High frequency

So you still got a couple of days.

He's using CW sideband and FT8 MSHV on HF with verticals and an inverted V plus a five element Yagi on six.

And you can QSL that direct to his home QTH or use LOTW or Clublog.

From Bahrain, which is Alpha 9, we have this.

For Mancuso, it has meant getting a special event call sign, K6S, and setting up a public demonstration station on October 17th for scouts from throughout the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council.

He says they'll be running HF, VHF, and UHF simultaneously, adding that scouts will be hands-on at the mic and keyboard the whole time.

This is their event, he says, not just something they're watching.

Frequencies and other details are in this week's ARRL letter.

The Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre reports that there are currently three numbered sunspot regions on the solar disk, and that all three are stable.

No flares are expected over the next several days.

The global HF propagation forecast for middle latitudes is normal to fair today, followed by normal propagation in the days that follow.

Predicted 10.7 cm radio flux from the SWPC... is today and tomorrow 90, 95 on Sunday, then an uptick to 100 on September 21st, followed by 110 on the 22nd, and 105 on September 23rd.

Gibraltar continues two-year-long ham radio anniversaries.

And HF Radio comes to a 12,000-year-old site in Turkey.

All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2551 comes your way right now.

From around the world, this is Newsline, Amateur Radio's first independent on-the-air news and bulletin service.

Then underneath that, you have radio networks that don't depend on the host country for anything.

And the bottom layer, the one that works when everything else is gone, is HF.

Why HF specifically? What does shortwave get you that a satellite phone doesn't? No infrastructure between you and the other end.

A satellite phone depends on a satellite constellation that somebody owns and somebody can deny.

A cellular call depends on towers that the host government can switch off.

VHF and UHF are line of sight, so they're fine for talking to your own security detail in the parking lot, but useless for reaching London.

HF bounces off the ionosphere.

You need a transceiver, an antenna, and power.

The Seychelles, Sierra 7, Sierra 79 stroke Delta Lima 2 Sugar Baker Yankee Kazimir is QRV from Mahe until September 21st.

He is using CW sideband and FT8 MSHV on HF with verticals and an inverted V plus a five element Yagi for six meters.

QSL direct to his home QTH or use LOTW and club log OQRS.

From Bahrain in the Middle East, Alpha 9, we have this one.

Sao Tome and Principe, which is Sugar 9.

The Sugar 9 radio de-expedition will run from October 17th to the 31st from Tamarindo.

Planned is HF in various modes.

The antennas are spider beams, hex beams, 40 meter vertical, 80 through 10 meter, and fed half wave, and a six meter five element Yagi.

A significant body of work has been done by RSGB volunteers and specialists to prepare for the conference and RSGB has submitted 10 papers, making it the largest contributor of any of the member societies.

The four key areas where the society have input are spectrum protection and HF strategy, protecting 430 to 440 megs, IARU Region 1 governance and licensing and examinations.

The Society would like to thank Spectrum Forum Chairman Marie Hyman, G6JYB, who led the RSGB expert team who prepared the Society's papers for the conference.

Marie will attend the conference in person with RSGB Head of Delegation.

RSGB President Bob Beebe, GU4YOX, RSGB HF Manager Ian Greenshields, G4FSU, and RSGB Board Director Nathan Nuttall, MM9OCC, who has been contributing to the International Development of Youth Amateur Radio through the IARU Region 1's Youth Committee.

For further information about the RSGB's input, go to RSGB Notice section on the Society's website.

You can read all the papers submitted for the conference.

Contacts will be possible via the QO100 satellite.