This Sunday, 20 October, the Galashiels Rally will take place in Volunteer Hall, St Johns Street, Galashiels, Scottish Borders TD1 3JX. Doors open 11am for disabled visitors and 11.15am for the general public. There will be traders and a bring-and-buy. Refreshments will be available on-site. There are no rallies in the diary for next weekend, […]
Yosuke, JJ1DQR will be active as 3W9QR from Da Nang in Vietnam from 23 October to 1 November. QSL via JJ1DQR. Geri, DK8KW will be active as 3W9KW from Hanoi in Vietnam until 26 October. He will operate QRP CW and possibly SSB, depending on conditions. QSL via DK8KW. A group will be active as […]
This Sunday, 20 October, Hartlepool ARC will be running Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) special event station GB0TVS on behalf of Tees Valley Scouts. The station will operate from the Hartlepool Scout Centre, Brierton Lane, just off the A689. Activity will be on HF, VHF and UHF, and all visitors will be welcome. This Sunday, […]
The Worked All Germany contest ends its 24 hour run at 1500UTC this Sunday, the 20th. Using CW and SSB on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number, with German stations also sending DOK. This Sunday, 20 October, the 50MHz AFS contest runs from 0900 to 1300UTC. Using […]
The solar minimum continued last week with zero sunspots being recorded. The good news was that geomagnetic conditions were quite settled with a maximum Kp index of three recorded. Most of the week it was between zero and two, which meant that the HF bands were performing to seasonal averages. rsgb.org/propquest shows that maximum usable […]
As the start of WRC-19 draws closer, the RSGB attended the final UK preparation meeting this week at Ofcom. Positions on agenda items as well as logistics and travel advice for the UK delegation were considered. WRC-19 takes place over a full month starting on Monday 28 October 2019, concluding on Friday 22 November 2019. […]
Amongst the array of trophies and awards which were presented at last weekend’s RSGB Convention were the G5RP Shield and the ROTAB Trophy. The G5RP Shield is awarded for greatest progress in the DX field made by an RSGB Member resident in the UK during the year. This was presented to Tom Jones, M5NEX. The […]
The winners of the 2019 RSGB Construction Competition were announced today at the RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes. Judges’ Merits went to: Russell Tribe, G4SAQ, for his Low Earth Orbit satellite antenna tracking controllers. David Holman, M0YDH, for his Digital Amateur TV system Dean Brice, G0UIL, for his Bluetooth satellite antenna controller In […]
We are sorry to announce that Derek Hughes, G7LFC has stepped down from the role of Chair of the Developing Amateur Radio Group (DARG). We’d like to thank him both for his hard work during the changes to the Training and Education Committee (TEC) and also for leading RSGB teams at national events such as […]
The Scottish Microwave Round Table will take place in Burntisland in Fife on Saturday, 2 November 2019. The programme includes talks by Martin Hall, GM8IEM Constructing a 13cm Home Station Around the Kuhne MKU23 G4 Transverter; Heather Lomond, M0HMO Beginning with GNU SDR and Mark Hughes, GM4ISM Microwave EME. Other attractions include a construction competition, […]
