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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
19 October 2006
For really tasty DX, last Friday, Saturday and Sunday were excellent.
The following lists are in order of most contacts noted. At last we have
some ZL and VK activity even if it’s not into G (or M) land.
ZS active as well.
Most popular DX
Monday: TX6A (Mayotte), TU2/F5LDY (Ivory Coast), LW2DY,
EA3EVL, V73RY (Marshall Is), CE5CJB, WN4AMO, WD4NKA, WD4GEO, WA4OFX, VK9ZLH
(Doug on Lord Howe Is).
Tuesday: TX6A, PY5YA, EA3EVL, AF7DX/KH6 (Hawaii), WN4AMO,
WD4NKA, WD4GEO, VK9ZLH, PY4YA.
Wednesday: CX1AV, PY5YA, ZP6BBE, VK9ZLH, PY5PDC, F5NPK.
Thursday: PU3CAL, PU2MTS, IW0HBY, W3RJ, PY5YA, PY1CW,
LU8EOT, EA7ASK, CX1AV.
Friday: D20VB (Angola), LU5FF, A61C (Sharjah U.A.E.),
9K2HN (Kuwait), HZ1IK (Saudi Arabia), ZL8R (Raoul Is), TI8II (Costa Rica),
PY2XC, EA9IB, CT1/SP9CTT, YC0IEM (Indonesia), TU2/F5LDY, PY7ZZ, PY2ZK,
ER570C (Moldova), EK3SA, D2DX (Namibia), UT5UDX, SV8/DL8MCA, PY5YA, JE1LET,
SV5/DL3DRN, RW3WWW, PY7ZZ3, PY2DY, JA1LET, EA8ALD, EA7GAK, EA6/DL1KBQ,
EA5/DJ1MH, A61AN, A45WG (Oman), 4Z70R Israel), 4X1IM (also Israel), ZS1NL,
YC0EIM.
Saturday: TT8PK (Chad or Tchad), ZL8R, V51AS(Namibia),
VK9NS (Norfolk Is), HZ1IK, D20VB, TI8II, TG9NX (Guatemala), PY2CX, PY2XC,
ZS4JAN, SV8/DL8MCA, CT1EHI, W4TO, TI2AIM, PY5AK, PY2YW, PU2MTS, LU8EHQ,
LU5FF, EC2APU, CE2WWF, AB4RY, YR0HKW, YO9IKW, WP3BH.
Sunday: ZL8R, TX6A, J28JA (Djibouti), V51AS, CE/VE7SV,
4L4C, PY2CX, PY2DY, EK6MG/P, TG9ANF, UR5WJO, UA6WHD, PY2DU, HI3TEJ, C5DXC,
ZS4JAN, ZA/UT7DW, VU2XO, TG9NX, PZ1KP, LZ1CAR, E51JD, VP8LP, V31TTT, TA2ZAF,
RN3OA, PY5YA, PY2YW, PY2XC, PY2NB, MW0ZZK/P (Wales at the moment, Steve
does get around a bit), FH/TX6A, EL2AR, EA8ANR, CU3AN (Azores), 4L0F (Georgia),
ZSL8R, ZS6CCY, ZS1WDK, YY5OHV, YY5FDR, YV5DYB (all Venezuela), YR0HKW.
Contests: Well there is the Worked All Germany contest
from 15:00 Saturday to 15:00 Sunday. Use this as a practice for the CQWW
contest the following weekend!!
 Sun:
The sun is completely free of Sunspots but it does have a beauty of a
Coronal Hole.
The term "coronal hole" is where there is a gaping black hole
on the sun.
Above is an X-ray image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite: It's a place in
the sun's atmosphere where magnetic fields open up and allow solar wind
to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this hole should reach
Earth on Oct. 21st, possibly sparking a geomagnetic storm.
Also this weekend the Orionid meteor Shower, a mild but pretty flurry
of meteors will shoot out of the constellation Orion. The source is Halley's
Comet. Although the comet itself is far away, ancient clouds of dust from
the comet are nearby, and Earth is about to run through them. The best
time to look is Saturday morning, Oct. 21st, just before local dawn.
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