[ ANARTS - Australian National Amateur Radio Teletype Society ] ANARTS News Bulletin 847 25-26th FEBRUARY 1995 THIS WEEKEND IS THE TIME OF THE CENTRAL COAST FIELD DAY IN NSW. THIS IS THE BIGGEST FIELD DAY IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD AND ANARTS WILL BE / HAS BEEN THERE ACCORDING TO WHICH BROADCAST YOU ARE WATCHING. AS USUAL ON THIS WEEKEND THE BROADCAST GOES TO AIR ON TWO DAYS -- MORNING ON SATURDAY AND EVENING ON SUNDAY. THE USUAL REASON APPLIES -- WE ARE ALL AT THE FIELD DAY ON THE ANARTS STAND -- (OR IN MY CASE, WANDERING AROUND WITH A VIDEO CAMERA AND SPELLING PEOPLE ON A COUPLE OF STANDS -- ED.). WHY NOT COME ALONG AND SAY HELLO? WE WILL BE VERY GLAD TO SEE YOU AND TALK ABOUT RTTY AND SOLAR CONDITIONS AND POOR CONDITIONS, AND ALL THAT JAZZ. (EXPLANATION. I AM ALSO IN THE GLADESVILLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB WHICH DOES TELEVISION ON CHANNEL 35 UHF, AND I DO A VIDEO REPORT ON THE FIELD DAY FOR THE FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY EVENING TRANSMISSION -- AND -- I MAKE VERY SURE THAT ANARTS GETS A GOOD COVERAGE, HI HI. ED.) SEE YOU THERE (- OR, DID WE SEE -YOU- THERE?) ------------------------------ This Week in Amateur Radio Celebrates Edition #100 "This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-deliv- ered amateur radio news and information service, celebrates its 2nd Anniversary this Saturday, February 25th, at 7:30 PM EST, with the airing of Edition #100. Along with the program's regular weekly features, host Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB, will anchor numerous live telephone call-in segments throughout the program. Calls will be accepted at 518/664-6809 to discuss amateur radio topics such as the new vanity call sign program; new amateur frequency allocation activity at 219, 902, and 2400 MHz; FCC reorganization and regulatory activities; or whatever comes to mind. Originally known as "Amateur Radio Weekly" and first carried on the Spacenet III commercial satellite from southern California, production of the program moved to central New York in February 1993 when it was renamed "This Week in Amateur Radio". It was taken over the following month by the current production group and went on the air with a new, expanded format from the Albany, New York area on March 7th, 1993. The show went on a four-week hiatus during December 1993 in a transition from S3's "Let's Talk Radio Network" to the Galaxy III satellite and the new "Omega Radio Network", which features communications hobby programming. "Omega" and "This Week" moved to AT&T's Telstar 302, transponder 21 (11V), 5.8 MHz audio (4.120 GHz) earlier this month. T302 is located at 85 degrees west longitude in geosynchronous orbit. "This Week in Amateur Radio" is produced by Community Video Associates, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation, and heard on nearly 100 amateur VHF/UHF repeaters throughout the United States and Canada, as well as nightly on the Gateway 160 Meter Net, WA0RCR, at 1860 kHz. Production, transmission, and maintenance expenses are underwritten entirely by contributions from the amateur community and program affil- iates. ITEM COURTESY OF ROD VK2DAY -------------------------------------------- IPS WEEKLY REPORT ----------------- 17 FEBRUARY - 23 FEBRUARY DATE OF ISSUE: 24 FEBRUARY 1995 INDICES: DATE 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 10CM 89 89 95 91 89 85 85 A 5 12 5 5 3 2 ( 5 ESTIMATED) T 50 56 56 49 44 49 54 SOLAR ACTIVITY WAS VERY LOW 17TH, AND 22ND-23RD FEBRUARY; LOW 18TH-19TH, AND 21ST; AND MODERATE ON 20TH WITH AN M1 FLARE. THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD AT LEARMONTH W.A. WAS QUIET TO UNSETTLED 18TH-19TH , AND QUIET FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. IONOSPHERIC F2 CRITICAL FREQUENCIES AT SYDNEY WERE NEAR PRE- DICTED MONTHLY VALUES TO 30 PER CENT ENHANCED ON 17TH; 15 TO 30 PER CENT ENHANCED 18TH-19TH; AND NEAR PREIDICTED TO 30 PER CENT ENHANCED 20TH-23RD FEBRUARY. SPORADIC E WAS OBSERVED AT TIMES ON 23RD. FORECAST (24 FEBRUARY - 02 MARCH) SOLAR: VERY LOW TO LOW. REGIONS THAT PRODUCED FLARES LAST ROTATION ARE NOT EXPECTED TO RETURN. GEOMAGNETIC: INCREASING LEVELS OF ACTIVITY LATE ON THE 24TH, WITH UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE CONDITIONS WITH ISOLATED MINOR STORM LEVELS 25-27TH. UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREDOMINATE UNTIL 2 MARCH. IONOSPHERIC: NEAR PREDICTED MONTHLY VALUES TO 20 PER CENT ENHANCED 24TH TO 25TH FEBRUARY, THEN DEPRESSED TO 20 PER CENT ON 26TH, THEREAFER NEAR PREDICTED MONTHLY VALUES. SPORADIC E AND SPREAD F LIKELY 26 FEBRUARY TO 2 MARCH. COURTESY OF THE IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES ----------------------------------------------- RTDX0217 RTTY DX VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES FOR WEEK ENDING 17 FEB 95 (BID RTDX0217) OUR INFORMATION THIS WEEK CAME FROM I5FLN AND THE IK5PWJ PACKET CLUSTER, JF1MGI, WB2CJL, W5KSI, WX5L AND THE K5NV PACKET CLUSTER, ZS5S, AND THE NJ0M AND N0AT NODES OF THE MINNESOTA DX PACKET CLUSTER NETWORK. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP. BANDPASS: FRIDAY 10 0917-14082 YJ0AXC QSL JE1DXC 1336-14086 9K2KF 1342-14084 UN5PR 2056-14080 EA8PDT 2246-14086 VK2KM 2313-14084 PY5CA SATURDAY 11 0019-14087 VP9CKN 0739-14084 TA2FM 0918-14083 ZD7DP 1231-14085 OA4CZO 1305-14083 WP4Q 1321-14087 UA9FJ 1328-14091 FG5GZ 1332-14084 UT2IZ 1424-14082 SV5BYP 1506-14081 A71EY 1524-14087 RA1ZD 1529-14085 9A3FT 1542-14085 UA2AO 1600-7036 S50C 1602-14082 S51DX 1626-14087 PJ2MI 1636-14085 EM0F 1716-14084 S51DX 1721-21084 D2EV PACTOR 1756-14083 D68UY QSL VIA DK7UY 1946-14086 ZD7DP 1951-14084 FG5FI 1954-14083 WP4Q 2001-14088 3DA0CA 2011-14084 EA8PDT 2146-14088 OH2LU 2150-14085 V31AR 2212-14084 5T5JC 2216-14084 8P6QA 2239-14088 JA1AYC 2242-14086 5T5JC 2248-14086 VP8CKN 2354-14083 LU1CIB SUNDAY 12 0004-14083 AZ7FAF 0012-14085 LU1CIB 0039-14085 JA3PFZ 0213-14079 JA3DLE/1 PACTOR 0250-14085 V73C 0309-14087 VP8CKN 0442-21083 3D2XC 0801-14084 ZD7DP 0928-14087 3D2RW QSL ZL1AMO 1128-14085 SV5BYP 1254-21080 D68UY 1339-21086 S54A 1349-14087 A71EY 1352-14087 LZ1MC 1353-14085 LX1TI 1358-14090 SV5AZK 1418-14084 JW0I 1442-14082 HI8BG 1450-14082 HI8LG 1503-14084 ZA1MH 1848-14085 CU3EM 1856-14083 ZD7DP 1925-14083 5T5JC 2037-21082 FG5FI 2038-21082 FGFGI 2125-21085 PJ8JQ 2128-21085 PJ9JT 2129-14082 FM5FM 2132-14085 VP8WA 2200-14083 HK4DWY 2301-14083 DP1KGI WKG XCV - QSL VIA DD6UAB SEE NOTE MONDAY 13 0010-14087 DP1KGI QSX UP 0027-14087 VP8CKN 0134-14086 VP8CIL 1247-14078 HI8BG PACTOR 1925-14086 VP8CIL 2304-14083 DP1KGI TUESDAY 14 0206-14083 ZP5LOB 0240-14083 DP1KGI STILL THERE 1003-14087 3D2RW 1353-14085 A71EY 2307-14081 9Q5TT 2259-14083 DP1KGI 2352-14080 CX7BF WEDNESDY 15 0005-14082 DP1KGI 0030-14082 LU8VCC 0051-14083 PZ1BS 0105-14086 XE1XOE 0146-14086 CX7BG 0200-14086 CX7BF 2031-14084 9Q5TT QSL VIA ON5NT 2252-14083 DP1KGI 2358-14083 DP1KGI STILL THERE THURSDAY 16 1922-21082 D68UY 1939-28098 LU2MEK NOTES OF INTEREST: BARBADOS, 8P - FROM 19 FEBRUARY TO 2 MARCH, PETER, W0SA WILL BE ACTIVE AS 8P9NX ON RTTY AND CW. QSL HOME CBA. QSL ROUTE FOR DP1KGI: THOMAS SCHOENTAG DD6UAB, KIENOFENPROMEN- ADE 3, D-17279 LYCHEN, GERMANY. THE VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES ARE AVAILABLE ON INTERNET VIA TELNET OR FTP AT AB6Z.AMP.ORG THE DIRECTORY IS CALLED /RTTYNOTE. SEND NEXT WEEKS INFORMATION TO BOB WB2JGR AT W5KSI.#NOLA.LA.USA.NA 73 DE JULES W2JGR.. GOOD HUNTING.. ------------------------------------------- DX BULLETIN 8 ARLD008 FROM ARRL HEADQUARTERS NEWINGTON CT FEBRUARY 16, 1995 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS THIS WEEK'S BULLETIN WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH INFORMATION PROVIDED BY TEDD, KB8NW, THE OPDX BULLETIN, AKIO, JA3JM, ALAN, NS0B, TOSY, JA6VZB, THE YANKEE CLIPPER CONTEST CLUB PACKETCLUSTER NETWORK AND THE CONTEST CORRAL COLUMN FROM THE PAGES OF QST MAGAZINE. THANKS TO ALL. UGANDA. PAUL, 5Z4FO, AKA W4PFM, OA8V AND KP4AWH, WILL BE RELOCATING TO UGANDA FOR A ONE YEAR WORK ASSIGNMENT STARTING IN JULY. HE WILL BE ACTIVE SIGNING 5X1MW ON ALL BANDS. LISTEN FOR HIS CW AND SSB. QSL VIA KB4EKY. MACAO. LEO, K8PYD, IS NOW ON AS XX9TYD AND WAS HEARD ON 14033 AND 7004 KHZ AROUND 1200 AND 0030Z RESPECTIVELY. QSL VIA K8PYD. VANUATU. YJ0AXC HAS BEEN ON EITHER 40 OR 80 METERS MOST MORNINGS FROM 1100 TO 1300Z. MICRONESIA AND BELAU. JA2NQG WILL BE SIGNING V63WW FROM POHNPEI FEBRUARY 17 TO 23, INCLUDING CONTEST OPERATIONS. FROM FEBRUARY 24 TO MARCH 1 HE WILL SIGN KC6CW OR KC6WW. QSL VIA JA2NQG. DOMINICA. LOU, WA6SBS, AND GEORGE, N6ZS, WILL BE IN THE ARRL CW CONTEST, POSSIBLY USING THE CALL J75A. OUTSIDE CONTEST HOURS THEY WILL BE ON ALL BANDS WITH CW, SSB AND RTTY. QSL VIA N6ZS. MONTSERRAT. ART, WA2UJH, RECEIVED THE CALL SIGN VP2MDY AND WILL OPERATE THROUGH FEBRUARY 26. HE PLANS TO OPERATE MOSTLY CW ON 40, USE 80 AND 160 METERS INCLUDING ACTIVITY ON THE WARC BANDS. QSL VIA NW8F. GUATEMALA. SCOTT, KA9FOX, BE IN THE ARRL DX SSB CONTEST AND HOPES TO OPERATE TG9GI AS TG0AA. HE WILL TRY TO BE ON BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONTEST FROM THE QTH OF TG9AJR. QSL VIA KA9FOX. BARBADOS. PETER, W0SA, WILL SIGN 8P9NX ON CW AND RTTY FROM FEBRUARY 19 TO MARCH 2 . HE WILL BE ACTIVE ON CW AND RTTY. QSL VIA W0SA. DAN, N8DCJ, WILL BE ON AS 8P9CW FEBRUARY 18 TO 25. DAN FAVORS CW AND WILL BE ON 160 THROUGH 10 METERS. QSL VIA WB8LFO. SWEDEN. THE NEW PREFIX SH IS BEING ISSUED TO NOVICES. SH- LICENSEES HAVE HF, AS WELL AS VHF/UHF PRIVILEGES. ---------------------------------------- Coming events ------------- February 26th Central Coast Field Day at Wyong ---------------------------------------- WANT TO GET STARTED IN RTTY? GORDON VK2AVU HAS SOME RTTY GEAR FOR DISPOSAL. IT CAN BE USED TO GET YOU UP ON AIR OR AS SPARES FOR YOUR OWN EQUIPMENT. GORDON HAS A SIEMENS 100 AND A TTY MODEL 32 WITH MANUALS, AND 10-12 ROLLS OF PAPER. CONTACT GORDON MAXWELL VK2AVU QTHR --------------------------------------- FOR DISPOSAL VK2SG HAS SOME JUNK FOR DISPOSAL, STUFF THAT HE THINKS HE WILL NEVER NEED AGAIN, ITS YOUR FOR THE COLLECTION. THINGS LIKE TRANSFORMERS 385/385 VOLTS, MOTORS FOR PRINTERS, THAT CAN BE USED FOR OTHER THINGS, TUNING CONDENSERS, BOXES OF ELECTROLYT- ICS, ETC ETC ETC. IF YOU CAN USE IT, COME AND GET IT. ALSO HAS PRINTERS LIKE SAGEMS MODIFIED FOR 45/50 AND 75 BAUDS, SIEMEN SET FOR 45 BAUDS WITH PAPER WIND UP MOTOR. HE ALSO HAS A TELEREADER WITH POWER SUPPLY WHICH DOES CW/RTTY (VARIOUS BAUD RATES), ASCII AND HAS BEEN MODIFIED FOR AMTOR, ALL PAPERWORK AND HANDBOOKS INCLUDED PLUS A SPARE MK2 AMTOR BOARD, NEGOTIABLE PRICE ... THERE ARE ALSO OTHER BITS OF JUNK AS WELL, EVEN VALVES. SOME RADIO CLUB MAY BE INTERESTED. DE SYD VK2SG QTHR ---------------------------------------- Society information The Society may be contacted at : PO Box 860, Crows Nest 2065 Australia, for such matters as membership and general enquiries. Enquiries can also be made by packet to the President(Col) VK2CTD at VK2XSB, or the Secretary (Pat) VK2JPA at VK2AAB. News items may be sent to Broadcast Officer PO Box 60 Blacktown 2148 Australia, or by packet to VK2JPA at VK2AAB. Email address for the Broadcast Officer is : patl(at)pitt.conmusic.su.oz.au The Society welcomes news items on any digital subjects from anywhere in the broadcast coverage area. We are looking for- ward to news from your areas to let other amateurs know what you are doing in the hobby. Hope to hear from you. 73s de Pat VK2JPA Broadcast Officer That concludes the broadcast for this morning/evening. de VK2TTY