Hallo dear MMMonVHF friends,


please find below our latest NEWSLETTER of the VHF-DX-Portal
"Make More Miles on VHF" (www.MMMonVHF.de) dated 2008-11-11
We attempt to distribute our Newletter one or two times per week.
For further detail please be so kind and refer at our "News"-page:
http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php - welcome and enjoy...


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The GB3VHF 2m beacon is to close down in December 2008
After nearly fifty years of near continuous service from the trans-
mitting station at Wrotham in Kent (JO01DH), the 2 metre beacon
GB3VHF will fall silent towards the end of December 2008. For a
good few years the beacon enjoyed the site facilities at Wrotham
by means of a 'peppercorn rent'. At this time the site was owned
and operated by the amateur radio friendly BBC. Full details can
be found in the press release at http://www.gb3vhf.co.uk/

We did get a link with the following Info by Ian, G0AFH, Gaetan
ON4KHG and Kevin, G1KAW and would like to open a discussion at
our MMMonVHF FORUM:
http://www.mmmonvhf.de/minibb/index....page=0#m sg95

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SPORADIC E in the southern hemisphere
As you might have been seen in past weeks we did build up a new
SPORADIC E Service page as well for the southern hemisphere where
the summer (and so sporadic e) will occure hopefully soon. PLEASE
have a look at: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/es_s.php and use the input
at these page for an opening in the SOUTH. The switch between the
both areas are made in the drop down menue at PROPAGATION...
MMMonVHF is trying to give an overview of Sporadic E on other
continents than Europe and is asking to send reports of Sporadic E
openings that occured on 144 MHz worldwide!

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NASA astronomers have set up a monitoring station to scan the night
sky for unknown or unexpected meteor showers and they're finding
more than they bargained for. In only two months of observing,
the newly commissioned system has captured a flurry of meteors
from an unknown comet. More details see:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list773018
SOURCE: W0WOI via VHF Reflector

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Netherlands Antilles to net new DXCC Entities for 2008 Over the past
year much discussion has been made about the possibility of new DXCC
entities happening once the break-up/disbanding of the Netherlands
Antilles takes effect on December 15th, 2008. This past week, the
President of European DX Foundation (EUDXF), Hans, PB2T, who visited
ARRL HQ in July and had a discussion about the DXCC status of Netherlands
Antilles, feels that after December 15th, 2008, it looks like four new
entities will be added to the DXCC list in the future (Curacao, Sint
maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Bonaire).
SOURCE: IQ8OM SRT Headquarter via SRT-DX-Bulletin

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VECCHIACCHI MEMORIAL DAY 1st Memorial I5MMC Rino Lencioni Regulation
of the 44th edition 6-7 December 2008. Participation all radio
amateurs and SWL duly authorized. The same station may participate
in different categories provided on gangs different. Dates and times:
6 December - VHF section - from 14.00 to 22.00 GMT. December 7 - Section
UHF and SHF - from 07.00 to 12.00 hours GMT.
Attaccment Regulation version word pad Contest vhf-uhf-shf publish
version english on web please qrv 73 de iw5bsf Roberto - Details
have a look at: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=2069
SOURCE: Roberto, IW5BSF direct to MMMonVHF

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DX SUMMIT ALERT - The Old OH2AQ DX Summit Goes Offline November 19, 2008
at 1000 UTC! The new DX Summit website at http://www.dxsummit.fi/ debuted
on May 23, 2008. The site has been redeveloped from the ground up and
uses the latest technology available. The new DX Summit has been ramping
up steadily and today the number of hits is approaching 1 million a day.
In addition to providing the same functionality as the old DX Summit,
the new platform offers the necessary flexibility to easily add new
features which are currently on the drawing board.
SOURCE: Martti, OH2BH via Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin #883.1


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Frank, DL8YHR, was the OP of the EME project in OMAN and have had
on monday his last activity day at at LL93. So please have a look
out for the last update of his LOG (11.11.2008 00UT) and some FOTOs
at: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=1361
SOURCE: tnx to Frank, DL8YHR as A43DLH, direct to MMMonVHF

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JO00 back on Air in next Meterorscatter Showers
Kevin, G1KAW, will be qrv from JO00 for leonids nov 15/18 and also
hope to be qrv for geminids and definetly for the quadrantids.
RIG shall be t736r 1x 15el cd 250/300w 144 ms fsk and tropo ...
SOURCE: tnx to Kevin, G1KAW, direct to MMMonVHF

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TA0U, TA1HZ, TA1ST and TA2RX will be active as TC70ATA on 8-12
November to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Expect
activity on 2, 17, 20 and 40 metres. QSL via TA1HZ.
SOURCE: [TNX TA1HZ] [425ENG] 425 DX News #914

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BOB VK0BP announced that he has just arrived at DAVIS BASE
MC81xk and will try to set up on 6M for the summer. He will try to
set up on 6M for the summer. Its not such a long shot as VK0
Caseyw as worked from VK in 1993 and 1995 and PY5CC worked to LU1
in 1997. And CT1EEB recently. SO i sugegst you liase with Bob giving
sufficint time for him tos ettle in and press the importance pf
being on in the next few weeks to operate during the sumemr
solstice. I thonk conditions will start around VK sunset and possible
Spread F mode. ZS1 would be a soda as he is at Davis Base below
Capetown. The only down side is a rumoured 1/4 megawatt radar on
55.250 for wind shear experiments.
SOURCE: Steve VK3SIX via UKSMG Announce

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SOTA-News - Upcoming Activations updated at our MMMonVHF page
as long these including VHF or U/SHF-Activity. A complete over-
view about all SOTA-Activities are on: www.sotawatch.org/alerts.php
SOURCE: tnx Summits On The Air (via SOTAwatch2 (beta) Page)


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MMMonVHF as well by a lot of free usable HF-V-U-SHF-Info-Sources and chats
like ON4KST-, N0UK-, RU-VHF-DX-Net, EA-V-U-SHF-Chat and others...

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up-to-date and reliable as possible and as long as the info does not
violate with our MMMonVHF-Policy.


Have a lot of fun and enjoy MMMonVHF!

73 de Guido "Guy" DL8EBW
on behalf of the MMMonVHF-Team
(DG2KBC DK3XT DK5EW DK5YA HA5CRX IV3NDC OZ1LPR PA2DW PA3BIY & PA4EME)


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