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Friedrichshafen 01-03 June 2018 MDXC

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For those of you attending Ham Radio Event in Messe Friedrichshafen next week, don’t forget to call in at the Mediterranean DX Club (MDXC) Booth where you will be welcomed by the team on site.

There will be beer, Wine, ‘New Gadgets’ and some Special Sausage available on the stand plus a wide range of MDXC bits and bobs.

There will be also be the facility to make yourself a member of MDXC and all of the benefits that go with it. You will also be able to meet Team Members from the upcoming Z23MD Dxpedition to Zimbabwe.

Lets see you there, have fun and safe travels to all de MDXC !

More information can be found on this website;
http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de/ham-en/

”HAM RADIO serves as a platform where radio enthusiasts can get together and exchange information and experience. As one of the largest amateur radio exhibitions in the world, alongside the Hamvention Dayton/Ohio, USA and the Ham Fair in Tokyo/Japan, HAM RADIO attracts exhibitors and visitors from more than 32 countries all round the world to Friedrichshafen. A special feature of HAM is the combination of commercial exhibitors, worldwide networked associations and Europe’s largest radio flea market with some 280 participants from 16 countries.

Our ideal partner is DARC (German Amateur Radio Club). DARC e. V. represents the interests of radio amateurs in Germany, in particular backing their 38,000 members in dealings with associations, organizations, authorities and ministries – also beyond the national borders.”

EIDXG Irish islands Tour 2018

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Beginning June 1st 2018, the EIDX Group will activate ALL Irish IOTA Groups. 
Using the ‘Echo Juliet’ prefix, EJ0DXG will be QRV from IOTA EU-006, EU-007, EU-103 and EU-121 this summer.
 
Starting off with ‘Little Saltee Island’ EU-103 on June 15/16/17/18th….the groups will be QRV on HF and 6m bands using CW, SSB and Digital modes. 
 
Please follow their Facebook page for information/dates for all other activations….https://www.facebook.com/groups/185038478993063/
 
Supported by dxwanted.net a beautiful plaque will be available for whoever works them on 4 different IOTA Groups. So, as a ‘Bonus’ or ‘Joker’ station, EI0DXG will also be QRV from Mainland Ireland (EU-115) throughout and until September 30th 2018.
 
As with all EIDXG activities, please QSL via M0OXO.
 
vy 73 de Dave EI9FBB

NASA Solar Probe

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Launching this summer, our Parker #SolarProbe will swoop within 4 million miles of the Sun’s surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.

Learn more about this and another mission that will explore the inner workings of our nearest star: https://go.nasa.gov/2k2GVNZ.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunspots vanishing faster than expected

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Sunspots are becoming scarce.

Very scarce. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots. Today’s sun, shown here in an image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, is typical of the featureless solar disk:

The fact that sunspots are vanishing comes as no surprise. Forecasters have been saying for years that this would happen as the current solar cycle (“solar cycle 24”) comes to an end.

The surprise is how fast!

See Spaceweather.com for the full report;

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=05&year=2018

 

 

DF2WO African Dates…

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Just a reminder that Harald DF2WO will be qrv again later this year from his regular African haunts using CW, SSB, FT8 and also RTTY on the HF Bands (with 6m) from the following places;

9X2AW Rwanda – He will operate again from Kigali but this time using a Spiderbeam antenna between the 5th and 24th June 2018.

XT2AW Burkina Faso – Harald will operate from Ouagadougou on HF using various antennas in November 2018 (dates TBC) and on this trip he will make a focused attempt on the 160M Band.

Questions and information requests to M0OXO please, do not trouble Harald directly with information and sked requests.😉

https://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/logsearch.php

 

GB4FOC

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John Muzyka, G4RCG will be active as GB4FOC from Wakefield, England, for 80 year anniversary of FOC Club.He will operate on HF Bands.

 https://www.qrz.com/db/GB4FOC

QSL via G3SWH