We apologise for the very long delays answering tickets on the RSGB IT Helpdesk, the service is exceptionally busy at the moment. Our staff are currently working hard to clear the backlog of tickets, and we hope to get back to our normal response times by the end of this week. If you have been […]
The RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) welcomes thousands of people through its doors each month and introduces them to amateur radio. The Society needs to expand the team of volunteers and is particularly looking for people who can be part of the team each Thursday. If you are interested in becoming an NRC volunteer you […]
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Notes: VOA Communications World hosted by Kim Andrew Elliott. Topics covered included: - BBC to end shortwave World Service broadcasts to US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Radio Netherlands to broadcast on BBC vacated frequencies for two weeks - Interview with Ralph Brandi who headed up a "Save BBC" campaign - Radio Canada website hacked - VOA new Spanish language program for the Andean region of South America - 75th Anniversary of RTE in Ireland
After careful deliberation, the SP DX Contest Committee, together with Polish Amateur Radio Union (PZK) and the SP DX Club, has decided to cancel the 2022 SP DX Contest.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Poland has so …
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We start with the sad news that the RadCom Technical Editor, Giles Read, G1MFG, has become a Silent Key following a short illness. Since June 2006, he has been an integral part of the RadCom and GB2RS team and will be missed by his colleagues as well as many in the wider amateur circle. An […]
The island of Sao Jorge in the Azores has suffered over 1,800 earthquakes in 48 hours. The regional government has prepared contingency plans to protect the island’s population. CT1END, the Emergency Communications Coordinator for Portugal, reports that a group of nine radio amateurs are working to support emergency communications locally and back to Portugal. Radio […]
A brief reminder now that, in the UK, the clocks will go forward one hour at 0100 on 27 March 2022. Each IARU region holds a General Conference every three years, timed so that there is one regional conference every year. The reports of past Region 1 conferences, including the one in 2021, can be […]
This weekend the CQ WPX Contest runs for 48 hours, ending at 2359UTC today, the 27th. Using SSB only on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Gibraltar Amateur Radio Society will be active as ZB2BU in the contest with a multi-op low power entry. […]
We had a good week of HF propagation with moderate solar flux index numbers and generally quiet geomagnetic conditions. The KP index has not been above three, at least by Thursday when this was written. And the SFI has been hovering around the 100 mark, which was enough to stir 12 metres into action with […]
