Archive for March, 2015
Rallies and Events News – 15 March 2015
The Dover Radio Rally will take place today, 15 March in Whitfield Village hall, Sandwich Road, Whitfield, Dover CT16 3LY. Doors open at 10am and the auction starts at 12.30pm. The rally ends at 1pm. Entrance price for visitors is £2. Details are online at www.darc.org.uk. The 40th Dutch National Radio Flea market takes place […]
Special Events News – 15 March 2015
Farnborough and District Radio Society is celebrating half a century of support and promotion of amateur radio. G50FRS will be operating until 30 November this year. They run club nets every Monday on 1995kHz and Friday on 144.675MHz both at 8pm and welcome anyone to join in. GB0SGS will be on air on 16 and […]
DX News – 15 March 2015
Lukas, HB9EBT will be active as D44TEG from Sao Tiago, IOTA reference AF-005, from 15 to 27 March. He will operate CW on the 10 to 40m bands. QSL via his home callsign, either direct or via the bureau. Marc, ON5SM will be active as DU9/ON5SM from Mindanao in the Philippines, OC-130, from 16 March […]
Contest News – 15 March 2015
The Commonwealth Contest ends its 24 hours run at 10am today, the 15th. As ever there are DXpeditions to some countries that you don’t hear on the bands every day, so for most of us—even if we are not making a serious entry—there are some new or rare ones to work. Using the 3.5 to […]
Propagation News – 15 March 2015
Last week we said that the sun’s surface was looking a little bare, but that was before sunspot region 2297 erupted. This new area has helped keep the solar flux index around 120-130, but has spawned a number of solar flares. This region has so far produced an X2.2 flare, along with four moderate M-class […]
News for England Midlands – 15 March 2015
We start with clubs that have several events this week. Lincoln Short Wave Club is taking part in the UKCC on Tuesday. Today and next Sunday there are shack activities with G5FZ on the air. Monday sees a committee meeting and Tuesday is the UK Club Contest. A formal meeting takes place on Wednesday, and […]
