Archive for May, 2015
Rallies and Events News – 17 May 2015
The Dayton Hamvention ends its three day run on Sunday. The RSGB has been represented by the President, John Gould, G3WKL, plus an RSGB book and Membership stand. Details are at www.hamvention.org. Sunday, 17 May, the 32nd Dunstable Downs Radio Club National Amateur Radio Boot Sale will take place at Stockwood Park, Luton. See www.ddrcbootsale.org […]
Special Events News – 17 May 2015
Mark, G3ZRR has organised GB50LBC to celebrate the London Borough of Croydon’s 50th birthday. Starting from about 16 May, he intends to operate the station at venues throughout the borough, during the Council’s 50th anniversary. The idea is to include Croydon’s parks, educational establishments, Scout, guide, military and Cadet Force installations. On the 18th of […]
DX News – 17 May 2015
Iain, G4SGX will operate holiday style as FG/G4SGX from Guadeloupe until 19 May. He will use dipoles on an EU-facing beach on 40, 30, 20 and 15m CW. QSL via his home callsign and Logbook of The World. Three Japanese operators will be on Niue Island, OC-040, until 25 May. Look for the callsigns E6ZS, […]
Contest News – 17 May 2015
The 144MHz May Contest ends its 24 hours of operation at 1400UTC today, the 17th. This contest is part of the VHF Championship series. With 6- and 24-hour sections for single-op fixed and single-op open stations, plus an open section for multi-op stations, there are convenient categories for everyone. The exchange is signal report, serial […]
Propagation News – 17 May 2015
It looks like we got the HF forecast for last week about right. The Kp index stormed up to six on Wednesday 6th, remaining at four for the whole day. This was due to an enhanced solar wind stream above 700 km/s and a southward-facing Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field. This negative Bz […]
News for England Midlands – 17 May 2015
We start with news from clubs that have several events this week. Sutton Coldfield Amateur Radio Society has its 6m open net on 50.135MHz from 8.30pm tonight and next Sunday. Monday sees an open net on 145.250MHz FM from 7.30pm. More information from Robert Bird, by email to spirit.guide@hotmail.co.uk. Wythall Radio Club is taking part […]
