A polite reminder now concerning the frequencies used each Sunday by the RSGB’s GB2RS News service. The News is intended for all radio amateurs and listeners, and a clear frequency ensures that it may be heard as widely as possible. The national frequencies on HF are 1990, 3643, 3650, 5398.5 and 7127kHz. Some of these […]
Oldham Radio Club has a multimode net on XLX305A at 9.30am on Sundays. There is a C4FM net on Mondays starting on 144.6125MHz at 8pm. Wednesday sees a club net starting on 145.500MHz from 8pm. Mike, M1CVL, 0740 276 3203. The Isle of Man Amateur Radio Society is meeting in the club shack at 7pm […]
Antrim and District Amateur Radio Club activates GB2CW on Tuesdays from 7pm on 145.250MHz FM. All are welcome to call in. Transmissions are from Co Down, covering greater Belfast and surrounding areas. There are voice nets on Friday and Saturday on 2m from 7pm. Zoom meetings are held at 8pm on the second and last […]
The GB3FE repeater serving the Stirling area is still out of service and this will affect the Stirling and Falkirk nets. Kingdom Amateur Radio Society continuing to have nets on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays from 7pm on 144.750MHz. Steve, MM0SKX, 0771 105 9343. Stirling and District Amateur Radio Society is open for outdoor activities and […]
The McMichael Rally Committee regrets to announce that this year’s rally, which was due to take place on the 11th of July is, sadly, cancelled. Safety has to be the foremost consideration, and the committee cannot with all conscience continue planning the event for 2021. They hope and expect to be back in 2022. On […]
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire ARC has a daily net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. Hopefully, club meetings at the Chantry will resume on Wednesday, failing which there will be a Zoom meeting from 8pm. On Friday there is a net on 145.450MHz from 8pm. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk Weston Super Mare Radio Society has a club […]
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Press Release by Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC)Wednesday, 23.06.2021
Briefly explained: Your access to the HAM RADIO World
On Friday, starting at 3 p.m., HAM RADIO World will open its virtual doors and welcome our members and radio friends with …
Midday at Rothera Research Station in midwinter. Credit: Klara Weaver, Rothera Research Station.
A live, off-air, half-hour recording of the BBC World Service special Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 21 June 2021 beginning at 21:30 UTC. The broadcast, hosted by Cerys Matthews, featured messages and music for the staff of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) overwintering in Antarctica. In addition to personal messages from family and friends, there were special messages from BAS personnel and others including one from Sir David Attenborough accompanied by a blackbird. The transmitter had a "crash start" and the first two words of the introductory announcement ("This is") were cut.
The recording is of the transmission on a frequency of 7305 kHz from the BBC's Woofferton, England, transmitting station (300 kW rated transmitter power, antenna beam 182 degrees). The transmission was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna outdoors in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada, in AM mode with 2.3 kHz RF filtering. Reception was fairly good with little noise and fading and reasonable signal strength, which was better than that on the parallel frequencies of 9505 kHz from Woofferton and 6170 kHz from Ascension Island. A fourth frequency, 6035 kHz, transmitted from Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates, was not heard. At the very end of the program, there is some slight adjacent frequency interference.
