Summary
of the NERG Meeting held on the 13th November
2003
This meeting saw about 30 NERGs and friends meet at the club rooms at the Briar Hill primary school. Jim Baxter, VK3DBQ, gave an interesting and informative talk about propagation indexes and electronic QSL “cards”.
With some practice the propagation indexes can be used to predict how good your chances are at picking up some DX on the HF bands. These three simple numbers can mean the difference between a working dog piles or working a lawnmower! For further information please see the Ionosphere Prediction Service (IPS).
You can use eQSL and the Log Book of the World (LBTW) to verify
contacts electronically these days. Jim recommends a logging program
called DX4WIN. The logs from this program can be automatically
submitted to the electronic QSL bureau, saving hours of writing out
cards and worrying if your green stamps ($’s) will be lost in the mail.
For more information please see the LoTW (Log of The World) at http://www.arrl.org/lotw/
Report lifted from NERG News for December 2003
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