the floor and got a burp which produced the break in the upper 1/3 of the image…Doh! -73
Ha ha! Thanks for sharing, Al! Based on such a short gap in the image, you must have recovered that HT rather quickly!
Post readers: Has anyone else decoded SSTV during an ISS pass?
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who shares the following SSTV images transmitted by the International Space Station:
Wow! These are great catches, Mark! Thank you for sharing.
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(Source: Radio New Zealand via Richard Cuff)
There is a push in Australia to re-establish Radio Australia’s services to the Asia/Pacific region.
Supporters of RA in Australia hope people around the Pacific will join them in sending submissions to inquiries underway in Canberra.
It comes after savage cuts at RA that included shutting down shortwave transmission, which is seen as a critical service in many parts of the Pacific, particularly during natural disasters.
It has recently been reported that those transmission frequencies have been taken over by China Radio International.
Former RA journalist Sean Dorney said the group, of which he’s part, is trying to convince the Australian government to get back into that space.
“So there is a bit of concern in Canberra about this and I suppose the group that I’m part of are trying to convince the Australian government that it’s time to re-focus our attention on the broadcast to the region.â€
Click here to read the full article at RNZ.
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Short videos taken by OJ0Y team member MM0NDX. One from the top of lighthouse, other at ground level among the rocks. Market Reef is a fantastic place (when the WX is nice!)
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DXCC Most wanted countries 2018 Club Log version. Updated 28 June 2018.
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Foundations of Amateur Radio
How to get the best Amateur Radio gear?
A recurring question for new entrants to our hobby, and truth be told, some experienced ones as well, is: “What’s the best hand held to buy?â€, or the best antenna, or the best base station, the best coax, the best mount, the best software, the best something.
There’s a principle in Engineering, Good, Fast and Cheap, pick any two. You can have Good and Fast, but it won’t be Cheap. You can have Fast and Cheap, but it won’t be Good. You can have Good and Cheap, but it won’t be Fast. The concept of Quality is balanced between these limits.
With that in mind, answering the question in search of the best is already a trade-off.
To muddy the waters further, there is an economic principle related to pricing. It goes a little like this.
If you sell an amateur radio gadget for $50, there’s a group of people who will buy it. There’s a group of people who would have paid more for the same thing and a group of people who can’t justify $50. If you make the price higher as a manufacturer, say $75, you’ll get more money from some people, but the group of people who can’t justify the price will get larger, so you’ll sell less gadgets. If you make the price $25, you’ll sell more gadgets, but you won’t capture the income from those who were prepared to pay $50 or $75.
So, as a manufacturer, you make three gadgets, one for $25, one for $50 and one for $75. They’re all essentially the same, but the market will lap it up. Of course, between $25 and $50, there’s a group of people who would have been happy to pay more, etc. etc. Ad-infinitum.
That’s our amateur radio gadget market place today. The price points might not all be taken up by the same manufacturer, but the market price for say a hand held radio goes from somewhere around $40 to over $1200. You’ll find the range completely filled with offers. As an aside, your local telco is doing the same thing, as is your mobile phone manufacturer, your internet service provider and your car manufacturer to name a few.
So, now what?
We’re looking for the best gadget.
Since you’re going to be the one using it, your definition of best is going to be different to my definition. I care about my hand held being waterproof, but I don’t care about having a torch, a compass, a thermometer or a GPS on board. You might want to take it hiking, where I’m more likely to use it on a field-day.
This means that asking another amateur, “What’s the best?â€, is a recipe for discussion. Some will be adamant that their selection is superior to that of another amateur, but you should now already know that this is completely subjective.
If you go down the scientific route, you might use receiver sensitivity as a metric. If that’s all you care about, the choice is easy, list them all by sensitivity and pick the one that’s the most sensitive, but the battery life might be abysmal, or it might not use the frequency you care about, or it might have some other extra function you are paying for, but don’t care about.
We get down to picking from a list. If you’re anything like me, and let’s face it, we’re all amateurs here, you’ll get to a point of making a list of the options you have. Selecting the best antenna, the best power supply, the
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