Day: 17 August 2022

For the 3rd day in a row, active sunspot AR3078 is producing strong M-class solar flares. The latest, an M2-category explosion on Aug. 17th (1345 UT), hurled a plume of cool dark plasma into space: A CME will almost certainly emerge from Read more…

Aug 17, 2022 Not so much a shoebox find but rather something we found on an internet search to go with this post from just over 1 year ago.  These magazine cuttings are from Practical Wireless, January 1990 and we show here (courtesy PW Read more…

Aug 16, 2022 You’re invited to join us for a fabulous DXpedition talk by locals Doris Wong (K0BEE) and Steve Dyer (W1SRD) who spent approximately 12 days with the TX5N team activating the island of Raivavae (Austral Islands) in French Polynesia in Read more…

Aug 17, 2022 Far travelled DXpeditioner, Rudi DK7PE is currently operating from Greenland as OX/DK7PE/P. Activity has been on 20 & 17m CW so far. QSL via H/c, buro/direct. Check out Rudi’s website showing all the places he has operated from in the Read more…

Members of the Israel Amateur Radio Club will activate 5 lighthouses and participate in the upcoming InternationalLighthouse/Lightship Weekend (ILLW), August 20-21st. Look for the following lighthouses:Lighthouse Callsign ILLW#———- ——– —–Jaffa 4X01LH IL001Stella Maris 4X02LH IL002Ashdod 4X03LH IL003Acre 4X04LH IL004Tel Aviv Read more…

Compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW August 17, 2022 ** Thanks to the individuals who put the island/group and mode (which is very important) on their QSNs on their PacketCluster reports. The format we suggest is “Mode/IOTA#/Island or Group” (ex. CW/SA-036/Aruba). Read more…

From : vk3pb on 2022-08-16 A super cheap Hotspot. Thrifty Old Digital Update Roundup. Modding Pi-Star to include M-17. DVMega Globetrotter opens up your digital possibilities. DownloadYouTube

SFI = 129 A index = 5 K index = 3 SSN = 92 THE IMPACTS HAVE BEGUN: A minor CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on Aug. 17th (0303 UT). It could be the first of several CME strikes in the days ahead. Read more…