QRZ Forums - Contests, DXpeditions and Special Events for Friday 17 April 2015
 

QRZ Forums - Contests, DXpeditions and Special Events

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PY0F/PP1CZ Fernando de Noronha Island

Posted: 17 Apr 2015 09:03 AM PDT
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Leo, PP1CZ will be active again from Fernando de Noronha Island 20 - 27
April 2015 as PY0F/PP1CZ.



http://dxnews.com/py0f-pp1cz_fernando-de-noronha_2014/





73 Al 4L5A








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2015 Dayton Hamvention MegALinK

Posted: 17 Apr 2015 07:37 AM PDT
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K9NZF Systems™ and the Chief Anderson Amateur Radio Club are proud to
announce the Dayton Hamvention® MegALinK™ special event wide area voice
network for the 2015 Hamvention®. The MegALinK™ Network was conceived as a
way to provide FM mobile voice coverage from central Indiana all the way to
Dayton, Ohio, and onto the grounds of the Dayton Hamvention® itself.



After a successful trial run with a mobile simplex VoIP link in 2011, the
on-site RF system has been upgraded to a stationary UHF VoIP-enabled
repeater, providing coverage to Hara Arena and the surrounding area, with
wide-area connectivity via EchoLink®, IRLP, and RF to the other three
MegALinK™ core RF sites in Indiana, as well as any other stations that may
wish to connect.



Core Sites participating in the K9NZF Systems™ MegALinK™ are the following:



WA9EOC Repeater

444.675/449.675 Carrier Squelch

Anderson, Indiana

I-70 Coverage from East Indianapolis to approximately IN-3 (I-70 Exit 123
in Indiana)



K9NZF Repeater

443.325/448.325 PL 103.5 Hz

EchoLink® K9NZF-R (Node 443325) - Primary EchoLink® Node - Open to All
Stations

Modoc, Indiana

I-70 Coverage from IN-3 (I-70 Exit 123 in Indiana) to approximately I-70
Exit 21 in Ohio



KB9RRN Link

443.325/448.325 PL 156.7

EchoLink® KB9RRN-L (Node 541081) - Secondary EchoLink® Node - Open to All
Stations

Greenwood, Indiana

Southwest Indianapolis Metropolitan Area Coverage



K9NZF Dayton Hamvention® MegALinK™ On-Site Repeater

444.675/449.675 PL 131.8 Hz

Dayton, Ohio

Hara Arena & Immediate Area Coverage Only (Yagi Pointed at Hara Arena)



The Dayton Hamvention® MegALinK™ On-Site Repeater is intended for coverage
at the Dayton Hamvention® and surrounding areas. All amateurs in route to
or who are at the Hamvention® are welcome and encouraged to use the system
to communicate with any other amateur on the system, whether they are back
at home, connected through VoIP, or on the local repeater or another
station in the system.



EchoLink® connectivity is also available to all interested stations, both
single-user mode (PCs, tablets, and smart phones) and RF simplex links and
repeaters through two EchoLink® nodes. The primary EchoLink® node for
stations wishing to connect is K9NZF-R, EchoLink® node number 443325. The
secondary EchoLink® node for stations wishing to connect is KB9RRN-L,
EchoLink® node number 541081.



It is recommended that stations wishing to connect over EchoLink® connect
first to K9NZF-R (node 443325) as it features higher bandwidth capacity and
serves as the hub of the Dayton Hamvention® MegALinK™ system. If no
connectivity on K9NZF-R (443325) is available, use KB9RRN-L (541081).



Please make sure your EchoLink® node is operating properly before
connecting to the system. Stations connecting to the system whose nodes are
operating improperly and/or causing unreasonable noise or interference
(i.e. carrier-squelch operated repeaters or simplex nodes receiving
co-channel or malicious interference) will be disconnected by the system
control operators, and if necessary, permanently banned from the system.



The system will be active from the evening of May 14, 2015 through the end
of the show on May 17, 2015.



Please direct any correspondence about the Dayton Hamvention® MegALinK™
system to , or visit our web site at
http://www.k9nzf.com. Thank you for your interest, and we hope to hear you
on the system!



See you at Dayton Hamvention® 2015!




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S79RPS Praslin Island

Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:37 AM PDT
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Klaus, DL2RPS will be active from Praslin Island (IOTA AF-024) until 5
August 2015 as S79RPS.



http://dxnews.com/s79rps-praslin/



73 Al 4L5A








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Wisconsin HAB Balloon launch Saturday April 18, 2015

Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:05 AM PDT
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Wisconsin HAB is doing our second launch, which is participating as part of
the Global Balloon Space Challenge.

See www.balloonchallenge.org for all the details. We are team Wisconsin HAB



If you are interested in following the launch, please see the details
below:



Date: 4/18/2015

Time: 8:00 AM CDT Setup, 9:00 AM CDT Launch





If you want to see it in person, EVERYONE is welcome to stop out and watch.

It's at a park so there's lots of room. Join us!



Highland Village Park, located at 755 N Park St, Highland, WI 53543 (about
1 hour West of Madison, WI)



If you can't make it in-person, watch it LIVE on YouTube.

That's right, we will be streaming LIVE on YouTube @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2jdcJdek



You can monitor our chase & tracking at FM38
(http://www.fm38.org/tiki-index.php). Additionally, we will be
transmitting a voice beacon on 146.430 MHz and using Simplex @ 146.550 Mhz
during the recovery effort.

For beacon signal reports, please e-mail:





If you are a visual person and want to follow the balloon via Google Maps,
you can visit http://aprs.fi/…

This will be using call sign N9UX-11



We will be updating Facebook and tweeting @WisconsinHAB
(https://twitter.com/WisconsinHAB/) with hashtag #GSBChallenge (as will
others doing launches on 4/18).



PLEASE JOIN US!