Archive for December, 2014
New IRTS award
Next year will see a new IRTS award available, the Worked all Ireland Counties Award. It is designed to encourage activity and is based on working or hearing a combination of squares and counties in Ireland. The detailed rules are available at www.irts.ie/wai15.
Also in GB2RS this week…
The RSGB Board is delighted to announce the co-option of Barrie Palin, G4AHK, to the vacant nominated Director vacancy. Barrie is the chairman of the Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club in the West Midlands and is active on the HF and VHF bands. He will initially take the lead role on the Board for […]
Rallies and Events – 21 December 2014
The first rallies of the New Year are on 18 January when the Hatherleigh Rally will open in Devon at 10am and the Red Rose Winter Rally will open at 11am in Manchester. More details will be in 2015. As a prelude to the move to larger premises in the New Year, Martin Lynch & Sons […]
Special Event News – 21 December 2014
WW1USA will be on the air on 27 and 28 December to commemorate the Christmas Truce of 1914. Details are on QRZ.com.
DX News – 21 December 2014
Special callsigns in the format E50x have been issued to the seven resident amateurs in the Cook Islands, OC-194, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of self-governance. They may be used at the operator’s discretion between 1 January and 31 December 2015. RV3ARY is planning to operate from Mount Vinson in Antarctica between 24 December and […]
Contest News – 21 December 2014
The UK Six Metre Group’s Winter Marathon began on the 1st and continues for two months. The Winter Marathon isn’t a contest in the traditional sense; it’s basically a way of promoting activity on 6m during the winter. There are no points for individual QSOs; just for working as many locator squares as possible. You […]
