ࡱ> Y bjbjWW ==a{]   4J J J J h > J kH>  :  0222222$!#`V   V>  @R 0J J  0P" $  Lh- lJ J M@,Volume 9, Number 7 July 2004 The Nugget The Newsletter of the Mother Lode DX/Contest Club Late Roster Addition W6ISO Kit Kohlmoos 2334 Vera Ave. Redwood City, CA 94061 H:650-366-7813 W: w6iso@smrn.com New Member W6FI Mike Gould P.O. Box 1151 Placerville, CA 95667 H:(530)344-0237  HYPERLINK mailto:W6fi@comcast.net W6fi@comcast.net NOTE: Latest MLDXCC roster is included in this issue. MEETING LOCATION This is a joint meeting with the Mother Lode DX/Contest Club (MLDX/CC) and the Northern California Contest Club (NCCC), our 5th annual. It will take place on Saturday, July 24, 2004. The meeting starts at noon with a potluck lunch at the Senior Center in Jackson. Meeting Program Our Program will be presented by Dr. Alan Eshleman, K6SRZ, team physician and CW operator for T33C shares his experience as a first time DXpeditioner, running pileups while also being the only doctor within 250 miles. The program includes the expedition video, which shows the voyage to Banaba (how do you react to a crewman with an Osama Bin Laden T-shirt?), life on the island, and some great music by the native singers. Another Dont you Dare Miss it program. HOW TO GET TO THE MEETING The meeting will be at the Senior Services Center, 229 New York Ranch Road, Jackson, Ca. Take State Highways 49/88 to Jackson. From the West (Highway 88) or the North (Highway 49), go through the traffic light at 49/88 intersection and proceed to the bottom of the hill, turn left at the 2nd stop sign (Safeway and Chevron gas station will be on your right), onto Highway 88 East toward Lake Tahoe. Follow signs to Senior Center and turn left onto Court Street (approximately 1 mile). New York Rand Road will be the first stop sign (1/4 mile). Turn right and the Senior Center will be on the left approximately 100 yards from the intersection and behind an apartment complex (signs will direct you to Oak Manor). Parking is available in both the front and the back. Additional parking is available next door at the Quail Hollow Professional Center with stairs at the rear that lead to the Senior Center. Please do not park in the spots marked for the Oak Manor Convalescent Home. In addition to the Safeway mentioned above, if you continue South through the stop at 49/88, there will be a Ralphs on the right (1/4 mile) and a Raleys on the right (1 mile). To Jackson from the Bay Area take Interstate 580 East to Interstate 205 (bypass Tracy) and proceed to I 5 north. Proceed north to Stockton and take Highway 4 east to Highway 99 north. Proceed north approximately 1 mile and take Highway 88 east to Jackson. To Jackson from Nevada Take Interstate 80 or State Highway 50 West to Highway 49 and proceed south to Jackson. Or take CA/NV Highway 395 south to Highway 88 west to Jackson and turn right on Court Street. To Jackson from the North or Sacramento Take Highway 16 (Jackson Rd) east to Highway 49 and go south. From the South Take Highway 99 North to Highway 88 east to Jackson. WHAT TO BRING The meeting will include a barbecue and potluck. Grilled chicken breasts and beef tri-tip, condiments, buns and plates/eating utensils will be provided by the MLDX/CC. NCCC will provide soft drinks and other non-alcoholic beverages. Please bring the following to share based on the first letter of the suffix of your call sign: A-G- Chips/dips/salsas H-N- Salad (potato, macaroni, fruit, green, etc.) O-U- Relishes (assorted pickles, olives, carrot sticks, veggies w/sip, etc.) V-Z- Deserts (simple desserts, cookies, fresh fruit, etc.) Does anyone need directions?? Talk in on Amador County ARC repeater, K6ARC, 146.835 600 kHz. (100 Hz. PL, if in use). Alternates; W6SF, 146.165 +600 or 146.52. Jackson is located at the intersection of State Highway 88 and 49 in Amador County, southeast of Sacramento. Amador County is in the heart of the Mother Lode Gold Country. Our meeting location will be minutes from antique shops galore, 18 wineries, gold mine tours, camping and fishing sites, and the historic Chawse Indian Grinding Rock State Park. In addition, the Jackson Rancheria Casino/Hotel is a jaunt up New York Ranch Rd. For additional information contact: Kay or Ken,  HYPERLINK "mailto:K6KO-k6ko@arrl.net" K6KO-k6ko@arrl.net  HYPERLINK "mailto:K6TA-k6ta@arrl.net" K6TA-k6ta@arrl.net (phone 209-2965577) Dick, K6LRN  HYPERLINK "mailto:k6lrn@arrl.net" k6lrn@arrl.net (phone 530-620-2147) Jim, WX6V  HYPERLINK mailto:wx6v@msn.com wx6v@msn.com (phone 530-823-6268) This is always a fun event - plan to be there! FROM THE PREZ I wont bore you with my Field Day report. I will just say that it took a lot of effort to pull this event off. It all looks easy on paper. Setting everything up, working extra shifts on the air, etc. This year we had fewer people and put up a better score. Go figure! Thank you to all, especially those of you who just came to visit. We even had at least one helper who left our group to work with the Amador ARC, (talk about dedication!) They posted over 1000 Qs for their effort. Yeah! Lets see what Jim has in the way of a de-brief and what the plan for next year is. Thanks to Rick (W6SR) and Gary (KI6T) for offering to chair the joint meeting with NCCC. Jim and I are sorry that we cant attend for various reasons and hope you all enjoy yourselves. This is a good time to put in a plug for next year. We need new blood to come forward and accept terms as club officers. The club needs people that participate (and occasionally attend meetings, hi). Please, if you havent served as an officer (lately), plan on helping the club out next year. None of the positions require more than a few minutes work each month and what you cant do; you can appoint someone else to do Rumor has it that we have a challenge from REDXA for the CQP Club trophy. They cant be serious, can they? Ok, time for another plug. This time for the California QSO Party. Please make sure that you have October 2nd on your calendar. As usual, we will need your best efforts (and your log) for this event. CQP is the biggest QSO Party of them all and the rest of the country will be chomping at the bit to work us. Just like last year, if you have the time and need a station let us know and well find you something. MLDXCC has won the club trophy for CQP for the last bunch of years. Be part of the winning effort and plan to work this contest. Good Feedback from Jettie (W6RFF) about the lack of maps to direct people to Field Day sites. That wont happen again next year, I promise! Thats all for now. Have fun in Jackson. 73 Ron KG6CMS THE vice-prez says! Well - another Field Day event is behind us now. This year, we had another great time operating up on Peddler Hill. Participants this year included, in no particular order, WB6GEF, W6SR, K6QG, KG6CMS, KF6T, WX6V, KI6T, NU6T, N6RK, K6LRN, K6TKD, and ND6S, including equipment supplied by WK6I and N6JV. The weather was superb and a good time was had by all. So - how did we do? First, let's recap last year's results. Our main stations had 1,459 QSOs and the GOTA station made 260 QSOs. After adding up the QSO points and bonus points, we had a score of 6,900 points. This year, our main stations made 1,969 QSOs and the GOTA station made 315 QSOs. After adding up this year's bonus points, we achieved an improved score of 7,848 points. Now, for those of you that are used to big scoring contests like CQWW, SS, and WPX, an increase of 948 points probably doesn't seem like much. But - in the world of Field Day scores, well, this is a very healthy increase. I attribute the improvement to better antennas and the availability of more operators. The most noticeable increase was on 80 meters. We positioned our 80-meter sloper at least 75 feet in a tree on one end, sloping down towards the east over a sharp downhill grade. With this antenna, we only missed working North Dakota for WAS in a matter of about 7 hours (290 contacts, 237 CW and 53 phone). Here's the breakdown of QSOs by station and band: K6AO - HF: CW Phone 80 237 53 40 418 327 20 445 328 15 19 3 Totals 1,119 711 1,830 K6TKD (GOTA): 80 11 50 5 15 115 130 Totals 131 185 316 K6AO - VHF: (All phone) 108 28 2 10 GHz 1 Total 139 Looks like I'll be missing my first meeting of this year in July. I'm helping my son move his household goods across the country. He is in the Navy and is moving from Washington (state) to South Carolina - 2,400 miles in a U-Haul! Wish us well. I have nothing to report in the way of amateur radio events from my QTH. I just recently put my station back together after taking most everything in the shack up to Field Day. I noticed the e-mail on the reflector the other day about the challenge that we received from the Redwood DX club for CQP this year. Well - we will just have to see about that! This news is enough to motivate me to get out in the yard this summer and make some improvements to the station in order to ready for this year's CQP contest. Have a great month. I admit that I do not have a program in place yet for the August club meeting. I'm open to any suggestions that you may have. Drop me an e-mail message if anything comes to mind. See ya. 73's, Jim -WX6V- MLDXCC PROFILE OF THE MONTH None this month EDITORS MESSAGE Thanks to Bill and Ginny Snider for their FB presentation at our June meeting. Their recent trip to Japan made for an interesting program. We appreciate their long trip (from Yankee Hill) to attend our meetings. Thanks again! Well the big radio news for this month was the clubs FB field Day effort from Peddler Hill. We used the club call, K6OA and had a real blast! If you missed it, you really missed a lot of fun and great camaraderie. This years 2A effort resulted in a big improvement over last years score. But I leave the scoring and chest thumping to our fearless organizer Jim, WX6V. I road-along with Ron, KG6CMS to our Field Day site. On Sunday, Dick Wilson invited us to stop by his place on our trip home. I hadnt been to Dick and Carolyns home in about 1- years. Wow! They have since built a (very large) separate radio-room/hobby-room complete with a bathroom. They have also cleared a lot of brush where an 80M 4-square will soon reside. Keep up the good work, Im sure you will be loud on the long-path this year. Speaking of antennas, one of my favorite HAM radio subjects, I have three projects that I would like to accomplish before this falls contest season. I managed to locate another 10-foot chunk of Rohn-25G that I want to use to top-out the downhill tower (at 60 feet) so I can raise the height of the C-3E to 65 feet. After talking with N6RK during Field Day, I was inspired to model a 5-element vertical yagi for 40 meters. Wow, it looks good. So now I want to add two more verticals to my 3 element 40-meter vertical yagi-array. I modeled five antennas in a 40-foot circle (each antenna placed 520 apart) it looks like more than 16dB F/B ratio and 6.5dBi gain (at a 200 elevation angle) can be achieved (over good ground). I will feed any one antenna and let the unused ones look like reflectors. By using five antennas, the entire 3600 can be covered with only a 1dB loss from maximum gain (at any compass point). Not bad! How can this be done? Easy, just use an inexpensive 5-position coax switch (I plan on using an Ameritron RCS-8V). Then, just feed each antenna with a length of coax that will look like +j65 when its open-circuited and (of course) NOT being fed. And lastly, you will need to parallel two, wave pieces of 50 ohm feed-line to match the 20-25 ohm impedance of the fed antenna. For those of us that cant swing a big 40M horizontal beam at 90+ this may be a practical alternative. Anyway, it should be a fun project and it shouldnt (according to EZNEC) change the properties of my existing 80 or 160M antennas. I also want to replace the rotor and rebuild the C-3 (to a C3-E) on the up-hill 50 tower as well as move the 6-meter antenna to the 80-foot level on my 70 tower. I hope to accomplish all this before the rainy season. Well see how much I really get done, HI HI Well with DX conditions being lousy and the temperature too hot for doin much outdoors, I entertain myself by writing. Yes, this month I really had way too much time on my hands, HI HI SO WHATS A LID? Lid...a term used in amateur radio to denote a poor operator; one who is inept at the practice of the art. The above description is very general in nature and I really wanted to hang some specifics on it. So here goes. You know you are a lid if: You must call three of your HAM friends to solder-on a PL-259. You dont own a soldering iron and dont know what a PL-259 is. You dont have three HAM friends to call. You have a power amplifier but dont know how to tune it. And, no one will show you. The local HAMS and your neighbors have cut your antennas (more than once) into small pieces. You know for a fact that the Tennessee Valley Indians operate their own casino. You worked Slim, 3B28 from the Isle of Corona Discharge and dont know why its taking so long to get your QSL card. When on CW (using your code-reader of course) stations are sending UP3 and you always respond by QRZing the UP3 on frequency. You are constantly seeing AH displayed on your code-reader. Humm. You dont know what CW is. You feel W2NQ/7, Romeo, and Richard Burton are guys to emulate. You are not aware that there was a famous actor named Richard Burton, and that Romeo was a character in a Shakespeare play. The FCC has sent you a notice of violation; you now have a 2-drawer file of them. Its your personal policy NEVER to answer any correspondence from the FCC. Instead of applying for a Vanity Call, like everyone else, you just made one up. You like the weirdos on the free thinkers net cause there ur kinda folks. 40 meter phone during the daytime is where its at for you. You just purchased a new HI-FI microphone and are planning on using it to make disgusting toilet noises and animal sounds on net frequencies. Your dog smells better that you. You dont understand this since you always bathe regularly: winter, spring, summer, and fall. You always get drunk before you get on the air, it helps you to relax and fit in with your peer group. The local DX Clubs have started a collection to contract a hit on you: your wife was the biggest contributor. You would never attend a ham club meeting or any HAM conventions as it might result in serious injury or death. Like you being burned at the stake, maybe? Enough for now, CU all at the meeting Saturday the 24th. de Rick W6SR THE SECRETARY/TREASURERS REPORT El Presidente Ron St. Jean called the meeting to order at 12:23 PM. All officers were present. Minutes (such as they were) were approved, as was the Treasurers report. It showed MLDX/CC had a balance of $294.02 after paying the insurance premium of $337.87. Introductions & Announcements: Proud grand-pa, Ray, ND6S introduced his grandson, Brandon. They had participated in Kids Day earlier. Rick, W6SR introduced prospective member, Mike Gould, W6FI. Mike was then voted in as latest member. Welcome aboard, Mike!! Old business: The joint meeting with Northern California Contest Club was discussed. Ken & Kay emailed Gary with some reminders. They will pick up tri-tips & turkey. Gary will notify & follow up. Rick, Ray & Ron will co-ordinate on drinks. Jim will have projector & has arranged for program. Jim flashed certificate showing the multi-single operation in the 2003 WPX CW under his call, WX6V from W6SR won top in class from the sixth call area. Congrats, Jim!! Gary reported on Logbook of the World. Richard, NU6T operated with K6EU as rover station in ARRL VHF contest. Ray put in a plug for eQSL. Norm reported on 10 ghz stability issues. Ron worked 3W and HS0 in recent WPX CW contest. Rick reported that he & K6LRN operating K6KMs station finished in Top Ten in ARRL 10 meter contest in the m/s class. Bill & Ginny gave a report with slides about their recent trip to Japan. Thanks!! Jim led a discussion about Field Day logistics and who was going to bring what, etc. Meeting was adjourned at 1:46 PM. El Presidente Ron St. Jean called the meeting to order at 12:23 PM. All officers were present. Minutes (such as they were) were approved, as was the Treasurers report. It showed MLDX/CC had a balance of $294.02 after paying the insurance premium of $337.87. Introductions & Announcements: Proud grand-pa, Ray, ND6S introduced his grandson, Brandon. They had participated in Kids Day earlier. Rick, W6SR introduced prospective member, Mike Gould, W6FI. Mike was then voted in as latest member. Welcome aboard, Mike!! Old business: The joint meeting with Northern California Contest Club was discussed. Ken & Kay emailed Gary with some reminders. They will pick up tri-tips & turkey. Gary will notify & follow up. Rick, Ray & Ron will co-ordinate on drinks. Jim will have projector & has arranged for program. Jim flashed certificate showing the multi-single operation in the 2003 WPX CW under his call, WX6V from W6SR won top in class from the sixth call area. Congrats, Jim!! Gary reported on Logbook of the World. Richard, NU6T operated with K6EU as rover station in ARRL VHF contest. Ray put in a plug for eQSL. Norm reported on 10 Ghz stability issues. Ron worked 3W and HS0 in recent WPX CW contest. Rick reported that he & K6LRN operating K6KMs station finished in the Top Ten in ARRL 10 meter contest in the m/s class. Bill & Ginny gave a report with slides about their recent trip to Japan. Thanks!! Jim led a discussion about Field Day logistics and who was going to bring what, etc. Meeting was adjourned at 1:46 PM. Dick Wilson K6LRN (pretend Secretary) MLDXCC TREASURERS REPORT Balance June 1, 2004: $294.02 Income: Dues 2004 45.00 Dues 2005 15.00 Newsletter 10.00 $70.00 Expenses: None Balance June 30, 2004: Checking: $205.66 Cash: 158.36 $364.02 de Carolyn Wilson, K6TKD, Treasurer WHY ARE KP1 AND KP5 NOT ON THE AIR? DXer Carl Henson, WB4ZNH, provides the following information to help get KP1/KP5 back on the air: "Many DX groups in the USA have been trying unsuccessfully for about 12 years to receive permission to activate KP1, Desecheo Island and KP5, Navassa Island. My group has been working hard on this problem for several years now. We keep reaching a dead end. It has now become more important that someone go, regardless of who. Please non-USA Hams write to: The President, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500. HYPERLINK "mailto:president@whitehouse.gov"president@whitehouse.gov HYPERLINK "mailto:vice.president@whitehouse.gov"vice.president@whitehouse.gov and US Hams please write, E-mail, and phone your Congressman and Senator and urge them to bring pressure to bear on the Department of Interior to allow an operation from both of these DX locations. One third of the US Senators and all of the US Representatives are up for reelection this year, not to mention the President and Vice President. If you would like to go to one of these islands, E-mail me and I will give you the information for application and how to cause the most work for the Department of the Interior...... 73, Carl P.S. Oh, I forgot, Fish and Wildlife has to comply with 50cfr2545, so please include the following download information." http://members.megapipe.net/wb4znh/50cfr2545.doc (This is a Word document.) Courtesy of Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin A Tip From Ray Parker Problems with Icoms, USB and Writelog? Here's the solution received from HYPERLINK "mailto:microham@microham.com"microham@microham.com. Jozef has been very prompt with tech help. I haven't tried this solution with Writelog, but I'm sure there are others who may be interested in the Nugget? Hello Ray I'm not very familiar with WinEQF I will test it in Monday, but Writelog works fine. I don't know if some loggers have native support for USB, but I don't think so. There is no reason to support USB, because all USB -> COM port adapters install virtual COM port from their driver. Please follow instructions and Writelog will work for you: 1. Look at the Control Panel/Ports for installed "USB <-> CI-V COM (xx) number. Remember this COM port number ! 2. Run Writelog and under Setup/Ports choose radio for remembered USB COM port number from control panel. 3. Check also CW button for same port. 4. Check "All mode RTS ...." checkbox under Radios settings. 5. CW keyer select "PC generates" 6. Click "CW PTT..."button and click "On LPT pin ...COMM RTS" 7. OK next OK. 8. Choose some CW contest and switch to CW mode on your radio. 9. Now Radio frequency and mode should appear at button beside entry window and CW messages must play. Please let me know if it helps. 73 Jozef UPCOMING EVENTS Foothill Flea Market 2nd Saturday of each month from March through October at Lockheed, Sunnyvale. Livermore Swap Meet 1st Sunday of each month at Las Positas College in Livermore, 7:00 AM to noon, all year. Talk in 147.045 from the west 145.35 from the east. Contact Cliff Chiba, KF6EII, (209) 835-6715, email  HYPERLINK mailto:larkswap@usa.com larkswap@usa.com. Placerville Swap Meet Every third Sunday, 3970 B Missouri Flat Rd #3, Placerville. 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Talk-in on 146.865 PL 142.2, 440.700 + PL 88.5. No fee, free parking. Hwy. 50 East, take Missouri Flat off-ramp. Go over Hwy. to 2nd light, into shopping center in front of Radio Shack. CONTEST FEEDBACK/UP-COMING CONTESTS Looks like the Redwood Empire DX Association wants to challenge the Mother Lode DX/Contest Club. From the July Sunspots-President Fred Leoni's comments, " Don't forget that the club (REDXA) is really going to emphasize the California QSO Party this year due to missing Field Day. We have been second place for the last couple of years and if we all participated even minimally we could show the Mother Lode Club who's boss." Sounds like a challenge to me... Let's get all our stations on. If one cannot operate or doesn't want to, consider letting another member operate your station. Can't do the full contest, bring in a helper and do a multi-op. Need help w/antenna work, station fixes?? Let's see what we can do to help. de Dick K6LRN Mid-Summer Six Club Contest 2300Z, Jul 16 to 0300Z, Jul 18 VK/Trans-Tasman 160m Contest 0800Z-1400Z, Jul 17 North American QSO Party, RTTY 1800Z, Jul 17 to 0600Z, Jul 18 CQ Worldwide VHF Contest 1800Z, Jul 17 to 2100Z, Jul 18 RSGB Low Power Field Day 0900Z-1600Z, Jul 18 RSGB 80m Club Championship, Data 2000Z-2130Z, Jul 22 Russian RTTY WW Contest 0000Z, Jul 24 to 2400Z, Jul 25 RSGB IOTA Contest 1200Z, Jul 24 to 1200Z, Jul 25 RSGB RoPoCo 2 0700Z-0900Z, Aug 1 SARL HF Phone Contest 1230Z-1630Z, Aug 1 ARS Spartan Sprint 0100Z-0300Z, Aug 3 TARA Grid Dip Contest 0000Z-2400Z, Aug 7 10-10 Int. Summer Contest, SSB 0001Z, Aug 7 to 2359Z, Aug 8 National Lighthouse Weekend QSO Contest 0001Z, Aug 7 to 2359Z, Aug 8 European HF Championship 1200Z-2359Z, Aug 7 North American QSO Party, CW 1800Z, Aug 7 to 0600Z, Aug 8 ARRL UHF Contest 1800Z, Aug 7 to 1800Z, Aug 8 WAE DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Aug 14 to 2359Z, Aug 15 Maryland-DC QSO Party 1600Z, Aug 14 to 0400Z, Aug 15 and 1600Z-2359Z, Aug 15 SARTG WW RTTY Contest 0000Z-0800Z, Aug 21 and 1600Z-2400Z, Aug 21 and 0800Z-1600Z, Aug 22 ARRL 10 GHZ and Up Contest 0600 local -2400 local , Aug 21 and 0600 local -2400 local , Aug 22 Keyman's Club of Japan Contest 1200Z, Aug 21 to 1200Z, Aug 22 SEANET Contest 1200Z, Aug 21 to 1200Z, Aug 22 North American QSO Party, SSB 1800Z, Aug 21 to 0600Z, Aug 22 Check the NCJ, CQ, and QST/ARRL for full rules and other details. Send me your scores; at  HYPERLINK "mailto:k6lrn@arrl.net" k6lrn@arrl.net CU.73, Dick, K6LRN 17 July 2004 No 689 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA >>> PETER I 2005 <<< Postponed last year due to unforeseen transportation difficulties, the third ever DXpedition to Peter I Island is a go for late January 2005. A multi national team of twenty operators will be active (with 4-6 high power stations operating around the clock on 160-6 metres SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK 31) as 3Y0X from 21 January to 4 February. The current list of operators includes K0IR, K3NA, K4SV, K4UEE, F2JD, HB9AHL, HB9BHW, LA6VM, NP4IW/6, N2WB, N4GRN, N6OX, UA3AB and W0RUN. Several invitations are pending that will complete the team. A backup list is also in place and potential team members who might want to go, in the event of a cancellation, are invited to contact K4UEE(HYPERLINK "mailto:mallphin@aol.com"mallphin@aol.com). This very expensive undertaking will be 70% funded by the team members, and additional financial sponsors are being sought. Fundraising is continuing with the addition of several area fundraisers: W3WL (North and South America), JA1ELY (Asia), F2JD (Europe and Africa) and ZL2AL (Pacific). More details can be found on the DXpedition website (HYPERLINK "http://www.peterone.com"http://www.peterone.com) as to team members, sponsorship and other information. 3D2_rot - Christian, 3D2EA expects to operate as 3D2EA/R from Rotuma (OC-060) for one or two weeks starting around 26-27 July. QSL via EB2AYV. [TNX 3D2EA] 9A - Aniko/HA5TAA and Feri/HA5AAZ will operate as 9A/homecalls from a few Croatian islands in the Dalmatia South group (EU-016) between 19 July and 1 August. They plan to be active from Grbavac (IOCA CI-171), Lukovnjak (IOCA CI-187) and Maslinovik (IOCA CI-193). QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW] 9A - Feco, HA8KW will operate as 9A/HA8KW from Rab Island (EU-136, IOCA CI-096) on 19-26 July, including a 12-hour entry in the IOTA Contest. Then he will go and operate from the islands of Brac (EU-016, IOCA CI-010, until 2 August) and Pag (EU-170, IOCA-082). QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW] 9A - Laci/HA6NL (9A6NL), Zsolt/HA6PS, Tibor/HA6ZV and Al/HA7JJS will be active as 9A/homecall from the QTH of Branko/9A2ZD at Maly Pasman,Pasman Island (EU-170, IOCA CI-085) on 20-30 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW] 9A - Emir/9A6AA, Zoli/HA1AG, Peti/HA1TNX, Lacy/HA3NU Anti/HA3OV and Zoli/HA6OI will participate in the IOTA Contest as 9A0CI from Sveti Nikola Island (EU-110, IOCA CI-118). QSL via HA3KNA (for this operation only). Before the contest they will operate as 9A/homecall (QSL via home calls, direct or bureau). [TNX HA0HW] 9A - Look for 9A/Z32FD to operate from Pag Island (EU-170) starting on 1 August. QSL via DJ0LZ (Ace Jevremov, P.O. Box 14, D82378 Peissenberg, Germany). [TNX DJ0LZ] 9A - Laci/HA0HW and Tomi/HA4DX will operate as 9A/HA0HW and 9A/HA4DX from Krk Island (EU-136, IOCA CI-046) on 2-12 August. Expect activity in their early morning and late evening hours on various HF bands mainly CW, with some PSK31, RTTY and SSB. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW] 9H - Max, OE5CMN will operate CW and SSB as 9H3OE from Malta (EU-023) on 21-28 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via home call. [TNX OE5OHO] C5 - Josep, EA3BT and Nuria, EA3WL will be active from The Gambia between 29 July and 4 August. They will operate as C56BT and C56WL(requested calls) in their spare time, on 40-6 metres SSB. QSLs via EA3BT. [TNX EA3BT] CT3 - EA2RU, EA2BXV and EA2RY will be active as CT9R from Madeira (AF-014) on 20-30 September. They will operate on 10-80 metres mainly on digital modes with some SSB, and will participate in the CQ/RJ DX RTTY Contest. QSL via EA2RY, direct or bureau. The web page for the operation is at HYPERLINK "http://www.rtty.org/madeira2004"http://www.rtty.org/madeira2004 [TNX EA2RY] DL - Sven, DD6VSF will operate on 40, 20 and 17 metres SSB and PSK31 from several islands as follows: 23-25 July Wangerooge EU-047 30 July- 1 August Fehmarn EU-128 6-8 August Scharhoern EU-127 13-15 August Usedom EU-129 20-22 August Ruegen EU-057 Up-to-date information can be found at HYPERLINK "http://iota.uni-humbug.de/"http://iota.uni-humbug.de/ [TNX DD6VSF] DL - DJ7YT, DJ7ZL and DL8LAS will participate in the IOTA Contest as DJ7YT/P from Fehmarn Island (EU-128). QSL via DJ7YT, direct or bureau. [TNX DL8LAS] DL - Heinz, DL4AO reports he will operate (mostly CW on 40, 30, 20 and 17 metres, with some SSB and RTTY) as DL4AO/P from Usedom Island (EU-129) from 27 July to 6 August. QSL via bureau to DL4AO EA8 - Manolo, EA8AJW will operate as EA8AJW/p from El Hierro (AF-004, DIE S-015) on 17-18 July. He plans to concentrate on 20 metres CW and 40 metres SSB, and to activate Orchilla Lighthouse (FEA D-2839; ARLHS CAI-066) as well. [TNX EA8AKN] EI - The EJ2MT operation from Bere Island (EU-121) [425DXN 682] will run 21 July to the 27th, IOTA Contest included. QSL via EI6HB. [TNX K1XN] ES - Oleg, ES1RA reports he will operate as ES1RA/0 from Saaremaa Island (EU-034) on 16-26 July. QSL via home call. F - Jerome, F5ASD will be active from Noirmoutier Island (EU 064, DIFM AT-020) on 2-15 August. He plans to operate mostly SSB on 80-2 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX F5NQL] F - Special stations TM3ID (QSL via F4TXE) and TM6ANV (QSL via F5MNW)will be activated on 7-21 August from several locations associated with World War II landings in Provence, southern France. [TNX F5NQL] GM - GM2Z will operate CW only from the Isle of Bute (EU-123) during the IOTA Contest. QSL via the RSGB bureau or direct to MM0DFV (Jurij Phunkner, P.O. Box 7469, Glasgow, G42 OYD, Scotland, UK). [TNX MM0DFV] HL - HL1OYF/4 , DS1KOQ/4, DS1NMA/4, DS1OFE/4, DS4NYE/P and DS4NMJ/P will operate SB and CW from Soak Island (AS-060) on 16-18 July. QSL to HL1OYF, direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] HL - Look for D90HC/2 to be active on SSB and CW from Yongyu Island (AS-105) on 16-18 July. QSL via bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] HL - Han, DS2GOO will be active (on 10-40 metres with 100 watts, verticals and wire antennas) as DS2GOO/2 from Tokchok Island (AS-090) on 23-25 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via home call.[TNX DS2GOO] I - Francesco/IZ7AUH, Gianni/IZ7FLP, Marcello/IK8DNJ, Giovanni/IK8MRA, Enzo/IK8YTG, Oreste/IZ8EDJ and Luigi/IW8EQS will participate in the IOTA Contest as IC8M from Licosa Island (EU-031, IIA SA-001, ARLHS ITA-89). QSL via IZ8EDJ, direct or bureau. I - Gianni/IZ7FLP and Massimo/IZ7FMQ will be active (on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres SSB) as homecalls/p from Scogli Due Sorelle (not IOTA,IIA LE-008) on 17 July. [TNX IZ7AUH] I - IZ8CCW, IZ8FWN, IZ8EPX, IZ8BGY and possibly other Mediterraneo DX Club members plan to operate as IR8M/p from a few Calabria region islands between 14 July and 23 August. QSL via IZ8FWN. Details will be available at HYPERLINK "http://www.mdxc.org"http://www.mdxc.org [TNX IZ8CCW] I - Marco, IZ2DVI will operate (on 10-40 metres SSB, possibily also on 6 metres) in his spare time as IA5/IZ2DVI/p from the island of Montecristo (EU-028, IIA LI-015) until 21 July. QSL via bureau. [TNX IZ2DVI] I - ARI club station IQ8SO will be activated on 22-25 July for the Sea Festival 2004 at Sant'Agnello (Sorrento). On 24 and 25 will be activated a special event station, II8PC (QSL via IZ8DPO), for the concurrent "Rap Camp" organized by the Italian Army. [TNX IZ8DPO] I - IK7QMJ/7 will be the call used by the Salento DX Team during their IOTA Contest operation from Isola Grande (EU-091, IIA LE-002). QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX IK7JWX] I - Stefano, IK5XCT will operate mainly CW as I8/IK5XCT from the lighthouse at Capo Vaticano (WAIL CL-005, ARLHS ITA-047) between 25 July and 7 August. QSL via IK5XCT, direct or bureau (e-mail requests for bureau cards can be sent to HYPERLINK "mailto:ik5xct@amsat.org"ik5xct@amsat.org) Logs will be available at HYPERLINK "http://www.qsl.net/ik5xct"http://www.qsl.net/ik5xct [TNX IK5XCT] IS0 - Nicola, IZ3EBA will operate from La Maddalena (IM0, EU-041, IIA SS-001) on 24-31 July. Expect activity on 20 and 40 metres in his late afternoon. QSL via bureau. [TNX IZ3EBA] JA - Look for Seiji, JH6RTO to operate (on 40-6 metres CW and SSB) as JH6RTO/6 from Miyako Island (AS-079) on 16-20 July. QSL via bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] JA - Look for JH1MUK/6 to be active from the Okinawa Islands (AS-017) on 22-24 July. He will first operate from Ie Island (JIIA-017-011) on the 22nd, and then from Iheya Island (JIIA-017-012) on the 23-24th. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] KH2 - Tack, JE1RXJ will be active (on 160-6 metres SSB, CW and RTTY, with an emphasis on 6 and 160m and the WARC bands) as NB6A/KH2 from Guam (OC-026) on 6-8 August. QSL via home call, direct (Takeshi Goto, 15-11 Saiwai, Hiratsuka-City, 254-0804 Japan) or through the JARL bureau. [TNX JE1RXJ] LX - Look for Alan, LX/F5LMJ/P to operate (on 10-40 metres CW and digital modes) from Luxembourg on 17-31 July. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau. [TNX F5LMJ] LX - DL4KBS, LX1JU, LX1MG, LX1KQ, LX2AJ, LX3DL and LX3GR will operate on all bands and modes as LX8LGS (Luxembourg Guides and Scouts) from an international Scout Camp at Lasauvage (HYPERLINK "http://4u.lgs.lu"http://4u.lgs.lu) from 22 July to 1 August. QSL via LX2AJ, direct or bureau. [TNX LX2AJ and LX1KQ] LZ - Boyan/LZ1BJ and Ely/LZ1JB will be active as homecall/1 from Sveta Anastasiya Island (EU-181) on 23-31 July. They plan to operate on 80-10 metres SSB and CW using 1 kW, a 10-element log periodic and vertical antennas. QSL via home calls, preferably through the bureau. [TNX LZ1BJ] OZ - Jakob, OZ7AEI plans to operate as OZ7AEI/p from four lighthouses (namely Nordborg/DEN-029, Traner Odde/DEN-106, Taksensand/DEN-107 and Fynshav/DEN-111) on Als Island (not IOTA, JY-001 for the Danish Island Award) on 19-20 July. More information on Jakob's activities can be found at HYPERLINK "http://oz7aei.qrz.dk"http://oz7aei.qrz.dk [TNX OZ7AEI] S7 - Igor, RN3OA, will be active on 10-40 metres as S79OA from Mahe Island (AF-024) on 16-31 August. A side trip (1-2 days) to Alphonse Island (AF-033) is his plans. QSL via RN3OA, direct or bureau. [TNX RN3OA] SM - SG1RK is a special event call issued to the Gotlands Radioamatoerklubb (HYPERLINK "http://www.grk.se"http://www.grk.se) on Gotland Island (EU-020) for use throughout the year 2004. QSL via SK1BL (Gotlands Radioamatoerklubb, Gyle Ala, SE-62023 Romakloster, Sweden). [TNX SM1TDE] SM - Hans, SM0BYD and other members of Radio Club SK0QO will operate CW and SSB as 8S0HRA from the "Sankt Erik" (the first Swedish icebreaker, launched in 1915) on 17-18 July during the Museum Ships Weekend [425DXN 687]. QSL via bureau. [TNX SM0BYD] SM - SI9AM (HYPERLINK "http://www.qsl.net/si9am"http://www.qsl.net/si9am) will be active (on the HF bands CW and SSB) from Utanede, Sweden on 17-19 July. The station is located close to the King Chulalongkorn Memorial, the largest Thai Pavilion in the world outside Thailand. QSL via SM3CVM either direct or through the bureau. [TNX SM3CVM] SM - SM3CXS, SM3EVR, SM3GSK, SM3JGG and SM3XGV will participate in the IOTA Contest as SM3S from Grimskar Island (EU-176). QSL via SM3GSK, direct or bureau. Cards for activity outside the contest should be routed via home calls. [TNX SM3CXS] SV - Andreas, SV1BKN will operate (on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6 metres) as SX8J from Aigina Island (EU-075) on 24-25 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX SV1BKN] SV5 - Anton, PA7DX reports he will participate in the IOTA Contest as J45C from the island of Kos (EU-001). UA - The expedition to the Malminskiye Islands (Sea of Okhotsk Coast North group, AS-???), originally scheduled to start on 15 July [425DXN 688], has been delayed because of transportation problems. Hopefully RI0CM should become QRV during the weekend. QSL via RZ3EC (Russian stations only) and IZ8CCW (rest of the world). [TNX IZ8CCW] UA3DX/0 & RW3DTB/0 The IOTA Manager reports that, contrary to erroneous spots on the Cluster, the provisional number AS-171 was not issued following the activity by UA3DX/0 and RW3DTB/0 on 3 July from Novaya Inya. There remains much doubt that this island will qualify for IOTA. [TNX G3KMA UA - Members of Radio Club RZ3DYG will be active as UE3FWM/1 from Moshchnyy Island (EU-133) on 19-28 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX] UR - UR3PA, UR5PG, UT1PF, UT1PO, UT4PZ, UT5PW and UT5PY will operate as UR4PWC/p and UZ1P/p from Swityaz Island (UIA SVL-01) on 18-25 July. QSL via UT5PW, direct (Svyatoslav J. Gunko, P.O. Box 6, Novovolynsk-5, 45405, Ukraine) or bureau. [TNX UR3PA] UR - A large group of operators from Ukraine and Moldovia (namely UR0GK, UR5GHK, UR6GWJ, US0ZZ, UT4ZG, UT5ZC, UW2ZM, ER1OO, ER3DW, ER3DX, ER3OO and ER3ZZ) will operate on 80-6 metres as homecall/p and UT/homecall/p from the Kalanchakskiye Islands (EU-179) on 22-26 July. QSL via home calls. They will participate in the IOTA Contest as UW0G (QSL via US0ZZ). [TNX ER3DX] W - Jon, WB8YJF will be active (on 10-80 metres CW, RTTY and SSB, plus 6 metres) as WB8YJF/4 from Ocracoke Island (NA-067) on 18-25 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] W - Andrei/NC2N, Sergiy/W2WB and Dmytro/AK2P will operate from Long Beach Island (NA-111) on 23-25 July. Look for W2WB and NC2N to participate in the IOTA Contest from two different stations. QSL via home calls. [TNX NC2N] W - Look for Thomas, WA6WPG to operate as WA6WPG/P from Santa Rosa Island (NA-144) on 23-26 July. He will have two batteries and solar panels; he expects to be able to run 100 watts on 80-10 metres most of the four days on the Island. Before and after the IOTA Contest he will be on the WARC bands. [TNX WA6WPG] W - Ed, W4YO reports he will participate in the IOTA Contest from his home QTH on Harbor Island (NA-110). W - Steve, W3HF will be active as W3HF/4 from Bogue Banks (NA-112, USI NC-010S) on 9-15 August. Operation will be QRP on 40 through 15 metres, Primary mode will be PSK, with some SSB (those who want to schedule an SSB contact can e-mail Steve before the trip at HYPERLINK "mailto:w3hf@arrl.net"w3hf@arrl.net). QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX VA3RJ] YJ - Franz, DK1II (ZL2III) will be active from Port Vila (OC-035), Vanuatu on 6-15 August. He plans to operate mostly CW on 40-10 metres. Requested call is YJ0II; QSL via DK1II. [TNX DK1II] SCANDINAVIA TOUR ---> Maurice, ON4BAM will be visiting Sweden, Finland and Norway starting on 17 July and will operate SSB and possibly PSK as SM/ON4BAM, OH/ON4BAM and LA/ON4BAM. He also plans to be active from a few IOTA groups (EU-044, EU-046, EU-033, EU-076 and EU-062). From 28 July to 1 August he will be at Longyearbyen (EU-026),Svalbard and will be active as JW/ON4BAM. QSL via home call. [TNX ON4BAM] PROPAGATION FORECAST From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA July 15, 2004. We're putting out this bulletin a day early this week. K7RA will be out of town, and Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, who often writes the bulletin in K7RA's absence, is giving a talk on 160-Meter propagation over the weekend at the Pacific Northwest DX Convention, near Seattle. See HYPERLINK "http://www.wwdxc.org"http://www.wwdxc.org and specifically HYPERLINK "http://www.wwdxc.org/convention/2004conv.htm"http://www.wwdxc.org/convention/2004conv.htm for information. Carl wrote a great piece for the propagation section of the ARRL Technical Information Service site, which is reached via the URL at the end of this bulletin. Titled "Propagation Planning for DXpeditions," it is good reading for anyone interested in the practical applications of HF propagation. The direct link to his article is, HYPERLINK "http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/propplan.pdf"http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/propplan.pdf. You will need Adobe Reader to view the article. Sunspot numbers and solar flux rose this week. Average daily sunspot numbers were up 54 points above last week's average. Sunspot 649, a big one, came around the sun's eastern limb this week. Helioseismic holography shows more sunspots on the far side of the sun, so the short-term trend for solar activity is up. Big news is a huge X-class solar flare that was detected at 0140z on July 15. If a coronal mass ejection is heading toward earth, it could mean big geomagnetic storms. Currently the prediction made before the flare was for planetary A index of 12, 20, 12 and 10 for Thursday through Sunday, July 15-18. Predicted solar flux for the same period is 140, 140, 135 and 135. Several readers sent in articles this week about solar storms last October and how the effects are still being felt at the edge of our solar system. The Washington Post ran an article about it last week, which you can read on the web at, HYPERLINK "http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37614-2004Jul8?language=printe"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37614-2004Jul8?language=printer. For more information concerning propagation and an explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin see the ARRL Technical Information Service propagation page at, HYPERLINK "http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html"http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. Sunspot numbers for July 8 through 14 were 17, 32, 58, 98, 118, 129 and 149 with a mean of 85.9. 10.7 cm flux was 81.8, 86.7, 93.3,104.4, 125, 149.5 and 138.1, with a mean of 111.3. Estimated planetary A indices were 5, 5, 8, 14, 13, 16 and 9, with a mean of 10. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 1, 4, 5, 13, 12, 11 and 6, with a mean of 7.4. MLDXCC 2004 Meeting Schedule July 24th(joint meeting with NCCC) August 28th September 18th October 9th November 13th December 18 Thanks to Ken, K6TA and Kay, K6TO for arranging for our meeting room with RT pizza. Membership Criteria Membership criteria may be obtained by writing the Secretary/Treasurer at: MLDXCC PO Box 1073 Pine Grove, CA 95665-1073 The club website is: mldxcc.com The MLDXCC NEWSLETTER Information may be reproduced provided credit is given MLDXCC. 2004 Officers of the MLDXCC Prez: Ron St.Jean, KG6CMS kg6cms@arrl.net Vice Prez: Jim Vennenman, WX6V wx6v@msn.com Treasurer: Carolyn Wilson, K6TKD k6tkd@arrl.net Contest Chairman: Dick Wilson, K6LRN, HYPERLINK "mailto:k6lrn@arrl.net"k6lrn@arrl.net Director: Ray Parker, ND6S Nd6sarrl@sbcglobal.net Director: Gary Stilwell, KI6T E-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:ki6t@arrl.net"ki6t@arrl.net Secretary: Ron St.Jean, KG6CMS kg6cms@arrl.net Nugget Editor Rick Samoian,W6SR samoian@directcon.net QSL Manager: Norm Regan, WA6SJQ Publicity Chairperson Brandt Woodard, K6BEW ARRL Awards Checkers DXCC, Gary Stillwell, KI6T & Ken Anderson, K6TA WAS & others Dennis King, N6KD ARRL Sixth District QSL Bureau PO Box 530, Weed, CA 96094-0530. 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