Archive for August, 2014
Special Events News – 10 August 2014
The Brede Steam Amateur Radio Society will be operating GB4STG in the CHOTA event from St.Georges Church Brede. HF bands depending on conditions. Operation will commence at 8am, taking a half hour break at 9am whilst the morning worship takes place. Activity will then resume until 5:30pm. A special callsign, CF3NAVY, will be on the […]
DX News 10 August 2014
KB5FLA will be on the air stroke PJ7 from Sint Maarten, NA-105, until 12 August. Activity is holiday style on 40 and 20 metres using CW and SSB. QSL via his home callsign direct or electronically via Logbook to the World or eQSL. DJ8NK, signing as GJ0VNK, and F6EXV, signing as MJ0EXV will be operational […]
Contest News – 10 August 2014
For the whole 48 hours of the weekend of 9-10 August the first of this year’s Worked All Europe DX Contests, the CW leg, will be filling the HF bands with signals. Europeans work non-Europeans only. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The 5th 70MHz Cumulative Contest […]
Propagation News – 10 August 2014
Solar activity was slightly higher this week. C-Class flares were reported daily and a couple of M-class flares occurred on the 1st. However, there were no Earth-directed coronal mass ejections. The solar flux started the week at 168 and ended at 137, averaging 144, compared with134 the previous week. The 90-day average was stable at […]
News for England Midlands – 10 August 2014
We start with clubs that have several events this week. Wythall Radio Club has a club stall at Wythall Carnival today from 10am and the club net on 145.225MHz at 8pm tonight and next Sunday. On Tuesday there’s a Morse class at 7.45 and a committee meeting at 8.30pm. The regular nibbles night is in […]
News for England North – 10 August 2014
We start with news that a new club, Wearside Electronics & Amateur Radio Society has been formed in Sunderland. The first meeting is on Monday from 7pm at the 2nd Herrington Scout Hut, Crow Lane, New Herrington SR3 3TE. Plans include Intermediate and Full training, tea, coffee and homemade pie. Details are on QRZ.com under […]
