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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
12 September 2006

Not much instant response to last week’s missive, maybe everyone has gone back to work after the summer holidays, at least in the Northern hemisphere.

Most popular DX.

Monday: A25VB, PY5YA, ZX5J, TX5T, HC4MZ, EA7GAK, ZW5B, W1YIF, RK6FW, PY2DU, PP5JD, LU1XAW, EF1SDC.

Tuesday: HZ1SK, RK6FW, HC4MZ, EF1SDC, ED3SDC.

Wednesday: UA6HV, RK6FW, IT9EYA, HC4MZ, CX1AV.

Thursday: A25VB, EA7GAK, VE3ZLN, SM2SUM, HC4MZ.

Friday: PY5YA, EF1SDC, CX1AD.

Saturday: PY5YA, ZX5J, KC8VKA.

Sunday: A25VB, TX5T, ZX5J, PY5YA, PY2DU, ZW5B, V51WM, PP5JD.

Well its obvious that the WAE Contest (with added QTCs) did not cause 10 metres to wake up. Indeed Saturday has to have been one of the poorest I can remember (for a Saturday)

PY5YA was very popular and so was A25VB (Botswana). ZX5J, is a Brazilian DX contest site located in southern Brazil, in a small city called Rancho Queimado (means “burnt ranch or farm”), upon the hills about 1260meters high and 150km west from Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina state.

HZ1SK is Samir in Saudia Arabia, he also has the callsigns OD5SK , KC5RYL so the lad gets about a bit.

TX5T is Mayotte France although some sources disagree. If anyone knows better, please let me know. V51WM is Namibia and HC4MZ is Ecuador.

Contests:
Nothing much incorporating 10m for a while. Well there is the CW section of the 48th Scandinavian Contest this weekend, Saturday 12:00 to Sunday 12:00 and the Phone section the following weekend. Really we’ve got to wait until the 1st October for the RSGB 21/28 MHz contest.

Sun:
Just a couple of small sunspots, 904 and 909, but with no real danger of flares.

Jupiter, as we all know is a Gas Giant (but still a planet, unlike Pluto!) with moons. Less well-known Zubenelgenubi (pronounced "zoo-ben-el-je-new-bee”) is a double star.

John Stetson captured them together through his telescope on Sept. 11th.

Tonight the pair are even closer (0.5 degrees). Go outside after sunset and look southwest: sky map.

There's Jupiter, the brightest "star" in the sky, and just below it, Zubenelgenubi.
You can see them with your naked eye, i.e. no telescope required.


Tony Dixon G4CJC



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