[SFDXA] Jim's GAZETTE-Newsletter #128

[Bill Marx]

I copied this from:
Jim's GAZETTE
Newsletter #128
20 August 2002
-Bill W2CQ

"...Dave AA6YQ developed a program called PropView (www.qsl.net/dxlab/) last year. It forecast, in a graphical format, the
predicted propagation on paths selected by the user. Now, Dave has taken a further step for DX users who can now
generate the 'actual propagation' as distinguished from the predicted levels. The basis for the new application lies in
the NCDXF/IARU beacon network (http://ncdxf.org/beacon.htm), 18 stations around the world broadcasting on the 5
bands 20-10 meters.

PropView now creates a beacon monitoring schedule for your location by band, or bearing, or by an arbitrary set of
beacons. If you run Commander, PropView can automatically QSY your radio and even rotate your beam at the
appropriate moment. At the end of the exercise you will have a snapshot of actual propagation.

Two notes: time is critical to this exercise. Get AboutTime at www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html. It's free and will
synchronize to the second! Download all the free propagation material at www.qsl.net/dxlab,

Okay, but does PropView actually make the DX contact as well? Maybe that's in the next version. Hi!"