Pasi, OH3WS will be active as OJ0W, OJ0/OH3WS and OJ0/OG3A from Market Reef, IOTA reference EU-053, until 12 October. He will operate CW and SSB on the 80 to 30m bands. This is expected to be the last activity for Market Reef’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. Ravi, VU2IIX will be on Mahe Island in the Seychelles, […]
Special call sign GB100HAL has been issued to commemorate 100 years of RAF Halton, in conjunction with the many events that are taking part celebrating the anniversary. The call may also be claimed towards the Airfields on the Air award and is recognised by RAFARS for all their awards. The call sign will be used […]
This weekend is busy, with several contests taking place over the two days. The IARU 432MHz to 245GHz contest runs for 24 hours, finishing at 1400UTC on Sunday, the 6th. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Oceania DX SSB Contest runs for 24 hours until 0800UTC this Sunday, […]
We had a real mixed bag in terms of HF propagation last week. The middle of the week through to Friday was actually quite good. Peter, G3XJE ran a very comprised 20m WSPR station from the Propagation Studies Committee stand at the National Hamfest and was picked up as far afield as the southern states […]
At the National Hamfest on 28 September 2019 we announced the winners of the RSGB National Club of the Year 2018. We thank Waters & Stanton for sponsoring this year’s event, and for kindly donating the prizes. This year’s competition had only one category for entrants, and as well as being open to clubs of […]
Another UK school has the opportunity to contact the International Space Station. Bampton School will make the contact sometime during the week of 7 October 2019, but won’t know the exact date and time until closer to the event. They will be operating as GB4BPS and contacting NA1SS on the station. They hope to speak […]
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. It is kindly sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons. The provisional programme of lectures and workshops is now online at rsgb.org/convention. There will be a Meet the RSGB Board session, where delegates have the opportunity to discuss current issues and […]
HamSCI and the Case ARC will sponsor a Festival of Frequency Measurement on WWV’s centennial, 1 October 2019, from 0000 to 2359UTC. The event invites radio amateurs, short wave listeners, and others capable of making high quality frequency measurements on HF to participate and publish their data to the HamSCI community on the Zenodo open-data […]
In Australia, Foundation licensees have gained some digital privileges. The changes include digital modes for Foundation licensees, the removal of the requirement for Foundation licensees to use commercial equipment and a general relaxation of the emission bandwidths for all classes of licence. There are no changes to output power or bands. The changes took effect […]
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