HF
Experiences and information involving HF activity.
BARC Below 30 Mhz
When you talk to someone about ham radio, likely the first question they will ask is "What is the farthest you have talked to someone?" While we can easily get around the world using Internet and telephone links, we know that they are referring to the image of the Ham sitting at their radio calling CQ and hoping for a weak signal response from someone around the world, carried via "high frequency" radio waves. This year we have started including HF contest and band condition reports in our weekly VHF/UHF net to help spark new interest in this age-old art of chasing DX and practicing your HF skills in contests. Ernie, KB7ZNH has stepped up to the mic to provide this information as well as HF operating tips which you will find in this part of the site. One of the resources Ernie uses for HF contests lists is the eight day contest calendar compiled by WA7BNM. If you have any feedback on this part of the site or the HF topic in the weekly club nets, feel free to email Ernie at kb7znh@yahoo.com.
7QP Contest - May 7, 2011
Submitted by KE7IK on Fri, 2011-04-29 11:537QP - 7th Call Area QSO Party
Date: May 7, 2011
Time: 7 AM to after Midnight
Location: Ham Shack in Engineering Lab Building room EL224 on USU campus
Our club will be participating in the 7th Call Area QSO Party (7QP) contest. This is a state QSO party involving the 7th call area states (WA, OR, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY, AZ). If you would like to try your skill at working contest stations on the HF bands, logging contacts, or just watching to see what a contest is, drop by and we'll get you involved with whatever you would like to do.
The 7QP contest is where 7th call area stations work everyone, others work 7th area stations only. Stations that are in the 7th call area give a signal report and a 5-letter state/county code. There are 259 counties in the 7th call area and each county may be active with at least a fixed, portable, and/or a mobile station. Non 7th area stations give a signal report with their state/province/”DX” two-letter code. More information on 7QP is at www.7qp.org. Also, the Indiana QSO Party and New England QSO Party are happening the same weekend, and those stations will be giving their appropriate exchange. It is fun to see what counties, states, and DX stations that can be contacted.
Drop by and enjoy the fun of a QSO party. See the attached file that has a map of the Ham Shack location and parking information.
D-Star in Cache Valley
Submitted by AC7II on Thu, 2009-12-31 16:04Cache Valley has a 440 D-Star Repeater thanks to Bill Neville WA7KMF. Please Visit the Web Site of the NU7TS Repeater.
Also the Department of Homeland Security has entrusted our Local ARES Community the control and maintenace of a Full D-Star Stack 1.2 G,
440 Mhz and 2 Meter. The Call Sign of AC7O
The Freq.
NU7TS the Northeren Utah Technical Socieity D-Star Repeater
NU7TS B = 449.575
AC7O The Cache County ARES D-Star Repeatrer
AC7O A 1299.750 Mhz Digital Data
AC7O B 447.975 Mhz Digital Voice
AC7O C 145.150 Mhz Digital Voice
Morse Code Net for Newbies
KE7WAV and KF7ATL have been meeting Sunday nights to work on building their proficency sending and receiving CW (Morse Code). All are welcome to join in. They say they are at the begining stages so don't be shy to jump in. They are on 40 Meters 7120 Khz +/- at 2100 (9:00pm) local Sundays. Please come join one of the orginal digital modes.
Ted AC7II
Solar Indices
Submitted by kd7yko on Tue, 2007-02-06 21:55As a summary of the training topic during the BARC net on 1,30,2007 the solar indices were the topic of discussion along with solar sunspots. The solar indices consist of solar flux, A-index and K-index. As a refresher the solar indices are updated every three hours and broadcast on WWV out of Denver at 18 minutes after the hour on 2.5, 5, 10 and 15 mhz. They are also found on many websites such as http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/.
The solar flux index mainly affects the F layer of the ionosphere in its ability to reflect radio waves. The higher the Solar Flux the higher the MUF (Maximum Usable Frequency) generally is. Also the higher the solar flux generally makes for better HF conditions especially DX (Other Countries). In simple words the higher the better.
