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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 30 2020 22:16:13

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for Francesco, IK6QON, who will be on
the air holiday style, from Corfu, from August 9th to the 20th. Be
listening on 40 through 6 metres, where he will be using CW and SSB.
QSL direct, by the bureau or eQSL.

Be listening for Simone, IU4HRJ, operating as IM0/IU4HRJ, between the
4th and 10th of August, from Maddalena Island. Simone will be on 40
through 2 metres, operating SSB and digital. Send QSLs direct, or by
the bureau.

Tina, DL5YL, and Fred, DL5YM, will be active from Liechtenstein, from
the 8th of September to the 2nd of October. They will be active in the
CQWW RTTY contest on September 26th and 27th. Send QSLs via their home
calls.

The special event station HA70MAV (HA-SEVEN ZERO-MAV) is on the air on
the HF bands in Hungary, through December 1st, to mark the 70th year of
the Hungarian State Railway. Send QSLs via eQSL.

(DX-WORLD)

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KICKER: HE'S DOWNRIGHT PROPER ABOUT PROPAGATION

JIM/ANCHOR: Our final story this week is about predictions and
propagation -- and the man behind the ARRL's Propagation Bulletins.
Paul Braun, WD9GCO, spoke with him, and discovered that his path to
this important assignment, was the least predictable thing of all.

PAUL: Many hams rely on the ARRL Propagation Bulletins to help plan
their on-air strategies. But did you ever think about the guy behind
all of those reports? How did he get started writing them? Well, I
spoke with Tad Cook, K7RA, about just that topic:

COOK: Back in the mid-60s, I copied W1AW on CW, and copied a propagation
bulletin by Ed Tilton, W1HDQ. In the early 80s, I started using software
for predicting propagation.

But, what actually led to me writing the bulletin is eventually W1HDQ
became ill, and this happened to be right at a time, when there was a
historic increase in solar flux, and that was in the spring of 1991.
The ARRL announced that the propagation bulletins were on hold for a
while, because he was sick. So I called headquarters, and said, "Look,
somebody's got to write a propagation bulletin about this."

The person I talked to said, "Well, I don't know who would do that,"
and I said, "Well, I'm familiar with his style", and so I wrote one.
The next week, they wanted another one, and it's just continued since
then!"

PAUL: So what started as an offer to help while another ham was sick
has turned into almost 30 years of writing those reports. Cook has
hopes that the next sunspot cycle is just around the corner, so his
reports will have some DX sunshine in them.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.

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West Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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