Archive for April, 2016
RadCom Basics February-March 2016, No. 5
Taking part in the Commonwealth Contest, 12-13 March 2016 How to increase your country score and bag some great DX Making a 2m Slim Jim antenna with 300 Ohm ribbon cable Instead of buying an antenna why don’t you make your own? Making a homemade coaxial trap antenna: Part 1 What are traps and how […]
Peter Milton, G8FRC, 2016
Reading and District Amateur Radio Club (RADARC) were shock to hear the Peter Milton, G8FRC passed away following a sudden illness. Pete had become the RADARC Chairman for 2016 after many years of committee work. Our thoughts are with his wife Brenda and family. Min Standen, G0JMS
YOTA 2017 UK Summer Camp
The RSGB is pleased to announce that the Youngsters on the Air 2017 summer camp will be held in the UK. The Society looks forward to welcoming teams of young amateurs from some 15 countries in IARU Region 1 to the UK in August 2017. The RSGB Youth Committee and RSGB HQ will be working […]
Ofcom pausing revocations
Representatives of the Society met with Ofcom last month. Further details are on the Notices section of the RSGB website. Subjects discussed included how the Society and Ofcom could work more effectively to tackle reports of EMC, implementation of the WRC-15 agreement to harmonise the spectrum allocation at 5MHz and progress with licence revocation. Ofcom […]
KH5K off DXCC List
The ARRL Awards Committee has voted to delete Kingman Reef, KH5K, from the DXCC List, effective from the 29th of March 2016. Honor Roll status will now be attainable after confirming 330 entities on the DXCC List and the total number of entities on the List will drop from 340 to 339.
Also in GB2RS this week…
The findings of the Amateur Radio Survey that was undertaken at the end of last year have now been analysed. An initial summary will appear in the June edition of RadCom and a presentation of the key findings will be made available to affiliated clubs later in the year. Sad news now. Northern newsreader Hugh […]
