Archive for January, 2016
News for Wales – 24 January 2016
Risca and District Amateur Radio Society announces a Foundation course to commence on Tuesday 2 February. It will take place at St John Ambulance Hall, Risca, near Newport NP116BY from 7 to 9pm. The course concludes on 29 March. Admission is free on the first night but fees apply thereafter. For more information contact Clive […]
Peter Best, G8BLS, 23 December 2015
Peter Best, G8BLS passed away peacefully at St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich on 23rd December 2015, aged 71 years. I first met Peter just over 5 years ago when he was a tutor on the Foundation Course I was taking at the age of 62 – my first contact with amateur radio. Peter left me with […]
ISS school contact video released
A 92-minute video containing the Sandringham School GB1SAN and Tim Peake GB1SS amateur radio contact is now available on the ARISS UK Team channel on YouTube. The contact took place Friday, 8 January and was led by Jessica, M6LPJ. The video includes the presentations given to the students by ARISS UK’s Ciaran M0XTD, Head Teacher […]
Workshops wanted for EMF 2016
Electromagnetic Field 2016 will take place from 5-7 August near Guildford, Surrey. It is a UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things, aimed at hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists and engineers. The organisers are looking for talks and workshops for the festival. They are especially keen to […]
Minister launches spectrum report
The UK Spectrum Policy Forum, the industry-led sounding board to Government and Ofcom, has launched a new report called UK Spectrum Usage & Demand, 2nd Edition. It was launched at the UK Spectrum Policy Forum conference, with a keynote speech from Ed Vaizey MP. Amateur radio features strongly in the report, following input by the […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
The 2015 Christmas Eve transmission from SAQ, the Alexanderson alternator station at the World Heritage Grimeton site in Sweden, brought more than 350 reports, according to a preliminary accounting, many of them from amateurs. SAQ transmitted on its standard frequency, 17.2kHz. The majority of reports came from Europe, with nearly 160 from Germany. The RSGB […]
