Archive for May, 2019
News for Wales – 12 May 2019
On Tuesday Barry Amateur Radio Society has a talk by Glyn, GW0ANA The Amazing Life of George Kemp. Contact Glyn, GW0AWA, via email to glyndxis@talktalk.net. Next Saturday Cleddau ARS has a museum visit. Contact Heinz, MW0ECY, on 0774 804 7008.
ISS contact on BBC Earth podcast
A BBC Earth PodCast featuring Eleanor Griffin, M6NWZ talking about her experience with an ISS link from Kings High School, Warwick was broadcast this week. Eleanor Griffin discusses leading the live question and answer session facilitated by ARISS, between King’s High School Warwick and the ISS in April last year. Go to bbcearth.com/podcast, scroll to […]
Syllabus 2019 updates page
The latest document to be added to the Syllabus 2019 updates webpage is a presentation Digital Signal Processing Without the Maths. This is aimed at tutors preparing training material. On the page you will also find the exam specifications, details of the tutors’ meeting held in March, as well as model tutorial slides on SDR […]
Foundation Licence Manual for Radio Amateurs
by Alan Betts, G0HIQ The Foundation Licence Manual for Radio Amateurs is the RSGB course-book for those who wish to become radio amateurs in the UK. In line with the progressive three-tier UK licence structure, the Foundation Licence Manual is the first step in the natural progression to the Intermediate and Full licence. This book […]
An introduction to QOscar 100
Noel Matthews, G8GTZ, Dave Crump, G8GKQ and Phil Crump, M0DNY gave a presentation at AGM 2019 on Qatar Oscar 100, the geostationary amateur transponder on the Es’hail-2 commercial satellite. QOscar 100 was launched in February 2019 and has seen stations making contacts across a third of the globe on the narrow band and wide band […]
RSGB ARDF Championships
This Bank Holiday weekend sees the annual three day RSGB ARDF Championships taking place in the Thames Valley. The areas chosen are Christmas Common near Wendover, Whiteleaf near Princes Risborough and Hodgmoor Woods near Amersham. The competitions will comprise ‘classic’ ARDF events on 144MHz and 3.5MHz on two of the days, with the final day […]
