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Amateur Radio Newsline? Report 1365 ? October 10 2003

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1365 with a release date of Friday,
October 10th 2003 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T.

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RADIO AIDS: NOAA PROPAGATION SERVICE TO GO QRT

Amateurs around the globe may soon loose the propagation information system
operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
This includes real time data on the state of the interaction of the earth's

magnetosphere with the solar wind and state of the earth's magnetic field.

These tools have been invaluable to ham radio operators world-wide for many
years. The reasons it may be going away? Budgetary cutbacks and lack of
future funding. (Published news reports)

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I just returned from the NOAA web site and under, "What's New"
SEC Events and Announcements," found nothing about this news.

Anyone else have the scoop?

Out of curiosity, I linked over to NOAA's website and searched.

Nada, nothing, nyet on that "news" in public view.

Lots and lots of fascinating information on the MANY things going
on at NOAA and its departments. The Commerce Department's
Radio Office doesn't have anything either, nor the NGDC.

Must be one of those "secret" places that only dittyboppers know
about...and go into paranoic fits about...

Ionosonde terminals have been fielded for half a century now and
the ionospheric characteristics have been known about and
studied for far longer. HF radio communications has been steadily
decreasing for decades, is principally used as a backup for all
other communications means such as secure digital fiber (DSN)
and communications satellite relay. Over a thousand SHARES
HF radio stations exist for government agencies and they are
converting to ALE (Automatic Link Establishment) which can
automatically go to "better frequencies" if the circuit becomes less
than good.

About the only thing I can see for HF ionospheric propagation data
is the constantly monitored "solar index" applied to standard
formulas for predicting MUF. NOAA observes the "solar index" and
many other things.

LHA

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