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. […]
Press Release by Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC e.V.)+ DARC e.V. — Department of Education, Youth and Further Education (AJW)Baunatal, Germany — 07.09.2022
Today, the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport presented the draft bill of a new amateur …
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.
The provisional results of the Microwave Subregional Contest held on June 4th-5th are available on the IARU R1 VHF Contest Robot.
We have collected and evaluated 615 logs on all the bands from 1296 MHz up to 134 GHz coming …
BBC Radio Wales recently invited callers to join in on an amateur radio feature. The wide-ranging discussion included conversations with 8-year-old Isabella and her dad Matt, M0LMK talking about their recent ISS contact, as well as with Jeffrey from Swansea ARC (1:54:40) and Glyn, GW0ANA from Barry ARS (2:12:26). Listen on BBC Sounds from 1:38:10 […]
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The RSGB Examinations and Syllabus Review Group (ESRG) has just completed an editing and checking exercise for all the v1.5 syllabus content on the RSGB website. The single-tier and three-tier versions should have exactly the same content and, by majority request, Oxford commas have been removed. The old syllabuses can still be found at on […]
The first Tonight@8 talk of the new season will be on Monday the 5th of September. Mike Richards, G4WNC will talk about going Back to the keyboard! He says that now we have filled our logbooks with FT-8 contacts, maybe it’s time to move on and start communicating again. In an illustrated talk, he will […]
A regional hub for makers and home brewers of radio related projects is proposed by Eric, M0REQ and Graham, G4NMD. The idea is for a club that co-operates with knowledge, experience and test gear to support those who are already building or wishing to build radio related projects. The inaugural meeting is set for Wednesday […]
