Archive for July, 2017
Rallies and Events News – 30 July 2017
The Chippenham and District ARC Rally takes place on Sunday, 30 July at Kington Langley Village Hall, Church Road, Kington Langley SN15 5NJ. Talk-in will be on S22, 145.550MHz. There are disabled facilities and on-site parking. Doors open 10am to 1pm. Entry is £2, with under 16s free. Car boot pitches are £6 for cars […]
DX News – 30 July 2017
Roly, ZL1BQD will be active as 5W0RR from Samoa, IOTA reference OC-097, until 15 August. He will operate mainly JT65 and possibly the new FT8 mode. QSL via ZL1BQD. Janez, S53V will be active as 9A8CV from Krk Island, EU-136, in Croatia until 3 August. QSL via eQSL, or direct to S53V. Alan, KE4TA will […]
Special Events News – 30 July 2017
The Martello Tower Group will be operating as GB5RC from 3 to 7 August from the MV Ross Revenge, home of Radio Caroline. Moored in the Blackwater Estuary, GB5RC is celebrating five decades of offshore broadcasting and will be mainly operating on 80m, 40m, 20m, 2m and 70cm, with the capability to run 17m, 15m, […]
Contest News – 30 July 2017
The RSGB’s flagship HF contest, the IOTA Contest, ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC on Sunday, the 30th. Please note that this year there are changes to the rules, so make sure you check before entering. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands the exchange is signal report, serial number and IOTA reference. On Sunday, […]
Propagation News – 30 July 2017
For most of last week there were no sunspots on the Earth-facing solar disc. A single small sunspot, number 2668, appeared on Tuesday, but had gone by Wednesday. Solar activity was very low and flux stayed at 69 and 70 all week. The K-index however was mainly at 3 and 4, and only briefly dropped […]
News for England Midlands – 30 July 2017
We start with clubs that have several events this week. Cheltenham Amateur Radio Association has a net from 8.30am today and next Sunday on 50.220 USB. On Tuesday there’s a QRS CW net around 3540-3550kHz from 8pm. Contact Derek, G3NKS, on 01242 241 099. Loughborough and District Amateur Radio Club has its Field Day today […]
