Peter Valentine, G0NQZ, is a GB2RS Newsreader from Eastbourne. Having reached his 100th birthday in 2024 he decided it was the right time to retire from the newsreading service. Peter remains an active radio amateur who still operates daily on the air and enjoys taking part in regular nets such as ISWL and RAOTA. Peter […]
Annick Morris, M0HDE began reading the news for GB2RS in July 2004 on 2m and 70cm. To listeners, her weekly broadcasts may sound the same as any other newsreader, however there is one fundamental difference. This is because she is a ‘white stick operator’ and uses a Braille computer to enable her to read the […]
Toby, MM0TSS is a GB2RS newsreader who broadcasts on 2m from Whitecraigs in Southwest Glasgow. One of his favourite things to tell people about GB2RS is the unusual call-ins that they occasionally receive. One was from Graham, MM0GHM, a radio amateur from Galston in Ayrshire, who works on the railways. During the summer season he […]
2nd Edition By: Steve Nichols, G0KYA For many years the only way for most radio amateurs to work out how well an antenna design would work was to build it and find out. Written by antenna guru Steve Nichols, G0KYA, An Introduction to Antenna Modelling uses computer-based antenna modelling to provide details of performance before […]
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of The Voice of America made on January 14, 2025 at 0355 UTC on 9775 kHz. The reception location was McGrath, Alaska:
VER20250406, Version entity is Morocco, CN Download: [ CTY-3510 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: EF0F/8 is Canary Islands, EA8 M0KXR is Northern Ireland, GI GB5WAA and GB9WAA are both Scotland, GM KB2DJE, KG5DVX and … Continue reading →
Version entity is Aruba, P4 ADIFCnt.txt has 340 DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 25852 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 26009 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added Prefixes/Callsigns: GB5CC/HQ is England, G M0KXR is Northern Ireland, GI GB9WAA and GB5WAA … Continue reading →
Version entity is Aruba, P4 [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: GB5CC/HQ is England, G M0KXR is Northern Ireland, GI GB5WAA and GB9WAA are both Scotland, GM NH7SH is in ITU zone 8, not ITU zone 6 NH7SH is in CQ zone 5, … Continue reading →
Version entity is Australia, VK Entities: 402 Prefixes: 4,714 Callsigns: 33,366 Managers: 105,750 Addresses: 14,255 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes Callsigns EA2TW from 17 February 2024 through 30 March 2025 is Spain, EA … Continue reading →
