Archive for January, 2013
GB2RS News for Sunday, 27 January 2013
G100RSGB moves to Scotland and becomes GM100RSGB The special event callsign celebrating the RSGB Centenary ends its stay in Region 3 this week and moves on to Region 2, Scotland North and the Northern Isles. Today, 27 January, and tomorrow, Warring ARC close the Region 3 operations, then on Tuesday, 29 January, the callsign becomes […]
Rallies and Events
With another weekend of snow and ice forecast for much of the country and major disruption on both road and rail networks, please check that the rally or event is still taking place before you travel any distance. Horncastle Winter Rally will take place today, 27 January, at the Horncastle Youth Centre, Lincolnshire LN9 6DZ. […]
Special Events
Some SOS Radio Week stations will still be active today, 27 January, with a final day of operations. Check out the SOS Radio Week website for more details. On Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd February, Dundee Amateur Radio Club is operating GM100RSGB portable at Monikie Scout Hut. The club plan to have both VHF and […]
DX News
The Indian Ocean DXCC entity of Reunion Island will be visited by two French amateurs who will operate as FR/F8APV and FR/F8EOI until 8 February. They will focus mainly on 30m CW and 20m SSB. QSLs go via their home callsigns. The IOTA reference is AF-016. Bernie, W3UR and Tony, N3ME, will be on the […]
Contest News
The CQ WW 160m DX Contest finishes at 10pm tonight, the 27th. Work the contiguous 48 States plus Canada only, giving a signal report and CQ Zone, which is 14 for the UK. USA stations will send a signal report and their 2-letter State code, while Canadian stations will send a signal report and their […]
