[ ANARTS - Australian National Amateur Radio Teletype Society ] ANARTS NEWS BULLETIN 812 05/06/94 3.545 MHz Plus/minus 3 0930 UTC VK2BQS (Jim) 7.045 MHz -3 0030 UTC VK2CTD (Col) 14.070 MHz (amtor/fec) 0030 UTC VK2DPM (Alan) 14.091 MHz 0030 UTC VK2BQS (JIM) 146.675 MHz 0030/0930 UTC VK2JPA (PAT) 144.850 MHz (ax25 bbs) VK2JPA@VK2AAB 146.675 MHz (rtty mmbbs/repeater) VK2RTY Views expressed in this news bulletin are not necessarily those of the Broadcast Officer, the Relay Officers, or of the Society. Well, I hope you have tuned your rigs, checked antennas and rotators and have had plenty of sleep, or intend to do so this coming week. Because... ANARTS WW RTTY DX Contest takes place next weekend. What better type of contest could one have at this stage of the solar cycle? RTTY will get through where other modes fail. The signal can be decoded when your ear cannot hear anything but noise, and this contest is geographically equalised. The further the distant station, the more points one can obtain. Everyone has a chance. The trophies are worth winning too. A very nice plaque for first place -- well-received last year by the winners and well worth having on the shack brag-wall. Besides, think of all the new callsigns out there to be contacted and, perhaps, the start of a long radio friendship. Be in it and make this contest a regular one for your calendar. And now for the rest of the rules... ANARTS WW RTTY/Digital DX Contest 11-12 JUNE Part 3 ------------------------- Contest period: from 0000Z Saturday to 0000Z Monday (48 hours) Logs; Separate logsheets are required for each band. Logs must show: BAND, DATE and TIME (UTC), CALLSIGN, MESSAGE sent and received, NEW MULTIPLIERS and QSO POINTS. Summary sheet must show: your callsign, name and address of operator, bands used, ponts claimed for each band, number of VK stations QSOed, total points claimed, and signature/s. Multi-op stations must contain the signatures and callsigns of each operator. Logsheeets, summary sheets, multiplier and dupe sheets, EXCHANGE POINTS TABLE, and Band Use Chart for recording ON/OFF are all available for copying from the RTTY Contesters Guide, published by the RTTY Journal. Logs must be received by the Contest Committee by September 1, 1994. Mail to: Contest Manager, VK2BQS (Jim) P.O. Box 93 Toongabbie N.S.W. 2146 Australia (Please note that for Classification A and B one transmitter only is allowed in each case.) ------------------------------------------- IPS weekly report ----------------- 27 May - 2 June 1994 Issue No 22 Date of issue: 3 June 1994 INDICES: Date 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 10cm 97 70 69 69 69 68 68 A 05 21 33 35 28 24 (20 estimated) T 25 15 10 23 17 23 18 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY Solar activity was very low all week. The geomagnetic field at Learmonth (WA) was quiet to unsettled 27th-28th May; increasing to active to minor storm levels 29th-30th. The field was at unsettled to minor storm levels on 31st, reducing to unsettled to active on 1st-2nd June, with a short period of minor storm levels on 1st. Ionospheric F2 critical frequencies at Sydney were mostly near predicted values, except for 29th and 31st May when frequencies were depressed by up to 20 per cent below predicted monthly values. Spread F was observed during local night on 30th-21st May. FORECAST FOR THE NEXT WEEK (3 - 9 June) SOLAR: Very low. GEOMAGNETIC: Unsettled to active with brief minor storm periods until 7th June, and unsettled to active thereafter. IONOSPHERIC: Mostly near predicted monthly values, with occasional depressions of 10-20 per cent, night- time Spread F, and occasional Sporadic E layer. Courtesy of IPS Radio and Space Services, Sydney ---------------------------------------- VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES 27 MAY 94 VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES FOR WEEKENDING 27 MAY 1994 (BID RTDX0527) OUR INFORMATION THIS WEEK CAME FROM DJ3IW AND THE CENTRAL EUROPE DX CLUSTER NODE DB0SPC, I5FLN, IK5AAX AND THE IK5PWI PACKET CLUSTER, KK4CQ, W2TKU, WB2CJL, W5KSI, ZS5S, 9K2EC, AND THE NJ0M NODE OF THE TWIN CITIES DX PACKETCLUSTER NETWORK. THANKS TO ALL. BANDPASS: FRIDAY 20 0013-14074 ZP6XR FEC 0552-14081 C91AI 1312-14081 OY1CT 2128-14089 A41CT 2252-14085 SV7BVZ 2253-14084 IS0QDV SATURDAY 21 0328-14088 A35RK QSL TO KK6H 0349-14085 4X6UO 0532-14086 AL7NO 0547-14086 HV4NAC QSL VIA IK0FVC 1049-14084 LA6MP 1733-14083 BV7WB 1915-14077 YI9CW 2125-14082 8P9GU 2136-14084 OY1CT 2146-14086 V21PI 2147-14089 JD1AMA OGASAWARA 2204-15086 LU9DBK 2242-14088 HP1XXE 2316-14080 ZP5FGS 2319-14088 8P6GU 2336-14086 FG5FI 2344-14085 CU2GE SUNDAY 22 0114-14089 UN5PR 0226-14086 A35RK 0706-14086 CU3EM 1208-14072 A41KB PACTOR 1227-14084 JA3PFZ 1427-14082 XU0HW 1517-14080 ZD8X 2235-14085 S58AA MONDAY 23 0551-14087 C91AI 0625-14073 VR6ME PACTOR 0930-21083 5V7BB MIKE IN LOME 1005-21085 ZD7DP 1427-14082 XU0HW 1529-14083 OY1CT 2102-14085 7X2DS TUESDAY 24 0040-14069 FG5GI FEC 1241-14089 HK0DPA 2317-14084 ZP5FGS WEDNESDAY 25 NO REPORTS THURSDAY 26 0215-14083 A35RK 0215-14083 PJ2MI --------------------------------------- NOTES OF INTEREST: ST.PAUL ISLAND, CY9 - A GROUP OF WISCONSIN HAMS WILL BE ACTIVE /CY9 BETWEEN 10 AND 19 JUNE. CHECK 7085 AND 14085. QSL TO K0SN. GUERNSEY, GU - LOOK FOR GU/DL6ET AND GU/DL9YAJ BETWEEN 1 AND 21 JUNE, ON ALL BANDS, INCLUDING THE WARC BANDS, ON RTTY, CW AND SSB. QSL TO HOME CBA. MICRONESIA, V6 - A REMINDER OF THE MULTIOPERATOR TEAM THAT WILL BE ACTIVE ON RTTY, CW AND SSB FOR ONE WEEK ON ALL BANDS, INCLUDING WARC BANDS, BEGINNING 9 JUNE. QSL THE V63 CALLS OF THIS GROUP TO OKDXA, P.O. BOX 88, WELLSTON, OK 74881. PLAN NOW FOR THE ANARTS (AUSTRALIAN) RTTY CONTEST COMING UP 11-12 JUNE. FOR FULL DETAILS, INCLUDING THE ZONE SCORING CHART (A GEOGRAPHICAL EQUALIZER), SEE THE RTTY DIGITAL JOURNAL, APRIL 1994, PAGE 8. FOR NEXT WEEK'S BULLETIN SEND YOUR BANDPASS AND NOTES OF INTEREST TO LUCIANO, I5FLN AT ZS5S.ZAF.AF OR AT I5FLN.ITA.EU. 73 ES GOOD HUNTING DE JULES W2JGR AT W2TKU.#SQRFL.FL.USA.NA (VIA HF CLOVER) --------------------------------------- ARLD033 DX news The items in this week's bulletin are courtesy of Steve, W9NUF, Bill, KG4GC, George, AD1S, the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin and the Yankee Clipper Contest Club PacketCluster network. YEMEN. 7O1AA was worked Wednesday on 14245 kHz at 1500z. LIBYA. A group led by JA2JPA plan to operate starting around June 10. It has been reported that equipment has been shipped to Libya and QSLs have been printed, though no call sign was mentioned. JA2JPA is currently in South America and is expected to return to Japan on June 14. GHANA. 9G1PW was worked on 21297 kHz at 1430z. QSL via WB2YQH. AFGHANISTAN. YA/RW6AC checked into the 14226 DX net around 2345z. No documentation has been received for this operation. IRAQ. YI9CW has been quite active lately. Check 18074 kHz between 1400 and 1500z. CAMBODIA. XU7VK should remain active through February 1995. Watch the usual DX frequencies. KERGUELEN. FT5XJ has been on 20 meter SSB this past week. Listen between 14170 and 14200 kHz at around 1800z. TONGA. Paul, KK6H, is signing A35RK. Try 14023 kHz between 0000 and 0400z, and 21024 kHz between 2100 and 2400z. ANGOLA. D2/HB9AMO is active and should remain so through July. FRENCH POLYNESIA. FO0MIZ is QRV until June 11 from the Marquesas. He was worked on 30 meters around 0430z. QSL via JA1HGY. FO0AKI is also active and has been worked on 40, 20 and 17 meters. Check 14195 kHz at 1100z. SOLOMON ISLANDS. Mako, JA1OEM, is on the air as H44/JA1OEM until June 10. [heck 30 and 40 meters between 0715 and 0900z, and again from 1030 and 1430. He has also been on SSB from 1300 to 1345z between 3788 and 3798 kHz. PACIFIC DXPEDITION. Yarl, SM6FJY, leaves Angola on June 5 to embark on his Pacific tour. The planned itinerary is as follows. Mariana Islands, KH0, June 13 to 26. Guam, KH2, June 27 to July 10. Belau, KC6, July 11 to 24. After Belau, it is back to Angola until August 18. EGYPT. Pavel, OK2FUN, signed SU1KR during the WPX contest last weekend. QSL via OK2EC. JORDAN. Five British and one German operator are on from Jordan until June 27. Activity is mainly on 6 meters, though some HF operating is planned. QSL JY8ED via G3SED, JY8JH via G0JHC, JY8IC via GJ4ICD, JY8OX via G3KOX, JY8VA via DL7AV and JY8ZC via G4CCZ. MICRONESIA. Six OKDXA members will have four stations up and running from June 8 to 17. QSL V63AD, V63BC, V63FC, V63KW, V63SB and V63VA all via OKDXA, PO Box 88, Wellston OK 74881. SOUTH KOREA. Harry, HL9HH/KJ6YR, is looking for 40 and 80 meter fills for Worked All States. He operates between 1030 and 1200z daily. On 40 meters, he operates between 7002 and 7009 kHz looking for IN, MS, NM, ND, SD, and NE. On 80 meters, he is on between 3502 and 3509 kHz, hunting IN, WI, MS, IA, ND, SD, and NE. Skeds can be arranged via email to his Internet address hherr at emh.osan.af.mil. QSL via PSC 3 Box 3695, APO AP 96266-3695. GUANTANAMO BAY. Bill, KQ4GC, will operate from the shack of KG4DX from June 10 through 16. Possible call signs are KG4GC, KG4WW or KG4ZZ. QSL via KQ4GC. _----------------------------------- Coming events 1994 ---- June 11th-12th ANARTS WW RTTY DX Contest ------------------------------------ For disposal ------------ 1 model 15 keyboard printer and reperforator complete. 5 Terminet keyboard printers, ASCII, serial rs232 output plus manual. As new. Contact Greg VK2KGH (046) 282255, or write to 28 Harcourt Place, Eaglevale NSW 2558. These are scheduled for the tip by 1st July if not availed. ---------------------------------------- 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 @ VK2AAB News items may be sent to Broadcast Officer PO Box 60 Blacktown 2148 Australia, or by packet to VK2JPA @ VK2AAB. Email address for the Broadcast Officer is : patl@pitt.conmusic.su.oz.au The Society welcomes news items on any digital subjects from anywhere in the broadcast footprint. We know we reach ZL and many South Pacific islands. We are looking forward 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 ANARTS News812 05/05/94. Inserted by VK2BQS (Jim), Vice President ANARTS.