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 […]
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 29 September 2019 (11-page/158KB Microsoft Word document)
We have no rallies in the diary for Sunday, 29 September. Next Sunday, 6 October, the 46th Welsh Radio Rally takes place at Rougemont School, Llantarnam Hall, Malpas, Newport NP20 6QB. Doors open from 10am to 4pm, with disabled visitors gaining access at 9.45am. Admittance is £2.50. There will be trade stands, a bring-and-buy, RSGB […]
Harald, DF2WO will be active as D44TWO from Sao Tiago on Cape Verde, IOTA reference AF-005, from 29 September to 13 October. He will be using an Icom IC-7300, two transverters with 3 watts output on the QO-100 geostationary satellite Es’Hail. QSL via M0OXO’s OQRS. Elena, RC5A and Yuri, RM0F will be active as 5H3CA […]
September 2019 marks the centenary of radio in the Cambridge area. There is a celebration day this Sunday, 29 September at Foxton, to which all local amateurs are invited. Local clubs have activated the call sign GB1CAM and it will be in operation until the end of the month.
