Archive for December, 2016
Special Event News – 25 December 2016
GB2KW will be on the air from the 1st to the 28th of January using vintage KW Electronics Ltd equipment. See the GB2KW listing on QRZ.com for full information. Humber Fortress DX ARC in Hull have organised a year’s multi club activation to celebrate Hull as the UK City of Culture 2017. Ofcom have kindly […]
Contest News – 25 December 2016
The UK Six Metre Group Winter Marathon continues on 6m until the end of January. Details are on the UKSMG.org website. Christmas Cumulatives runs for 2 hours each day between the 26th and 29th of December. Between 1400 and 1600UTC on all bands from 50 to 432MHz the exchange is signal report, serial number and […]
Propagation News – 25 December 2016
This week we have an extended propagation bulletin that takes you through to January 8th. HF propagation will continue to be relatively lacklustre, with the solar flux index staying in the mid to high 70s. Geomagnetic conditions have been unsettled at times, thanks to recurrent coronal hole activity. We will have a fairly quiet week […]
News for the Midlands – 25 December 2016
This broadcast covers the two weeks from 25 December to 8 January. To keep the bulletin short we have omitted all ‘club closed’ notices and edited some other entries more heavily than usual. Coventry Amateur Radio Society has its open net on the 26th from 8pm on 145.375MHz FM and/or 7.16MHz ± QRM. There’s a […]
News for England North – 25 December 2016
This broadcast covers the two weeks from 25 December to 8 January. To keep the bulletin short we have omitted ‘club closed’ notices and edited some entries more heavily than usual. Denby Dale Radio Club has a club net on Wednesday the 28th from 8pm on 145.575MHz. The Happy New Year special event station starts […]
News for Northern Ireland – 25 December 2016
The first of January sees the beginning of the Worked All GI award, or WAGI, for Worked All Britain areas in Northern Ireland. There are various classes of award, starting at 5 Squares. Details are on the WAB website, http://wab.intermip.net/
