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Mariana Islands DX
Association - PO Box 445 - Agana Guam 96932
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Volume 2 Number 1 -
January 1999
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Edited by KH2D
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Published Quarterly
by MIDXA
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Email Items to MIDXA
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IN THIS Club News Ham News On The Bands Visitors For Sale On the Web
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Club News
NEW CLUB MEMBERS - We would like to welcome the following new members to MIDXA - Ernie, DU1COO and Ed, DU1ODX. MIDXA's DVK Software - Jeff, N4UQM, has updated our DVK program to include a TXDELAY, which was requested by hams using the program for meteor scatter, and added a choice of RTS or DTR keying. The new version is downloadable from the club web page. JANUARY is dues month. - Dues for 1999 are $20.00. Members wishing to renew MIDXA memberships should try and have their dues paid during the month of January. Guam members see WH2U or KH2D. Saipan members see WH0V. Off island members can send their yearly dues to: MIDXA Please make checks payable to "John van der Pyl",
(WH2U, who is the club treasurer.) Visiting DX'ers In October we were visited by a group of hams from the second call district in Japan. They spent some time operating on HF and six meters during the VK/ZL contest, but also enjoyed some vacationing and some shopping while here in Guam. They were active in the contest using the call KH2F. Hams we met during the visit were: JA2TBS/KH2F, Kato (Masa) We enjoyed meeting and visiting with them while they
were here, and a good time was had by all. General consensus seemed
to be that KMart was more fun than Duty Free Shoppers..... Ham Radio News The F.C.C. has closed the comment session on license restructuring in the U.S. 1999 should bring about some changes that we are all waiting to hear about. The F.C.C. has also announced that 1999 will see a major change in licensing forms, with the implementation of a new system, new forms, and electronic filings. Vanity rates have also been reduced, which has reopened the flood gates at Gettysburg. SSTV from Space - The Russian manned satellite,
MIR, has been transmitting SSTV pictures on the 2 meter band. For info
and to see some sample pictures, visit http://www.kmedia.freeserve.co.uk/
On The Bands We continue to move towards the cycle peak, and the HF bands also continue to show improvement. Ten meters has been open for the last few months with world wide propagation, and six meters is also beginning to show signs of the coming peak. The contest season during October and November produced some excellent weekends for DXing. The low bands are also showing improvement in December, with east coast U.S. and European signals being heard in the Pacific on a nightly basis. Items For Sale Any club member wishing to list items for sale should email the info about the items to KH2D. If you have digital pictures of items for sale, I'll be glad to add them to the web page. Miscellaneous ham stuff for sale at: On The Web In this newsletter I will try and list a few Internet resources that I find helpful and I that I think other club members may find useful also. AC6V
Index - The place to find ham related web
pages.
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