Ham radio communication for survival

[Lee Craciun]

http://alt-market.com/articles/2009-resistance-101-why-you-should-consider-ham-radio-for-communications

[Wm]

ISS Tracker

[Wm]

International Space Station to be in Cross-Band Repeater Mode for Field Day

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) cross-band repeater will be available for ARRL Field Day, June 26 - 27. Contacts will count toward Field Day bonus points as satellite contacts and Field Day contacts.

Field Day rules limit stations to one contact on any single-channel FM satellite. Note that contacts made during Field Day by ISS crew would only count for contact credit, but not for satellite bonus points. ISS cross-band repeater contacts are also valid AMSAT Field Day satellite contacts.

The ARISS cross-band repeater uplink is 145.990 MHz (67 Hz tone), with a downlink of 437.800 MHz.

ARISS suggests that those unfamiliar with the ISS repeater may want to practice with it prior to Field Day. ARISS had planned to switch modes to the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) during the second week of June, but this won't happen until after the first ARISS school contact following ARRL Field Day. The ARISS ham station will be off-air during spacewalks on June 16 and June 20.

[Wm]

Fri, Sep 4 at 4:43 PM

To all radio amateurs

As of Thursday night, no sunspots have appeared for the past 13

days.  I know we are all hoping for more sunspots, which I am sure

will return soon.  I have no special knowledge, but the trends for

this newly awakening solar cycle seem to favor it.  One event to

look forward to this month is the autumnal equinox on Tuesday,

September 22, which should favor worldwide HF propagation.

Average daily solar flux declined this reporting week (August 27

through September 2) from 70.4 to 69.6.

Geomagnetic indicators showed quite a bit more activity than they

have in some time now.  Average daily planetary A index rose from

5.1 to 13.1.  The most active day was August 31, when the planetary

A index reached 26.  The cause was a vigorous solar wind spewing

from holes in the solar corona.

Predicted solar flux is 70, forecast for every one of the next 45

days.  Predicted planetary A index is 5 on September 4 to 17, 8 on

September 18 and 19, 5 on September 20 to 22, then 8, 10 and 14 on

September 23 to 25, 10 on September 26 and 27, then 12 and 10 on

September 28 and 29, then 5 on September 30 through October 18.

This article says the solar minimum most likely occurred last

December:

http://www.sidc.be/silso/node/166

 geomagnetic activity forecast for the period September 4 to 29, 2020.

"Geomagnetic field will be

Quiet on:  September 5 to 8, 10 to 13, 16 and 17, 20 and 21

Quiet to unsettled on:  September 4, 9, 14, 29

Quiet to active on:  September 15, 18 and 19, 22 to 24, 26

Unsettled to active:  September 25, 27 and 28

Active to disturbed:  Not expected

Solar wind will intensify on:  September (4, 15, 19,) 22 and 23

Parenthesis means lower probability of activity enhancement."

OK1HH wrote to us about his river cruise:

"As a captain, I sailed on the M / Y 'Daisy' (LOA 8 meters, 0.4

tons) on the Czech rivers Elbe and Vltava on the route Melnik -

Zernoseky Lake, Usti, Melnik, Luzec, Melnik, a total of 217.4 km.

And it was a beautiful week!"

https://pujcovna-plavidel.cz/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMAG1260-1-...

Thanks to K9LA for this link to a fascinating and informative RSGB

lecture about sporadic-e propagation:

https://youtu.be/wn5as91ndG4

An article about Europe's most powerful solar telescope:

https://bit.ly/2ETMA75

Tamitha Skov has a new video:

https://youtu.be/bTkkmrhxMfU

I love Dr. Skov's enthusiasm: "Whamo!"  And also of course her

expertise, which she shares so generously.

For more information concerning radio propagation, see

http://www.arrl.org/propagation and the ARRL Technical Information

Service at http://arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals. For an

explanation of numbers used in this bulletin, see

http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere.

An archive of past propagation bulletins is at

http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation. More good

information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/.

Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of ARRL

bulletins are at http://arrl.org/bulletins.

Sunspot numbers for August 27 through September 2, 2020 were 0, 0,

0, 0, 0, 0, and 0, with a mean of 0.  10.7 cm flux was 70, 70.1,

70.2, 70, 69.2, 69.5, and 68.3, with a mean of 69.6.  Estimated

planetary A indices were 8, 10, 14, 9, 26, 16, and 9, with a mean of

13.1.  Middle latitude A index was 7, 8, 14, 8, 19, 16, and 8, with

a mean of 11.4.

NNNN

/EX

[Wm]

ARRL News Letter as of Sept 3rd!  http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2020-09-03

[Wm]

http://www.city-data.com/aradio/

[Wm]

The radio's are really getting cheap now! Even local Police are buying these things, because they cover there Frequencies too! Stay away from the Walkie Talkies if you are in the hills and need to talk around to close to being Line of Sight Freq's. UHF Now if you want to keep you signal low profile then go for it! Other wise you want VHF! These will not do HF!

BAOFENG https://baofengradio.us/ These things are made in China! You can get better prices if you look around. You will need the programing cable and software to set these things up difficult to do w/o.

[Wm]

KB1OIQ - Andy's Ham Radio Linux

Ubuntu Linux remastered for Amateur Radio users

Brought to you by: andystewart

[Wm]

Band Plan

A band  plan refers to a voluntary division of a band to avoid interference between incompatible modes.

http://www.arrl.org/band-plan

www.hamradiolicenseexam.com

[Wm]

The book Low profile amateur Radio is not available. So http://www.arrl.org/shop/Antennas/

has more books on Antenna's and are not gouging on the prices.

[Wm]

A Killer Antenna!

Is a 33ft 3 1/2inches use a Sling shot to get fishing line into a tree about 40-45 ft off the ground use it to pull up a rope tied to the insulator with the wire tied to it, at the bottom of the wire use anther insulator and a rope to tie the rope to a short log so it will move up and down with the wind.

Next on the bottom insulator tie three more 33ft 3 1/2 inches of wire and keep them about 6ft off the ground and tie off w/insulators and rope.

Now with a 450OHM Latter line feed it to a Antenna Tuner! it will work all HF bands with the Tuner w/o tuner it will only work 40meter band!

You can find this in the "LOW PROFILE AMATEUR RADIO" Book ISBN-13978-0-87259-974-1