Latest dxeer ham news 07/30/19
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Weekend Update: It was a slow weekend on the radio. Wasn’t in the mood for the RSGB IOTA contest and given that conditions were just fair to poor, I don’t think I missed too much. I don’t track with IOTA even though I know it’s become more popular as some DXers have nothing to work until someone gets on a boat and goes somewhere so they’re filling their time with 6 meter FT8 and IOTA.
I did work ten more POTA stations which brought my total up for the year to nearly 40. Still pretty weak but bagging a hundred by year-end seems possible. And once we get into Fall weather, I plan to participate from the field as an activator instead of staying home and working as a hunter.
Half of the contacts made this weekend were CW and the other half phone. If I had to make a totally unscientific guess I’d say that more than half of the activators use phone only. Nothing wrong with that except the rule has generally been that since CW has some weak signal advantages for puny stations, you’d think CW would dominate in this field.
I guess that’s more a SOTA thing than a POTA thing. Park operators can drive in with a boatload of gear and easily use 100 watts where someone hiking up a summit is probably more inclined to take lightweight, low-powered gear where CW does indeed enjoy an advantage over phone.
While tuning around on 20 CW on Saturday morning I did happen to tune across VY2TT on Prince Edward Island and since he didn’t seem to be in the contest I gave him a quick call.
I’ve worked him a few times before and couldn’t help but notice his PEI DX Lodge that he visits multiple times each year — but he also rents it out. Hmmm. Maybe next year for vacation…
On Sunday I spun the dial in search of a few Bumblebees. Again, I wasn’t in the field (and won’t be until Autumn) but was happy to hand out a few contacts for those who were.
I used the IC-7610 dialed down to five watts. Okay, the logging software showed 5.1 watts but that was as low as I could get it to go. I worked six stations over the course of a very lazy hour:
WA4DOX, NK9G, N9EP, N8GAS, K4AKC, N0SS
It feels odd to hear N0SS on the air again. Tom Hammond became a Silent Key in 2011 and now his is the memorial call sign of the Mid-Mo Amateur Radio Club located in Jefferson City, Missouri where Tom was a longtime member.
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Attendees of the upcoming AES show in New York will have a special treat — on display will be an element from the “Alford Antenna,” a pioneering master antenna which ringed the observation deck near the top of the Empire State Building from 1965 until April this year.
[Read: Empire State Building to Celebrate Antenna’s 50th Anniversary]
The element has been donated to the AES.
“The Alford Antenna is an important part of what made broadcasting as we know it today possible, and the Empire State Building is excited to share this special piece of history with the Audio Engineering Society,” said Anthony E. Malkin, Chairman and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust.
[Read: Under a Cocoon, ESB Plans for New FM Era]
A release explains the significance of the antenna, designed by Andrew Alford: “When the Alford master FM antenna was installed around the 102nd-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building in 1965, it was a revolutionary development in broadcast technology. Instead of operating at lower power from various rooftops and hilltops around the city, for the first time multiple FM stations could operate at full power from a single shared antenna system atop what was then the tallest building in the U.S., carrying the signals of more than a dozen top New York radio stations to tens of millions of listeners in the tristate area.”
The AES New York 2019 show runs Oct. 16–19 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.
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Sirius XM has obtained a waiver from the FCC to use compression technology on four of its audio channels, even though this means EAS header codes on those channels won’t activate downstream decoders monitoring such alert transmissions. But the FCC says the waiver will do no harm.
The commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau granted the waiver to Sirius XM to authorize transmission of certain truncated Emergency Alert System alert data on its four Instant Traffic, Weather and Alert channels.
[Read: Stations Prep for National EAS Test]
The commission said the waiver will have no impact on the EAS’s functionality or operations, in part because no EAS participant is currently authorized to monitor those channels, and because keeping even compressed EAS alerts on the Instant Traffic, Weather and Alert channels serves the public interest.
The ruling is a technical and legalistic one that will be of interest mostly to alerting experts and engineers who follow the nuances of EAS infrastructure. But for them it’s fun reading, including the footnotes. Find it here.
“National EAS alerts will continue to be transmitted over all of Sirius XM’s channels, including the four Instant Traffic, Weather and Alert channels using compression, and will be audible to Sirius XM’s subscribers (and nonsubscribers on its non-subscriber channels),” the commission emphasized, adding that the satellite system will continue to serve as a PEP station, initiating national EAS alerts encoded pursuant to the EAS Protocol on its other channels, including free preview channels that are authorized as monitoring sources for alerts.
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Michael, DF8AN will be active from Lord Howe Island as VK9LQ during November 21–27, 2019. He will try to be active all bands (6m — 160meters) if antenna situation is good for his 160m antenna; CW/RTTY/FT8 + other Digimodes.
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Southgate ARC — Several transportation rule changes are among new Minnesota laws passed during the 2019 regular and special legislative sessions that take effect Aug. 1
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Southgate ARC — To commemorate the 2nd anniversary, eight special event stations will be on air during the ‘FT8DMC Activity Days’ between August 10–24th
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Southgate ARC — Ofcom has today fined mobile company Giffgaff £1.4m for overcharging millions of customers
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Southgate ARC — The Bouremouth Echo events page reports the Poole Radio Society will be transmitting from Corfe Castle in Dorset throughout the weekend of September 7–8
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Southgate ARC — Ofcom is proposing new rules to ensure that people who take part in television and radio shows are properly looked after by broadcasters
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Southgate ARC — A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, July 31
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Southgate ARC — Ken, LA7GIA, will once again return to Somalia and be active as 6O7O in September. His last activity was in January 2018 as 6O6O
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Southgate ARC — This morning the helicopter scheduled to fly today from New York to Nova Scotia needed to turn back to base at early start of flight due to an instrument failure
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Southgate ARC — Extending the World Wide DX Contest into the Brave New World of Digital Communication — This webinar will first review the impetus behind creating a fourth World Wide DX Contest
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