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This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by
NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX,
Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web
sites. Thanks to all.

For some reason, there was no DX bulletin issued this weekend, but I do have
the propagation report. Have a good weekend and try to brush the dust off of
your rig.

We soon may be talking about a day or two without sunspots as the
norm, perhaps when looking at a preceding month -- quite the
opposite of noting the few days with sunspots. It seems like a long
time ago because of the long strings of spotless days. We saw eight
days in a row with visible sunspots around mid-October, followed by
another eight days around the start of November, then after just
three days of no spots. By the end of today -- Friday, November 14
-- we may see five straight days, possibly followed by more.

This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by
NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX,
Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web
sites. Thanks to all.

This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by
NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, Contest
Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites.
Thanks to all.

Looks like a job well done by the ARRL

This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by
DL1MGB, NC1L, OH4MDY, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News,
The Daily DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar
and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all.

Pretty interesting, let's hope the ARRL puts our money to good use and gets this shot down!!

I took my portable MP3 player with me on Sunday while on an outbound flight from Richmond to St Louis. I intended to play some study material that I have loaded on it to help pass the time on the plane. Shortly before take off, I realized that the MP3 player also had an FM tuner on it. I knew it would be a fun ride across the country.

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The beacon consists of the following hardware:

Radio Shack HTX-100 (7 watt output) - operating 28.231 mhz
Picokeyer (imbedded inside of radio)
Par Electronics End Fedz EF-10 (end fed dipole) at 50 feet facing NE / SW
RG-8X (apx 40 feet run)

The beacon is located at:
N 37 19.' 27" x W 77 25'25"
FM17GH in Chesterfield County

The beacon is operational 24 hours a day (except for when the control op wants to get on the higher HF bands). The message sent is VVV de WA4FC/B WA4FC/B WA4FC/B FM17 FM17. This is sent at 12wpm over a 46 second time period, followed by a 20 second pause to allow for reception of other beacons that may possibly be on the frequency.

The WA4FC 10 meter beacon officially became operational on October 9, 2008.

We had thought for several years about putting beacons on the air to help with the study of propagation, and things just started falling into place. Those responsible for the project include KD4BPZ and KG4SNN. More pictures can be found in the photo gallery about this project and this article about constructing this beacon.. Don't forget to listen for our 6 meter beacon as well.

The Motorola Amateur Radio club is celebrating the 80th aniversary of Motorola by operating a special event station this weekend. For more details, check out the MARC website. Thanks to Dan, KF4LUC for the info.