Ten X DX News
September 7, 1999
A New 10-10 Country has turned up in the data that Russ N5EJS keeps for
the country awards. Iget to visit Russ about once a year and while visiting
him yesterday I found out that HS0ZBI (op was K3WUW #38922 now W3PP) was
worked by Tony VK6PP #38922. Russ gave credit for Thailand to Tony during
the last six months. More research with Russ found that Dale Dennis is
HS0ZBJ #63233 issued in 1997 that was overlooked in my DX records.
Dale has a stateside call sign of K8IXP so I doubt that he is still active
from Thailand. Also a new member has surfaced with the call HS1NGR Chartchai
#70579 which was assigned by Gerry WA6POZ the stateside manager in February.
Since Carol K8DHK did not assign the number, this DX member was overlooked.
Last weekend I had a talk with Nellie XE1CI #45888 at the New Orleans DX
Convention about her November 1998 trip to BV9P Pratas Island off the coast
of China. I was told that Nellie and Steve KU9C #31988 both gave out a few
10-10 numbers from this rare island! They talked mostly with Asian stations
but no stateside on ten meters. This will create a new 10-10 country when
someone submits a QSL. Will Eritrea or Pratas Island be country No. 292!
The Summer QSO Party was great fun for our DX members. Skip into South
America was plentiful but stateside contacts were usually backscatter with a
few openings that would last for ten to thirty minutes, sometimes longer. DX
skip was open for many hours into Argentina where Carlos AY0N #25994 (home
call is LU2NI) and Dani LT3C #68907 (home call LU3CT) both had over one
thousand contacts. I managed to work a few new prefixes and counties but
after 150 contacts, I found no new countries in my log.
The highest solar flux in August was on the 28th at 248 and the low for
the month was 127 on the 10th. Many continue to made a fuss about the poor
condition of Cycle 23 and the low flux numbers after 21 months. The best DX
months for the USA are coming up this winter. I expect by October 1st we
will be hearing more from Europe!
9Q Congo. Pat F6BLQ/9Q #66013 (ex.TU5DX), is Congo's ARAC Committee
Advisor. There has been no packet radio spots for Pat so I would appreciate
any reports for the very rare country. Thanks!
The 10-10 DX Net on 28.555 will begin Sunday, November 7 at 1400Z. Net
Control will be N5MT in Houston, Texas and there is a need for an East Coast
station to help out with check-ins from Europe or others that can not copy
Texas. Please send me an Email if you are interested. Last season on the
net, we worked new countries from Iceland, Lithuania and Libya. The only
10-10 member in Greenland was invited to the net but he had a broken radio
and was waiting on parts last year. He will be invited back.
JY Jordan: Pete JY9NE #52799 had this to say. "Let me put a new twist on
the band opening prediction since Bob, KB7ZGP and Dave, K7PRZ were talking
about openings across the US. I'll predict that strong cross-Atlantic 10
meter openings will begin on 25 September. Ten meters in Jordan this summer
has really been dead. My last 10 meter contact was 24 July with a Russian
station during the IOTA contest, and my last 10-10 contact was 2 July with
Tom, RA6AR on 28.430 MHz. Yesterday, I heard some weak Australian stations
coming through in the morning, but I was not able to work anyone. I'm really
looking forward to propagation into Europe, which I expect to begin in early
September. In the meantime, I've kept busy upgrading my chapters and maybe
I'll even get organized enough to get my VP number!" 73 de Pete at:
peter@index.com.jo QSL to the callbook N3FNE.
OK lets start out with some information about what 10-10 DX was worked
this quarter. DX-IS.
New DX Members.
3V8BB Tunisia. In my last article, I gave the wrong 10-10 number for this
club station, it is #70613. I have no reports that the station trustee has
been updated about the 10-10 membership. Please be patient with any
operators on ten as they will not know that the station has a 10-10 number.
The station is located on the Mediterranean in Bir-el-Bey, about 20 miles
from Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
Upcoming DX & New 10-10 Activity:
OJ0 Market Reef & OH0 Market Reef: Dennis Motschenbacher K7BV #5414,
Editor for the National Contest Journal, will be returning to Aland Islands
OH0 and Market Reef OJ0 on Sept 14-20. Four non-members will also be on this
trip with operating on 80-160 meters each night and WARC bands . QSL K7BV
via KU9C Steve Wheatley, 12 Netherton Terrace, Morristown NJ 07960
9M East Malaysia, Spratly Islands and V8 Brunei: Bob Schenck, N2OO/9M6OO
#12732 and four other operators, will be active from 3 DXCC locations in
November. Schedule is as follows: Nov. 7-11th - 9M6AAC E. Malaysia; Nov.
12-18th - 9M6OO Spratly Islands; Nov. 21-25th - V8? Brunei; Nov. 25-29th -
9M6AAC E. Malaysia. The team expects to be an entry in the CQWW CW Contest.
QSL 9M6AAC & 9M6OO via N2OO, Bob Schenck, PO Box 345, Tuckerton, NJ
08087-0345, USA. V85 callsign TBA . Web site is at: http://www.qsl.net/n2oo
V26 Antigua: October 25th until November 4th. The 10-10 members of Team
Antigua are: V26A Dale N3BNA #32100; V26AK Tony N2TK #22425; V26DX Doug W3CF
#55779; Darrell AB2E #9753; V26O Bob N5NJ #8974; and V26U Bill W2UDT #12741.
Other non members will make up the team so please ask for one of the above
operators for 10-10..
Every year Hans DL1KBQ # 70303 and Heide DH3KAT # 70302 travel to EA6
Formentera (Balearic Island) from April to June and September to the
beginning of November. Send Email to Hans at dl1kbq@t-online.de . QSL to
home callsigns.
7Q7 Malawi. Ed ZS5BBO #69603 will be active from December 19-26th.
QSL to his home call.
FR5/G, Glorioso Island. Larry F5PYI #54226 and several others, will be
active in August 2000. Note: Glorioso will be a new 10-10 country!
IOTA: 8P Barbados. Dean, 8P6SH #45815, will be active as 8P2K for the all
major contests, until December 31, 2000. QSL via KU9C. GM Scotland. Isle of
Tiree EU-008, Ron GM0NTL #69952 in July. Canada: VE2/F5NZO and Eric
VE2/F5SSM #63420: NA-038 Madeleine Island from August 11-14. HK Columbia.
Oscar HK6DOS #39978 will be on Key Breton Island NA-201 on December 1-6.
5B Cyprus. Neil #50428 was 5B4/G0JHC back in July.
V7 Marshall Islands. Bruce AC4G #49089, is on the newer bands as V73CW
from Kwajalein. QSL direct to Bruce Smith, Box 1436, APO, AP 96555, USA.
Propagation: Solar flux will range from 135-255 during the last quarter
of 1999. On September 1st, the Solar flux was 163 the A index 21 and K
index 2, now that Cycle 23 is 21 months old, the flux continues to climb
upwards. The short term: the solar flux should reach 250 by Sept.24, then
drop to 125 around Sept. 8, and 130 around October 5. Sept. 19-22 could be
bad for HF due to geomagnetic disturbances caused by coronal hole effects.
Expect the best conditions on Sept. 24-27, Oct. 21-24, Nov. 17-20, and Dec.
14-16! There will be a 120 point swing in the flux numbers during the next
three months as the seasons change and the first phase of Cycle 23 will last
18 more months! For stations in the Eastern USA, expect a 80% chance of DX
to the East-West path into Europe or Africa. For stations in the Western
USA, expect 40% chance of DX into Europe and a 70% chance into Asia. All of
the USA will get a 60% chance into S.America in the mid afternoon. Long haul
F Layer skip continues to be the dominant mode of skip. Expect a 3% chance
of Long Path into Asia. The beacons (28.175-28.300) will tell you what is
open, especially 28.200.
New DX members this Spring: June: DJ3LA 70617, 8P6FI 70618, DL0ITU 70619,
YC9MKF 70620, DL8YX 70621, LX1NO 70622, LX2LX 70623, DL8DXL 70624, DL3DBY
70800, DL3DCY 70801, DL3FCG 70802. July: VE9BW 70803, VE2DYC 70804, VE7SSJ
70805, VK3LEE 70806, DK1EAW 70807. August: DH6EAL 70808, DJ8OT 70809, DL1SCO
70810, DL2FK 70811, DH5PK 70812, DL4ABR 70813, DL1DCY 70814, DL9SEP 70815,
DJ7SV 70816. DX members data is from Carol K8DHK #29588.
10-10 Countries Award: 120 Countries: Michael W3BSY #48096 Cert. #19 &
Russ N5EJS #01525 Cert. # 20.
10-10 Bar Awards: Tony VK6PP #38922 for bar 1400 #813; Gemi KH6F #37649
for bar 1000 #1457; Carl PY2DBU #8264 for bar 4500 #100; Neldo LU5HE #10334
for bar 5600 #62; Brian G4WEY #40270 for bar 1300 #924.
Congratulations: To David VK3EW #30287 on his recent achievement of
working North Korea to get his No.1 Honor Roll from the ARRL. See his
story at: http://www.qsl.net/vk3ew/p51bh.htm .
Thanks too: the on-line DX List, QRZ-DX, 425 DX News & Ohio/Penn DX
Bulletins. Send photos to Mike Davidson, 3518 Bellefontaine, Houston, TX
77025 USA Email: N5MT@aol.com DX IS! 73 Mike Davidson N5MT #24949
Copyright 1999 by N5MT ...-.-
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