Greetings from the Cascade/Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon...42.07N by 122.26W CN82sc

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Geomagnetic
Status
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Current Solar images Current Auroral Map
Solar images
Latest WWV
Aurora

HOT LINKS

THE AMATEUR RADIO SATELLITE CORPORATION
THE DX SUMMIT WEB BASED DX CLUSTER
DX WATCH
OSCAR 40 LOGGER
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DX CLUB
UP TO DATE ANNOUNCED DXPEDITIONS PAGE
THE N6ED LOG SEARCH LINK PAGE
THIS WEEKS CONTEST INFORMATION COURTESY OF WA7BNM
VERY USEFUL PROPAGATION INFORMATION PAGE FROM N6RT
SPACE WEATHER RADIO USERS PAGE FROM NOAA
DX NEWS LETTER (DJ5AV/DL7VOA)
OHIO/PENN DX BULLETINS
NG3K AMATEUR RADIO PAGES
PACKET CLUSTER RESOURCES
K4UTE PREFIX FINDER
ARCHIVE OF BEAUTIFUL AURORA PHOTOS
QSL INFORMATION FROM THE PATHFINDER WEB CLIENT
PAY TO PLAY QSL INFORMATION FROM THE GO-LIST
MMTTY FREE AMATEUR SOFTWARE FROM JE3HHT
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE..LOCAL

 

 

CURRENT ANTENNA PHOTOS

(satellite)


40 ELEMEMT 70 cm - 22 ELEMENT 2 meter - 6 FOOT DISH 2.4 ghz

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HF ANTENNAS FROM OPTIBEAM

2 element 40 meters - 9 element WARC - 16 element tribander

ANTENNA



THE AA6NP DX'ER QUIZ

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1. You are tuning around and you just found a bunch of people saying up up up. You have found...

Workmen giving instructions to a crane operator.
Someone being told where to shove it.
A DX station's transmit frequency.
Helpful operators asking a DX station to increase transmit power.

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2.One way skip is

An old wives tale. There is no such thing.
Only occurs above the maximum usable frequency.
A well documented phenomenon.
Caused by aurora

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3. Arctic flutter is caused by...

The frigid Arctic atmosphere.
Polar bear flatulence.
Interaction of the magnetic field with the ionosphere.
Too much vodka.

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4. You just heard a station give his name as Serge. His signal has heavy Arctic flutter. He is probably...

Surrounded by polar bears with indigestion.
In California.
On the International Space Station
Somewhere near Russia.

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5. Zone 2 is...

A rare North American zone.
A common North American zone.
In Northern Africa.
A middle layer of the ionosphere.

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6. The Pederson Ray is...

A secret military weapon.
A type of ground wave propogation.
Related to ionospheric ducting.
A type of St. Elmo's Fire




CURRENT STATION CONFIGURATION

HERE IS MY BRAG SHEET....
YAESU FT1000 MARK5
ALPHA76A AMP
AMERITRON AL572 AMP
AN WIRELESS HD70 TOWER
OPTIBEAM OB2-40 2 ELEMENT 40 AT 90 FEET
OPTIBEAM 0B9-2 9 ELEMENT WARC BEAM AT 80 FEET
OPTIBEAM OB16-3 16 ELEMENT TRIBAND BEAM AT 70 FEET
FORCE 12 C4E BEAM AT 10 METERS
PK 232 MODEM OR MMTTY SOFTWARE
YAESU FT 736R FOR SATELLITE WORK
MIRAGE VHF/UHF AMPS
22 ELEMENT 2 METER BEAM
40 ELEMENT 70CM BEAM
6 FOOT DISH FOR 2.4 GHZ SATELLITE RECEIVE
COMPUTER 800 MHZ MICRON CLONE



STATION PHOTO FROM 2000

(before upgrade to ft 1000 mark V)

station

73 FOR NOW DE AA6NP