From another post to UDXF, a link to an interesting article that explains somewhat as to how this is happening:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/31/yahoo-mail-users-still-seeing-accounts-hacked-via-xss-exploit-amid-reports-yahoo-failed-to-fix-old-flaw/

UDXF has gotten a lot of these emails, and it has spawned some discussion, some of which seems useful. It's not just radio-related groups that are being hit; I belong to several other groups that are also having problems.

Re: [UDXF] Re: another spam email alert‏

Dennis Smith

2:12 AM

To: UDXF@yahoogroups.com

The problem with these Yahoo hacks is the password is only 5% of the
hack if used at all. These hacks are done at the server rather than
the users PC, but still involve impersonating you and stealing your
cookies to do it. Even if you change your password your account is
still going to be subject to the same old log-in issue.
 
There are several things you can do to help prevent being the victim
and changing passwords frequently to strong multi-character is only a
small step. Logging out after each session helps. Not clicking links
to unknown locations is one. Using a good browser such as Chrome and
not IE is a massive help (Chrome sandboxes each tab). Best of all have
a Gmail account as your main Email and never use your Yahoo account
except to log in to Yahoogroups. The biggest thing you can do to save
yourself from a problem like this is enabling 2 step or 2 factor
authentication. Doing these will not completely protect you, but will
make your odd's of risk very very small indeed.
 
And clear your cookies at least once a week.
 
Dennis Smith
M1DLG
 
On 18 June 2013 02:21, Clyde <n1bhh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It may behoove everyone with a Yahoo mail, or any other account to change your password to something a bit more complicated than you currently have. Here are a couple you could try out, and be sure to print it up so you don't loose it. With all the talk on the news of the NSA snooping on us, why not pay attention to that? There are other hackers out there too, so why not pay attention to what is in the news? It affects everyone whether you want to believe it or not.
>
> http://www.freepasswordgenerator.com/
>
> http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
>
>
> Clyde N1BHH
> Weymouth, Ma.
>
> --- In UDXF@yahoogroups.com, "Ary Boender" <ary@...> wrote:
>>
>> I noticed it and blocked his email address
>>
>>
>>
>> Ary
>>
>>
>>
>> Van: UDXF@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UDXF@yahoogroups.com] Namens wphil71
>> Verzonden: maandag 17 juni 2013 16:48
>> Aan: UDXF@yahoogroups.com
>> Onderwerp: [UDXF] another spam email alert
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> hi,
>> just to let others know that i just got an email reportedly from our group
>> address, this time with a google docs attachment from romania.
>>
>> regards, Phil
>> VK3003SWL.

[UDXF] FCC RID History‏

n0sya
3:36 PM
To: UDXF@yahoogroups.com

The RID was the ww2 effort by the US FCC to monitor radio signals for the US government. They did for money and patriotism what we do for fun. The RID story is pretty interesting, to me at least, they did a lot with very little and their ingenuity was amazing. If you like you can dl a pdf history of the RID here:

http://users.isp.com/danflan/sterling/ridhist.pdf
 
I don't think many members will be disapointed.
 
Chris in Indiana USA

The one thing they don't want to do is to hamstring the military's war against garage door openers...

U.S. Pushes Agencies to Free Up Spectrum
Michael Nagle for The New York Times

By EDWARD WYATT
Published: June 14, 2013

WASHINGTON — Three years after President Obama laid out an ambitious plan to double the country’s supply of airwaves for use in high-speed wireless Internet service, the White House on Friday announced efforts intended in part to spur participation by government agencies that have been slow to join the cause.

Without additional airwaves for consumer and business use, administration officials say, the “skyrocketing demand of consumer and broadband business users” for wireless service for smartphones, tablets and other devices will soon outgrow the supply.

For consumers, the initiative could allow cellphone and wireless broadband companies to eventually increase the reliability of their networks, meaning fewer dropped calls and shorter delays in loading video and other large files.

It also could create jobs, the administration says. It cites industry studies reporting that since 2007, more than 500,000 jobs have been created in what is known as the App Economy — the business of creating and selling applications and programs that take advantage of faster Internet speeds and more advanced devices.

The administration said it would invest $40 million in the next year and $60 million more over the next five years to find ways for government agencies to share lightly used airwaves that are under federal control with private wireless communications companies.

Mr. Obama directed federal agencies to make more capacity available by enhancing the efficiency of their spectrum use and to recommend ways of using financial or other incentives to increase sharing of airwaves by government agencies.

“The number of wireless devices is exploding, and that means increasing demands on the spectrum upon which they all rely,” Gene B. Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, said in a White House blog post on Friday. “The federal government helps manage that resource, and we know we can do a better job of unleashing innovation by ensuring more of it is shared, unlicensed for innovations like Wi-Fi, and better used by our departments and agencies.”

One roadblock to that seemingly unlimited growth potential, however, is the reluctance of some parts of the government to part with any of their vast holdings of the nation’s electromagnetic spectrum — the airwaves used by cellphone and wireless communications companies.

In 2010, Mr. Obama directed government agencies to work to free up 500 megahertz of spectrum from federal and private sector sources. Those efforts have been embraced by numerous federal departments, administration officials say.

But a few others, including the Defense Department, have expressed wariness not only at sharing or giving up any of their designated frequencies, but even at revealing the amount and location of airwaves they control. Doing so could compromise national security, Pentagon officials say.

An administration official cited one hypothetical example where an executive department might use a certain frequency for about 12 hours a week of training activities. One agency might be willing to confine its use to prescribed hours, and allow commercial users to share the airwaves at other times, while another department might say it needs the flexibility to be able to use the airwaves at any time.

The Defense Department has said it supports the president’s goals of freeing up spectrum, but noted that an increasingly electronically armed military had its own rising needs for spectrum. The administration emphasized that any new plans to free spectrum should not interfere with “mission-critical capabilities” of military and other government departments.

Nevertheless, the intransigency of some departments has frustrated lawmakers.

“I have long called for a thorough inventory of all public spectrum assets in order to gauge usage and improve efficiency, and have been frustrated by how this debate has dragged out over the past four years,” Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said Friday. “Federal agencies should have the spectrum they need to protect the public, but no one should be warehousing spectrum.”

The Commerce Department has identified more than 300 megahertz of spectrum controlled by the federal government that could be set aside for other uses. The remainder of the 500 megahertz defined as the goal by the administration would come from the so-called incentive auctions that were authorized as part of the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act.

That law provided for the government to share the proceeds of auctions of newly cleared spectrum with television broadcasters who would willingly sell some or all of their spectrum licenses.

Perhaps the most interesting and highly charged recommendation in the president’s directive is one ordering recommendations for incentives that could be used to persuade government departments to share or give up spectrum.

A study released last year by a presidential advisory council on science and technology recommended that the government create a “synthetic” currency that could be used to entice federal agencies. The system would in effect increase an agency’s budget if it gave up or shared its airwaves.

Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel of the Federal Communications Commission, who has also been advocating such a system since joining the agency in May 2012, about the time the advisory council’s report was released, said federal spectrum policy should be built “on carrots, not sticks.”

“Our traditional three-step process for reallocating federal spectrum — clearing federal users, relocating them, and then auctioning the cleared spectrum for new use — is reaching its limits,” she said. The new initiatives, however, “are a significant step toward meeting the country’s spectrum needs.”

SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP024
ARLP024 Propagation de K7RA

ZCZC AP24
QST de W1AW 
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 24  ARLP024
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA  June 14, 2013
To all radio amateurs

SB PROP ARL ARLP024
ARLP024 Propagation de K7RA

Average daily sunspot numbers declined over 32 points this week to
39.6.  Average daily solar flux was down more than 8 points to 99.2.
Tuesday's solar flux at 89.5 was the lowest since June 22-25 of last
year, when values ranged from 84 to 88.6. Likewise, Tuesday's
sunspot number of 14 was also the lowest since June 25, 2012 when
the sunspot number was also 14. Since then both numbers have been
recovering, with Wednesday and Thursday's sunspot numbers at 27 and
45, and solar flux at 93.3 and 98.9.

The latest prediction has solar flux at 105 on June 14-17, 100 on
June 18-19, 105 and 110 on June 20-21, 115 on June 22-24, 110 on
June 25, 105 on June 26-28, and 110 on June 29 through July 4.
Solar flux is expected to reach a minimum of 95 around July 7-8 and
another peak at 115 on July 18-21. Note that ARRL Field Day is June
22-23, right when solar flux is expected to be highest.

The predicted planetary A index is 5 on June 14-16, 8 on June 17-18,
5 on June 19-20, then 25, 18, 10 and 8 on June 21-24, 5 on June
25-27, then 30, 20, 10 and 8 on June 28 through July 1, 5 on July
2-4, 10 on July 5-6, 8 on July 7, and 5 on July 8 through mid-month.

A geomagnetic forecast comes to us this week from Petr Kolman,
OK1MGW, who sees quiet to unsettled conditions June 14, mostly quiet
June 15-18, quiet to unsettled June 19-20, quiet to active June
21-23, quiet to unsettled June 24, quiet June 25-26, quiet to active
June 27, active to disturbed June 28-29, quiet to unsettled June 30
through July 2, quiet to active July 3-4, mostly quiet July 5-6.

Word has come that the link to the W6ELprop installation file at
http://www.qsl.net/w6elprop/ is broken. Until it is restored you can
find it at http://ftp://150.214.111.198/pub/ham/propag/W6ELPropInst270.EXE.

Unfamiliar with FTP? FTP is File Transfer Protocol, and you can
paste that link into your web browser URL window, hit Enter, and a
download dialog should appear. W6ELprop works only on Windows
computers, and with it you can predict propagation from your station
to anywhere else, on any frequency between 3-30 MHz. If you have any
trouble installing, try right-clicking the file and running as
administrator.

The latest NASA prediction for Cycle 24 moves the sunspot peak back
to Summer 2013, but NOAA predicts the peak for the end of this year.
Check pages 16 and 17 at
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly/pdf/prf1970.pdf and note the highest
smoothed sunspot and solar flux numbers are predicted in November
and December 2013. These are smoothed international sunspot numbers,
with a scale quite a bit lower than the Boulder numbers reported
here.

If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers,
email the author at, k7ra@arrl.net.

For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL
Technical Information Service web page at,
http://arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals. For an explanation of the
numbers used in this bulletin, see
http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere. An archive of past
propagation bulletins is at
http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation. More good
information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/.

Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve
overseas locations are at http://arrl.org/propagation.

Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of ARRL
bulletins are at http://arrl.org/bulletins.

Sunspot numbers for June 6 through 12 were 71, 76, 27, 41, 21, 14,
and 27, with a mean of 39.6. 10.7 cm flux was 109, 109.8, 103.2, 96,
93.3, 89.5, and 93.3, with a mean of 99.2. Estimated planetary A
indices were 17, 32, 10, 9, 13, 6, and 5, with a mean of 13.1.
Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 16, 26, 9, 8, 12, 6, and 5,
with a mean of 11.7.
NNNN
/EX

Here's another good one: www.strikestarus.com

For some reason my mind always reads this URL as "strike-a-saurus"...

[UDXF] Mitigation of Radio Noise from On-Site Sources at Radio Receiving Sites pdf‏

n0sya
7:10 PM
To: UDXF@yahoogroups.com
Picture of n0sya

Radio Noise from Internal/External Sources at Radio Receiving Sites is a set of free E-Books created by the Department of the Navy.

http://nk7z.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Naval_RFI_Handbook.pdf

Perhaps the ideas presented can be of help to someone.
 
Chris in Indiana USA

I suspect that this is some sort of hideous, Frankenstein's monster of a radio. A real radio that's been infected with a parasitic SDR device, much like the facehuggers from the "Alien" movie. It's disgusting. I'll have no part of it.

The Alinco dx-r8, SDR ready, has, get this, 5 Knobs!!! (Including a giant tuning knob and lotsa buttons!) And it's under 400 bucks. You should buy us all one.

A story like this seems to show up every year or two...


New radios at Ga. Army base jammed garage doors

The Associated Press

Thursday, June 13, 2013 | 12:25 a.m.

Authorities say a new radio system being installed at a Georgia Army base is frustrating hundreds of homeowners in the Augusta area who have been locked out of their garages because of jammed remote-control signals.

The Augusta Chronicle ( http://bit.ly/13TQsag) reports the confusion began last week, when Fort Gordon upgraded its land-mobile radios to a 390 megahertz bandwidth, the same frequency used in automatic garage door remotes.

Since then, nearly 500 residents have called or visited the Overhead Door Co. of Augusta to complain about garage doors that fail to open and close on command.

Fort Gordon spokesman Buz Yarnell said in a statement Monday that the Army post intended to conduct widespread public notifications on the transition but testing began earlier than expected.

___

Information from: The Augusta Chronicle , http://www.augustachronicle.com

Arnold Eidus, 90, Adman With Stradivarius, Dies
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: June 10, 2013

Arnold Eidus, a retired advertising executive who began his career as an internationally acclaimed concert violinist, died on June 3 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 90.
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The New York Times

Arnold Eidus, right, with the composer Raymond Scott, in 1950. Mr. Eidus eventually embraced advertising as a living.

His son, Robert, confirmed the death.

Mr. Eidus (pronounced EYE-duss) spent more than a decade with Ted Bates & Company, a prominent midcentury New York agency. He was previously a winner of the Jacques Thibaud Competition, a major international contest for violinists, and a recitalist who performed on some of the world’s most renowned stages.

His unusual career trajectory encapsulates both the hardships of making music for a living and, ultimately, the pleasures of choosing to make it on one’s own terms.

Arnold Eidus was born in New York City on Nov. 28, 1922, to a mother who was a pianist and a father who was a violinist. He began studying the violin at 4, and was soon performing as an after-dinner recitalist at the homes of local doctors. One doctor was so taken with his playing that he gave the boy a Stradivarius.

Arnold made his formal debut at 9 at Town Hall in New York, and at 13 was the soloist in Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnole,” for violin and orchestra, at Carnegie Hall.

Reviewing that performance, The New York Times wrote: “He proved to be a lad of attainments. He was self-possessed and played with infectious gusto.”

After private lessons with the violinist Louis Persinger and additional study at the Juilliard School, Arnold toured the country as a recitalist while he was still in his teens. As a young adult, he was heard in many well-received programs at Carnegie and Town Halls.

In 1946, in Paris, Mr. Eidus won first prize in the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition, as it was then officially known. His victory garnered him a string of engagements across Europe.

But over time, the rigors of touring — and its slender remuneration — began to weigh on him. He found himself envying the doctors, lawyers and other professionals who played purely for pleasure.

Mr. Eidus had always combined his concert career with work as a studio musician. (His résumé included the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.) By the late 1940s, he decided to focus on the studio, becoming the concertmaster of ABC’s resident orchestra and playing regularly for “Your Show of Shows,” starring Sid Caesar and broadcast on NBC.

He also played on advertising jingles, and it soon became apparent, as The Times reported in a 1968 profile, that Mr. Eidus knew far more than most admen about what sort of music worked and what did not.

He joined Ted Bates in 1967 as the agency’s music director, later becoming a vice president there. During his tenure, Mr. Eidus produced music for hundreds of TV and radio spots, enlisting members of the New York Philharmonic to play on advertisements for Scott paper towels and Kool cigarettes and the flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya to record a commercial for Moment of Truth, a men’s cologne.

Mr. Eidus’s wife, the former Doris Dresher, a pianist whom he married in 1946, died in 2004. Besides his son, Robert, survivors include his companion, Rose Kahn; two sisters, Trudy Gittelman and Adele Passman; and three grandchildren. A daughter, Licia Eidus, died in 1994.

Mr. Eidus did no military service, and that, too, like so much else in his life, he owed to the violin. One day in the 1940s, he was ordered to report to his local induction center for a physical.

He arrived wearing a tuxedo carrying his Stradivarius — reasonable accouterments, given that he had a live performance immediately afterward.

The military psychiatrist on duty, Mr. Eidus’s son said, took one look at the new recruit’s get-up, diagnosed him as suffering delusions of grandeur and pronounced him unfit for duty.

I haven't seen any on HFU, but I don't recall if he posted anything on the FRN before it went away. If you go to the members section here, and look up his profile, your can bring up his last posts. All I see is a request for QSLs, and a later comment thanking the stations who sent him one.

I'm sure he'll comment on your post, or you could send him an email.

SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP023
ARLP023 Propagation de K7RA

ZCZC AP23
QST de W1AW 
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 23  ARLP023
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA  June 7, 2013
To all radio amateurs

SB PROP ARL ARLP023
ARLP023 Propagation de K7RA

Solar activity seems to dip back into the doldrums again, with the
average sunspot number for the past week (72) lower than any
reporting week since Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP013, which
was for the week of March 21-27. You can go through the recent
bulletins at http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation
and note that two weeks ago we had twice that number, when the
average daily sunspot number was 144. From last week, the average
dropped more than 12 points from 94.3. Average daily solar flux was
down more than 10 points to 107.6.

But tracking the 3-month moving average of daily sunspot numbers,
(which is based on calendar months) the three months ending May 31
had a much higher average than the 3 months ending April 30, and in
fact more than any trailing three month average since the one ending
on January 2012.

At the end of 2011 we saw a rally in solar activity, and with the
weak activity in all of 2012 some are suggesting another
double-peaked solar cycle. The three month periods centered on July
through December 2011 had average sunspot numbers of 63, 79.6, 98.6,
118.8, 118.6 and 110. The first few months of 2012 were weaker, with
the 3-month averages centered on January through March at 83.3, 73.7
and 71.2. But now the numbers are trending up. The 3-month averages
centered on January through April 2013 were 73.6, 80.7, 85.2 and
106.4.

If you are unfamiliar with moving averages, using our method for the
3-month period centered on March, 2013, we added up all the daily
sunspot numbers from February 1 through April 30. The sum was 7,581.
We divided by the 89 days in those three months, and got
approximately 85.2. For the period centered on April, we added all
sunspot numbers from March 1 through May 31, and the sum was 9,792.
As there were 92 days in this period, the average rounds off to
106.4.

On June 3 NASA updated their forecast for the peak of the current
solar cycle, available at
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml. This differs from a
month earlier, when on May 1 they predicted a cycle maximum in Fall
2013 with a smoothed international sunspot number of 66. Now they
predict a peak at 67 in Summer 2013. Summer officially begins at the
Solstice, two weeks from today, on June 21 at 0504 UTC, which by the
way is the Friday before Field Day weekend.

The active geomagnetic days over the past week were June 1-2, when
the planetary A index was 49 and 19, the mid-latitude index was 41
and 16, and the high latitude college A index (measured near
Fairbanks, Alaska) was 58 and 44. These numbers reflect the
concentration of geomagnetic activity toward the poles. The source
was an interplanetary shock wave of uncertain origin.

Again as this bulletin is written early Friday morning on the West
Coast, we are in a geomagnetic storm, the result of the Earth
passing through south-pointing magnetism in the solar wind. There is
a possibility on June 8 of getting buffeted again, this time the
result of a CME, and possibly two.

The planetary A index was 17 on June 6, with increasing K-index
values from 2 to 3 to 4. Now early on June 7 we see planetary
K-index of 5 and 6, which is the equivalent to an A index reading of
64. Now after 1200 UTC it dropped to 56.

The Australian Space Forecast center issued a geomagnetic
disturbance warning at 0217 UTC on June 7. It reads, "A CME from a
disappearing solar filament has arrived earlier than anticipated and
is accompanied by a strongly southward pointing magnetic field. This
is producing Minor Storm levels of activity in polar regions and may
produce Active conditions at mid latitudes over the next 1-2 days."
They predict a minor geomagnetic storm today, June 7, and unsettled
to active conditions through the weekend, June 8-9.

The latest prediction from USAF/NOAA is for solar flux at 110 on
June 7, 105 on June 8-9, 100 on June 10, 95 on June 11-12, 100 and
105 on June 13-14, 120 on June 15-16, 125 on June 17-19, then with
flux values bottoming out at 105 on June 24-28, and rising to 125 on
July 2 and again on July 14-16.

Predicted planetary A index is 18 on June 7-8, then 10 and 8 on June
9-10, 5 on June 11-20, then 25, 18, 10 and 8 on June 21-24, 5 on
June 25-27, then 30, 20, 12, 8, 5, 8, 12, 10 and 5 on June 28
through July 6.

Petr Kolman, OK1MGW predicted a quiet geomagnetic field for June 7
(the prediction was sent around 1900 UTC on June 6), mostly quiet
June 8-9, quiet June 10, quiet to unsettled June 11, quiet to active
June 12-14, mostly quiet June 15-17, quiet June 18, quiet to
unsettled June 19-20, active to disturbed June 21, quiet to active
June 22-23, quiet to unsettled June 24, mostly quiet June 25-26,
quiet to active June 27, and active to disturbed June 28-29. You can
see quite a difference from the NOAA/USAF prediction in the previous
paragraph, but the NOAA forecasters have the advantage of revising
their forecast every 24 hours, while OK1HH and OK1MGW only do it
once per week.

Bert Cook, K6CSL of Riverbank, California, which is northeast of
Modesto in the San Joaquin Valley, wrote to comment about the ARRL
Propagation Charts. He finds them useful, but said the monthly
charts are never available until well into the new month. I checked
and learned these are prepared by the lab at ARRL headquarters, but
the delay is due to some technical issues that may not be resolved
right away.

As these are prepared using the VOACAP prediction engine, I
suggested an alternative that should suit his needs if he would
rather not set up the VOACAP program himself. Several months back we
mentioned the subscription service at http://www.k6tu.net. There is
a free 30-day trial, and if you should choose to continue, the
subscription cost is reasonable. This has the advantage of
customization for the user's exact location, plus you can make
predictions for future months as well.

You can also customize your account for antennas and power levels,
and when you run the program it emails you a set of URLs for the
bands you have chosen as well as the region, either North America or
world wide. Rather than look at these online, I found it much better
to download the PDF files, then page through the 24 hourly pages for
each band. You get a set of beautifully rendered maps with colors
corresponding to coverage areas and signal levels. When you can
quickly flip through these after downloading, you watch the
projection of the signal levels for different areas progress across
the map, hour-by-hour.

Another alternative is to use the free W6ELprop software for Windows
computers. Check the K9LA tutorial at
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/propagation/W6elprop.pdf,
and you can download the software at http://www.qsl.net/w6elprop/.
W6ELprop is free, but K6TU tells me he is about to add some great
new features to his service.

Larry Nelson, K5IJB of El Paso, Texas reports: "Several 6-meter CW
beacon stations were very helpful last Sunday (June 2) when
listening for band openings. From about mid-morning up to noon,
these beacons were S9 as the band opened to the West and mid-West
from El Paso: N0LL/B, N7DGI/B, WB0RMO/B, W5GPM/B and N0SAP/B. I made
several CW and SSB contacts using the Icom 703 (10 watts) to a
homebrew vertical dipole at 25 feet."

Lou DiChiaro, WB2IJT reported, "As a Navy civilian physicist, I
don't get to spend much time on the air during the work week.
However, I do occasionally get on the air over the weekends. This
past Saturday (June 1) was an extraordinary day for Es on 6 meters.
I'm running 100 watts out from an IC-7000 to a large loop antenna
running around the inside perimeter of my attic (to avoid the wrath
of the subdivision esthetics enforcers). From Grid Square FM29
(Delaware) I worked in quick succession a number of Florida
stations, some in Georgia, Arkansas, and Missouri. One of the
Georgia stations measured S9+20 dB on the S meter (he was running a
KW into a 5 element Yagi - it helps!).

"It was a band opening to remember. And I'll bet you're getting lots
of reports like mine. Hopefully, we'll get lots more openings like
this from Old Sol before he runs out of hydrogen and starts burning
helium in his core."

And finally, Jeff Hartley, N8II reports from West Virginia: "From
0245-0400Z Friday May 31 I caught the best conditions towards EU on
15M I can ever remember so late in the evening, in 42 years on the
air.  Since the solar flux was around 120, my guess would be there
was a sporadic-E link to the opening on the North American end, but
the stations worked were in daylight ranging from around sunrise to
mid morning. Prefixes worked in order from 0242-0306Z on 15 CW were
DJ2, UT7, UA3, UT9, RA1, RA4LW (S9+5dB, then +20 dB at 0330Z!),
UK8OWW, SP7.  Then, I tried some CQs on 12M with no answer and
scanned 10M towards EU where there were no signals to the NE
including beacons, but several W6 beacons were loud via double hop
Es. I went back to 15 CW at 0328Z and worked RU4, YO4, LA6, RZ6,
UB6, UR4, UX7, RD3, UA6, and LZ2 thru 0352Z.

"I made a quick check of 15 SSB and found Ed, 4Z4UR who was S9. He
mentioned he uses WWV near Fort Collins on 20 MHz often as a
propagation indicator for NA, a smart idea. He says he can
frequently hear WWV around 0300-0400Z at this time of year
indicating a band opening which I would guess rarely extends as far
east as my QTH in FM19cj. I checked 15 the next night around the
same time and there was no opening to anywhere.

"On June 1 from 0125-0149Z, I did catch UN5C and UN5J with good
signals on 17M CW as well as FO8WBB, ZL1BD, and a VP2V on 12M. 10M
was dead including beacons. During the day I worked the Alabama QSO
party in which even 10M was open to Alabama on Es from 19Z thru
about 0020Z, though it was not utilized by most Alabama stations.
All of the stations I asked to QSY to 10M up from 15 or 20M were
successfully logged mostly with very strong signals. 15 was fairly
active on CW and 20 was in great shape with strong signals all day
until about 0120Z.  40M was barely usable at first, but was open
from here pretty well from 2045Z onward. The high bands were the
best ever to Alabama in the ALQP from here. In the late afternoon, I
also worked AF3X/M on 20 roaming around the NYC boroughs with S9
signals only about 250 miles away.

"I operated part time in the WPX CW contest May 25-26 on 20M.
Conditions were disturbed at the beginning, then quite so Saturday
1200Z thru at least 0300Z Sunday. There were some very loud southern
and central EU at the start thru around 0115Z when the band
gradually closed. A few Russians and Asians were found, but were
almost gone by 0215Z whereas normally I have run pile ups from
western Asiatic and European Russians from 0200-0400Z on 20 CW.
Sunday 0100-0200Z was pretty much rock bottom, but I managed somehow
to work all continents except EU during that time. RC9O who would
normally peak around 20 degrees peaked around 310 degrees on a very
skewed path and was only about S4. SA was loud and I worked KH7 and
ZL3. Sunday at 1400Z, 20 seemed back to near normal as it did at
2345Z, but I only had time to operate mainly in the 14Z hour when
many northern EU stations not possible to work before due to
conditions were logged."

Thanks, Jeff!

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Sunspot numbers for May 30 through June 5 were 71, 58, 60, 76, 99,
59, and 81, with a mean of 72. 10.7 cm flux was 104.1, 101.8, 105.8,
110.9, 111.8, 109.9, and 108.8, with a mean of 107.6. Estimated
planetary A indices were 3, 9, 49, 19, 10, 10, and 6, with a mean of
15.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 2, 7, 41, 16, 9, 10, and
9, with a mean of 13.4.
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Mulgrew Miller, influential jazz pianist, dies at 57
Mulgrew Miller was 'one our great jazz masters' and possessed a 'soulful, amazing technique,' a fellow musician says.

From Los Angeles Times Staff and Wire Reports

1:57 PM PDT, June 7, 2013

Mulgrew Miller, 57, an influential pianist regarded as one of the finest mainstream jazz players of his generation, died May 29 at an Allentown, Pa., hospital from complications of a stroke, the Allentown Morning Call reported.

The versatile pianist made hundreds of recordings and worked with a series of imposing jazz leaders. In the 1980s he was a member of Grammy-winning bandleader Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Miller also had important stints with singer Betty Carter, a noted jazz improvisationalist, and Woody Shaw, an innovative jazz trumpeter.

Miller was "one our great jazz masters" and possessed a "soulful, amazing technique," Marko Marcinko, a drummer who had performed with him, said last week.

Born Aug. 13, 1955, in Greenwood Miss., Miller began playing the piano at about age 5.

At 14, he saw the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson on television and "it hit me where I lived," Miller later said of the moment he found his calling. Miller's technical prowess at the keyboard would later be compared to Peterson's.

As a student at Memphis State University, Miller was part of a then-thriving jazz scene, but he left after two years. He moved to Los Angeles and worked in jazz clubs before joining Mercer Ellington's big band in the late 1970s. From the mid-1980s until the late 1990s, Miller was part of a distinguished quintet led by drummer Tony Williams.

Since 2005, Miller had been director of jazz studies at William Paterson University in New Jersey.

Before he would launch into his fluid and invariably swinging piano playing, he would sometimes be introduced to audiences along with his telling nickname: "State of the Art."

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