Archive for July, 2015
Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, to retire
After a long service to the American Radio Relay League and the IARU, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ has announced he is to retire in May next year at the age of 67. He’s been on the ARRL full-time staff for 44 years.
Rallies and Events News – 26 July 2015
Sunday, 26 July, the Horncastle Summer Rally will be held in the Horncastle Youth Centre, Lincolnshire LN9 6DZ. Doors open at 10.30am and admission is £1.50. More details from Tony, G3ZPU on 01507 527 835. Next weekend, on 2 August, the 26th King’s Lynn ARC Rally and Car Boot will take place at Gaywood Community […]
Special Events News – 26 July 2015
Farnborough and District Radio Society will be running a special event station from a local Scout hut in Frimley as part of their 50th year golden jubilee celebrations. Club members are mounting a public display and demonstration using G50FRS from 1 August to the 7th from 11am until 9pm. The public is very welcome to […]
DX News – 26 July 2015
ET3AA from the Ethiopian Amateur Radio Society club station is on the HF bands until 21 August. QSLs only via US0LW. G8OFQ will be active stroke HC8 from the Galapagos Islands, SA-004, until 30 September. Operations will be on the 6 to 160m bands. QSL via HA3JB. Giuseppe, IK5WWA will be active as 3A/IK5WWA from […]
Contest News – 26 July 2015
Sunday sees the final few hours of the RSGB’s flagship Islands on the Air Contest. It started at 1200UTC on the 25th and finishes at 1200UTC today, the 26th. You can use SSB and CW only on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands. Everyone who lives in the British Isles lives on an island and so […]
Propagation News – 26 July 2015
This week had seen reasonably settled conditions until the geomagnetic Kp index hit five on Thursday 23rd, thanks to a glancing blow from a solar coronal mass ejection. The solar flux index fell below 100 as well. If we look at the smoothed solar flux and sunspot data we can see we are now exiting […]
