Archive for November, 2015
ANZAC special events coming to an end
ANZAC commemorations are closing with VI4ANZAC, commemorating the work of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train (RANBT). The station will be on the air from 12 to 20 December. The Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train served as engineers, and often as wireless operators, at Kangaroo Beach, Suvla Bay, with the British Army from August to […]
Rallies and Events News – 29 November 2015
There are no rallies taking place on Sunday, the 29th. The final rallies of the year are due to take place on 5 and 6 December. The South Lancs Winter Rally is on Saturday, the 5th, at Bickershaw Labour Club, Bickershaw Lane, Bickershaw WN2 5TE. Doors open for the public at 9am and admission is […]
Special Event News – 29 November 2015
Raymond Smit, PD7DX is operating special event station PD15XMAS from 5 December to 1 January, in the spirit of the holiday. He will be active on 7, 14 and 28MHz on HF as well as 2m and 440MHz. Some of the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Member Societies will be marking the International Day […]
DX News – 29 November 2015
Mats, SM6LRR is operating holiday style in Vietnam as XV2D until 6 December and is participating in the CQWW CW Contest this weekend. Logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World. Donald, KD4UDU will be working as EL2DW from Monrovia, Liberia until 17 December. Look for him on 20m, 15m and 10m on SSB. […]
Contest News – 29 November 2015
The biggest contest is the CW Worldwide DX CW contest, which ends its 48 hour run on Sunday, the 29th, at 2359UTC. Using the bands 1.8 to 28MHz the exchange is your signal report and CQ zone. For the UK the zone is 14. On Tuesday the 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to […]
Propagation News – 29 November 2015
This week has been geomagnetically quiet with the K-index hovering around zero or one. This is in contrast to the extremely unsettled conditions we have been having on and off over the past few months. Coupled with a solar flux index of around 110 to 120 this has brought reasonably settled conditions on HF and […]
