The Edmond Amateur Radio Society is located at 28 E. Main Street, Edmond Downtown
Community Center, Room 219. Mailing address is EARS, PO Box 48, Edmond,
OK 73083. Repeaters: 147.135+, 443.425+, and Echolink on 145.27- with 100
Hz PL tone. Station phone 359-4386. Webmaster e-mail: K5EOK@arrl.net . The Edmond Amateur Radio Society, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Copyright EARS 2010. |
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Thank to Dick Rouse KE5TGZ for the wonderful HF report each week. |
THE HF REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 13 Conditions worsened this past week with the Solar Flux Index dropping under 100, but returned to a more moderate number in time for the CQ World Wide Worked All Prefixes contest over the weekend. Band conditions were not steady - some DX would drop into your lap while some was elusive and simply too faint to work. Currently: Sunspot number: 80 Solar Flux Index: 110 COMING UP - Now through Friday midnight, zulu, the School Club Roundup continues. All modes, most bands. If you hear a school radio club calling, they do want to work you. Exchange is reception report, class and state. Your class would be "Individual". www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup This weekend is one of the biggies. The ARRL International CW DX Contest. This is one of the four contests each year for which K3LR fires up a fully manned effort. For the exchange U.S. stations send reception report and state. DX stations will be sending reception report and station power. U.S. stations get no points for working us, DX stations are looking for you. A good chance to put some rarer DX into the logbook. www.arrl.org/contests Also this weekend is the AM QSO party sponsored by the Antique Wireless Association. This laid back event has an exchange of reception report, name and state. Expect to dawdle and have a QSO. www.antiquewireless.org Some interesting special event stations, including Antarctic Activity Week starting this coming weekend. www.k6eid.com Four Stations will be celebrating Arizona's centennial. One, K7UGA is on the air until the 19th... and is using Barry Goldwater's call sign. Some will remember his active service on the air patching calls from troops in Viet Nam to their home phones. www.cadxa.org And from the 5 Sullivan Brothers Amateur Radio Club in Iowa, the 67th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima and the celebrated flag raising are remembered.. www.arrl.org/special-events THAT'S THE HF REPORT, I'M KE5TGZ |
THE HF REPORT FOR JANUARY 23 Overall, band conditions have been good with some surprising propagation popping up from time to time. Ten meters continues to hold surprise propagation but seems dead a good part of the time. Current conditions: Sunspot number: 103 Solar Flux Index: 141 COMING UP - A special treat this week for EARS members. Super Station K3LR, our friend Tim Duffy, will be on the air 8:00 Wednesday night from Pennsylvania. Our plans are to start out at 14.250 or as close thereto as traffic permits. After everyone has had a chance to work this monster station on 20 meters, we very likely will try 40, 75 and even the top band, 160 meters. The frequencies are geared for General Licenses. So tune in 14.250 on Wednesday night at 8:00 Oklahoma time to work a friend in Pennsylvania. This weekend is the CQ World Wide CW contest on 160 meters. Top band contest participants are looking for a reception report and your state. www.cq160.com The French REF contest is this weekend in CW. Exchange is reception report and serial number. If working a French station, they will give you reception report and their department. Treat the department like a state report on your log. www.concours.ref-union.org Saturday through Sunday is Winter Field Day. Not an ARRL event, but sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio - SPAR. Exchange is call sign, true reception report, number of operators, whether inside or outside, and current temperature in Fahrenheit or centigrade. www.spar-hams.org From Coloma, California a special event station celebrating the 149th anniversary of finding gold in California.....sparking the gold rush. www.edcarc.net And the Palm Springs Ham Fest is underway with a station of its own. Look for WD6RAT. www.desertrats.am THAT'S THE HF REPORT, I'M KE5TGZ |
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THE HF REPORT FOR JANUARY 30 Propagation has improved. The large Coronal Mass Ejection really made the bands noisy, caused propagation to fluctuate dramatically and produced vivid displays of the aurora borealis....which you've probably seen....they made all the network newscasts. An even larger CME Friday will not affect us, as it was aimed away from earth. Current conditions - Sunspot number: 74 Solar Flux Index: 110 COMING UP - The European PSK Club is holding the WW PSK Contest this weekend. They do want to work us. Exchange is signal report and serial number - as always, start with the number "1". www.epcwwdx.srars.org/index.php/contest-rules.htm30l RTTY is on tap as well, with the XE International RTTY Contest. From Mexico and the Federacion Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores. Exchange is reception report and serial number, but you may also be asked for your state, although that is supposedly only for Mexican stations. In Spanish - www.fmre.org.mx QSO parties are on tap for Vermont www.ranv.org , Minnesota www.w0aa.org , Delaware www.fsarc.org and our friends to the north in British Columbia www.orcadxcc.org . All bands, all modes. Exchange is reception report and state, except Minnesota which also wants your name. For Ten-Ten members, it's the Ten-Ten Winter Phone QSO Party. Exchange must include your ten-ten number, call sign, name, and location. Obviously, for Ten-Ten members only. www.ten-ten.org Special event stations will be active. From Lubbock, Texas, W5B, commemorating the day the music died 53 years ago - from the Buddy Holly Memorial. www.amcrc.com/w5b Puxsatawney, PA hits the airwaves to honor Ground Hog Day. Don't know that Puxsatawney would exist without this annual event which is always preceded by the State of the Union Address. www.sites.google.com/site/punxyhamclub THAT'S THE HF REPORT, I'M KE5TGZ |
______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ From the HF Elmer Net (19:15 CST on the EARS repeater) - DX CODE OF CONDUCT I will listen, and listen, and then listen again before calling. I will only call if I can copy the DX statio properly. I will not trust the DX cluster and will be sure of the DX station's call sign before calling. I will not interfere with the DX station nor anyone calling and will never tune up on the DX frequency or in the QSX slot. I will wait for the DX station to end a contact before I call. I will always send my full call sign. I will call and then listen for a reasonable interval. I will not call continuously. I will not transmit when the DX operator calls another call sign, not mine. I will not transmit when the DX station requests geographic areas other than mine. When the DX operator calls me, I will not repeat my call sign unless I think he has copied it incorrectly. I will be thankful if and when I do make a contact. I will respect my fellow hams and conduct myself so as to earn their respect. For further discussion and specifics of the code, see: http://dx-code.org/english.htm#3 ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ |
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THE HF REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 6 Band conditions are much better than a week ago and lots of DX is getting worked. Solar cycle 24 isn't proving to be the monster experts predicted - currrently - Sunspot number: 37
Solar Flux Index: 103 COMING UP - This weekend is the CQ WW WPX....translation: CQ Magazine's World Wide Worked All Prefixes Contest. A great chance to work a lot of DX in RTTY. Next month is the phone competition, CW is in May. www.cqwpx.com QSO Parties in Louisiana www.laqso.w5yl.org and New Hampshire www.w1wqm.org OMISS QSO party...meaning the Old Man International Sideband Society...is on tap and will help you get that Worked All States award. www.omiss.info The Classic Exchange is this weekend. Dust off the antiques, enjoy the glow of the tubes and remember the exchange is reception report, QTH, make and model of transmitter and receiver. www.classicexchange.org Some special event stations this week: From the USS Midway in San Diego, celebrating the anniversary of founding the Women Marines, The Boy Scouts of America in 1910 and throwing in Lincoln's birthday for good measure. www.arrl.org/special-event-stations Five stations celebrate Arizona's centennial. www.cadxa.org www.mesa-arc.org www.w7tbc.org and www.vvara.org And Thomas Edison's birthday is marked. www.wearc.org THAT'S THE HF REPORT, I'M KE5TGZ. |
