Archive for March, 2014
Rallies and Events News – 16 March 2014
The Dover Radio Rally will be held today, 16 March, in the Whitfield Village Hall, Sandwich Road, Whitfield, Dover, Kent CT16 3LY. Doors open 10am and admission is £2. There will be trade stands and a Bring and Buy. Tables cost £10. Details from Ian Keyser at ian.g3roo@googlemail.com. The second Laugharne Radio Rally takes place […]
Special Events News – 16 March 2014
West Tyrone ARC is taking part in the St Patrick’s Day celebrations on Monday 17 March running GB1SPD. They will be situated on the top floor of the Strule Arts Centre in the town centre operating on HF, VHF/UHF, Echo Link and digital modes between 11am and 5pm. Visitors are welcome. Grey Point Fort will […]
DX News – 16 March 2014
JF1CCH will be active as 8Q7TS from Hulhumale Island in the Maldives from 20 to 31 March. Operations will be on 10 through 40 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. There’s also a chance he may show up on 160 and 80m as well. QSL via his home callsign. John, VK6HZ, will once again be […]
Contest News – 16 March 2016
You will need to be up very early if you want to catch the start of the BARTG HF RTTY Contest—2am, to be exact. It runs for 48 hours on the 15th to the 17th. Exchange signal report, a serial number and the time. The Russian DX Contest ends at 1200UTC today, the 16th. There […]
Propagation News – 16 March 2014
Two large active sunspot regions between them produced in total 12 M class solar flares and numerous C class solar flares. The largest solar flare of the period was a M9 which occurred late on the 12th. However, solar activity was low on the 7th when only C class solar flares took place. Solar flux […]
England Midlands News – 16 March 2014
Tamworth Amateur Radio Society will be running a Foundation course on 13, 20 and 27 April. Anyone interested should contact Steve on 01827 315 577. On Sunday 16 and 23 March Wythall Radio Club has a net on 145.225MHz at 8pm. Thursday sees the Club participating in the SSB leg of the 80m Club Championship […]
