Friends, Contesters, DXers and their families and guests are welcome to the annual W3LPL Open House on Saturday June 17th from noon to 5:00 pm in Glenwood, MD. The W3LPL QTH is located 30 miles direc
Like K3LR, I also use 200 watt W3NQN transmitting bandpass filters; in my case, between my FT-1000MPs and the inputs of my 160, 80, 40, 20 and 15 meter monoband 3-1000Z amps. I also use W3NQN bandpas
Like K3LR, I also use 200 watt W3NQN transmitting bandpass filters; in my case, between my FT-1000MPs and the inputs of my 160, 80, 40, 20 and 15 meter monoband 3-1000Z amps. I also use W3NQN bandpas
One of the largest gatherings of contesters and DXers on the east coast is just two days away: Saturday June 20th from noon til ??? at W3LPL in Glenwood MD. CJ's BBQ will be ready to go at noon as wi
Daily variability of HF propagation is caused in large part by solar energetic particle radiation carried by the solar wind, especially during the four years closest to solar minimum when x-ray and p
Hi Jim, Congratulations on your ARRL Technical Service Award Well done and well deserved! www.arrl.org/news/arrl-technical-service-award-conferred 73 Frank W3LPL _________________ Searchable Archives
Hi Bill, The email does not state or imply that either K3LR and W3LPL will be idle. That's very unlikely unless the pandemic gets much worse. Stay tuned... 73 Frank W3LPL -- Original Message -- From:
Leif Svalgaard of the W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University -- a highly regarded solar physicist -- predicts solar cycle 25 SSN of 128 +/- 10. According to Svalgaard: "Th
Recently I presented "The History of Trans-Atlantic Radio Communications" to the Redwood Empire DX Association. The presentation briefly covers contest related personalities and technologies. Their v
Hi Alan, Have you applied for DXCC Challenge yet? More than one hundred PVRC members have. Sixty members have more than 2000 and six members have more than 3000 30 PVRC members have 6 meter DXCC. Who
Hi Jim, 1963 http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/46428 73 Frank W3LPL -- Original Message -- From: "Jim McCook" <w6ya@cox.net> To: "CQ-Contest Reflector" <cq-contest@contesting.com> Sent: Tuesday, Novem
Want to help FEMA help those in need? Here's an on-call job with the FEMA Reservist program as an HF Operator: www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/585313700 73 Frank W3LPL ____________________________
Sunspot activity has increased dramatically over the last two months. Most days this month have had multiple and more active sunspots resulting in the solar flux index exceeding 100 for the first tim
10 meters has been open to Europe from the east coast for the last four days starting before 1300Z. 10 has been very strongly open to Africa in the morning, South America for most of the day and the
Hi John, The E and F1 regions are capable of daytime "blanketing" of low angle propagation to the F2 layer that we use for long haul DXing. Blanketing reflects signals to the Earth before they reach
Over the horizon radar, likely using megawatt ERP -- Original Message -- Sunday morning during CQWW CW at 1335z some kind of wideband signal landed on top of me. It had a pulsating sound and covered
Geomagnetic storm watches are in effect from 9-11 December , due to coronal mass ejection (CME) effects from a direct CME collision with the Earth's magnetosphere on 9-11 December. The CME eruption w
Hi Bill, Your email highlights exactly why the most effective contest stations have antennas at a variety of heights. We usually observe the elevation angles rise at the intensity of band openings im