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Het laatste nieuws; met dank aan het MMMon VHF team!
* OPEN VHF-MS CONTEST **
Contest is held during Quadrantids meteor shower. Start: 02 Jan. 2011, 16:00 UTC - End: 05 January 2011, 05:59 UTC - During Russian Winter MS Contest! Band: 144 MHz - Modes: FSK441, HSCW, SSB. For CQ in FSK441: 144.370 and 144.350 MHz For CQ in HSCW: 144.100 (144.095 - 144.105) MHz For CQ in SSB: 144.200 MHz - It is allowed to use DX-Cluster or other open chats for skeds. ON4KST CHAT recommended. REMARKS WELLCOME CONTESTERS AND SPONSORS All Infos at their Homepage: http://www.opencontest.org SOURCE: UT5UUV direct to MMMonVHF
** 50 RASE DX SPRINT **
Hi all, new sprint tournament on 50 Mhz: http://www.rasedx.com/content/view/248/12/
Stay tuned - 73s and HNY SOURCE: tnx to EB7COL direct to MMMonVHF
** Reactivating the EME VHF Net on 14.345 MHz **
EME net saturday and sunday at 1600 Z on 14.345. Everyone welcome CW/SSB & Digital.. SOURCE: 73 Stece N4PZ direct to MMMonVHF
** JO34 in 2011 **
Dear friends - we are planing to be qrv again in several contests from Helgoland, JO34WE, as well in the year 2011 - from our side now following request: Is JO34 as well (on TROPO) on 23cm-band wanted? Please be so kind and send your interest to dg7tg"at"web.de SOURCE: Thorsten DG7TG DR3M direct to MMMonVHF
** INFOS from ICELAND **
Jonas Bjarnason (TF2JB), President of the Icelandic Radio Amateurs (IRA), reports that the Icelandic Post and Telecom administration has extended access to the 500 kHz (493-510 kHz), 70 MHz (70.000-70.200 MHz) and 5 MHz bands by two years, until 31 December 2012.As for 60 metres, TF operators have been granted 150 kHz (5360-5410 kHz) instead of the previous eight fixed channels, but the maximun power allowed has been reduced from 200 to 100 watts. SOURCE: 425 DX News #1025
** DXCC: FG ; Square: FK96 ; Start: 2010-12-29 **
Guadeloupe Island (French Antillas, FK96HF) qrv on 144 MHz EME since 29.12.2010! LATEST NEWS, from Phil, dated 2010-12-28: Just finished to assembly and test, it is 17 h local time and I take the red colour !! here around 30° and 76% of humidity I will be qrv on 29 at 05H15 UTC, my moonrise for the 1st try , QRG will be on 144,143 because birdies on 144 , the freq can change if necessary . FG4KH always 1st I cannot have full elevation, but it will change in the next days Hope all will be ok, I cross the fingers! LATEST NEWS, from Phil, dated 2010-12-29: All has worked nice, not to much noise, but today no full elevation so the traffic stopped at 10 UTC, sorry for NA window. First day with 42 stations in log , tomorrow I will be QRV again since my moon rise with full elevation. For log on line updated, follow link below - 73 all LOG is at: fgdxpeditionf1duz.monsite-orange.fr/logonline/index.html
** DXCC: VK9N ; Square: RG30 ; Start: 2011-01-07 **
Norfolk Island (RG30XX) DX Expedition, 2011 VK9NA will have 2m EME capability via WSJT (or CW for a few). One long yagi (12m) and about 300w. More details on vk9na.com in the blog page. Operating schedule not published yet, still under discussion. Operators arrive on Norfolk Island on 7th January, station assembly on the 8th. Operation ceases on 20th January. Planning to operate on 50, 144, 432, 1296, 2403, 5760, 10368. Yagis up to 432, 1.2m dish for higher bands. 75w on 10 GHz from TWT. SOURCE: 73 Andrew VK1DA to the MoonNet
** DXCC: C5 ; Square: IK13 ; Start: 2011-02-11 ** MOONBOUNCE from THE GAMBIA (C56 / IK13QL)
After the very successfull DXpedition to Mauritius last year (3B8EMEwith 340 QSO's on 144 MHz and 7 inits om 432 MHz) Rene PE1L will try again to make moonbounce QSO's from the Gambia on 144 MHz and 432 MHz This time Eltje PA3CEE and Johan PE9DX will join the party again. Don't change a winning team! We will be QRV moonbounce 2 meter as C56EME, a special moonbounce permit is requested. If all ok we will have a small 70cm setup with us. From February 11th until February 21st 2011, C56EME will be active from the Gambia on 144 MHz moonbounce. The locator will be IK13ql... read all and more in detail: Welcome to The Gambia moonbounce site! www.emelogger.com/gambia and here at MMMonVHF: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=3654 SOURCE: tnx to Rene, PE1L direct to MMMonVHF
** DXCC: KH0 / KH2 **
Bodo, DL3OCH, was qrv from DU (PJ18) for some QSOs on 23cm. He have to quit now and as well he told that KH2/KH0 operation is cancelled as well defiantly now...SOURCE: tnx to Bodo, DL3OCH direct to MMMonVHF
** PY1KK qrv from GG76qs on 6m / 70cm **
Hello all, All ready here at the coast qth on both 70cm and 6m. 70cm setup is a 4m dish, xpol patch-feeder, LNAs at feeder, R&S at 800W, and IC-910H. 6m setup is single 1 wl horizontally polarized yagi, no elevation, IC-PW1 and IC-746PRO. Some echoes have been seen, but no EME qso yet. Will be qrv on both bands during the whole January. I thank you for the nice lunar activity during the ending year, and wish you all a very nice New Year of 2011. Vy 73 de Bruce, PY1KK / PY2BS via W7GJ s [Magic Band EME]
** TA2AD on 6m EME **
Hello! This morning, TA2AD became the first TA station to complete a contact on 6m EME during his moonset. It was also a DXCC #163 for me (#111 via 6m EME). The Kp was 2.0 and Degradation was -1.6 dB. My understanding is that Sua was using 200w and some sort of yagi relatively close to the ground. His JT65A signal only -28 dB here. SOURCE: Lance, W7GJ via [Magic Band EME]
** JD1 qrv HF and Satellites **
Makoto, JI5RPT (JD1BLY) and Harry, JG7PSJ (JD1BMH) will once again be active from Chichijima Island (IOTA AS-031, WLOTA 2269, WFF JAFF-090, JCG #10007) between 24 December 2010 and 8 January 2011. QRV on all bands 160-10m, with focus on the lower bands, using CW,SSB, Digital and the satellites. JD1BLY will be active between 24 December 2010 and 3 January 2011, while JD1BMH will be active between 30 December and 8 January 2011. QSL via the bureau to the JD1 callsigns or direct to their home callsigns...SOURCE: ICPO Bulletin (24-31 Decenber 2010)
** The DEM. REPUBLIC OF CONGO is qrv again until Jan.11th, 2011 **
Barney, ZS6TQ (es-ZS4U), is now active as 9Q0HQ/6 until Jan. 11th,2011. Activity will be mainly on the weekends and some days during the week after 1800z. Operations will be on 40/20/15/10/6 meters using CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL via K3IRV...SOURCE: Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #991
** 3D2, FIJI, activity in march april **
Operators Eddie/VK4AN, Kenneth/OZ1IKY and possibly others are planning a big operation as 3D2A to the Fijis between March 15th and April 2nd in 2011. They are currently looking for experienced DXers to join them during this operation. They state that their activities will be from Nadi in a "3-story 2-br luxury a/c apartment with roof top antennas including a full-size 160m Inverted Vee or delta-loop, Spiderbeam, DX-88 and other antennas!" Activity will be on all bands (160-6m) and modes but with a concentrating on the lower bands. Operations will include participation in the BARTG RTTY and CQ WPX SSB DX Contests. If you would like to join their team, contact Eddie, VK4AN, at: vk4an@wia.org.au Also, via SKYPE at < ewdeyoung >. More details are available at their "Pacific DXers" Wweb page at: http://pacific-dxers.com ADDED NOTE: Eddie, VK4AN, is also planning activity from Naura (C2) in mid-to-late 2011 and is looking for experienced DXers to join them for a 2 week operation. SOURCE: Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #991