Archive for 2018
News for England South West – 8 July 2018
South Bristol Amateur Radio Club is operating G4WAW/P today for VHF National Field Day, and will be dscommissioning the site on Monday. Thursday sees a de-brief from the event. Contact Andrew Jenner, G7KNA, on 0783 869 5471. On Monday Mid Somerset Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on EME by Brian, G4NNS. Details from […]
News for Wales – 8 July 2018
On Monday Llanelli Amateur Radio Society is having an on the air evening. Contact Steve Williams, MW6CCG, on 0787 849 4337. On Thursday Aberystwyth & District Amateur Radio Society is having a barbecue and HF on the air night. Contact Ray, GW7AGG, on 01970 611 853. On Thursday North Wales Radio Society is discussing a […]
GB2RS News Script for 1 July 2018
Please click the link below to download this week’s news script GB2RS News Script for 1 July 2018
Receive SSTV from the ISS
This weekend ARISS Russia is running a special slow-scan television event from the International Space Station. Unfortunately we learned the details too late to include in last week’s bulletin. The transmissions started around 0900UTC on Friday and continue until around 1830UTC, Sunday, 1 July 2018. The cosmonauts will be sending images commemorating the various satellites […]
SAQ transmitting on Sunday
This Sunday is Alexanderson Day, the day when Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden fires up its Alexanderson alternator to transmit as SAQ on 17.2kHz VLF. For those who don’t know the story, this is the last surviving high frequency alternator CW transmitter from the pre-electronic transmitter era. Built in the early 1920s, it was used […]
IARU welcomes new member
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has welcomed the St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Amateur Radio Society as its newest member-society, to represent St Kitts and Nevis. The Society does not claim to represent Anguilla, which is already represented in the IARU by the Anguilla Amateur Radio Society; the inclusion of Anguilla in their name dates back to […]
