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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Daily ham radio news 05/11/19

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who notes:
New construction – a 250 kw FEBC medium wave outlet coming southwest of Seoul. BTW, FEBC currently leases at least one hour of VOA-Korean on FEBC 1188 khz Seoul.
An interview with the FEBC president on CBN News:
(Source: CBN NewsCBN News)
Communist North Korea is about to get hit with a massive new radio signal carrying the message of Christ’s love like never before.
“It’s an AM station, 250,000 watts, which will clearly cover North Korea,” said Ed Cannon, president of Far East Broadcasting Company, also known as FEBC.
For over 75 years, FEBC has been using radio signals to send the message of Jesus Christ around the world.
Cannon says this new “super station” will be erected close to the border of North and South Korea.
“We’ve secured a location on the western coast of South Korea just a few miles south of the Demilitarized Zone,” Cannon told CBN News. “It’s a perfect location because the signal goes across the ocean for a few miles and then goes right into North Korea.”
FEBC’s president says the radio signal will launch in a few months and will carry gospel programs produced from neighboring South Korea.
“The strategy of our organization is to use indigenous people in their native language to produce programming,” Cannon said. “We have a large segment of South Korean people broadcasting and we also have a number of escapees, refugees from North Korea, who’ve come to our organization.”
Cannon claims the signal will be “unblockable” by North Korea’s regime and will “reach far past the northern boundary of North Korea covering the entire country with the message of Jesus Christ.”
According to its website, FEBC’s broadcasts can be heard in 107 languages and 49 countries from 149 stations and transmitters.
“Our goal in North Korea is the same as it is in all of our other countries: to share the gospel through radio so that people will be inspired to follow Jesus Christ as their Savior,” Cannon told CBN News in an earlier interview.
North Korea is the most dangerous country in the world for Christians. Cannon says anyone caught listening to FEBC programs faces severe consequences.
“The {North Korean} refugees themselves say ‘pray for courage, pray for perseverance’ because the Christians are reaching out in ways to gather together in the Name of Christ, to pray together, to listen to the radio together, and they are willing to endure severe persecution,” Cannon told CBN News.
Each year, Open Doors USA releases their World Watch List, a ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.
North Korea has taken the top spot for 18 years in a row.
“If Christians are discovered, not only are they deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot, their families will share their fate as well,” Open Doors asserted on their website. “Christians do not even have the slightest space in society, on the contrary, they are publicly warned against.”
Thank you for sharing this, Tracy!


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“George Thomas’ guide to shopping for quality audio connectors. How to spot good audio connectors with George, Show Us Your Project with Randy, get the most out of Dayton Hamvention with the ARRL’s mobile app, 2019 Hamvention souvenir patch and lanyards with Don, solar weather with Dr. Skov, chatroom questions with Amanda and more! Hosts: Bob Heil, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, Amanda Alden, Dale Puckett “

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This is amazing! AR 12740, which is an old cycle region and I honestly have not expected much, has produced a C9.9 (almost M-class) flare. The flare was very short duration, but note the spectacular large-scale coronal propagating front in the difference movie! pic.twitter.com/LVwMsVdrEq
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A second hour-long FT4 “practice contest” set for May 14 UTC has been cancelled, following the success of an initial mock contest held on May 9 UTC (the evening of Wednesday, May 8, in continental US time zones). The event followed ARRL RTTY Roundup rules, with everyone working everyone. WSJT-X program suite developer Joe Taylor, K1JT, was among those jumping into the fray. He called the exercise “very useful” and has drawn some preliminary conclusions as to how the FT4 protocol functions in a contest setting.
“FT4 works well, but — as implemented WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5 — it has some rough spots and performance issues,” Taylor said in a post to the Yahoo WSJT Meteor Scatter and Weak Signal Group. “Many of these have been fixed already during this beta-testing period, and more improvements are still to come.”
Taylor said a second mock contest session using the current -rc5 “release candidate” (beta version) would not be helpful, and it’s not convenient for the developers to build and distribute -rc6 in time for a session early next week, a few days before the Dayton Hamvention. “Instead, we are aiming now to release WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6 about 2 weeks later — probably in the last week of May or the first week of June,” Taylor said. “Another mock contest practice session will be scheduled soon after that release.” The current -rc5 beta version will expire automatically on June 7.
Taylor said he used a program build that was probably closer to the pending WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6 beta version than to -rc5. “With my dial set at 7.090 and a 4 kHz displayed spectral window, my waterfall was mostly filled with FT4 signals from well before 0000 UTC to well after 0100,” he said. Taylor managed some 60 stations in 22 states, four Canadian provinces, and in two DXCC entities.
“Generally I found WSJT-X to work well in FT4 contesting mode, but I noted several behavioral oddities that still require attention,” Taylor continued. For example, he said the “TU” message need only be sent once, and if the new station needs to be called again, the leading “TU” should be stripped. He also noted that the “Call 1st” check box becomes unchecked in certain circumstances. “This was intentional, part of an attempt to defeat robo-QSOs; but there may be a better way to address this issue,” he remarked. He said the “Best S+P” button was effective, but feels its behavior can be improved. “Its selection of a ‘best’ caller should favor new multipliers, and perhaps also stronger signals,” he said. “Currently, the button only functions as desired during a reception interval.”
In a post to the Yahoo WSJT Group, Rich Ferch, VE3KI, described the mock contest in one word: “chaotic.” He requested eliminating the “feature” that lets the operator continue to call a CQ-ing station, even after the station has come back to someone else. “At the very least, make it wait until the other QSO is over before calling,” he said.
Before the practice event, Taylor said the developers were “looking for feedback on what works well, what does not, and what an FT4-enabled contest might be like.”
If you took part, post your observations and comments to the Yahoo WSJT Groupreflector, the WSJT Development Group Mailing List, or the RTTYDigital list.
The WSJT-X Development Group reports that it’s aware of several other anomalies in the -rc5 version of WSJT-X 2.1.0. In addition to unexpected program crashes, the program will reset itself to FT8 protocol after the operator accesses the Settings screen. The current build of WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5 does not run correctly under macOS.
Installation packages for Windows and Linux are on the WSJT-X page. A full release of WSJT-X version 2.1 is targeted for release in July 2019.
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GM7V Team will be active again from Benbecula Island, IOTA EU - 010, in RSGB IOTA Contest, 27 - 28 July 2019.

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ARRL - We saw zero sunspots from April 21 through May 2, but on May 3 sunspots returned. Average daily sunspot number rose from zero last week to 16.1 this week, and average daily solar flux increased as well, from 67.5 to 73.5.
Both the average middle latitude and planetary A index this week were 6.6, and last week those numbers were 4.7 and 5.9 respectively.
Predicted solar flux is 75 on May 10-11, 73…


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We saw zero sunspots from April 21 through May 2, but on May 3 sunspots returned. Average daily sunspot number rose from zero last week to 16.1 this week, and average daily solar flux increased as well, from 67.5 to 73.5.
Both the average middle latitude and planetary A index this week were 6.6, and last week those numbers were 4.7 and 5.9 respectively.
Predicted solar flux is 75 on May 10-11, 73…


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It’s our annual ARRL Field Day issue! Click here to start reading now. 
● Take a compact 20-meter vertical antenna to your Field Day site.
● Try an HF magnetic loop antenna for 80 through 20 meters.
● Power a Field Day station with an electric vehicle.
● Prepare for Field Day “by the numbers.”
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 Enjoy Content You Won’t Find in the Print Edition…
● See our video overview of the Kenwood TS-890S HF and 6-meter transceiver.


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ARRL - Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://bit.ly/2F91TXp. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.


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Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://bit.ly/2F91TXp. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.


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“ANNOUNCEMENT – Friday May 10th, 2019: Sherwood Report on the FTDX101D
We know that some have been waiting for the Sherwood report regarding the performance of the FTDX101D. Well the results are in…the Yaesu FTDX101D is # 1 on the Sherwood report!
Please feel free to check the results out at:
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JM1LRA, JI6IHG & JA7WFT will be active from Koror, Palau as T88TA, T88IH & T88FT during May 16-24, 2019. QRV on CW/SSB/Digi. QSL via H/c, LoTW.

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