Archive for January, 2018

Prepare for Thinking Day on the Air

rsgb | January 26, 2018

Thinking Day on the Air 2018 will take place over the weekend of 17 and 18 February 2018. A list of known stations is displayed on the station list page. There is a form on the page for stations to submit their details to be added to the list, and a Yahoo group for exchanging […]

Two Chinese amateur CubeSats launched

rsgb | January 26, 2018

On Friday, 19 January 2018 two satellites carrying amateur radio payloads were launched. Both were developed by amateur students in Hunan province, China. The satellites, QuanTuTong-1 and Xiaoxiang-2, are 6U CubeSats. They will operate in the 435, 2400, 5650 and 5830MHz amateur-satellite service bands. 5650MHz is used for uplinks and 5830MHz for downlinks. Currently only […]

New RSGB EMC Committee Chair sought

rsgb | January 26, 2018

John Rogers, M0JAV is stepping down as Chair of the RSGB EMC Committee after seven years’ invaluable service. The EMC Committee helps and advises members who have EMC problems, lobbies regulators and guides standards to protect the spectrum. It also investigates emerging EMC threats and updates members on these and other EMC matters. The RSGB […]

Also in GB2RS this week…

rsgb | January 26, 2018

Two more lectures from the RSGB 2017 Convention are being published on the RSGB website. Already online is the talk by James Patterson, M1DST, on M1N-the-Middle, a Flexible Hardware Control Add-On For Your K3. On Wednesday, 31 January this will be followed by Antenna Selection For The 6G DXpeditions by Mike Chamberlain, G3WPH. Both of […]