[ ANARTS - Australian National Amateur Radio Teletype Society ] A.N.A.R.T.S. News Bulletin 817 10th July 1994 3.545 MHz 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 AT VK2RWI (or VK2OP) 146.675 MHz (rtty mmbbs/repeater) VK2RTY There's not much news around this week ... Logs continue to come for the contest. If you have not sent in your log yet, dont leave it too long. With the vagaries of some of the postal systems, it is not worth risking your log arriving past the deadline. Some very interesting logs have come in and results promise to be to be surprising, unless changed by further entries still in transit. ---------------------------------------- News from W.A suggest the Old Timers Club over there is thriving. The club has found a couple of very friendly venues and they appear to have a good social gathering every fort- night. If you have any enquiries about the club, contact Ray VK6PW. ---------------------------------------------- And now news from WIA Federal Members transferring Divisions If a member of one Division wishes to transfer to another Division without changing their state of residence, it is now Federal policy that there is consultation between the Divisions, except where applicants reside less than 50 km from a State border or outside Australia. There has been for many years a "gentleman's agreement" between Divisions that there will be no "poaching" of members from one Division by another Division. The policy was formalised at the annual Federal Convention in Melbourne over April 30th-May 1st. The formal motion noted that the Federal Office had written a letter to certain members advising that they may join any Division regardless of their state of residence, and further noted the adverse effect of this on the Divisional structure. A WIA member belongs to an individual Division. The Federal WIA, on the other hand, has only the seven Divisions as members. It's a pretty simple structure. From now, when a member wishes to transfer membership to another Division without changing their State of residence, it is not "automatically" effected by the Federal Office, but both Divisions will be notified and it is then up to the Divisions what action is appropriate. (Hmmmmmm... Ed.) IPS weekly report ----------------- 01 July - 07 July 1994 Issue No 27 Date of issue: 8 July 1994 INDICES: Date 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 10cm 87 83 86 85 83 84 88 A 24 29 17 12 07 15 (15 estimated) T 39 22 25 30 33 35 46 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY Solar activity was very low 1st to 6th July and moderate on 7th. The geomagnetic field at Learmonth (WA) was quiet to active 1st and 3rd July, unsettled to active on 2nd, quiet to unsettled on 4th and 5th, quiet on 6th, and unsettled to active on 7th. Ionospheric F2 critical frequencies at Sydney were mostly near predicted monthly values, with 15-40 per cent enhancement during local night on 1st, and about 10 per cent above on 7th. . FORECAST FOR THE NEXT WEEK (8 - 14 July) SOLAR: Very low to low. GEOMAGNETIC: Unsettled to quiet by the end of the week. IONOSPHERIC: Near predicted monthly values to about 10 per cent above predicted values. Updated IPS Monthly Predicted Smoothed T-indices Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec -------------------------------------------------------------- 1994 38 36 35 34 32 30 26 24 22 21 20 1995 19 18 17 16 15 15 14 13 12 11 11 11 1996 10 10 9 8 8 8 8 9 9 10 11 12 1997 13 15 16 18 21 23 26 29 33 37 42 47 Courtesy of IPS Radio and Space Services, Sydney ---------------------------------------- VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES 1 JULY 94 VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES FOR WEEK ENDING 1 JULY 1994 (BID RTDX0701) JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT SYD, VK2SG IS BACK IN HOSPITAL WITH A FEW FRACTURED BRITTLE BONES. SYD IS SITTING UP GETTING SOME REHABILITATION AND IS A BIT SHORT ON BREATH. GET WELL SOON SYD, WE ARE ALL THINKING OF YOU. (EDITORS NOTE -- SYD IS BACK HOME AFTER THREE WEEKS IN HOSPITAL AND IS RECOVERING SLOWLY.) OUR INFORMATION THIS WEEK CAME FROM: DJ3IW AND THE CENTRAL- EUROPE DX CLUSTER NODE DB0SPC, I5FLN AND THE IK5PWJ PACKET CLUSTER, N2DBI, W2JGR AND THE NJ0M NODE THE TWIN-CITIES DX PACKET CLUSTER VK2EG AND W5KSI. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. BANDPASS FRIDAY 24 0122-14081 YL1ZE 0130-14088 UN5PR 1457-14086 ZA1AJ QSL OK2PSZ 1509-14084 ZA1AJ 1601-14087 EW8OS SATURDAY 25 0518-14084 FO5MA 2046-14086 TZ6FIC SUNDAY 26 1221-14084 ZA1AJ 1515-14087 A45XC MONDAY 27 1757-14081 7Q7ZZ 1759-14087 SV1ADG 1801-14084 ZA1AJ 1801-14082 GM4SUC 1901-14084 9K2WA 2349-14087 EI3GZ 2356-14084 UA9QBM TUESDAY 28 0111-14087 EI3GZ 1926-14085 SV5AZP 2132-14073 ZA1MH PACTOR WEDNESDAY 29 2007-14084 SV1CER 2009-14088I3GZ 2356-14084 UA9QBM TUESDAY 28 0111-14087 EI3GZ 1926-14085 SV5AZP 2132-14073 ZA1MH PACTOR WEDNESDAY 29 2007-14084 SV1CER 2009-14088 SV5AZP 2117-14086 ZA1MH 2157-14089 GM4SUC 2157-14086 TI2YO 2202-14083 ER1PE THURSDAY 30 0220-14073 XE1VV PACTOR 2117-14091 OZ1GML NOTES OF INTEREST. CONGO, TN. RUDI, DK7PE WILL BE IN THE CONGO FROM 11 JULY FOR ABOUT 10 DAYS.. RUDI HAS APPLIED FOR THE CALL TN0CW. ALSO NO MENTION OF RTTY. NEPAL 9N. SATISH 9N1AA, HAS BEEN WORKED ON RTTY IN THE PAST, AND HAS RECENTLY DISCOVERED THE MODE PACTOR. SATISH IS HAVING A PROBLEM WORKING STATESIDE STATIONS AND IS LOOKING FOR ANYBODY THAT COULD HELP HIM SOLVE THE PROBLEM. IF YOU CAN HELP, LEAVE A MESSAGE IN JA5TX'S MAILBOX, SATISH CHECKS STATESIDE STATIONS AND IS LOOKING FOR ANYBODY THAT COULD HELP HIM SOLVE THE PROBLEM. IF YOU CAN HELP, LEAVE A MESSAGE IN JA5TX'S MAILBOX, SATISH CHECKS IT DAILY. FOR NEXT WEEK'S BULLETIN, SEND YOUR BANDPASS AND NOTES OF INTEREST TO JULES, W2JGR AT W5KSI.#NOLA.LA.USA.NA REMEMBER, DX DON'T SLEEP. GL DE BOB, WB2CJL AT W5KSI.#NOLA.LA.USA.NA ----------------------------------------------- As there has not been much DX around we are including the ARRL DX Notes for your interest. DX BULLETIN 38 ARLD038 FROM ARRL HEADQUARTERS NEWINGTON CT JUNE 30, 1994 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS THE ITEMS IN THIS WEEK'S BULLETIN ARE COURTESY OF LARRY, WA9MAG, THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS DX ASSOCIATION, JAMES, 9V1YC, AND THE YANKEE CLIPPER CONTEST CLUB PACKETCLUSTER NETWORK. THANKS. HUANGUAY DAO, AKA SCARBOROUGH REEF. THIS WEATHER HAMPERED OPERATION RAN ONLY 14 HOURS. THOUGH LIMITED TO SSB ONLY, NEARLY 2,000 QSOS WERE MADE, NEARLY HALF OF WHICH WERE WITH STATESIDE STATIONS. FOR THE LUCKY FEW, QSL VIA W6CF. MOROCCO. VALENTINI, IK4JQO, WILL SIGN CN2VA FROM AUGUST 6 TO 22. THIS SSB ONLY OPERATION WILL BE ON 80 THROUGH 10 METERS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE 17 AND 12 METER BANDS. QSL VIA IK4JQO. GLORIOSO ISLAND. FR5ZQ SHOULD BE ACTIVE DURING JULY AND AUGUST. HAITI. TELEVISION NEWS AGENCY EMPLOYEES N4MU AND W6RCL ARE ASSIGNED TO PORT AU PRINCE. THEY ARE BOTH ACTIVE SIGNING THEIR CALLS /HH2. BOTH OPERATE SSB ONLY. CHECK 14190 KHZ AT 0300Z. THE CONGO. RUDI, DK7PE, PLANS TO START HIS ONE WEEK TN OPERATION AROUND JULY 10. THE CALL TN0CW HAS BEEN REQUESTED. QSL VIA DK7PE. TANZANIA. R3ARES, THE CLUB STATION OF HQ RUSSIAN ARES, HAS MOVED TO TANZANIA FROM YUGOSLAVIA AND IS NOW ON THE AIR AS R3AREX/5H. THE RESCUE TEAM FROM THE RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS IS PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN UN AID FOR RWANDA REFUGEES IN TANZANIA. CHECK THE RUSSIAN ARES NET ON 14292 KHZ AT 0700 AND 1700Z. QSL VIA RW3AH. VIETNAM. PAUL, AA2AV, AND MIKE N KM1R, ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ACTIVE UNTIL JULY 2, HOWEVER OUR LOCAL PACKETCLUSTER NODE HAS NO QSNS AS YET. SINGAPORE. 9V1ARU OF THE SINGAPORE AMATEUR RADIO TRANSMITTING SOCIETY WILL BE ON DURING THE UPCOMING IARU CONTEST UNDER THE HQ CATEGORY, AN OFFICIAL IARU REGION 3 MEMBER ORGANIZATION. OPERATORS INCLUDE 9V1YC, 9V1ZB AND JE1JKL. THIS WILL BE THE VERY FIRST SINGAPORE MULTI-OP STATION IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST. STATIONS HEARD OR WORKED FROM NORTHERN ILLINOIS INCLUDE, 5N0/DL9GMM 7012 KHZ AT 0529Z 5W1GC 7003/1040Z X5EBL 7003/0026 6W6JX 10104/2232 HB0/DL8HWA 10103/0249 HK0ER 10102/0116 9K2MU 14179/0151 AND 14247/0013 C53HG 14198/2220 KH3AF 14247/0221 VO9TX 14258/0020 HP8ADU 18137/0155 VR6DX 28457/0135 VE6BPR 50165/0011 XE1J 50130/0013 ZF1DC 50125/0112 ------------------------------------------------ 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 know we reach New Zealand and many South Pacific islands, and we were reaching as far north as Japan when conditions were right. 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 the broadcast for this morning/evening.