One of the great aspects of ham radio is to get together with fellow amateurs and get acquainted in person, exchange ideas and just to socialize. One of the many occasions was when we met here in Los Angeles in 1995. The visitors came from Canada and the Eastern US as well as locals. K6CUK secured the place at the Hacienda Hotel in El Segundo, N6DMV was the host at Queen Mary (he is a regular operator on the ship with the W6RO call sign) and I was the tour guide. We made a tour around Downtown, the Hancock Park (La Brea Tarpits) and went on a trip to Catalina Island. We had a good time.
I am the member of the TRW Radio Club, but not too active there, because of the distance from my home. There are other clubs nearby and I intend to get “connected” now that I have more time since my retirement in 2008.
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YU7CQ Géza |
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Hungarian World Bus & DX-Pedition |
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The first get-together at my QTH in 1992 |
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The Magnificent Six |
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AB6ZE, HA9RE and HA8IB |
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MUSEUM IN PÁKOZD, 2009
With my friends we visited the historical place of the battle of Pákozd that took place in 1848. There is a nice war museum and to my surprise I found the radios I operated many years ago as a soldier.
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PICNIC at K6CUK's QTH
On March 27, 2010 we gathered at Bob's house to celebrate our 20th anniversary of our acquaintance in El Segundo, California. The weather was co-operating beautifully with sunshine and close to 80 degrees F temperatures. We had a good time; the food was great and we reminisced of the "good old times". We checked out Bob's great station which he refurbished after an antenna flame-out. The event will be a memorable one.
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Upcoming Sunspot Cycle Likely to Be Strong
(Associated Press, March 07, 2006)
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LOS ANGELES — A new computer model suggests the next solar cycle will be more active than the previous one, potentially spawning magnetic storms that will be more disruptive to communication systems on Earth. The next sunspot cycle will be between 30 percent to 50 percent more intense than the last one, scientists said Monday. The cycle will also begin a year later than expected, in late 2007 or early 2008, and peak around 2012, said Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. The new prediction is at odds with previous forecasts, which suggested that the intensity of the next solar cycle would be measurably smaller. Accurately predicting the intensity of the sunspot cycle, which occurs about every 11 years, allows scientists to anticipate solar storms. They are caused by solar flares, or giant eruptions that burst from the surface of the sun. Solar storms, which eject billions of tons of plasma and charged particles into space, can produce dazzling northern lights, but also disrupt power lines, radio transmissions and satellite communication. The last time the solar cycle peaked was in 2001. For decades, scientists have tracked the solar cycle and appearance of sunspots, but they have been unable to accurately predict the intensity or timing of solar storms, which increase as the number of sunspots increases. Dikpati, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said her team tested the new computer model using previous solar cycle data and had 98 percent accuracy. David Hathaway, a solar astronomer with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., does not doubt that the next sunspot cycle will be stronger than the previous one. But Hathaway said his own research suggests that the next cycle will occur late this year — earlier than what Dikpati predicted. The current research, funded by National Science Foundation, is published in the latest Geophysical Research Letters. Check out the latest report: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/10jan_solarcycle24.htm?list840293 |
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Solar Sunspot Prediction Business
The above prediction in 2006 suggested a strong cycle 24 that will peak in 2012. There are two groups of sunspot observers, the one that expects a strong cycle and the one that expects a weak one. They both sitting on the fence in the meantime. The prediction three years later in 2009 said that the maximum sunspot activity will occur in 2013 and the maximum number will be 90, a low activity cycle. I gave up on predictions!
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With Hams in Csikszereda |
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