The International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) runs from 0001UTC on Saturday, 17 August 2019 to 2359UTC on the 18th. The event came into being in 1998 as the Scottish Northern Lights Award, run by the Ayr Amateur Radio Group. ILLW now attracts over 500 lighthouse entries located in over 40 countries. To see a […]
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. Dave Sumner, K1ZZ will open the convention with his talk Our Global Amateur Radio Community. Dave is the Secretary for the IARU and has recently written a very thought-provoking article in the ITU’s magazine (54-page/14.18MB PDF) on the value of […]
Region 1, Scotland South and Western Isles, has a number of vacancies for district representatives. District 13, Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, District 16, the Borders, and District 17, Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire, are all vacant. If you would like to know more about the role and what it entails, contact the Regional Manager for Region […]
A group of mainly German amateurs will activate TO5M from the St Pierre and Miquelon Islands, IOTA reference NA-032, until 18 August. They will be on all bands from 160 to 6m on SSB, CW and FT8. QSL via Club Log OQRS. A team of ZS operators will activate Robben Island, AF-064, from 15 to […]
Advance notice now for British Inland Waterways on the Air 2019. This annual event takes place over the August bank holiday—24 to 26 August. The event is open to all amateurs who are boaters, cyclists or who otherwise use the canals, rivers, towpaths or riverbanks for work or recreation. Many clubs and individual amateurs who […]
Just a reminder that August is the month of the traditional summer holiday, so there are no RSGB HF contests this month. This Sunday, the 11th, the 5th 70MHz Cumulative Contest runs from 1400 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The WAE DX CW contest runs for […]
Matter from a solar coronal hole hit the Earth last week as predicted. However, we got the date wrong, as it actually impacted us on Monday and not Sunday, as it was moving slightly slower than we thought. This sent the Kp index up to five as the Earth’s geomagnetic field was disturbed and where […]
Professor Les Barclay, OBE, BSc, FREng, FIET, G3HTF, passed away on the 31st of July 2019 at the age of 85. Among many other fine works, Les was a Corresponding Member of the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee, and a leading light in propagation research. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) published an obituary of Prof Barclay […]
David Sumner, K1ZZ (Secretary, International Amateur Radio Union) is the keynote speaker at this year’s RSGB Annual Convention. In the run-up to the discussions at WRC-19 he has published an article on P33 of the latest International Telecommunication Union (ITU) News magazine, promoting the importance and relevance of amateur radio. We have published a short explanation […]
As the run-up to WRC-19 gathers pace, the UK Six Metre Group has also written to Ofcom in support of a positive approach to Agenda Item 1.1 concerning the future of the 50MHz band in ITU Region 1. At present, harmonisation and activity is impeded by the lack of a formal 50MHz ITU Region 1 […]
