What is geocoding ? Geocoding is the ability to assign coordinates (lat/long) to points on a map. How is this useful for DX’ers ?
Well now if you want to know the lat/long of a place, go dont have to fire up google earth, it can now be done in Google Maps. Just search for the address or place name and there is a marker there with the lat/long.
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/05/shout-it-from-rooftops.html#links
Paul
Check out this link to see how you can add a 4D view of the Ionosphere using Google Earth !
The following operations are approved for DXCC credit:
9UXEV – Burundi
2008 Operation
5X1NH – Uganda
2007 Operation
YK9G – Syria
2008 Operation
SØ5A – Western Sahara
2007 Operation
HZ1PS – Saudi Arabia
G4GIR/KH9 – Wake Island
2007 Operation
If you had this rejected in a prior application, please send a note to dxcc@arrl.org to be placed on the list for an update.
73 es DX!
from Bill Moore…
The following operations are approved for DXCC Credit:
TX5C – Clipperton Island
2008 Operation
VP6DX – Ducie Island
2008 Operation
73 es DX!
Due to consistently poor wx and rig problems from the wx it looks as if TX5C will QRT as early as Friday. They have been really beaten up by tropical storms and high temps.
W1GDQ
courtesy of Bernie at dailydx
FIRST FULL DAY OF OPERATION YIELDS 17,652 QSO’s. ONLINE LOG BEING READIED.
Courtesy
Pete’s Newsdesk
Jan HH4/K4QD and Don HH4/AF4Z will be at the Northwest Haiti Christian
Mission www.nwhcm.org from 24 March to 4 April. They will operate 80-10M on
CW, SSB and RTTY as time permits. The will also participate in the CQWW WPX
SSB contest. QSL to home calls (K4QD & AF4Z). Operators prefer direct or
LoTW, but BURO OK.
FR/G by French op’s
Early May for several weeks
tnx F5nql
It is now 3:18am EST and I am sitting in the airport in Ireland, in the next few hours I will be in Amsterdam and if all goes well I should be on the air late afternoon local time. I am toting a K1, so I will be QRP with about 4 watts on either 14.025 or 7.025mhz. I will be in the Netherlands for 3 days.
Cheers,
Paul
In Ireland on business and brought with me a K1, was on the band for a bit last evening and will be on this evening with 20/40 CW with 4 watts.
A group of members of the TDXS will be on the air, probably by tonight as 5J0E (San Andres Island - HK0). They will be on all the major bands before and after the contest, so please give them a call and work them in the contest.
They will make a extra effort on RTTY all bands and 160.
1753Z/27th
WE ARE OFFICIALLY OFF
News #22- 2008 Feb 26
Highlights:
… First LOTW credits for VP6DX contacts on ARRL server …
… Station and camp disassembly begins …
… One more record claimed …
Late yesterday, Feb 21, the Ducie Island expedition submitted over data for over seven thousand VP6DX contacts to the ARRL robot. These contacts were with over
900 stations whose owners made financial contributions of at least five US dollars to the expedition through Feb 24.
The submission has been accepted and processed by the robot, and these contacts are ready for matching by the donors.
Meanwhile, on Ducie Island, the operator team and crew of the Braveheart have begun the first phase of disassembly and off-loading. On today’s schedule to be
disassembled and removed from the island:
* All antennas for 20 through 6 meters at both east and west camps.
* The 30m antenna at the west camp, and the 40m 4-square at the east camp.
* Two operating positions and the shift supervisor workstation at the east camp.
* The technical workstation.
* A portion of the camp infrastructure for meals, cooking, washing, etc.
No on-air operating will occur during the daylight period today, as all hands are needed to complete the work of disassemble, packing, transfer to the ship,
and storage for the sea journey.
Tonight (beginning as early as Feb 27 Wednesday 0300z) a more limited on-air operation is possible, if the operators have time and energy remaining. Five
operating positions at two sites and transmit antennas for 160 through 30 meter bands will be available.
At Feb 27 Wednesday 1445z on-air operations will again shut down for a second day of deconstruction. At the end of Thursday local time the entire east camp
will have been removed from the island. The west camp, with single element verticals for 160, 80/30 and 40m, and possible one beverage (045) will remain,
along with three operating positions. This equipment will be staffed by a skeleton overnight crew, on-air from about Feb 28 Thursday 0330-1430z. Most
operators will sleep on the “Braveheart”, as there will be no camp facilities on the island.
Early Thursday morning (Ducie Island time), around 1400z, the ship’s crew and operators will return to the island to pack and remove all remaining antennas,
equipment, etc. The on-air phase of the Ducie Island expedition will end at that point.
This will be the last press release from Ducie Island. A log update was submitted to the website about one hour ago. A final log update, together with a
press release containing final statistics, will be transmitted from the Braveheart once we have departed.
WOW, hats off to Carsten and team, they are breaking records all over the place. Here is an excerpt from their latest bulletin…
As this message was transmitted by Iridium satellite from Ducie Island, the expedition contact total crossed 170,000 contacts… and continues to increase at about 415 contacts per hour. Most contacts now entering the logs are with European stations during their morning twilight period. In an hour or so the focus will shift to North and South America, east Asia and the Pacific, where it will remain until dawn at Ducie Island.
After 4-6 months from ZD9 Tom plans two weeks from each of the following: South Sandwich, South Orkneys and South Georgia
Looks like the team did the right thing and went QRT. Nothing heard since 0700Z/21st
w1gdq
I just noticed that on Feb 17th my QSOs were confirmed with N8S on LoTW…
According to the latest news reports coming out of the area, several riots are taking place , apparently they stormed the US Embassy and started 1 or more fires.
12 members of the Southeastern DX Club will be operating TI50DX (Tango India Five Zero Delta Xray) during the upcoming ARRL DX Phone contest..March 1,2. This activity is part of the celebration of the SEDXC’s 50th anniversary. QSL via N4NX. Look for the ops using their individual call signs prior to the contest.
3Y0E CARDS NOW BEING COUNTED FOR DXCC. IF YOUR CARD WAS DENIED CONTACT BILL MOORE
Basically, one of two things need to occur
1) Become a member of the United Nations
2) Receive a prefix bloc from the ITU
I don’t think it would be all that difficult to predict which of the two is most likely to happen.
read the full story here
News #18- 2008 Feb 19
Highlights:
… 160m contact made with opposite side of the planet …
… 104,900 contacts and climbing …
… QSO Statistics …
… 17m RTTY operations started …
… 30m RTTY frequency adjustment …
… 6m beacon now on the air …
… long path contacts made with Finland, European Russia on the 80m band…
… possibilities for 160m? …
… North American 160m schedule …
Read the rest of this entry »
News #18- 2008 Feb 19 05:00z
Special Request for Europe
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The propagation path between Ducie Island and UA1-3-4-6-9, UR, OH, SM and LA is very difficult… typically open for less than 1 hour each day.
On Feb 17 around our sunrise (Feb 17/1345-1445z) we successfully worked 80m CW and 75m SSB long path QSOs with OH and UA3/UA6. Signals peaked on the 195° beverage for most stations worked, with some stations equally strong on the 225° beverage. We hope to work more long path contacts with Scandinavia and western Russia during this time… and, with luck, perhaps a 160m long path QSO could occur. We will be listening!
Read the rest of this entry »
Kosova Press Release # 2 February 17, 2008
In addition to the individual multi-national Amateur Radio operators (G3TXF, N7NG, OH2BH, OH2PM, ON8NC and W3UR) currently in Kosova and operating with UNMIK licenses, the group will soon begin activity as YU8/OH2R. The team currently has two stations and will begin activity on 7 to 28 MHz on SSB and CW. For more details about the project please check the QRZ.COM listing for OH2R. QSL YU8/OH2R via OH2BN.
courtesy dailydx
Albanians flooded the Kosovocapital Pristina on Saturday, celebrating the territory’sindependence from Serbia a day ahead of schedule.
Cavalcades of cars circled with horns blaring as thousandspoured into the city waving the black and red Albanian flag.Fireworks lit up the night sky in a spontaneous celebrationless than 24 hours before the secession.
Kosovo’s parliament will declare independence on Sundayafternoon, almost nine years since NATO went to war to save theAlbanians from killings and ethnic cleansing by Serb forcestrying to crush a rebel insurgency.
It ends a long chapter in the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.
As I wrote in a previous segment, it has now been released…
Kosovo Press Release # 1 February 16, 2008
A multi-national group of Amateur Radio operators is now in Kosovo in an effort to support and help revitalize Amateur Radio locally. The initial team members will begin activity today. Activity will be on all bands on CW and SSB. Look for YU8/G3TXF, YU8/N7NG, YU8/OH2BH, YU8/OH2PM, YU8/ON8NC and YU8/W3UR. More details will be released when available. QSL via the operator’s home callsign.
courtesy: Daily DX
KOSOVO SLATED FOR INDEPENDENCE FEBRUARY 17th. HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHO SHOWS UP FROM THIS NEW ENTITY.
I HEARD THAT YU8 IS PRESENTLY THE PREFIX YOU WANT. YU8A WAS HEARD WORKING SEVERAL STATIONS ON THE 15th.
w1gdq
Directly from Ducie Island:
ARRL DX CW contest starts soon. VP6DX will participate in a limited fashion:
* On the CW contest bands 160, 80, 40, 20 15 and 10, we probably will not be at
the “normal” frequencies. Operators will pick a frequency based on band
conditions. Each operator will make his own decisions about split vs simplex
operation, depending on the situation at the time.
Read the rest of this entry »
Here are the first words from the island via Iridium:
Operations began Feb 11/0500z with a little “cooking session” to check out the
stations and available antennas. After several days of hard work, it was
relaxing to make some QSOs. With another big construction day ahead on Feb 12,
the cooking session ended at 11/0930z. The cooking session worked 1034 QSOs.
I was asked to help spread the word. We all love to gather DX News tidbits and some have very creative ways discerning the news.
People love gossiping; rising up excitement before things may happen. But such situations may lead to misunderstandings - and certainly - learning some wrong information. We just experienced another hoax that hits ZS8-preparations…
The team of 3Y0E has been alarmed today. Some unconfirmed news of unknown origin is hitting some dx bulletins with details of Petrus’ next activity from ZS8 - Marion Island.
Remembering recent problems caused by sharing unconfirmed news regarding 3Y0E activity, leading dx chasers to confusion, we would like to clarify that we cannot take any responsibility for any gossips and hoax news spreading across the world.
We suggest all dx news and bulletins publishers to verify any news regarding ongoing preparations and further arrangements of ZS8-activity received with us before publishing them to avoid sharing incorrect news again. Avoid hoaxes, please…
We would like to clarify that Petrus Kritzinger, ex 3Y0E, currently ZS6GCM/mm is set as team leader for a new scientific team going to Marion Island for 1 year.
The arrangements for his activity from ZS8 are in progress now. Currently we try to collect some equipment for Petrus to make his activity more complete, delivering another most wanted DXCC entity to you at high level.We would like to ask once more for being aware of publishing wrong news regarding this operation. A brand new, ZS8-dedicated site is under construction now. Its web address will be published soon and more news regarding any further activity of Petrus will be announced right there.
73
Rhynhardt Louw ZS6DXB
3Y0E Pilot station and Media Officer
News #14- 2008 Feb 13 2100z
From the webmaster…I just had a telephone call with Carsten (DL6LAU) on Ducie Island. The reason we did not get any update or online log from the island is that they had no time until now because of a big workload to setup the stations and antennas. They plan to go “online” in the next 6-12 hours so we expect the first online logs around noon on Thursday. Please be aware that the data connection via Iridium is very sensible so it can last a long time to upload the online logs.
For the last several days I have noticed that a fellow Daily DX editor has been mysteriously missing, I wonder if he is en route to activate an upcoming DXCC entity ?
With all the news about Kosovo seeking independence I came across this web site.Which displays the map below and many links to the countries that will recognize them as a new country. As of this report it is about 44 of the 192 members of the United Nations will recognize Kosovo.
VK9WWI – Willis Island - 2007 Operation
YI9PT – Iraq - Current Operation
Courtesy of NC1L
Last Friday we successfully arrived to Caleta Tortel after abt 450 km driving on gravel roads on very mountainous terrain. We boarded our boat Jorge Montt and left for Wager Island. Due to the bad weather conditions in the Messier Channel we had to stay overnight in a protected bay. We arrived to Wager Island on Saturday noon. We quickly set up the antennas at the tideline and the pileups started. At around 1800 the rain started too and was followed by gale force winds. The tents were deformed by the wind and even the ?all weather proof?tents could not resist the sheer pressure of water and soon we were all soaked. Food, clothes, everything. In the meantime our boat sought protection from the elements in a protected bay in Byron Island.
This is a rather interesting take on the correlation to the lack of sunspots and a global cooling. According to the article back in the 17th century there was a period where the 11 year sunspot cycle just vanished, or in other words the sun hibernated for an extended period of time.
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
here is the link to the rest of the article.
updated links below
Also read this Wikipedia article and Little Ice Age
LATE MARCH BY PETRUS 3Y0E
FIRST BATCH OF FJ/OH2AM CARDS RELEASED TODAY
Due to a printing error on the front of the full-color FJ/OH2AM card, the entire batch was rejected upon arrival of the coveted cards in
Finland.
Another batch of QSLs was printed and they arrived in Finland over this past weekend, February 10, and the first cards were already released
today. All direct requests should be out by March 15.
Sorry for any inconvenience. The ARRL will start processing St. Barthelemy cards on April 1, so we are still on top of the matter.
For more details on their operation, see www.kolumbus.fi/oh2bn/barts
source:va3rj
VP6DX IS QRV NOW. The team is looking to collect sound files (mp3’s).
Please send us sound files you recorded from VP6DX with following requirements:
* MP3
* Not more than 5Mb in one e-mail
* Please give us following information:
o Date
o Time in UTC
o Frequency
o Mode
o Your callsign
o Your QTH
o Your equipment
Send the sound files to following address: sound@vp6dx.com
TI9KK QRV
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