Eastern Iowa DX Association

10/12/2022

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03/28/2021

April Newsletter

02/20/2021

09/30/2020

The October newsletter is out.

Contesting encompasses many more skills than is at first apparent. It helps hone operating and technical skills. Emergency communications, public service event support, traffic handlers and Dxers can all benefit. Best of all, within a club, contesting is really a team effort bringing all the experie...

12/30/2019

The January newsletter has been released.

The NOAA/NASA co-chaired, international panel to forecast Solar Cycle 25 released their latest forecast for Solar Cycle 25. The forecast consensus: a peak in July, 2025 (+/- 8 months), with a smoothed sunspot number (SSN) of 115. The panel agreed that Cycle 25 will be average in intensity and simila...

06/30/2019

The July newsletter has been published

April 5, 2019 - Scientists charged with predicting the Sun’s activity for the next 11-year solar cycle say that it’s likely to be weak, much like the current one. The current solar cycle, Cycle 24, is declining and predicted to reach solar minimum - the period when the Sun is least active - lat...

04/08/2019

The NOAA/NASA co-chaired international panel to forecast Solar Cycle 25 released a preliminary forecast for Solar Cycle 25 on April 5, 2019. The consensus: Cycle 25 will be similar in size to cycle 24. It is expected that sunspot maximum will occur no earlier than the year 2023 and no later than 2026 with a minimum peak sunspot number of 95 and a maximum of 130. In addition, the panel expects the end of Cycle 24 and start of Cycle 25 to occur no earlier than July, 2019, and no later than September, 2020. The panel hopes to release a final, detailed forecast for Cycle 25 by the end of 2019. Please read the official NOAA press release describing the international panel's forecast at https://www.weather.gov/news/190504-sun-activity-in-solar-cycle

03/27/2019

3Y0I - EXPEDITION ABORTED / POSTPONED. https://dx-world.net/3y0i-bouvet-island/

03/24/2019

01/25/2019

MEETING POSTPONED

If you were planning to attend tonight's meeting, it has been postponed. Watch for a rescheduled date.

01/24/2019

Welcome to the new ARRL Contests portal - your one-stop shop for all of your ARRL contest interests. From here you can access everything from the starting bell of a contest to your post-event hard-fought certificate of accomplishment.