Archive for 2017
ARRL Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur
ARRL Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur This book is not intended as a guide to setting up a station in the UK or Europe and some solutions are not compliant with UK/European electrical regulations and thereby may be illegal or deemed dangerous in these areas. To help clarify the differences John Woodhouse, G6GPF […]
VHF Contesting Update
A briefing note from the UKAC workshop on 3 June is now available (3-page/94KB PDF). It describes what was discussed and the workshop group’s unanimous proposals for the further development of these successful contests.
RadCom June 2017, Vol. 93, No. 6
THIS EDITION IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE ONLINE We apologise for any disappointment This edition is currently being converted to our HTML5 online viewer, which will bring enhanced readability, download speed and picture quality C6APY DXpedition—testing WSPRlite in the field. News and Reports AGM presentations 22 Around Your Region – Club events calendar 83 Around Your Region […]
Aeronautical Mobile circumnavigation begins
On the 1st of June Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN left from Miami to recreate Amelia Earhart’s around-the-world flight on its 80th anniversary. He will be using HF SSB and automatic link establishment, ALE, from his single-engine plane named Spirit. He is communicating /AM while flying. The two month flight will follow Earhart’s historic route to circumnavigate […]
WSPR reports Canadian North West Passage
An amateur radio WSPR, or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network, beacon has been installed and activated on board the vessel Canada C3. The ship departed Toronto, Ontario, on the 1st of June on a 150-day expedition to Victoria, British Columbia, via the Northwest Passage as part of the Canadian Sesquicentennial celebration. This provides an opportunity […]
New GB2RS VHF SSB broadcast starts
From today, 4th of June, there will be a news reading of GB2RS on 144.250MHz SSB at 8.30pm by G8VHI. These will be in addition to his reading on 145.525MHz, which is now transmitted from a vertical at 70 feet that is audible over a large part of UK. You can hear the broadcast from […]
