Friday, August 31, 2007

My SKCC Membership


Just receive email from Gordon N6WK informing SKCC accepting my application to join the club and assign #3408 as my membership number. Thanks Gordon.

Already heard about SKCC several times. And co-incidentally found their mailing list at yahoo yesterday. No need to long thinking, I send request to join command to the groups. Only 2 days waiting, they now accept me as member.

SKCC (stands for Straight Key Century Club) is a club for CW enthusiast, but different on key usage, we only accept straight key or bug to keying. So for QRS hams, join this club is very challenging and sure will increase your mastering CW code. As you know, using straight key will limit our speed to maximum 15 wpm(my opinion). More than 15, our keying will sound strange and possible to increase error rate. So 12 wpm is fun speed.

Find the web at http://www.skccgroup.com and explore. You can find lots of useful info. You can join mailing list with send request to skcc-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
. Process is very fast.

SKCC is very active club. We make first date on every month as 24 Hour Monthly Operating Event. We can meet another SKCC friends at this time and exchange our SKCC number. Also the mailing list is very active. Daily posting usually more than 30 emails.

Also congrats to my fellow YC3RCJ Rudi. Also become new member and assign #3415. Still search maybe these are another YB who already join. As Aug 27, 2007, SKCC already issue 3425 membership number, since founded on January 2006.

Okay hope to see on the band soon. My station will be ready on January 2008.

73 de Riv

Friday, August 10, 2007

New Propagation Cycles Start?


Reading KH6BZF and K7RA abt sunspot activity this week, make me start to be happy. They inform, sun surface are clean. So we just wait one spot appear (one is enough) and it will be the starting point of what we call cycle-24.

When sunspots are maximum, the sun surface will be peppered with spot and massive gas explosion from sun surface that sometimes carried by solar wind toward earth.
So, sit back and relax for several weeks, then propagation will improve. It's give me enough time to prepare my new shack to be operable, after my house progress done.
Picture above, I took from www.dxlc.com

See you on next cycle.