Archive for August, 2014
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Rallies and Events News – 3 August 2014
Today, 3 August, the 25th King’s Lynn Arc Rally takes place at Gaywood Community Centre, PE30 4DZ, where there is talk-in on S22, and free car parking. Opening time is 10am and admission is £2. There are trade stands, a car boot sale and catering. Camping is available by prior arrangement. Details from Ted, G4OZG, […]
Special Events News – 3 August 2014
Today, 3 August, sees the start of a very unusual special event callsign, GB1418WAR, commemorating the 1914-1918 First World War. Activity will be from Top Band to 28MHz, mainly on SSB but with some CW. QSL via M0OXO. Next weekend, 8 and 9 August, a demonstration station will be at the Mull of Galloway Festival […]
DX News – 3 August 2014
Giovanni, IZ2DPX will be active as VP2MPX from Montserrat, NA-103, until 25 August on SSB on the HF bands and 6 metres. Tony, 3D2AG will be back on Rotuma Island, OC-060, until 8 August. He will be QRV in his spare time as 3D2AG/p on the 40 to 6m bands using a solar powered station […]
Contest News – 3 August 2014
The VHF part of the 43rd Alpe Adria VHF/UHF/SHF contest takes place today, 3 August. Entry categories include a low power high altitude class for those above 1600m ASL and below 5W. Operations are on CW and SSB from 0700-1500UTC and full details are at www.alpe-adria-contest.net. Today, 3 August, the CW contest RoPoCo 2 is […]
Propagation News – 3 August 2014
As predicted, two large sunspot regions rotated into view, one on the 27th and the other on the 30th. Solar activity started at low levels with a small number of C class solar flares taking place each day. However, on the 31st, activity increased to moderate levels when a M2 class solar flare took place […]
