Archive for February, 2014
Special Events News – 2 March 2014
Two stations will be operating today, 2 March: GB2MS for Multiple Sclerosis in Macclesfield and GB2GED from Croydon, celebrating Croydon Airfield’s old callsign. Mark, G1PIE and Jack, G0FQN with Pam, 2E1HQY logging will be running GB4WVR from 7 March into 2015. They will be transmitting from Oakworth Station for the very first time on the […]
DX News – 2 March 2014
WA2NHA will be active from 2 to 17 March as stroke P4 from Aruba, SA-036. His operating will be on the 10 to 80m bands mainly using CW. QSL via his home callsign. Alan, G3XAQ has returned to Uganda until 16 March. He will reactivate his 5X1XA callsign. QSLs go via G3SWH. John, KF0RQ will […]
Contest News – 2 March 2014
The 144/432MHz contest finishes at 1400UTC today, 2 March. It has six and 24 hour categories and the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The ARRL International DX contest ends at midnight tonight, 2 March having run for 48 hours. Work US stations in the contiguous 48 states, plus Canadians. Send a signal […]
Propagation News – 2 March 2014
Solar activity increased from low to moderate on the 23rd when one M class solar flare took place and again on the 24th when two took place. Activity increased further to high levels on the 25th when an X4 class flare occurred. The sunspot group responsible for the majority of these flares rotated into view […]
England Midlands – 2 March 2014
We start with news from clubs that have several events this week. Wythall Radio Club has a club net on 145.225MHz at 8pm tonight and next Sunday. The 20m Club Championship Contest Data leg is at 8pm on Monday, followed at 8.30pm by the Foundation exam. Tuesday sees a Morse class at 7.45, plus the […]
England North News – 2 March 2014
We start with advance news that Stockton and District Amateur Radio Group is taking names for Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced courses. The group meets on Wednesday evenings at the Billingham Community Centre, Billingham, Cleveland, TS23 2DA, Please contact Lenny, M0KOM, via m0kom@yahoo.com for further details. South Tyneside Amateur Radio Society is putting GX0WKQ on the […]
