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Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 3 November 2019 (11-page/158KB Microsoft Word document)

This Sunday, 3 November, the Bushvalley ARC Rally takes place at Limavady Football Club, Rathmore Road, Limavady BT49 0DF. Doors open 11am and admission is £3. Next Saturday, 9 November, the BATC ATV Convention South takes place at Chilton Village Hall near Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0SH. There will be an ATV Clinic, Show and Tell, […]

Members of the CAN-AM DXpedition Group will be active as TX7T from Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, IOTA reference OC-027, from 6 to 17 November. They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8 in Fox and Hound mode on the 160 to 6m bands. QSL via M0URX’s OQRS and Logbook of The World. Rick, NE8Z will […]

The volunteers of the Brooklands Wireless Communications Collection will operate the museum’s call sign, GB1BM, to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the ending of hostilities of the First World War on 9 November. They will operate from the Finishing Straight, Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge KT13 0QN. The aim is to contact 101 other radio […]

This weekend, the Marconi CW contest runs for 24 hours ending at 1400UTC this Sunday, the 3rd. It is CW only on the 144MHz band and the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Midlands Inter-Club GMT Activity contest continues this Sunday, the 3rd, and on subsequent Sundays. It runs between 10am and […]

Last week offered a mixed bag of HF propagation. The weekend saw the aftermath of a geomagnetic storm, triggered by matter from a solar coronal hole. This pushed the Kp index up to six and sparked auroras at the North and South poles. The disturbance eventually settled by Wednesday, after a few days of the […]

To read this edition, tap or click cover image Contents 3 VnArduino An Arduino VNA: vector network analyzer 11 The pros and cons of multiband inverted-V antennas Investigates the radiation performance of multiband antennas when deployed in horizontal or inverted-V configurations 16 A single frequency repeater Simultaneous FM Tx + Rx at VHF, as first […]

In the UK, the clocks go back one hour at 2am on 27 October 2019. This means that the UK is now on UTC timing, sometimes also still referred to as GMT.

The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is due to open in Egypt on the 28 October 2019. The meeting, which lasts four weeks, will be attended by 3,000 delegates from most of the countries around the world, and will discuss and agree changes to the ITU Radio Regulations. The IARU and its member societies will […]

Once again, the RSGB VHF Contest Committee would appreciate your views on a number of topics to help it set the contest rules for 2020. The survey is quite short because the Committee is not considering major alterations to the rules for next year, but all your views are read and appreciated. The survey will […]