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Modified on: November 20, 2008
This site has been running since June, 1999.

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Tomas David Hood is NW7US - and Tomas is:

+ Propagation Editor for CQ, CQ VHF, Popular Communications

+ Associate Member of Propagation Studies Committee of RSGB

+ Living here: 113.99W 46.55N Stevensville, MT USA
... which is in Grid Square DN36 / ITU Region 6 / CQ Zone 4 :

+ Operating - QRP, on CW, SSB, PSK-31, Olivia, DominoEx, MFSK

+ A member of ...
- Ten-Ten #56526 : FISTS 7055 : FISTS NW 57
- Lighthouse Scty 144 : NAQCC 1774
- Monthly QRP Field Day Member #62 : QRP ARCI 12781
- 30 Meter Digital Group #0640 : Digital Modes Club #1144
- BARTG #8077
- European PSK Club (EPC) #4768

+ A contributing editor on Wikipedia - Amateur Radio/Space WX

Other NW7US / Tomas Hood pages:

+ NW7US at eQSL.cc
+ NW7US 'Live' page
+ NW7US at MySpace.com
+ My Music MySpace Page
+ My Music ShoutLife Page
+ NW7US at QRZ.com

General Site and Resource Menu:

+ NEW: ACE-HF Pro for Ham Radio / SWLing
. - - ACE-HF is advanced propagation modeling software

+ NW7US Weather Station
. - - here in the Lone Rock area of Stevensville, Montana.

+ General Info on Amateur Radio
+ About NW7US / Tomas Hood
+ The NW7US Propagation and Space Weather Page
+ All about Shortwave Radio Listening (SWLing)
+ All about Morse Code and CW
+ Radio Discussion Forums
+ Emergency and Disaster Public Service
+ Shortwave Radio Resources
+ SWL Frequency Search
+ English SW Frequencies
+ Callbooks
+ Prefix Lookup
+ Guest Book
+ Support
+ NW7US Bookstore

+ Award-Winning Space Weather/Propagation Course
+ Monitor Space Weather from your PC

Current Solar Flux: 69 | Sun Spots: 0 as of 11/19/2008
A-index: 0 | K-index: 1 (08 nT) | Aurora: 8
X-ray Solar Flares:
6h hi [none] 24h hi [none]
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The current footprint of my 60-watt PSK31 signal during the best 30 percent of September 2008 at 2000 UTC on 20 Meters:
(created with ACE-HF Pro version 2.05 Propagation Modeling Software)

2000 UTC 20M PSK31 Signal Footprint during SEP 08 for NW7US

The footprint of my 60-watt PSK31 signal during the same 30 percent of the month of September 2008 at 0100 UTC:

0100 UTC 30M PSK31 Signal Footprint during SEP 08 for NW7US

My QSL Card:

Tomas Hood - NW7US - QSL Card

My station while 'portable' - My Icom IC-7000, my two morse code (CW) keys, and my KK7UQ computer-to-radio interface:

NW7US portable station with Icom IC-7000

NW7US portable station with Icom IC-7000

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