Archive for September, 2015
Rallies and Events News – 20 September 2015
On Sunday, 20 September, the Crawley Microwave Round Table takes place at the Crawley ARC Club House Hut, 18 Tilgate Recreation Centre, Tilgate Forest from 10am. There will be demonstrations, presentations, equipment and component sales, all microwave-related, and the day includes a construction contest. Please do bring along your constructed equipment and enter. Refreshments are available […]
Special Events News – 20 September 2015
Worked All Britain are commemorating the Rugby World Cup 2015 using GB0RWC from 15 September to 31 October. Nine radio clubs are taking part, each in a locality in which the teams will be playing. The venues are in Whitton, Cheltenham, Sutton Coldfield, Barry, Harrow, Angel of the North, Cray Valley, Leicester, Sidmouth and finally back […]
DX News – 20 September 2015
David, OK6DJ, Petr, OK1FCJ/OL8R and Pavel, OK1FPS will be active from Zimbabwe from 20 to 30 September as Z21MG. They will operate on 160 to 10m on CW, SSB and digital modes including RTTY. They will also be active in the CQ WW RTTY Contest next weekend. QSL via OK6DJ, OQRS, LOTW or eQSL. Gerben, […]
Contest News – 20 September 2015
On Sunday, the second 70MHz contest takes place from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on Sunday, the BARTG Sprint 75 contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using 75 baud RTTY on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is just the serial number. On […]
Propagation News – 20 September 2015
Despite ongoing solar coronal holes, and their contribution to the high-speed solar wind, HF conditions have fared a little better than in previous weeks. This is due to the traditionally better autumnal HF conditions, which should improve further as the month goes on. Despite the geomagnetic K-index never really dropping below three, and often hitting […]
News for England Midlands – 20 September 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 from 7.30pm. Next Saturday and Sunday there will be a special event station on the air from the […]
