Please send your rally and event news as soon as possible to radcom@rsgb.org.uk We’ll publicise your event in RadCom, on GB2RS, and online. The 36th QRP Convention will be held on the 9th of April in Digby Hall, Sherborne DT9 3AA. Doors open at 9.30am and entry is £3. There are no lectures this year. […]
S57MK will be active as 9N7MK until the 23rd of April. He will be operating for three or four days from Kathmandu and then from other locations while trekking in the Mount Everest region of Nepal. He will run 10 to 15 watts mainly on the 40, 20, 17 and 15m bands using SSB, CW […]
On Sundays Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society Club has a net on 145.3875MHz from 7pm, on 50.180 SSB from 8pm and the club opens at 7pm. The club is also open on Wednesday from 7pm. Thursday sees nets at 7pm on 70.400MHz and 8pm on 145.3875MHz. Sue, M0PSZ, info@frars.co.uk On Sundays Riviera Amateur Radio Club […]
Wales Digital Radio group have some events coming up over the next few months. The month of May brings SOS Radio week and WDRG will be active throughout the month using GB8RNLI raising awareness of the great job being done by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution around our shores by the many volunteers who provide […]
The March issue of RadCom Basics is on the website for members to read. This issue includes a look at: Filtering signals within the amateur bands Fun with a VHF/UHF handheld Listening via WebSDRs Making a DC voltage reference for your shack To join the RadCom Basics mailing list, log into Membership Services, go to Update […]
Recently there have been a number of reports of individual holders of UK amateur licences gaining Innovation and Trial licences from Ofcom to conduct experimental transmissions on 40MHz (8m). Ofcom has made it very clear for several years that there was no likelihood of UK radio amateurs gaining any access to 40MHz which included NoV […]
We are pleased to announce the March 2022 edition of RadCom Basics is now available at rsgb.org/radcom-basics In this edition – Filtering signals within the amateur bands Fun with a VHF/UHF handheld Listening via WebSDRs Make a DC voltage reference for your shack Whether you’re new to the hobby, or returning and looking to brush […]
Welcome to the latest edition I hope you enjoy reading RadCom Basics and it’s of real help whether you are new to the hobby or just looking to brush up on the basics. My best wishes Lee, G4EJB, Editor In this edition… VHF/UHF UK Activity Contests Want to hear 2m sound as busy as 40m? […]
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following short recording of VOA’s Hausa language service recorded on February 26, 2022 in McGrath, Alaska on 11,900 kHz at 20:58 UTC. This recording was made with a Tecsun PL-880, DXE preamp and two tunable HF loop antennas.
Paul notes: “Hausa language gets lopped off for an English sign-off message and Yankee Doodle Dandy followed by a carrier cut 1 minute 20 seconds later.”
RSGB President Stewart Bryant, G3YSX and EMC Committee Chair John Rogers, M0JAV represented the Society yesterday at the Service of Thanksgiving for HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. An invitation to send two representatives to the service was given to every charity or organisation for which the Duke of Edinburgh had been a patron. You can […]
