Also in GB2RS this week…
The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. Any established HF DXer may make a nomination. The nominee should be an up-and-coming HF DXer who has made rapid progress in the last year and has some real achievements to show, for example, a good total of new countries worked or some serious HF DXpedition activity. This prestigious RSGB award will be presented at the RSGB Convention on 12 to 14 October 2018. Please send nominations to HF Manager Ian Greenshields, G4FSU, by email to hf.manager@rsgb.org.uk to arrive no later than Friday, 14 September 2018.
A key RSGB web server will be offline one night this week for essential third-party maintenance. Many RSGB services will be unavailable from 9pm on Tuesday until about 8.30am on Wednesday the 8th. If you are an RSGB Member planning to visit Bletchley Park on Wednesday, 8 August 2018, please make sure you download your free admission voucher before 9pm on Tuesday.
A field-day style International Convention of CW Operators is taking place on 24 to 27 August 2018 near Moscow, Russia. All radio amateur CW operators are invited. Participation is free but attendees must provide their own outdoor sleeping gear. Detailed information on this event, in Russian, is available at clck.ru/DoNR2 or you can contact the event’s ‘international liaison officer’ Ed, NT2X by email to red@escape.com.
Paraguay has joined the ever-growing list of countries that have released the 60m Secondary allocation agreed at WARC-15. The band 5351.5 to 5366.5kHz has been authorised at 25W EIRP. The original announcement, in Spanish, is at tinyurl.com/GB2RS-0308-B.
The Nursing Times has run a feature on GB1NHS, the special event station to promote the 70th anniversary of the NHS and other national initiatives. The station was launched at the RSGB National Radio Centre on 8 May this year.
Loughton and Epping Forest Radio Society will be running another of its highly successful Foundation courses on the weekend of 23 and 24 September 2018. The course takes place at All Saints House in Chigwell Row, Essex, and concludes with the Foundation exam. There is parking available, and the venue is a short distance away from Hainault tube station on the Central Line. For more information contact Marc Litchman, M0TOC, via email to marc@lefars.org.uk or on 0748 480 4135.
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