Do something with it!

Look for last 30 days DX-cluster spots from 60m band ! 

Are you happy with that...?!?! Are you satisfied with the 60m band current situation...?!?! No?

So do something with it!

...and don't dig the grave of CW and SSB by playing PC games on 60m either!

Spotter	Freq.	DX	Time	Info	Country
EA5IKT	5365.0	EA3FBX	11:22 05 Sep	DME-02066	Spain
EA3WD	5365.0	EA3FBX	11:19 05 Sep	DME-02066	Spain
SQ9MDF	5355.0	OM/SQ9MDF	11:07 05 Sep	/P OM/ZA-018 OMFF-0247	Slovak Republic
SQ9MDF	5355.0	OM/SQ9MDF/P	11:07 05 Sep	OM/ZA-018 OMFF-0247	Slovak Republic
EA1JW	5363.0	EA5RU/EA1	10:56 05 Sep	59 DME-26176	Spain
EA5IKT	5363.0	EA5RU/1	10:55 05 Sep	DME-26176	Spain
EA5GXI	5363.0	EA5RU/1	10:50 05 Sep	dme 26176	Spain
EA2CKX	5360.0	EA5RU/EA1	08:43 05 Sep	DME-26031	Spain
EA1MX	5365.0	EA3FBX	07:48 05 Sep	VGAB-287 DME:02069	Spain
EA5JN	5365.0	EA3FBX	07:46 05 Sep	VGAB-287 DME-02069	Spain
EA2EWL	5365.0	EA3FBX	07:41 05 Sep	VGAB-287 DME-02069 Spain (EA)	Spain
EA3WD	5365.0	EA3FBX	07:37 05 Sep	VGAB-287 DME-02069	Spain
ZL2CC	5357.0	ZL4TT	06:27 05 Sep	FT8 +18dB from RE54 2421Hz	New Zealand
ZL2CC	5357.0	G8CVS	06:08 05 Sep	FT8 -12dB from IO91 843Hz	England
ZL2CC	5357.0	F4JKT	06:06 05 Sep	FT8 -13dB from JN17 1677Hz	France
ZL2CC	5357.0	PA3DUU	05:55 05 Sep	FT8 -04dB from JO21 327Hz	Netherlands
ZL2CC	5357.0	TM43CDXC	05:53 05 Sep	FT8 -06dB 1944Hz	France
ZL2CC	5357.0	SM7DLK	05:49 05 Sep	FT8 -14dB from JO65 2029Hz	Sweden
ZL2CC	5357.0	TM43CDXC	05:34 05 Sep	gud sigs in ZL	France
EA7ZC	5374.0	EG7SDC	05:29 05 Sep	santina 2022	Spain
ZL2CC	5357.0	OK1RD	05:13 05 Sep	FT8 +06dB from JN79 1904Hz	Czech Republic
ZL2CC	5357.0	F4JGI	05:04 05 Sep	FT8 -17dB from IN94 1904Hz	France
SP7IIT	5357.0	N1UL	05:01 05 Sep	FT8 -13dB from EL95 1502Hz	United States
ZL2CC	5357.0	SM0BRF	04:49 05 Sep	FT8 -11dB from JO89 2040Hz	Sweden
ZL2CC	5357.0	PG0DX	04:28 05 Sep	FT8 -09dB 2388Hz	Netherlands
ZL2CC	5357.0	5B4VL	04:03 05 Sep	gud sigs in ZL	Cyprus
K0JGH	5357.0	K9ATX	03:45 05 Sep	FT8 -12dB from EN53 1652Hz	United States
K0JGH	5357.0	W6SA	03:43 05 Sep	FT8 -02dB from DM26 2458Hz	United States
K0JGH	5357.0	5B4VL	03:42 05 Sep	FT8 -17dB from KM64 1998Hz	Cyprus
EA5D	5358.0	KO4MSN	03:27 05 Sep	FT8 -05	United States
K0JGH	5357.0	HA5WA	02:49 05 Sep	FT8 -16dB from JN97 541Hz	Hungary
K0JGH	5357.0	KB0NAV	23:14 04 Sep	FT8 +01dB from DM79 1222Hz	United States
K0JGH	5357.0	KF9UG	23:11 04 Sep	FT8 +05dB from EN71 2392Hz	United States
K0JGH	5357.0	WP3UX	23:09 04 Sep	FT8 -14dB from FK68 1840Hz	Puerto Rico
EA7HLU	5357.0	AM500PCM	22:52 04 Sep	Vcent llegada Sanlucar MMAG-04	Spain
G0GDA	5357.0	VE1YX	22:35 04 Sep	FT8	Canada
EA9PB	5357.0	VR2ZXP	22:14 04 Sep	FT8	Hong Kong
IT9IAU	5357.0	DL6YBD	21:52 04 Sep	73 from Gabriele	Fed. Rep. of Germany
M0LHS	5357.0	HA1DJF	21:51 04 Sep	tnx 73	Hungary
IT9IAU	5357.0	HA1DJF	21:50 04 Sep	73 from Gabriele	Hungary
M0LHS	5357.0	EA1FK	21:49 04 Sep	tnx 73	Spain
MW0YAE	5358.4	EC3A	20:50 04 Sep	TNX GL 73 GARY	Spain
HA7XL-@	5357.6	HB175RAIL	20:36 04 Sep	FT8	Switzerland
EC8AZE	5357.0	EG8SDC	19:40 04 Sep	FT8 SANTINA DE COVADONGA	Canary Islands
SP7IIT	5357.0	YO8AAZ	19:14 04 Sep	FT8 -09dB 1485Hz	Romania
SP7IIT	5357.0	BD0AS	19:13 04 Sep	FT8 -13dB from NN33 950Hz	China
SM1TDE	5357.0	BD0AS	19:08 04 Sep	FT8, tnks QSO	China
LY2FN	5357.0	BD0AS	19:05 04 Sep	FT8	China
EA3EDU	5358.1	UN7LAP	18:46 04 Sep	JN01WK<>MO13 FT8 Sent: -15 R	Kazakhstan
LY2FN	5357.0	UN7LAP	18:41 04 Sep	FT8	Kazakhstan

Spratly Isl. - DX0NE on 60m band

(4F2KWT) The upcoming DX0NE Kalayaan Spratly Island DX-pedition, will be between August 1, and December 31, 2022. 

The exact dates are dependent on the supply ship. The team will be Michael, DU3JA, Jong, 4F1OZ, and 4F2KWT. They will use an IC-7300, 100 watts into verticals on 60m.

QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and LoTW. QSL via 4F2KWT.

73 - Petr, OK1RP

.../-.-

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - an event unprecedented in British history

"Let us hope we are witnessing the beginning of a new Elizabethan Age no less renowned than the first.” So said Clement Attlee, the former prime minister, as parliament reacted to the death of George VI and the accession of his daughter, the 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth.

Invoking Elizabeth I was easy but ahistorical. Attlee was surely not seeking the return of religious strife, coup attempts and invasions by Spain. Elizabeth I had made herself Gloriana as a powerful Virgin Queen, not as a constitutional monarch.

When Britain celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with four days of festivities, it will be an event unprecedented in British history.

Never before in these islands has a monarch lived long enough to mark 70 years on the throne.

This will be the fourth jubilee that the Queen has celebrated, and some of the events will sound reassuringly familiar. There will be a service at St Paul’s, a concert outside Buckingham Palace and a pageant. And as well as the hundreds of smaller public events taking place, people will be celebrating in their own way: nearly 2,000 street parties and private events have been registered to take place over the four-day bank holiday weekend (June 2 to June 5).

                           

A huge crowd on The Mall has cheered the Queen as she stepped out onto the Buckingham Palace balcony on the first day of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

The Queen, wearing light blue and holding a walking stick, smiled and waved as she inspected troops. She was wearing the Guards’ badge on her coat.

The royal family earlier got the four days of Platinum Jubilee celebrations under way, with the Trooping of the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade.

All rights reserved: https://www.thetimes.co.uk

73 - Petr, OK1RP

The prop.kc2g.com - Near-real-time maps and data about ionospheric conditions !

What is it?

prop.kc2g.com provides near-real-time maps and data about ionospheric conditions, for the use of amateur radio operators.

How do I read this?

The MUF map shows the Maximum Usable Frequency using colors and contour lines. For example, if a given area on the map is greenish and lies between the contours labeled "15" and "17", then the MUF is around 16MHz in that location. The readings from each individual station are shown as colored dots with numbers inside them, so you can see where the information is coming from. If a dot is faded out, then that station currently has a low "confidence score".

MUF is the highest frequency that is expected to bounce off of the ionosphere on a path 3000km long. So the MUF along a path between two points shows the possibility of long-hop DX between those points on a given band. If the MUF is 12MHz, then 30 meters and longer will work, but 20 meters and shorter won't. For long multi-hop paths, the worst MUF anywhere on the path is what matters. For single-hop paths shorter than 3000km, the usable frequency will be less than the MUF, because higher-angle signals "punch through" the ionosphere more easily. As you get closer to vertical, the usable frequency drops to the Critical Frequency (foF2).

The foF2 page shows a map similar to the MUF map, except that it displays the Critical Frequency (foF2). This one is simpler: it's the highest frequency that you can use for NVIS (skywave communication "in your own backyard"). When foF2 gets up to 7MHz and above then 40 meters "goes short" and can be used for local contacts; if it goes down below 3MHz then 80 meters "goes long" and local stations disappear but far-away ones can still be reachable.

Finally, both maps show which parts of the Earth are in daylight, and which are in the night. Pay special attention to the line dividing day and night (the terminator, or as hams call it, the "greyline"). Unique propagation opportunities are often available when one station, or both, are sitting nearly under this line.

More information about ionospheric propagation can be found in most decent books about amateur radio.

Where does the data come from?

The near-real-time ionospheric data that powers the site is collected by ionosondes (ionospheric radars) around the world, and compiled by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and the Lowell Global Iosnopheric Radio Observatory (GIRO).

The ionospheric phyiscal model for the "IRI" plots is the International Reference Ionosphere 2016, produced by a joint task group of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

Who else is responsible?

The GIRO data fetcher and contour mapper were originally written by Matthew Smith AF7TI and hosted at af7ti.com. Later they were removed from that site, and the code was placed on GitHub. In January of 2019, Andrew KC2G forked the code on GitHub, started making some improvements to the interpolation algorithm, and put the results up on this site.

The code itself relies on Python, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, matplotlib, cartopy, george, Flask, Mojolicious, Minion, PostgreSQL, and many more open-source projects, as well as the aforementioned IRI2016.

How often does the data update?

A new map is generated every 15 minutes, from data which is usually between 5 and 20 minutes old. Therefore, on average, you're looking at something based on measurements taken about half an hour ago. However, we do our best to time-align all of the data (using short-term extrapolation) to the time indicated in the map header.

Why does the map show something crazy/wrong?

Despite the best efforts of the researchers, there are only so many ionosondes in the world making measurements. Most of these are clustered in a few areas of the world, with large areas that are far from any ionosonde. Because of this, the map you see is an interpolation. That is, my code does its best to look at the MUF (or FoF2) at these scattered points on the globe and figure out what it probably is in every other location. I do my best to tweak the algorithm to make it well-behaved, but coming up with an algorithm that can extrapolate from few data points, without getting unreasonable values every now and then, is a difficult problem. While the guessing process is pretty good in areas that are closer to the measurement stations, the uncertainty is much higher in areas that are far away from any measurements. Only the numbers inside colored dots scattered around the map represent actual measured data.

Sometimes the stations themselves provide data that is inaccurate, or disagree with each other. It's not really practical to guess who is right and who is wrong, so the map will show some funny results in an effort to agree with all of the measurements.

Sometimes a station will go off-line and stop providing data, and sometimes a station that was off-line will re-appear. The addition or subtraction of a single data point can cause the model to make some surprising changes in its global picture. This is because it's working with not that many data points to begin with.

Where is the source code?

You can find it at github.com/arodland/prop. Be aware that the NOAA ionosonde data is pushed from their servers, so you won't receive any data from that channel unless you arrange for your own push feed. A fair amount of computing power is also needed to run the full suite of maps and predictions.

I have something to say!

Please send feedback to kc2g@cleverdomain.org.

NZ 60m Sub License continued by regulator

NZ 60m Sub License continued by regulator

The latest news bulletin - InfoLine 451 - from the New Zealand Amateur Radio Transmitters Society (NZART) reports that their regulator, RSM, has continued their 60 m Sub – Licence (5351.5 to 5366.5 kHz).

“As announced in the last InfoLine NZART has obtained from RSM, a new 60m license with the same terms and conditions as the previous license which expires on 4 May 2022. This allows time for RSM to promulgate a new GURL. If you have an existing 60m sub-license then it will continue to apply under the new license and you can continue operate on 60m as you did before. No need to reapply. If you are a new user to 60 m then you must first apply for a sub-license by completing the application found on the NZART website here: https://www.nzart.org.nz/info/60m and forward to NZART HQ for sign off and subsequent listing on the website of users.   73 Mark ZL3AB”

https://www.nzart.org.nz/assets/infoline/2022/HQ-Infoline-Issue-451.pdf               InfoLine 451

73

Paul, G4MWO Editor, The 5 MHz Newsletter