Archive for April, 2016
Rallies and Events News – 17 April 2016
Sunday, the 17th, the West London Radio and Electronics Show takes place at Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 5AQ. The venue has free car parking and disabled facilities. There will be a talk-in station and doors open at 10am, with disabled visitors gaining access 10 minutes earlier. Other attractions include trade stands, […]
DX News – 17 April 2016
Svein, LA9JKA, is operating on Jan Mayen Island, EU-022, on all HF bands, until early October. He is using the call sign JX9JKA. Send QSLs to his home call sign. Tom, KC0W will be active for several months as KH8/KC0W from American Samoa, using CW only. Send cards to his home QTH in the United […]
Special Event News – 17 April 2016
Kerry Amateur Radio Group will participate as an Award Station in this year’s International Marconi Day event on 23 April. The station will be set up the site of the former Marconi Station at Ballybunnion. Members of the Expeditionary Radio Team will operate from 0000 to 2359UTC on the 23rd. Two HF stations are planned, […]
Contest News – 17 April 2016
The Worked All Britain Datamodes Contest takes place on Sunday, 17 April. Using the 3.5, 7 and 14MHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and WAB square. There are two separate contests, one for RTTY and one for PSK, and you will need a separate set of entry sheets for each. The PSK […]
Propagation News – 17 April 2016
No sooner did we say that it was beginning to look like the start of a solar minimum than an enormous sunspot appeared around the sun’s limb. Sunspot 2529 has produced a number of B and C-class solar flares. And despite NOAA predicting a solar flux index of around 80 last week, it rocketed to […]
News for England Midlands – 17 April 2016
Now for news from clubs that have several events this week. South Birmingham Radio Society is visiting the West London Radio and Electronics Show today. Monday sees planning for outside events. The regular coffee morning in the shack is on Tuesday from 11am. Thursday sees training classes with Dave Murphy, G8OWL. On Friday there’s an […]
