Archive for July, 2016
News for England South-East – 17 July 2016
We start with clubs that have several events this week. On Sunday Burnham Beeches Radio Club is at the McMichael Rally. Monday sees a video and on the air night. Details from Charles, G0SKA, on 01753 647 101. Dover Radio Club is having an introduction to the world of packet radio by Matt, M1CMN on […]
News for England South-West – 17 July 2016
We start with advance notice that RadCom columnist Steve White, G3ZVW will be hosting an inter club construction contest entitled Desert Island Challenge at the Sidmouth Amateur Radio Society on Tuesday 26th July. All clubs in the area are invited to contact Steve directly via email to steve.g3zvw@gmail.com Now for clubs that have several events […]
News for Wales – 17 July 2016
Newport Amateur Radio Society has its club net on 3.705MHz from 10am today and next Sunday. Tuesday sees a club net on 145.425MHz from 8pm. Details from Margaret, GW4SUE, on 01633 665 289. On Monday Dragon Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on the CQWW DX Contest by GW0ETF. More information from Stewart Rolfe, […]
Ofcom licensing systems upgrade
We explained last month that Ofcom is upgrading the online licensing systems that support amateur radio. As part of these changes their online and in-house licensing services are offline from 5pm today and will undergo essential upgrade work until Wed 20 July. They apologise for any inconvenience.
Support GR2HQ in IARU contest
This weekend, station GR2HQ will be active in the IARU HF Championship from 1200UTC on the 9th until 1200UTC on the 10th, providing the RSGB HQ multiplier for the UK. This will probably be last time Ofcom issues the GR prefix so they hope to work as many stations as possible. The GR2HQ team are […]
QRZ founder visits UK
Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, President and Founder of QRZ.com is visiting London on 15 July. He will be the guest speaker at Havering and District ARC held at The Spring House Club, Springhouse Road, Corringham, Stanford-le-Hope SS17 7QT. The talk will begin at 7.30pm sharp so please arrive early. For more details contact g4hrc@haveringradioclub.co.uk or look […]
