The next RSGB Tonight @ 8 live webinar is on Monday 7 October 2024 when Ian White, GM3SEK presents Aircraft Scatter, the Hitch-Hikers Guide. Aircraft scatter is about bouncing VHF and UHF radio signals off high-flying aircraft—effectively ‘hitching a ride’ with someone else’s plane to extend your everyday working range up to 800km. It may […]
In what is believed to be a UK first, there was an aeronautical mobile entry in the RSGB 144 MHz FM contest on 3 September. Nick Long and Amy Whitewick operated G4BIN/AM from Nick’s Beagle Pup aircraft. The aircraft has been fitted with monopole antenna tuned to 144 MHz and a temporary mount for an IC-705. […]
The Radio Society of Great Britain and ARISS, in conjunction with Girlguiding Surrey West and Brooklands Museum including the Innovation Academy, have been collaborating on a special ISS contact due to take place on Saturday 5 October. Girlguiding Patron, HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh will attend the contact as part of a visit to promote […]
VER20240927, Version entity is East Malaysia, 9M6 Download: [ CTY-3434 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: 9M67M is West Malaysia, 9M2 9M67MQ and 9M67MS are both East Malaysia, 9M6 BG2LTC/0 is China, BY in CQ …
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Version entity is Libya, 5A ADIFCnt.txt has 340 DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 25610 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 25766 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added Prefixes/Callsigns: 9M67M is West Malaysia, 9M2 9M67MQ and 9M67MS are both East Malaysia, …
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Version entity is Libya, 5A [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: 9M67M is West Malaysia, 9M2 9M67MQ and 9M67MS are both East Malaysia, 9M6 BG2LTC/0 is China, BY in CQ zone 23 EA9PD is Spain, EA TX7XG is French Polynesia, FO TX9A is …
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Version entity is Market Reef, OJ0 Entities: 402 Prefixes: 4,715 Callsigns: 32,948 Managers: 103,658 Addresses: 14,096 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes 9M67M from 23 August 2024 through 30 September 2024 is West Malaysia, …
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The October 2024 edition of RadCom includes an article about the very first two-way radio communication between the UK and New Zealand, something that Sir Edward Appleton—radio physicist and Nobel laureate—later described as “probably the most dramatic moment in the history of the development of the short waves.” The contact was between two radio amateurs, […]
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With just two weeks until the RSGB Convention, this year’s event is the place to go if you are interested in anything and everything to do with amateur radio. There will be a host of expert speakers presenting on topics ranging from sporadic E, and how to use AI to write amateur radio applications, to […]
