Hi all
MIDDAY 'CHALLENGE' EVENT
 
How many normal NDBs can you log around midday?
For your personal target, please see the list at the end.
 
Listening around midday is a good way to check our listening stations and to
find out if changes really have made improvements in reception.
Or maybe you could try the CLE listening from a 'field' location instead of
(or as well as!) from home?
 
Days: Fri. 25 July - Mon. 28 July
Times: Within 2 hours of when the sun is highest (see below)
QRG: 190 - 1740 kHz
NDBs Normal ones only, including any UNIDs
(not DGPS, Navtex or Amateur please).
 
### IMPORTANT ## If your house clocks have moved one hour
forward for 'summer time' (or 'daylight saving'), your listening times
each day will be BETWEEN 11 IN THE MORNING
and 3 IN THE AFTERNOON (15:00) on your LOCAL clocks.
 
If your clocks were NOT changed, as in Arizona for example, or
everywhere in the Southern Hemisphere where it is now mid-winter,
your times each day will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
 
(The above matches our agreed definition for daytime listening -see below*)
Of course, all our logs will show UTC times, as always.
 
The usual simple log-making 'rules' apply:
Post your CLE log to the List in a plain text email if possible please,
with CLE107 at the start of its title, showing on each log line:
 
# The Day No.(or full date) and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).
# kHz - the nominal published frequency, if known.
# The Call Ident.
 
Please show these main log items FIRST, with any other details such as
location and distance LATER in the same line.
Don't forget to give your own location and brief details of your equipment.
It also makes good reading if you add your thoughts on the CLE and any
amusing events that happened during it.
 
I will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 17:00 UTC on Wednesday
so you can check that your log has been found OK. Do make sure that your
log has arrived on the list by 08:00 UTC next Thursday, 31st July, at the
very latest. The combined results should be completed later that day.
 
As usual, you can get further helpful information about this and past CLEs
via Alan's 'Beaconworld' information pages.
 
Good listening
Brian
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From: Brian Keyte G3SIA cle'at'beaconworld.org.uk
Location: Surrey, SE England (CLE co-ordinator)
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*NDBLIST DAYTIME DEFINITION (Approved 28 Aug 2003)
For CLE and Awards purposes, 'Standard Daytime' is defined as spanning the
two hours before and after noon during WINTER TIME in the listener's
particular time zone. This definition is chosen to minimise the incidence
of greyline propagation affecting reception of distant stations. These four
hours should be expressed as UTC, and then used throughout the year.
No adjustment should be made in respect of any 'Daylight Savings Time'
changes applied in your region during the summer months, to avoid sudden
changes in conditions whenever seasonal clock changes might be applied.
 
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Here are the targets. If your name is missing and you plan to join in, or
if you hope to listen away from your normal home site, please tell me the
location ( cle'at'beaconworld.org.uk ) and I'll let you know your target.
As always, any first-time CLE logs will be extra welcome.
The targets marked with a '-' are affected by several North Sea/Norwegian
Sea offshore NDBs, many of which are likely to be inactive during the CLE.
However those listeners are likely to benefit from longer distance daytime
reception along other over-sea paths.
Targets shown with a '(?)' are tentative, due to incomplete NDB details in
my database.
 
Name 'Rptr' Target NDBs
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AL USA TX al 98
ALAN ENG ag 166-
ALEX AUT ax 199
ANDY USA MI ar 214
BEV POR bv 38
BO SWE bn 118
BOB AUS TA rw 19 (?)
BOB USA CA bc 24
BRIAN (Keyte) ENG bk 190-
BRIAN (Martlew) ENG br 160-
CHRIS ENG cy 196-
CHRIS SWE cw 122
CHRIS USA MA cb 94
CHRISTIAN SWE ca 95
DAN USA WA de 53
DAVE USA IL dt 205
DAVID AUS WE is 20 (?)
DAVID ENG ds 186-
DAVID USA NC da 235
thingy USA AZ dp 14
DOMINIQUE FRA dq 141
DON USA CA dn 23
DON USA NC dw 157
DOUGLAS USA TX du 171
EIKE DEU eb 194-
FINBAR IRL fo 67
FRANK (van Gerwen) HOL fg 210-
FRANK (Thijs) HOL ft 208-
FRANTISEK CZE fr 184
FRED KOR fm 25 (?)
GIORGIO SAR gc 46
HARTMUT DEU hw 197-
HENRIK DNK hn 151
HERB CAN ON hb 137
JACK USA OR jw 34
JARMO FIN he 117
JARNO FIN jt 118
JAY USA FL jy 66
JEAN FRA jj 218-
JIRI CZE jp 198
JOACHIM DEU je 182-
KARI FIN ks 92
LIONEL GSY lr 130
LUCA ITA lt 114
MARK USA OR mc 46
MARK USA UT mu 26
MARTIN CAN ON mf 136
MATTHIAS DEU mz 189
MICHAEL DEU mo 194
MIKE (Trodd) ENG mt 192-
MIKE (Thayne) ENG ty 162- (home) or 149-
MIKE HWA mx 6
PAUL USA MN pf 103
PETER ENG py 203-
PHIL USA CA pa 32
RAIMO FIN ro 103
ROBERT NIR ry 95
ROELOF HOL rb 213-
STEVE CAN BC sm 62
STEVE USA OR sr 56
TEIJO FIN ta 125
TJAERAND NOR tb 123-
TONY ENG tm 170-
TORBJORN SWE tn 129
TORRE FIN te 94
VACLAV CZE vd 203
VERNON CAN NS vm 43
VINCENT FRA vl 127
WILLI SWE wr 148
ZDENEK CZE ze 198
 
The above numbers are actually about 80% of the number of active normal
NDBs within 500km (300 miles). A general 'rule' like that cannot be fair
for everyone's situation, but I think it gives reasonable targets to aim at.
Of course we shall be logging ALL normal NDBs heard (including UNIDs),
some of us exceeding their target and others not reaching it, but there can
be no 'failure' for anyone who has enjoyed taking part!
 
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