Archive for September, 2019
National Club of the Year 2018 winners announced
At the National Hamfest on 28 September 2019 we announced the winners of the RSGB National Club of the Year 2018. We thank Waters & Stanton for sponsoring this year’s event, and for kindly donating the prizes. This year’s competition had only one category for entrants, and as well as being open to clubs of […]
UK school to contact ISS
Another UK school has the opportunity to contact the International Space Station. Bampton School will make the contact sometime during the week of 7 October 2019, but won’t know the exact date and time until closer to the event. They will be operating as GB4BPS and contacting NA1SS on the station. They hope to speak […]
RSGB 2019 Convention latest
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. It is kindly sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons. The provisional programme of lectures and workshops is now online at rsgb.org/convention. There will be a Meet the RSGB Board session, where delegates have the opportunity to discuss current issues and […]
Frequency measurement festival for WWV
HamSCI and the Case ARC will sponsor a Festival of Frequency Measurement on WWV’s centennial, 1 October 2019, from 0000 to 2359UTC. The event invites radio amateurs, short wave listeners, and others capable of making high quality frequency measurements on HF to participate and publish their data to the HamSCI community on the Zenodo open-data […]
RadCom Basics now out
The September 2019 edition of RadCom Basics is now at rsgb.org/radcom-basics. In this edition— Welcome to the latest edition from Lee, G4EJB, RadCom Basics editor How and why the HF bands come alive in autumn Using digital repeaters Moving up Glossary of terms To read the articles, you’ll need to sign in with your RSGB […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
In Australia, Foundation licensees have gained some digital privileges. The changes include digital modes for Foundation licensees, the removal of the requirement for Foundation licensees to use commercial equipment and a general relaxation of the emission bandwidths for all classes of licence. There are no changes to output power or bands. The changes took effect […]
