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Modified on: January 6, 2009
This site has been running since June, 1999.

Brought to you by NW7US - Tomas - in Western Montana, USA

Quick link: NW7US Radio Propagation and Space Weather Center

I am not just an Amateur Radio Operator. I am also a singer / songwriter / guitarist. Please take a listen to my tune samples. If you enjoy this music, please leave me a comment... thank you for listening!

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!

Please click on the following banner, and then select 'ACOUSTIC' in the CHART selection. Then, find my song, 'Sunday Afternoon Acoustic' and RATE the song (and do this once per day, if you would!). The higher my rating, the better I do on the chart. I sure appreciate your support!

Here is a list of various styles of music that I play. These are snippets, out-takes, raw ideas, and so on...

Subscribe to my Space WX RSS Feed:
(Opera 9.x):

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

Tomas creates websites, too. Check out the latest:
Chidwick School of Fine Woodworking

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 01/05/2009
A-index: 5 | K-index: 0 (4 nT) | Aurora: 2
X-ray Solar Flares:
6h hi [none] 24h hi [none]
more propagation...

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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