Archive for June, 2016
Special Events News – 5 June 2016
Radio amateurs of the ARI Fidenza group will operate a radio station located close to the keel of the yacht Elettra, Marconi’s floating laboratory. Using the callsign IY4EC, the station will be on the air Sunday, the 5th, as part of the Museum Ships event. Chertsey Radio Club has the extended use of GB9LIZ until […]
Contest News – 5 June 2016
The CW National Field Day ends its 24 hour run at 1500UTC on Sunday, the 5th, on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands. The exchange is signal report and serial number. The South East Asia NETwork Contest ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC today, the 5th. The SEANET area encompasses CQ Zones 22, 24, 25, […]
Propagation News – 5 June 2016
The solar flux index declined further this week to the mid-80s. A quick look at an image of the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory on solarham.net shows why. On Thursday two sunspot groups were rotating out of sight on the Sun’s limb, leaving a pretty blank disk. As a result NOAA predicts the solar […]
News for England Midlands – 5 June 2016
We start with news from clubs that have several events this week. Wythall Radio Club has its net on 145.225MHz or GB3WL from 8pm today and next Sunday. Monday sees the Intermediate course and on Tuesday there’s a Morse class plus club night. The nibbles night in the shack commences at 7.30pm on Friday and […]
News for England North – 5 June 2016
Today sees the start of an addition to the GB2RS schedule and list of readers. We welcome Jim, G4AEH and Reg, G8VHI. Jim is better known for reading the news on Radio 4, while Reg returns as a newsreader, having stopped in October 1985 on joining the RAF. The time will be at 20:30 on 145.525MHz. Reg will […]
News for Northern Ireland – 5 June 2016
No news items have been received for Northern Ireland this week.
