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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
PERIOD CALL REF
till 20/10 9A6DR/p: Kolocep Island (EU-016) 1423
till 20/10 DL1WH/p: Rugen Island (EU-057) 1430
till 20/10 IB2RT: special callsign 1403
till 20/10 VK9BF, VK9EV, VK9QR, VK9PM: Norfolk Island (OC-005) 1430
till 21/10 D44TWO: Sao Tiago (AF-005), Cape Verde 1431
till 21/10 DU7/AI6US: Negros Island (OC-129) 1429
till 21/10 YB46SEA
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To realize this Bullettin Sixitalia use news (except when clearly indicate) extract by (in alphabetic order): 425dxn, 50 MHz DX News by OZ6OM, ARRL DX bullettin, Dxcoffe, DXNL, www.dx-world.net, ICPO, MMMonVHF, OPDX, www.rudius.net & 70mhz.org.
The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 1386.1
BID: $OPDX.1386.1
October 21, 2018
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)
Written/Sent From Strongsville, OH
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
Clusters Network, and the PIDXG for the following DX information.
VP6D ISLAND REPORT (October 22nd).
Good morning from Ducie Island.
We are progressing well.
- The main camp and kitchen are fully established and supplied with
food / water.
SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP042
ARLP042 Propagation de K7RA
ZCZC AP42
QST de W1AW
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 42 ARLP042
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA October 19, 2018
To all radio amateurs
SB PROP ARL ARLP042
ARLP042 Propagation de K7RA
Solar activity increased last week. Compared to the previous seven
days, average daily sunspot number increased from 1.6 to 12.6, while
average daily solar flux rose from 68.9 to 71. After six days with
sunspots making a re-appearance (October 12-17), there were no
sunspots on Thursday, October 18.
Sunspot area was listed at 0 on October 15-17, which means that the
area was less than 10 millionths of a solar hemisphere. See
ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/indices/DSD.txt for daily sunspot area.
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Islands on the Air (IOTA) General Manager Roger Balister, G3KMA, has announced the first tranche of six new IOTA groups. Release of the new groups comes in the wake of an August solicitation for possible new groups. The new groups cover a Swedish/Finnish joint sovereignty island and groups in North America, Asia, and Oceania. All new groups have provisional numbers, which means they will need to be confirmed by an operation that takes place after October 14, 2018, that meets the 1,000 QSO and other normal validation requirements. Only after confirmation of the number will credit for past operations be considered.
JOTA / JOTI 2018 runs from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 October 2018.
This is the 61st year this event is running and is the largest Scouting event on the calendar with approximately 1,5 million Cubs, Scouts and Guides taking part.
The Sandringham Scout Group, ZS6SSG will be among the 24 stations registered from South Africa to take part in this event.
They will be active on 40 and 80 m and will be running an additional 2 m station for the youngsters. There will also be SSTV transmissions made throughout the weekend to enable C
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