If you are planning to participate in this year's IARU HF Championship contest or the WRTC 2014 contest, you might be interested to know that I have today expanded my VOACAP Propagation Planner site at www.voacap.com/planner.html.
Besides running batch predictions from one TX site to all CQ Zones, it's now possible also to run batch predictions to ITU Zones (short path & long path) as well. There are one analysis tool (Win & Mac) and Excel Workbooks available to make the prediction data into more readable form.
Currently, more than 110 locations covering most of the ITU Zones are included.
The Propagation Planner gives you a good start for planning your operating strategy, especially if you run the predictions for two different sunspot numbers (SSN): 70 and 140. For low bands, use the W6ELProp software or use grayline maps for planning the best operating times.
For those who want to make predictions for WRTC 2014, use the following coordinates for the TX site: 42.29N, 71.57W.
What do you guys think of using Effective SSN in voacap? Effective SSN I mean not predicted, but reverse calculated from ionosonde measurements.
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