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Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin No. 1067.1

The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 1067.1
BID: $OPDX.1067.1
June 28, 2012
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)

Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
Clusters Network and 1A0C for the following DX information.

1A, S.M.O.M. (Press Release - Thoughts about the magic band. Last press
release before the kick off). Posted on June 28th, by the 1A0C team
[edited]: "Roma is not precisely a remote place with scarce ham population!
So we don't see the need of a beacon. Even more, we don't want to upset
the local ham community with another broadcasting signal in the band,
there is a nice beacon already (I0JX) and it will be more than enough.
We will, of course, keep watching the early warning sites such as the
6m ON4KST prop pages and DXCluster.
As it was intended from the beginning this operation is primarily
focused on working North America and Asia. Our plan for 6m is to steer
the beam to JA in the morning. All eastern EU will be covered in 1 hop
as well. And turn the beam to NA past midday, giving a chance for the
eagers in West EU. Last operations by 1A0KM has provided Sovereign Military
Order of Malta to most of the EU 6m population, however there are very
few dxpeditions planned for this season, therefore pileups from the old
Europe can be large as people are idle looking for any prey to hunt.
The 6m propagation, specially on Es skip, is unpredictable, but our
experience of the last 20 years points that during the last week of
June/1st of July conditions are best for Xatlantic contacts and long
haul openings to the N. East. We need to be very observant for any possible
multihop event, managing meanwhile the EU pileup smartly whilst looking
for possible links across the Pond or Siberia. This is not easy, but we
have done it successfully and recently from Algeria, Egypt, Morroco,
Palestine, Andorra, etc.
At the end, we are in Europe, hence, when working EU the so called
"DX-windows" must be avoided, that is 50.100-50.130. We are thinking to
stay fixed on one frq for all CW operation below it, between 50084-95,
in order to not to disturb upwards the band to leak the pileup into the
DX windows and choose a phone frq up in the band, away from the DX zone,
e.g. 50180. We really hope the local operators, and even the European 6m
fans, will appreciate this decision of the team.

BAND PLANS

BAND CW SSB RTTY
------ ------ ------ -------
6M 50.084 50.180 --
10M 28.024 28.495 28.080
12M 24.894 24.945 24.921
15M 21.024 21.295 21.080
17M 18.074 18.145 18.100
20M 14.024 14.145 14.080
30M 10.104 --- 10.140
40M 7.004 7.065/7.160 7.035
80M 3.524 3.780 --

50 MHz information and operating tips
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• The 6 meter band will be included in this operation. We'll focus for
long haul openings, as most of the Europe regions have been widely
covered in the recent years.
• We plan to use the following frequencies: 50.084 for CW and 50.180
for SSB. Although they may be changed, depending on local noise/birdies.
Split operation will be deployed when needed.
• The main mode will be CW. If band conditions permit, SSB will be used
to gain a higher QSO rate. Please do not ask for mode changing.
• Please avoid QSO duplication, give others a chance. Logs will be
uploaded twice a day to our website. If it will work, we will provide
the live log online (new are not sure 100% now).
• We don't find necessary to set a beacon station this time.
• Our Grid Locator is JN61FV. Please, DO NOT send your locator, it is
not needed and we won’t log it anyway, it wastes precious time."

For more details and updates, please visit the 1A0C Web page at:
http://http://www.1a0c.com


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Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW - --or--
Editor of the "Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin" (OPDX - "DXer's Tool of Excellence")
President of the "Northern Ohio DX Association" (NODXA)
DX Chairman for the "Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society
ARRL Assistant Director of the Great Lakes Division
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