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West Central Illinois Hamfest
When: Saturday August 2, 2014 K9MCE-W9BXR Talk-In 444.250 103.5+ PL (WS9V Repeater) Spacious fairgrounds. Plenty of parking. Homemade breakfast and BBQ lunch on site! Excellent restaurants nearby in historic Carlinville! $5.00 admission/tailgate VE Testing –walk-ins Vendors Forums Prize drawings throughout the day! Test bench available to check those radios prior to purchase! Only 90 minutes away from St. Louis!
Macoupin County Fairgrounds 21368 Rte 4 Carlinville, IL 62626 For more information contact Jim Pitchford, N9LQF 217-854-3352. Email: [email protected]
FORUMS will include.. 8:00 AM ARRL Forum with IL Section Manager Tom Ciciora — KA9QPN 9:00 AM Craig Thompson, K9CT operator of K9W and FT5ZM DXpedi-tions!
KC9ZGS Visits K9MCE Meeting Via Skype! A few months ago, K9MCE held its monthly meeting over Skip’s WS9V’s repeater due to inclement weather. At the April meeting, no fooling, Stephanie Dobbs, KC9ZGS attended our meeting via Skype! For those readers who are unaware of Skype, it is a free pro-gram that allows you to send two-way live video and audio via the internet . Stephanie Dobbs, KC9ZGS makes it a point to participate in various club functions such as Field Day and the Route 66 special event. Last night Stephanie attended the club meeting via Jim N9LQF’s computer from her St. Joseph, IL QTH! Thanks Jim and Stephanie for coming up with the idea! X1 Flare Creates Radio Blackout on March 29th. The following article appeared on Spaceweather.com’s web-site on March 31, 2014. It does a great job of recording some the effects of a massive solar flare and how the ham bands are affected. IMPULSIVE SOLAR FLARE SCRAMBLES RADIO SIGNALS: On Saturday, March 29th, the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2017 erupted, producing a brief but intenseX1-class solar flare. A flash of extreme UV radiation sent waves of ionization rippling through Earth's upper atmosphere and disturbed the normal propagation of terrestrial radio trans-missions. Radio engineer Stan Nelson of Roswell, NM, was monitoring WWV at 20 MHz when the signal wobbled then disappeared entirely for several minutes: "The Doppler shift of the WWV signal (the 'wobble' just before the blackout) was nearly 12 Hz, the most I have ever seen," says Nelson. The flare not only blacked out radio signals, but al-so produced some radio signals of its own. The explosion above sunspot AR2017 sent shock waves racing through the sun's atmosphere at speeds as high as 4800 km/s (11 million mph). Radio emissions stimulated by those shocks crossed the 93 million mile divide to Earth, causing shortwave radio receivers to roar with static. Here is a plot of the outburst detected by Nelson using a 20.1 MHz Radio Jove receiver. Else-where, strong bursts were recorded at frequencies as high as 2800 MHz. It was a very broad band event. |
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Updated: Saturday, 03 May 2014 Best viewed 1280x1024 screen resolution Please send all question or comments to [email protected] |
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