[ ANARTS - Australian National Amateur Radio Teletype Society ] A.N.A.R.T.S. News Bulletin 834 6th November 1994 NEWS FROM THE WEST ------------------ THE CONTROL OF THE RELAY OF THE VK2 RTTY BROADCAST IN W.A. HAS PASSED TO THE W.A. RADIO OLD TIMERS CLUB, WHICH HAS TAKEN UP THE CALLSIGN OF VK6TTY AFTER IT WAS RELINQUISHED BY THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION. UNFORTUNATELY THIS HAS ALSO MEANT THAT THE BROADCAST OFFICER FOR THAT ASSOCIATION HAS RESIGNED FROM THE POST, BUT THE RTTY BROADCAST NEWS FROM VK2 WILL CONTINUE TO BE RELAYED IN W.A. BY CLEM VK6CW USING VK6TTY WHICH HE NOW HOLDS FOR THE W.A.R.O.T.C.. THE 2 METRE RTTY MAILBOX IS ALSO LIKELY TO BE RELOCATED ON A HF FREQUENCY IF USAGE REMAINS AT THE PRESENT LOW LEVEL, EVEN THOUGH RTTY BROADCASTS HAVE NOT AVAILABLE TO AMATEURS FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS DUE TO LACK OF A CALLSIGN, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, MEMBERS MAY HAVE NOT BEEN MADE AWARE OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE RTTY BULLETIN BOARD. THANKS TO CLEM VK6CW FOR THAT INFORMATION ---------------------------------------- A LITTLE WHIMSY FROM VK6TN (Ernie), originator was VK6UE (Bill). GETTING OLD ----------- JUST A LINE TO SAY I'M LIVING, THAT I'M NOT AMONG THE DEAD THOUGH I'M GETTING MORE FORGETFUL AND MIXED UP IN MY HEAD. I'VE GOT USED TO MY ARTHRITIS TO MY DENTURES I'M RESIGNED I CAN MANAGE MY BI-FOCALS BUT OH GOD I MISS MY MIND. SOMETIMES I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN I'M STANDING BY THE STAIRS IF I SHOULD BE GOING UP FOR SOMETHING OR IF I'VE JUST COME DOWN FROM THERE. AND BEFORE THE FRIDGE SO OFTEN MY MIND IS FILLED WITH DOUBT NOW DID I PUT SOME FOOD AWAY OR COME TO TAKE SOME OUT. SOMETIMES WHEN IT IS NIGHT TIME WITH MY NIGHTCAP ON MY HEAD I DON'T KNOW IF I'M RETIRING OR JUST GETTING OUT OF BED. IF IT'S NOT MY TURN TO WRITE DEAR I HOPE YOU WON'T GET SORE I THINK I MAY HAVE WRITTEN AND DON'T WANT TO BE A BORE. SO REMEMBER I DO LOVE YOU AND WISHED THAT YOU LIVED NEAR BUT NOW IT'S TIME TO MAIL THIS AND SAY GOODBYE MY DEAR AT LAST I STOOD BESIDE THE MAILBOX MY FACE IT SURE GOT RED INSTEAD OF MAILING THIS TO YOU I'VE OPENED IT INSTEAD. COURTESY OF BILL VK6UE ----------------------------------------- IPS WEEKLY REPORT ----------------- 28 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER ISSUE No 44 DATE OF ISSUE: 4 NOVEMBER 1994 INDICES: DATE 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 10CM 97 98 98 97 92 91 87 A 2 34 32 32 14 19 (12 ESTIMATED) T 41 43 -13 11 10 20 22 SOLAR ACTIVITY WAS LOW 29TH OCTOBER, AND VERY LOW FOR THE REMAINDER OFTHE PERIOD. THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD AT LEARMONTH (WA) WAS QUIET TO UN- SETTLED 28TH OCTOBER, UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE ON 29TH WITH MINOR STROM LEVELS 0900-1200 UT AND MAJOR STORM LEVELS 1200-1800 UT. THE FIELD ON 30TH WAS MOSTLY ACTIVE WITH A SHORT MINOR STORM PERIOD, AND AGAIN ON 31ST THERE WAS A SHORT PERIOD OF MINOR STORM LEVELS WITH THE FIELD MOSTLY UNSETTLED OTHERWISE. ON 1ST-2ND NOVEMBER THE FIELD WAS UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE, REDUCING TO QUIET TO UNSETTLED ON 3RD. IONOSPHERIC F2 CRITICAL FREQUENCIES WERE NEAR PREDICTED MONTHLY VALUES ON 28TH OCTOBER WITH 15-30 PER CENT ENHANCE- MENTS FROM 0500-1700 UT. ON 29TH FREQUENCIES WERE ENHANCED 20- 40 PER CENT 0300-1300 UT, DEPRESSED BY 25 PER CENT 2200-2300 UT, AND NEAR NORMAL OTHERWISE. THERE WERE SHORT DEPRESSED PERIODS OF UP TO 40 PER CENT OVER 30TH OCTOBER-1ST NOVEMBER, OTHERWISE NEAR PREDICTED VALUES. FREQUENCIES WERE NEAR PRE- DICTED MONTHLY VALUES ON 2ND-3RD. FORECAST (4TH-10 NOVEMBER) SOLAR: VERY LOW TO LOW. GEOMAGNETIC: QUIET TO UNSETTLED. IONOSPHERIC: NEAR PREDICTED NOVEMBER VALUES. COURTESY OF IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES --------------------------------------- VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES 28 OCT 94 VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES FOR WEEKENDING 28 OCT 94 (BID RTDX1028) A POINT TO PONDER. I'M RECEIVING FROM THE PACKET NETWORK OLD BULLETINS (E.G. ARLD, ARLP, ARLB, OPDX, RTDX AND OTHERS) BUT WITH DIFFERENT BULLETIN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (BID) FROM THE ORIGINAL ONE. THE REMOVAL OF THE BID REPLACED WITH A LOCAL BID NUMBER HAS CAUSED CONFUSION AND SOME BBS SUFFER THE MULTIPLE DELIVERY OF THE DX NOTES AND BULLETINS WITH DIFFERENT BID NR. CHANGING THE ORIGINAL IDENTIFICATION ONLY LEADS TO THE SAME BULLETIN ARRIVING AT A BBS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES MANY TIMES, THIS CAUSES THE BBS TO BE FILLED WITH REDUNDANT AND REPETITIVE INFORMATION THIS ALSO CAUSES THE SYSOPS MANY HOURS OF NON PRODUCTIVE WORK. THINK ABOUT IT. OUR THANKS THIS WEEK GO TO ZS5S, W2JGR, WB2V, W5KSI, W6PQS, WA6PJR, PA0HVF, DL8AAM, I5IGQ, I5ICY AND IK5PWJ PACKETCLUSTER, THE INTERNATIONAL RTTY DX ASSOCIATION AND THE NJ0M NODE OF THE MINNESOTA DX PACKET CLUSTER NETWORK. BANDPASS: FRIDAY 21 0026-14089 US0SMF 0113-14085 ZP6CC 0819-14069 ST2AA PCT 1210-21073 LU8AXX SATURDAY 22 0137-14085 UA0SMF 0440-14069 7Q7JL PCT 1000-21073 TY1PS AMT 1445-21069 ST2AA PCT 1206-14086 CU1AC 1501-28072 DJ9VB PCT 1529-21082 3X0DEX 1550-21084 OK2PDM 1758-14076 VE8GO ZONE 2 2243-21083 C21/JA QSL JA3JA 2312-28084 VK9NS SUNDAY 23 0250-14085 RA9CWA 0614-14069 ST2AA PCT 1025-14069 7Q7LA PCT 1400-14069 5R8DS PCT 1450-14069 VQ9KC PCT 1545-14088 4X6UO 2001-14090 5H3JA 2014-14088 EA7/KE7EBP 2024-14086 J28JJ MONDAY 24 0019-14087 PP7FB 0605-14069 ST2AA 0900-21069 ST2AA PCT 1055-21069 5H3MS PCT 1450-14069 VQ9KC PCT 1619-14084 EA9AN 1730-14085 SV5AZP TUESDAY 25 0550-14069 ST2AA PCT 0839-14083 LY2BOK 0920-21069 5X4B PCT SEE NOTE 1313-14085 UN7GY 1340-14084 RK9CWA 1634-21086 3DA0CA WEDNESDAY 26 0500-14069 7Q7LA PCT 0610-14069 ST2AA PCT 0740-21069 5X4B PCT 1430-14073 5H3MA PCT 1627-14087 JW0I THURSDAY 27 0525-14069 7Q7JL PCT 0620-14069 ST2AA PCT 0630-14073 V51GB PCT 0657-14086 A45XC 0817-14080 LY1KAT 1739-14088 VQ9JB NOTES OF INTEREST: SOUTH SHETLAND, HF0. THE INTERNATIONAL RTTY DX ASSOCIATION HAS DONATED A HAL TELEREADER RTTY TERMINAL FOR USE AT HF0POL, THE POLISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION BASE ON KING GEORGE ISLAND IN THE SOUTH SHETLAND GROUP. THE OPERATOR, ANDY, SP2GOW, HAS BEEN TRAINED ON THE KEYS BY WALD, SP4KM. SINCE IT MAY BE SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE ANDY GETS TO THE BASE AND APPEARS ON RTTY, KEEP AN EYE ON THE VK2SG DX NOTES FOR UPDATES. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, A6. DON, WB2DND WILL BE IN DUBAI FROM 11 TO 16 NOV. AND WILL OPERATE A61AD AS TIME PERMITS. HE SUGGESTS WEST COAST U.S.A. LOOK FOR HIM ON EITHER 14025 KHZ CW OR 14090 RTTY AT 1300Z (AROUND HIS SUNSET). HE WILL CONCENTRATE ON 80/ 160 NEAR 0200Z (AROUND HIS SUNRISE), BUT DID NOT SPECIFY MODE. UGANDA, 5X. EUGEN, 5X4B (FORMERLY DL8AAI, 5Z4FU) AND HIS XYL SANDRA, 5X4A, ARE ACTIVE FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR FROM KITGUM IN NORTHERN UGANDA. THEY ARE THE VERY FIRST AND ONLY HAMS IN THE THAT AREA. QSL VIA DL8AAM THOMAS M. ROESNER NARZISSENWEG 11, D-37081 GOETTINGEN. BE PATIENT IT WILL NEED SOME TIME TO GET LOGS AND PRINT THE QSLS. SEND BANDPASS AND NOTES FOR NEXT WEEK BULLETIN TO JULES, W2JGR AT W2TKU.#SRQFL.FL.USA.NA OR AT W5KSI.#NOLA.LA.USA.NA. GL DE (DX2) LUCIANO, I5FLN AT ZS5S.ZAF.AF LATE INFORMATION ---------------- NOV. 2 NOV. 3 0805-14.006 G0SPO 0800-14.087 PA3AET ----------------------------------------- ARLD064 DX news The items in this week's bulletin are courtesy of Bob, W5KNE, QRZ DX, Bob, KA1XN, Chod, VP2ML, The DX Bulletin, Adam, N7VEW, Mathieu, F5SHQ, Tedd, KB8NW, the OPDX Bulletin, the Uankee Clipper Contest Club PacketCluster network and the Contest Corral column from the pages of QST. Thanks. SOUTHERN SUDAN. John, PA3CXC, is on signing PA3CXC/ST0. Check 18075 kHz between 1800 and 2200z, 7005 kHz around 0315z and 21020 kHz after 2200z. QSL via his CBA. TOGO and CAMEROON. Adam, N7VEW, QSL manager for missionaries 5V7MD and TJ1JR, has announced the following skeds. Wednes- days at 2230z on 14165 kHz with TJ1JR and Thursdays at 2200z on 14165 kHz with 5V7MD. After the skeds 5V7MD or TJ1JR will usually hang around or move up the band to work some stations. QSL TJ1JR and 5V7MD to N7VEW at his 1994 CBA with an SASE. Please, no bureau cards. MACAO. G3SXW and G3TXF are active as XX9SXW and XX9TXF. `They operate mostly CW. 80 METERS. A group of Asian operators including EX0V, EY8MM, UN7VV and AP2SD, are on a daily lookout trying to work west coast stations. Try 3795 kHz between 1200 and 1400z. U.A.E. Don, WB2DND, will be visiting Dubui from November 11 to 16. Listen on 20 meters at 1300z on either 14025 kHz CW or 14090 RTTY, 14240 SSB at 2100z and 80/160 meters each morning at 0200z. CUBA. A group of Cuban and Portugese hams will activate CO9OTA in the archipelago Jardines de la Reina between November 7 to 9. Arnie, CO2KK, is now active on 160 meters. QSL via Arnaldo Coro, PO Box 6060, Habana Cuba 10600. TAIWAN. WB4IUX plans to be in Taiwan either November 7, 8 and 9 or 16, 17 and 18. He is working feverishly on getting permission to operate. If he can secure this permission, plans are to operate almost exclusively 80 and 40 meters to give low band operators a chance for BV. Look for him in the 7008 to 7012 and 3508 to 3512 windows. BELAU/YAPP. Lim, WV5S, and Coy, N5OK, of the Oklahoma DX Association will be returning to Yapp. Listen for V63SH and V63OH between November 2 and 9. Some RTTY. MADAGSCAR. JA1OEM will be on from Madagascar as 5R8HP from November 1 to 20. ------------------------------------------- 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, or the Secretary (Pat) VK2JPA at VK2RWI. News items may be sent to Broadcast Officer PO Box 60 Blacktown 2148 Australia, or by packet to VK2JPA at VK2RWI. Email addresses for the Broadcast Officer are : 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.