Archive for August, 2014

ARDF World Championships 2014

| August 29, 2014
ARDF World Championships 2014

The 17th ARDF World Championships are being held in Kazakhstan next week. The RSGB team of nine, all of whom are self-funded, flies out next Friday next to take part. The age categories are generally 10 years in duration and the number quoted is the age that a person enters the age group. This year […]

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DXCC approves new operations

| August 29, 2014

The ARRL DXCC desk has approved the following operations for DX Century Club credit: A52JR, 4W/HB9FLX, 4W/N1YC, and 4W/PE7T. If a request for DXCC credit for any of these operations has been rejected in a prior application, contact the ARRL DXCC Desk to be placed on the list for an update to your record. Please […]

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Churches and Chapels on the Air soon

| August 29, 2014

Churches and Chapels on the Air takes place on Saturday the 13th, between 10am and 4pm. There is still time to take part and send details to John, G3XYF via email to g3xyf@btconnect.com, and a list of the participating stations can be found on the CHOTA tab on the WACRAL website.

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Australia microwave spectrum changes

| August 29, 2014

The next stage of proposed changes to microwave spectrum in Australia has now started with a draft direction from the Canberra government to licence spectrum overlapping the 3.4GHz amateur band for mobile broadband. This follows a previous consultation and other proposed changes in the 2.3GHz band in which the Wireless Institute of Australia been actively […]

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Moldova signs CEPT licence agreement

| August 29, 2014

The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 reports that Moldova has signed the pan-European CEPT Novice and Class 1 amateur radio licence agreement. The prefix to be used is ER.

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Also in GB2RS this week…

| August 29, 2014

The next stage of proposed changes to microwave spectrum in Australia has now started with a draft direction from the Canberra government to licence spectrum overlapping the 3.4GHz amateur band for mobile broadband. This follows a previous consultation and other proposed changes in the 2.3GHz band in which the Wireless Institute of Australia been actively […]

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