<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Fred,</span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; float: none; display: inline !important;">Every day an estimated 100 tons of m</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">icroscopic extraterrestrial dust particles</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">mostly from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">decayed </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">asteroids give </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">rise to the continuous input </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of about</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">25 million </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">meteoroids and </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">micro-meteoroids per day into Earth's </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">upper</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">atmosphere.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of their roughly </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">45,000 mph entry velocity, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">meteoroids undergo</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">rapid </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">frictional heating by collision </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">with air molecules </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and their constituent</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">metals and other elements </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">subsequently vaporize </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(ablate). This provides</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the dominant source of </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ionized metallic metals which make </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">up </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sporadic E layer at about 95 to 115 km </span><!--EndFragment--><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">above the Earth's surface.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">73</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Frank</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">W3LPL</span></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"ncdxa" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br><b>To: </b>"ncdxa" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 3, 2022 10:13:21 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NCDXA] W3ICM Goals Met<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="color:black;font:10pt 'arial'">Tnx Frank.
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<div>Excellent analysis showing that higher is not always better.</div>
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<div>Ablation is a new term for me.</div>
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<div>Question about dense housing impacting the antenna pattern...<br>
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<div>What is "dense" housing?</div>
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From: Frank W3LPL via NCDXA <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br>
To: ncdxa <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Mar 3, 2022 1:43 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [NCDXA] W3ICM Goals Met<br>
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<div>Hi Fred,</div>
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<div>The attached presentation will help you quickly achieve 6 meter DXCC. Its</div>
<div>possible to achieve 6 meter DXCC in just a few months during June and July</div>
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<div>See attached</div>
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<div><b>From: </b>"ncdxa" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br clear="none"><b>To: </b>"ncdxa" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 3, 2022 6:06:01 PM<br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>[NCDXA] W3ICM Goals Met<br clear="none"></div>
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<div style="color:black;font:10pt 'arial'">Hello DXers,
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<div>I had some goals when I began my new amateur radio life three years ago when I moved to a new QTH.</div>
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<div>I recently completed DXCC on the WARC bands, all CW or SSB, and all confirmed on LoTW.</div>
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<div>I also wanted to obtain the DXCC Challenge award.</div>
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<div>I now have DXCC on eight bands. with 10 meters completed today with ZP being my last one. (BTW, I made 5-Band DXCC in 1983).</div>
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<div>I also have 93 LoTW-confirmed on 160. But only three on six meters.</div>
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<div>Overall, I have 1200 band-countries, all LoTW, and all CW or SSB.</div>
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<div>I applied for the award today.</div>
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<div>The odd thing was my DXCC on 10. I did it without England, Japan, or Australia. I have some England QSOs, but they did not use LoTW.</div>
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