During a year when the global landscape shifted once more, with conflicts across the world and economic difficulties touching the lives of individuals, we were pleased to see that the amateur radio community continues to thrive. It may have changed shape and adapted with the times, but the RSGB has been there not only to […]
RSGB strategic priorities – a personal view I have recently started a series of talks to radio clubs about the Society and the services it offers. It’s a bit of a double act – Board Director Ben Lloyd, GW4BML talks about SOTA and I talk about the RSGB. We have given these talks at Powys […]
Ofcom has released its final decisions following its consultation on the amateur radio licensing framework last year. You can read more on the Ofcom website: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2024/amateur-radio-more-freedom-to-innovate We will continue to release information and support for radio amateurs as we all adapt to these licence changes.
The presentation Steve’s presentation will provide: A brief history of the HAARP program RF systems Designs Construction of the facility Examples of Operations at the HAARP site About the presenter Steve was the full-time HAARP Chief Designer and Chief Engineer for 18 years, and he is now the part-time HAARP Chief Engineer. Watch live Tonight@8 […]
VER20240220, Version entity is Tristan da Cunha & Gough Islands, ZD9 Download: [ CTY-3406 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: TO3Z is Guadeloupe, FG GB0GGR and GB0SIC are both Scotland, GM N5BLM is United States, …
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Version entity is Ascension I., ZD8 ADIFCnt.txt has 340 DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 25041 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 25195 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added Prefixes/Callsigns: K1ENT is USA, K in CQ Zone 4, ITU Zone 7 …
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Version entity is Ascension Island, ZD8 [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: A60SFD/0 is United Arab Emirates, A6 K1ENT is United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 7 KP2JR and N5BLM are both United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU …
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Version entity is Sweden, SM Entities: 402 Prefixes: 4,714 Callsigns: 32,267 Managers: 100,936 Addresses: 13,802 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes Callsigns AL7MO from 19 August 1997 through 8 March 2014 is United States …
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The Exams and Syllabus Review Group (ESRG) met four times during January. It has released these key messages from those meetings: Syllabus v1.5 has been re-written in Word format to allow a comparison with v1.6 Feedback from Ian White, GM3SEK was received about the EMF questions. This was discussed, most of his recommendations were agreed […]
George became interested in radio in the late 1930s and joined Weymouth & District Short Wave Club (G8WQ) in 1938. He achieved an AA (Artificial Aerial) licence in March 1939, callsign 2DGB. He was called up for national service in July 1939 and de-mobbed in January 1946 after which he managed to get a full […]