Month: May 2022

May 31, 2022 NEWS UPDATE by Team 3D2RRR: We are planning to work FT4 normal all bands during the coming 2 days. Very strong winds make it difficult to keep the vertical antennas in place, but we are fighting!

Even though this presentation was made at the 2005 FDMI Dayton Symposium by Paul Harden NA5N, it is still relevant today. Hopefully it will shed some light on what all the numbers…flux, K-Index, A Index and flares mean and relate Read more…

QUIET WITH A CHANCE OF FLARES: With only three sunspots on the visible disk of the sun, solar activity is low. NOAA forecasters say there is a slight 5% chance of M-class flares today. The most likely source would be slowly-growing sunspot AR3025 Read more…

EI90IRTSThe Irish Radio Transmitters Society was founded in 1932 and this year the society celebrates its 90th birthday. To mark the occasion the society has secured the special call-sign EI90IRTS. Since its initial use the call-sign has attracted multiple pile-ups Read more…

May 29, 2022 [UPCOMING] Harold, DF2WO will again be active as 9X2AW from Kigali, Rwanda starting early June, lasting through to June 21/22, 2022. QRV on 160-10m, CW, SSB & Digi. More here

A METEOR OUTBURST MIGHT HAPPEN TONIGHT: Yes, debris from Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 might actually be approaching Earth. Last Friday, a camera operated by the Spanish Meteor and Fireball Network caught a piece of the broken comet disintegrating over Europe. The fireball they Read more…

NO CME, NO PROBLEM: A coronal mass ejection (CME) was expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field yesterday, May 28th, but it did not. Either the CME missed or it is still coming, moving more slowly than expected. Despite the lack of a CME, Read more…

May 28, 2022 NEWS UPDATE – For one day only – May 29th – look for 8N1AQ/JD1 from Minami Torishima. Check 15m SSB @ 03:30z. Meanwhile, JG8NQJ/JD1 plans activity on 12CW at 01:00z same date.

Hamvention attendance figure announced. The Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) have announced the attendance figure for the 2022 Hamvention, the first event since 2019 The official attendance at Hamvention 2022 was 31367.  General Chairman Rick Allnutt, WS8G, said although that was Read more…

NOAA Alerts Space Weather Message Code: ALTK05Serial Number: 1392Issue Time: 2022 May 28 0900 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5Threshold Reached: 2022 May 28 0859 UTCSynoptic Period: 0600-0900 UTC Active Warning: YesNOAA Scale: G1 – Minor NOAA Space Weather Scale Read more…