Alan, G3XAQ and Don, G3XTT will be active from The Gambia from 12 to 26 November as C56XA and C56DF respectively. Main activity will be during the CQ WW DX CW Contest, with casual operating outside the contest. QSL C56XA via LoTW or G3SWH’s OQRS, QSL C56DF via LoTW, Club Log’s OQRS, or via G3XTT. […]
Coventry Amateur Radio Society is putting GB1BNF on the air this Sunday and on Monday in Bedworth for Remembrance Sunday. The Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society (RAFARS) has announced that its permanent special event call sign GB2RAF will be off the air until May 2020. This is due to the winter recess at the […]
The WAE DX RTTY contest runs for 48 hours this weekend, ending at 2359UTC on the 10th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is just your signal report and serial number. On Monday the 80m Autumn Series Data contest takes place from 2000 to 2130UTC. Using data modes only on the 3.5MHz […]
We had a more settled week, geomagnetically speaking. The Sun was a lot calmer, with a lack of coronal holes and fast solar wind to disrupt the ionosphere. We also had a sign again that Solar Cycle 25 is on its way. A tiny sunspot, numbered 2750 and belonging to Cycle 25, appeared in the […]
UPDATE 18.34 – 08.11.2019 We are pleased to announce the RSGB Shop is back online and ready to take orders. We are currently using the URL rsgbstore.uk for the Shop—please only use the links on the website main menu while we update the rest of the site. If you do not get to the Shop […]
There will be a server reboot for essential maintenance from 14.00 to 14.30 this afternoon, which will result in temporary unavailability of RSGB Membership Services Other services on the website will be unaffected. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
Investigations into this issue have continued by our service provider this evening but the issue is still effecting the server in question. Again, our apologies for any inconvenience caused by the problem. ———————– We are experiencing intermittent connectivity on some of our web services. These services are being affected— RSGB Shop Live news feeds Some […]
The RSGB is pleased to announce the new edition of RadCom Plus, Volume 4, Issue 1, is out now at rsgb.org/radcom-plus. RadCom Plus is the RSGB’s digital technical supplement and RSGB Members can read it in HTML5 flipbook, PDF and Epub formats. This issue contains over 50 pages and includes an Arduino Vector Network Analyser, […]
The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) opened in Egypt on 28 October 2019. Daily reports of proceedings can be found on the RSGB’s social media and special focus page at rsgb.org/wrc-19. These reports are prepared by the RSGB volunteers attending the Conference. WRC-19 has a wide-ranging agenda, of which the amateur issues are but a […]
We’re still in need of readers to join the GB2RS News 5MHz team rota. The 5MHz GB2RS broadcast takes place on Sunday afternoons at 1500UTC on 5398.5kHz USB. A Full licence is necessary for 5MHz operation and you must be a Member of the RSGB. If you are interested in joining the team, please email […]
