KINSTON HAMFEST THIS COMING SATURDAY, APR 23
On the campus of Lenoir Community College, just off US-70. The 26th Annual
Down East Hamfest starts at 8 am. See details at
http://www.w4amc.com/pictures/2016downeasthf.pdf
Get a car pool together. Have fun.
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reported that solar activity was low during the 24 hours ending
yesterday at 5 pm local. That ended at 0029Z this morning, April 18th when
AR2529 erupted producing a M6.7-class solar flare. According to
spaceweather.com, a pulse of UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of
our atmosphere. This, in turn, disrupted shortwave radio communications over
the daylit side of our planet. Mariners, aviators, and ham radio operators
around the Pacific Ocean may have noticed fading signals at frequencies
below ~15 MHz.” A NOAA blackout map at
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2016/18apr16/blackout.png?PHPSESSID=c7197m8jennemn7kdtghpl3ru2
shows the frequencies and territories affected. The Earth’s geomagnetic
field may feel the impact of any coronal mass ejection related to the flare
early Tuesday.
There are two numbered sunspot regions on the disk facing Earth. AR2529 is
about to rotate off the face so it’s impact should diminish. The sunspot
count this morning is 35, up a few from the 26 reported by NOAA last week.
The Solar Flux Index (SFI) was 102 yesterday at noon, down from the 111
reported a week ago. According to the Space Weather Prediction Center, solar
activity is expected to continue to be low for the next three days with a
chance for M-class flares. The NOAA forecast has the SFI staying about the
same today and Tuesday and drop to 95 on Wednesday. The 90 day trailing
average is 99, up one from last week.
The Earth’s geomagnetic field activity was quiet to active yesterday. The
field is forecast to be quiet to active today and tomorrow and then quiet on
Wednesday. Most of this activity is caused by the Earth entering a stream of
high-speed solar wind flowing out of a large coronal hole on the sun: The
Kp-index was reported to be a quiet 1 at 8 a.m. local this morning. No
space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.
No change in band conditions. Continue to expect fair conditions on 30 and
20
Meters and fair to poor on the higher bands. Good conditions should continue
for 40M at night. DXmaps showed increased activity on 6M yesterday but it
was again a mixed bag of TEP, meteor shower, and tropo propagation with only
a couple of E-skip contacts reported yesterday. There was no propagation
enhancement evident last Monday evening for the first of this Spring’s VHF
Sprints. Only three 2 Meter SSB stations were logged from Whortonsville,
all within Eastern NC. One of those was PARS member, “Cedar Island Mark,
K1MAP.
THIS WEEK’S DX CHALLENGE
IRAN, EP. Yuris, YL2GM, Valery, YL3CW, Jack, YL2KA, Dmitry, UT7UJ,
Oleg, US7UX, Sasha, UT7UV, Alexander, UX0LL, Mohammad, EP3MIR and
Mohammad, EP2LMA will be QRV as EP2A from April 16 to 25. They are
going to set up four stations on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and
RTTY. QSL via YL2GM or ClubLog OQRS.
QSO CORNER
This is the place to post contacts with DXpeditions, Special Event
Stations, or special QSO’s you would like to share.
Zippo.
OTHER ACTIVITY ON THE RADIO:
This info is extracted from the ARRL Letter, from the WA7BNM Contest
Calendar, the ARRL Contest Update or the ARRL Contest Corral. You can
receive the Letter weekly via email as a member of ARRL :
* 19/1900-19/2300 Apr 222 MHz Spring Sprint , CW Ph Dig 222 MHz
* 23/0001-24/2359Z Apr 10-10 International Spring Contest, Digital 28
Info at www.ten-ten.org
See the ARRL Contest Branch page <http://www.arrl.org/contests/>, the
ARRL Contest Update http://www.arrl.org/The-ARRL-Contest-Update/ and the
WA7BNM Contest Calendar <http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html>
for more info. Looking for a Special Event station? Be sure to check out the
ARRL Special Event Station Web page<http://www.arrl.org/special-events>. For
a LIST OF STATE QSO PARTIES, see
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/stateparties.html. (State QSO parties
and the W1AW Centennial Stations are a great way to get those last states on
your Worked All States (WAS) Award list.)
HAM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE, TRADE, OR WANTED
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* FOR SALE — BX Free Standing Tower, rotor/controller and Mosley
Yagi Antenna
A) Tower-Mod.- BX 40Ft – 5-8Ft sections – with tilt mounting base plate and
wall mounting bracket.
B) Antenna – Mosley 3 element MOD. TA-33 JR (20-10-15)
C) Hi-gain CD-45-11 Rotor & Controller with 140+Ft control cable.
D) Mast – 7’6″ X 2″ .
E) Needs–New Thrust Bearing, suggest a Glen Martin Eng. model TB-25 (Has 6
lock down mast bolts) Grad 5 or higher – Nuts, Bolts, Washers for tower
assembly. Documentation included. Asking–$650.00 ( estimated new —
1800+ ) Contact — Dan Baker (N6XWF) @ (252) – 249-2922
(Send me your amateur radio related items for sale, trade, or wanted for
listing in the PARSgram. PLEASE let me know if your listing is no longer
needed. ITEMS listed will EXPIRE AFTER 90 DAYS unless I hear
otherwise.–Jim).
UPCOMING REGIONAL HAMFESTS:
A complete list can be found on your PARS Website, www.n4prs.org
* 26th Annual Down East Hamfest , Saturday, April 23, Kinston, NC
Details at http://www.w4amc.com/pictures/2016downeasthf.pdf
PARS CALENDAR:
* Apr 30, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental, Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com.
* May 28, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental, Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com.
PARS NETS:
* Mondays, Pete’s “Swamp Talk” roundtable, around 8:15 pm local,
28.463 MHz plus or minus, USB. This is an informal forum originally
established to assist our new Hams. The frequency is in the 10M voice
segment open to technician licensees and above. Radio related
topics/questions/issues welcomed.
* Wednesdays, Pamlico Emergency Net Practice and Rag Chew, 7:30 pm,
Oriental Repeater, 147.210 + (PL151.4).
PARS WEB SITE:
https://www.n4prs.org/
* Chief Editor and Administrator is Greg Wadsworth KM4DZM, 252-322-1033 or
gwadsworth1@ yahoo.com
* Web Master is Larry Wall, KK4SEO, wallmailbox@yahoo.com.
PARSgram ITEMS
We are always looking for items of interest to PARS members to put in
the PARSgram. If you run across a timely item or think of something you
believe would interest our folks, please send it to me. Thanks.
73,
Jim AI4WL