Category: RSGB

The July edition of the IARU Monitoring Service Region 1 Newsletter is now available. In this issue you can read more about how ‘Over the Horizon’ radars were the most obvious transmissions causing harm to our amateur radio HF bands. The front runner was the Russian ‘Contayner’ with a band width of 12kHz at 40 […]

Following the sad news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the RSGB recommends that anyone attending amateur radio rallies or events should check before travelling. Please send your rally and event news as soon as possible to radcom@rsgb.org.uk We’ll publicise your event in RadCom, on GB2RS, and online. Also, today the 11 September, the […]

Paisley Amateur Radio Club will be operating the special event station GB0DOD from the Methodist Central Hall, 2 Gauze St, Paisley, PA1 1EP on Saturday the 17 September. It is part of Paisley Doors Open Day when historic buildings throughout the town will be open to the public. Club members will be demonstrating voice, digital […]

A team will be active as 5R8CG, 5R8MM, 5R8WG and 5R8WP from Nosy Be island, AF-057, in Madagascar from the 11 to the 22 October. They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8 on the 6 to 160m bands with two stations. The logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World when they return. […]

This weekend the WAE DX SSB Contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTc today the 11 September . Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, EU stations should only work non-EU stations. The exchange is signal report and serial number. Today, Sunday the 11 September, the UK Microwave Group 24 to […]

What a week we have just had! The Kp index stayed at four or more for most of the week thanks to an enhanced solar wind stream. This continued to stir up geomagnetic activity with minor ,G1, storm conditions. Visible aurora have been reported at higher latitudes. Sunspot region 3089 has now rotated behind the […]

Following the sad news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the RSGB recommends that anyone attending amateur radio club meetings or events should check before travelling. The Online Radio Club has a virtual radio club night at 7:30pm every Thursday via Zoom. It is suitable for all radio enthusiasts regardless of individual skill level. […]

We are deeply saddened by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with the King and the whole Royal Family at this sad time.