Archive for May, 2019
DX News – 5 May 2019
Brian, GW4DVB will be operating a small holiday DXpedition from 6 to 15 May to Palm Island, also know as Prune Island, IOTA reference NA-025, in St Vincent and the Grenadines. He will use the call sign J88PI from the locator FK92HO. QSL, direct only, to P.O. Box 20:20, Llanharan, Pontyclun, Wales CF72 9ZA. Andrey, […]
Special Events News – 5 May 2019
From 4 to 31 May, GB9SOS will be operating as part of SOS Radio Week. The station will be operating on as many different HF and VHF bands as possible during the 28 days the station will be active. The station will be operating from 1900 to 2100UTC on weekdays and 0900 to 1600UTC at […]
Contest News – 5 May 2019
The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon runs until 4 August. Using all modes on the 50MHz band, the exchange is just your four character locator. The 432MHz to 248GHz Trophy contest ends its 24 hour run at 1400UTC today, the 5th. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The […]
Propagation News – 5 May 2019
Well, it is now May and that means the sporadic E season has started. There have already been some sporadic E openings on 10m, but the best is yet to come. Meanwhile, a lack of sunspots and continuing coronal hole activity means F2-layer DX is a little harder to come by. Last week’s International Marconi […]
News for England Midlands – 5 May 2019
We start with news from clubs with more than one event this week. Burton Amateur Radio Club has a net from 10am on 145.575MHz this Sunday and next Sunday. Wednesday sees a club night and on Thursday there’s a net on 145.575MHz from 8pm. Next Saturday and Sunday see activities for Mills on the Air. […]
News for England North – 5 May 2019
We start with news that South Lancs ARC is having a free draw, open to all, to win an oak-turned plate with your call sign inlaid into it. The draw closes on 14 May and you can enter via slarc.co.uk. Now for clubs that have several events this week. Central Lancs Amateur Radio Club has […]
