Archive for 2018
GB2RS News Script for 12 August 2018
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Rallies and Events News – 12 August 2018
This Sunday, the 12th, it’s the Flight Refuelling ARS Hamfest. This large event takes place at the Cobham Sports and Social Club Ground, Merley, near Wimborne, Dorset BH21 3DA. Talk-in will be on S22. Doors open at 10am and admission is £4, which includes parking. There will be trade stands, a car boot sale and […]
DX News – 12 August 2018
TA1HZ will be travelling to Prishtina on 17 August and will be on the air as Z68HZ. He will be working mainly SSB and FT8. He will be back home on 27 August. QSL via Logbook of The World. Roly, ZL1BQD will be active as A35RR from Togatapu, Tonga, OC-049, until 17 August. QSL via […]
Special Events News – 12 August 2018
The Deep Space Exploration Society will be operating a special event station until 13 August from the site of its 60-foot dish observatory in Colorado, USA. Calling as K0PRT and coinciding with the Perseids meteor shower, operation will be from 1400UTC to 2359UTC on 7.238, 14.253 and 50.160MHz. A special QSL is available—details at dses.science. […]
Contest News – 12 August 2018
There are no RSGB HF contests in the month of August. The Worked All Europe DX CW Contest takes place for the entire 48 hours of this weekend. Europe works non-Europe only. Using all the contest bands from 3.5 to 28MHz, the exchange is signal report and serial number. You can significantly boost your score […]
Propagation News – 12 August 2018
The Sun remained spotless this week as the solar flux index stuck resolutely around the 70 mark. The tiny sunspot that made an appearance on the first of August didn’t come to much and had vanished by the third. This underlines that we must be getting closer to sunspot minimum, although don’t expect to see […]
