From: ted@tedb.demon.co.uk (Edward Batts)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet,rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: rsgb gb2rs news  18th october
Date: 17 Oct 92 00:07:41 GMT
Organization: 5/10

Good morning. It's Sunday the 18th of October and here is the GB2RS news
broadcast, prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

And we start this week by wishing a special good morning to all the scouts and
guides taking part in Jamboree On The Air.

The Radiocommunications Agency has recently announced its continuing support
for Project YEAR - Youth into Electronics via Amateur Radio - with a further
two years of sponsorship of the Young Amateur of the Year Award. The
announcement was made by senior RA official Steven Spivey at this year's Young
Amateur of the Year presentation at the RSGB HF Convention. A full report on
the ceremony appears in the November edition of Radio Communication which is
due to be posted to all RSGB members this week.

Enterprises By The Blind is looking for volunteers to read parts of RadCom
onto cassette tape. Anyone interested is asked to contact Mr Gerrard, G3LAZ,
on 0582 27588.

Now some items of HF DX news from the weekly RSGB DX News Sheet which is
edited by Brendan McCartney, G4DYO: From Minami Torishima, JK1ABP will be
active from now until January 1993 on all Bands using SSB, CW and Packet.
JK1ABP will sign JA9IPX/JD1 on the normal HF bands but JK1ABP/JD1 on the WARC
bands. From Galapagos Islands, N6KT will sign HC8A from now until Sunday the
25th of October. From the US Virgin Islands, CT1BOH will be active from today,
Sunday the 18th until Saturday the 31st October as KP2/CT1BOH. During next
weekend's CQ World-wide SSB contest he will sign KP2A. From Canada, AH9B will
be active as AH9B/VO2 from Western Labrador in CQ Zone 2 from Tuesday the 20th
to Monday the 26th of October, mainly on 80 and 40 metres CW and SSB. During
the CQ WW SSB contest he will be active on all bands. From Fernando de
Noronha, PP1CZ will be active as PY0F/PP1CZ from this weekend until Saturday
the 31st of October. During the CQ contest he will sign PU0F.

Rally news now, and we know of no rally for this weekend, and only one rally
scheduled for next weekend: The Leicester Amateur Radio and Electronics
Exhibition will be held at the usual venue, the Granby Halls, Aylestone Road,
Leicester. This year the exhibition is to be held on Friday the 23rd and
Saturday the 24th of October. Doors open at 10.00 am, or 9.30 for disabled
visitors. The event features an extensive trade exhibition, an RSGB Book and
Information stand and a bring and buy stand. Refreshments will be available.
Talk-in is to be on channels S22 and SU22 using the callsign GB2GH. For a
complete guide, see the centre section of October's RadCom. Further details
can be obtained from Frank Elliott, G4PDZ, by telephoning 0533 871086.

Contest news next:

Today, Sunday the 18th, the RSGB 21MHz CW Contest takes place between 0700 and
1900GMT. Exchange RST, a serial number starting 001 and the RSGB County Code
which can be found in the January 1992 edition of RadCom. The full rules are
on page 66 of April's RadCom. Next weekend the CQ World-wide DX SSB Contest
takes place from 0000 on Saturday the 24th, to 2400 on Sunday the 25th. All
bands 160 to 10 metres will be used, excluding the WARC bands. See October
RadCom page 19 for brief information. Another in the RSGB's 1.3 and 2.3GHz
Cumulative series takes place on Wednesday the 21st of October. It runs from
1930 to 2200GMT. See June RadCom page 65 for further details.

From Monday the 26th to Friday the 30th of October, five members of the Yeovil
Amateur Club will be bringing amateur radio to a group of 14 year olds at the
Kilve Court Space Science Course near Bridgewater in Somerset. The Special
Event Station GB2KSS will be on HF and VHF during this course to give some of
the youngsters hands on experience of amateur radio.

And now the solar factual data:

The period 5th to 11th October saw an improvement in HF band conditions and a
modest rise in solar activity. There were 2 flares reported, an M1.4/SN on the
5th and a M3.1/1B on the 7th. A small magnetic storm was reported on the 9th
but little came of it. Spot counts have increased and meaned about the 130s
though the 6th was up to 166. Solar flux levels slightly declined over the
period and averaged 124 units, dropping from 137 on the 6th down to 111 by the
11th, Nevertheless this is an improvement over previous weeks. The geomagnetic
Ap indices were quiet up to the 9th when a sudden small magnetic storm took
the levels to very unsettled, with an Ap index of 26, the period averaged 12.8
units. The state has been nil, nothing to report, throughout the period,
except for the 9th. The radio quality indices rose to well above normal, being
extremely good on all circuits, with the Tokyo and Canberra circuits being up
to excellent at times. Levels declined on the 10th back to normal. The
geomagnetic aa indices for the 29th September to the 5th October, as supplied
by the British Geological Survey, declined from substorm levels of 78.7
nanoTeslas on the 29th, down to very quiet levels of 8.3 nanoTeslas by the 5th
October. The daily indices averaged 31.5 nanoTeslas for the period.

Now the ionospheric data for England and Wales:

The F2 daytime critical frequencies at Slough, as reported by Appleton,
averaged 9.3MHz with levels reaching 11.3MHz on the 9th. This is the highest
level since last April. The increase is partly due to the seasonal changes now
taking place. The darkness hour lows averaged 2.7MHz and hardly changed day to
day with the lowest levels being around 05.00 hours and the highs between
11.00 to 14.00 hours.

Now the ionospheric data for the north:

The F2 daytime critical frequencies at Sverdlodvsk:-(pronounced SVAIRD-LOVSK)
averaged 8.2MHz, and the darkness hour lows 3.1MHz. The aa indices given in
GB2RS are derived from data from Hartland UK and Canberra Australia. These
stations were chosen because they are at conjugate points, which are each end
of the same line of the earth's magnetic field. This gives a good guide to the
planetary conditions.


And lastly the solar forecast:

This week, the more active side of the sun will be coming into view. Solar
flux levels are expected to be at about the 110s. Geomagnetic levels are
expected to be quiet and ionospheric conditions good. Daytime MUFs should be
up to 30MHz, and darkness hour lows 18MHz, with 14MHz being best for darkness
hours east/west circuits.

And that is the end of the solar information.


Finally in the main news, the licence issuing agency, SSL, has informed the
Society that as of last Wednesday morning, the latest callsigns issued were in
the G0 S N and G7 N U series, and Novice calls in the 2 0 A D and 
2 1 B D series. .

You're listening to GB2RS, the news broadcasting service of the Radio Society
of Great Britain, transmitting in the 80, 40, 6 and 2 metre bands.