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Archive for August, 2006

DXCC Announces Accreditation Criteria Rule Change

by k4sac @ Wednesday, August 16th, 2006. Tags:
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From: ARRL DXCC Announces Accreditation Criteria Rule ChangeNEWINGTON, CT, Aug 14, 2006 — ARRL’s DXCC program has added language to its Accreditation Criteria to minimize difficulties stemming from online DXpedition logs. The change, recently approved by the ARRL Board of Directors Programs and Services Committee, limits the level of QSO detail that DXpeditions may provide [...]

KH8SI recap

by k4sac @ Saturday, August 5th, 2006. Tags:
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Well the KH8SI dx-pedition is over. There has been much wailing and gnashingof the teeth, especially in the US over the inability to work the station and the low signal strength. Taken from http://www.jdxn.net/dx/060804-p2-kh8.htmare the following stats: KH8SI spent time on various bands and modes:160 m CW 4h 03 min80 m SSB 4h 04 min40 [...]

Geomagnetic Disturbance

by k4sac @ Saturday, August 5th, 2006. Tags:
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Friday July 28th, a high speed solar wind stream made it’s way to hit Earthand caused a major geomagnetic disturbance that caused the planetaryand mid-latitude A index to soar to 29 and 26. The K index soared to 6.This caused periods of high absortion and propagation to seeminglygo only north to south. Sunspot numbers still [...]

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