Archive for April, 2018

DX News – 8 April 2018

| April 6, 2018

The St Brandon DXpedition 3B7A is going strong. Eight experienced operators are running five stations with monoband antennas. St Brandon, IOTA reference AF-015, is number 27 on the Club Log Most Wanted list. Operations will continue until the 17th of April. Pedro, ON7WP is active as C5WP from The Gambia until the 13th of April. […]

Special Events News – 8 April 2018

| April 6, 2018

Special Event Station news for April did not arrive in time to be included in the printed edition of RadCom, but the information can be found on the RSGB website via tinyurl.com/SES-0418 Next Friday to Sunday K4S will be on the air on 40, 20, 17 and 15 metres, supporting the Shark’s Tooth Festival in […]

Contest News – 8 April 2018

| April 6, 2018

The SP DX contest ends its 24-hour run today, the 8th, at 1500UTC. Using CW and SSB on all the contest bands from 1.8 to 28MHz, signal report and serial number forms the exchange, with SP stations also sending their Province code. Today also sees the UK Microwave Group Low Band Contest 2, which runs […]

Propagation News – 8 April 2018

| April 6, 2018

Last week saw a continued lack of sunspots as we journey towards solar minimum sometime in 2019–2020. The solar flux index hovered around 68-69, which is only about two to three points above what we can expect when it hits its lowest point. Unfortunately, we are likely to be repeating this sentence quite a lot […]

News for England Midlands – 8 April 2018

| April 6, 2018

We regret that due to staff illness at the RSGB it has meant it was not possible to prepare any Local News information this week. Details of many forthcoming events can be found in RadCom and in the April edition of the RSGB Affiliated Clubs Newsletter, which may be downloaded from tinyurl.com/GB2RS-0804B