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Press Release by Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC)Wednesday, 23.06.2021 Briefly explained: Your access to the HAM RADIO World On Friday, starting at 3 p.m., HAM RADIO World will open its virtual doors and welcome our members and radio friends with …

A live, off-air, half-hour recording of the BBC World Service special Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 21 June 2021 beginning at 21:30 UTC. The broadcast, hosted by Cerys Matthews, featured messages and music for the staff of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) overwintering in Antarctica. In addition to personal messages from family and friends, there were special messages from BAS personnel and others including one from Sir David Attenborough accompanied by a blackbird. The transmitter had a "crash start" and the first two words of the introductory announcement ("This is") were cut.

The recording is of the transmission on a frequency of 7305 kHz from the BBC's Woofferton, England, transmitting station (300 kW rated transmitter power, antenna beam 182 degrees). The transmission was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna outdoors in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada, in AM mode with 2.3 kHz RF filtering. Reception was fairly good with little noise and fading and reasonable signal strength, which was better than that on the parallel frequencies of 9505 kHz from Woofferton and 6170 kHz from Ascension Island. A fourth frequency, 6035 kHz, transmitted from Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates, was not heard. At the very end of the program, there is some slight adjacent frequency interference.

IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ, speaking about the meeting he chaired on Saturday 12th June as part of the IARU Region 1 Workshop Program on the future of amateur radio, has commented “I am pleased that we now …

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Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 20 June 2021 (16-page/411KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link.

The organisers of Dartmoor Radio Rally have revised the date to 15 August 2021. It will be held at the new venue of The Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Meavy Lane, Yelverton PL20 6AL. Doors open at 10am—details can be found here. The McMichael Rally Committee has announced that this year’s rally is, sadly, cancelled. It […]

A slow-scan television ARISS event is scheduled between 21 and 26 June 2021. Transmissions from the ISS will be on 145.800MHz FM using PD120 SSTV mode. The SSTV images will be transmitted continuously. Transmissions will start at or about 0940UTC on the 21st and will end by 1830UTC on the 26th. Signals should be receivable […]

Since reopening just over two weeks ago, the RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park has welcomed more than 3,800 visitors. With the improved signage and Bletchley Park interactive map, the NRC is typically seeing close to 50% of the Park’s footfall. The RSGB would like to thank Martyn, G0GMB and the NRC volunteers for […]

The Region 8 Amateur Radio Direction Finding team will hold two ARDF taster sessions in Lurgan Park on Sunday the 19th of June. If you have an interest in ARDF or would like to find out more come along and have a go. Spaces are limited to ten participants per session and will be on […]