The RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park will be closed to all visitors between the 14th and 17th of June. This is because ground works are taking place around the building blocking the fire escape. Normal opening hours will be resumed after the work is finished. The RSGB’s Friendship on the Air Award is […]
Jun is active as XV9RH from Hanoi and will remain in Vietnam until the 26th of June. In his spare time, he operates CW and FT8 on the 20 to 10m bands. QSL via OE1JUN. Harald, DF2WO will be active as XT2AW from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso starting on the 13th of June for three weeks. […]
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire ARC has a daily net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. Wednesday sees a Zoom meeting from 8pm and will, hopefully, resume on the 23rd. On Friday there is a net on 145.450MHz from 8pm. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk Weston Super Mare Radio Society has club night in the Weston Social Club from […]
Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society has an 80m SSB net from 2.30pm every Sunday. There is a 2m FM open net from 8pm every Tuesday and Thursday via GB3FG. On Wednesdays there is an FM or Fusion net from 7.30pm via GB3CM, which may still be operating at low power. Contact Andy, GW0JLX, on 0776 828 […]
IARU volunteers have been participating in the CEPT FM and SE Working Groups looking after the amateur and amateur satellite service interests. CEPT WG-SE #88 took place during April and WG-FM #99 took place at the end of May.
WG-FM’s …
Motorola Expects U.K. Government to Extend Airwave Contract
“The Home Office originally expected that emergency services could start using this ESN in September 2017, allowing Airwave to be replaced by December 2019, but a report last year revealed that the new network was £3.1bn over budget and wouldn’t be ready until December 2022″
“In September, during a hearing before the U.K. Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, representatives of the Home Office said that the Airwave network would likely operate until 2024 due to the ESN delays.”
The Union of Radio Amateurs of Kyrgyz Republic (ARUKR) announced that on 4th June 2021, the Kyrgyzstan Telecommunications Regulator made the new WRC-15 Amateur Secondary Allocation of 5351.5 – 5366.5 kHz available to Kyrgyz hams at a maximum power of …
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dave Zantow, who shares the following recording and notes:
BBC World Service (16:49)
September 12, 2001 at 0000 UTC on 5975 kHz
Receiver used was a Japan Radio Co. NRD-545 (Sync on and 10 kHz bandwidth). One can hear minor DSP artifacts (burps) mixed in the background. Of course a common trait for the NRD-545.
The German Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) reports in its official publication Amtsblatt 9 that a device from SolarEdge does not comply with the EU Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Directive………………CLICK Graphic to read more.
The HF band plan in its version of 16 October 2020 (Virtual General Conference “Novisad”) including the annex has been revised. The band plan comprises 2 pages, as does the explanatory annex. It can be downloaded via this URL: https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/hf_r1_bandplan.pdf. …
