MMMonVHF Newsletter 2008-10-14
 

Hallo dear MMMonVHF friends,


please find below our latest NEWSLETTER of the VHF-DX-Portal
"Make More Miles on VHF" (www.MMMonVHF.de) dated 2008-10-14
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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Meteor Scatter: HIGH Orionids shower activity expected !
After 2006 and 2007 outbursts, predictions say that Orionids activity
will be much higher than normal also in 2008. While the “traditional”
peak is expected on october 21, another maximum, related to the encounter
with an ancient dust trail, ejected in year -1265 and rich in bright
meteors, is expected to occur on October 19, between 02.13 and 08.08 UT.
Read more at our MS-Propagationpage ( http://www.mmmonvhf.de/ms.php )
where you can find data concerning upcoming meteor showers in October.

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ARRL EME Contest 2008 I part 50-1296 MHz JT/CW/SSB (18-19th October)
Please spread your info at Matejs page: http://www.darkside.cz/eme.php
2008 ARRL International EME Competition Rules can be found he
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2008/eme.html SOURCE: Matej, OK1TEH

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18 and 19th october - Araucária VHF Contest - A South American Contest
and a good chance for Europeans to work SA! Find all the details an
rules for these VHF-Contest at the Webpage of the AVHFC.com
www.avhfc.com or direct as PDF: http://www.avhfc.com/rules/avhfc_ee.pdf
SOURCE: Peter, PY5CC direct to MMMonVHF and via REFLECTOR

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After 35 years, I have finally rewritten my moontracking program in
Visual Basic 6.0 so it will run on these newfangled Windows operating
systems ;-) I received a suggestion to provide calculation of common
moon windows between two horizon-only stations and you will now find
that common window times are determined by variable elevation windows
at both stations. This should be especially useful for horizon-only
stations, although any other elevation constraints (such as higher
elevations for dishes) can also be specified. Some of the other
annoying glitches in the old DOS program have been removed. The latest
updated application and help files for Version 1.01 are now included
in the zip file at: http://bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/GJTRACKER.zip
SOURCE: Lance, W7GJ direct to MMMonVHF and via REFLECTOR


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Rolf, DK2ZF, is meantime active from CT3 (IM12JS) on 144 MHz EME
between 10th of october until 22nd October 2008. Operating procedu
!!! SPLIT OPERATION ONLY !!! CT3/DK2ZF TX first 144.133 MHz
RX in JA window 144.081 - .082 -- RX for all other .128 - .131 MHz
Find an updated Log and the latest News from Rolf on Madeira at:
http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=1430
BAD NEWS TODAY! Rolf dismount the antennas and will NOT be qrv at
Moonrise. He will announce soon when he be back qrv...
SOURCE: direct to MMMonVHF - tnx Rolf, DK2ZF now qrv as CT3/DK2ZF

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MU/DH7FB and MU/DF2ZC (IN89RK) 17 - 20 Oct 2008
After the unsuccessful attempt to activate Gibraltar again in 2008
which was made impossible due to the total lack of support from the
local ham radio association GRAS (who did not express their consent
for a special QRO licence for 400 watts out which the Gibraltar
Regulatory Authority considered to grant us - had the GRAS only done
so) Frank and I decided to activate GU Guernsey mainly on 2m EME.
Find all infos and updates: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=1738
and Online-Log: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/showblog.php?ca=MU-Homecall
Meteorscatter - We will try to run MS with a 9 ele Tonna and
300 watts out outside moon hours (when we are not in a local
pub) on 144,363 MHz...
SOURCE: direct to MMMonVHF - tnx Bernd, DF2ZC and Frank, DH7FB

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If you like to have fun with us during the Strange Radio Event, please
take note of the following rules: Date: from 06.00 GMT of 17 October
to 22.00 GMT of 19 October 2008. QRV all HF-band (past year also 6m)
Read all in detail: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=2010
SOURCE: IQ8OM via SRT-Reflector

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C5, THE GAMBIA. Also active this week from C5-land are members of
the Spanish "DX4DX TEAM" who will possibly be signing as C56EA between
October 14-24th. Operators mentioned a Paco/EA4BT (Team Leader),
Ramon/EA4NA, Emilio/EA7AAW, Julio/EA7JB, Salvador/EA7SB and Jose/EA7LS.
Activity will be on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY
modes. For more details visit their Web page at: http://www.dx4dx.com
SOURCE: Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #879

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Pacific Tour. Update. JA8BMK, Toshi, is currently on Tarawa, Western
Kiribati, T30, waiting for a ship to take him to Canton Island, Central
Kiribati, T31. He started operation from Tarawa with the T30XX callsign
yesterday. QSL via JA8BMK, direct only. He expects to be active until
October tenth, all bands, CW and SSB. Toshi says he's noticed there
are a lot of changes on Tarawa, no more direct flights to C2 or V7
and no more direct flights to T32, East Kiribati, from Fiji, 3D2.
It is still difficult to get to T33 as well. He was lucky to find
a government- chartered ship to T33, which will leave in mid-November,
a long time to wait but it can't be helped. This is Toshi's third
"attack" on T31 and, "it is a really hard and expensive business for
solo expedition." And, no matter how you reach the island, there is
no guarantee of a return within a couple of months. Toshi has an
advantage that he's retired, so he does have the schedule flexibility,
but he says he misses his dog, Jackie. He has a satellite telephone a
long this time. Here is his current schedule:
T30XX Tarawa October 5-10 confirmed
T33ZZ Banaba October 12-22 confirmed
T31DX Canton November 20-December 5, booked on the cargo ship
SOURCE: (The Daily DX Vol. 12 No. 194) via 50 MHz DX News, by OZ6OM

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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 SOTA-Watch2 beta Page)


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Our Newsletter is compiled from the input of the USER of the VHF-DX-Portal
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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If you get knowledge of an expedition, which is NOT listed at our
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The MMMonVHF-Team is always trying to spread any expedition info as much
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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