Archive for 2019
England South-West – 21 July 2019
This Sunday and next Sunday, Torbay Amateur Radio Society Club has nets on 14.270MHz at 9.30am and 3.663MHz at 10.30am. Tuesday sees a club net on 3.663MHz at 9.15pmand at 10am on 3.663MHz Wednesday. Thursday the nets take place on 14.270MHz at 9.30am and 145.575MHz at 12 noon. On Friday there is a club night […]
News for Wales – 21 July 2019
This Sunday and next, Newport Amateur Radio Society has a net on 3.704MHz at 10am. Tuesday sees an evening net on 144.700MHz. On Thursday there an evening looking at NFD and an events discussion. More from Ross, GW3NWS, on 01633 880. On Tuesday Barry Amateur Radio Society has a natter and training night. Details from […]
YOTA Bulgaria Day 4
What did you get up to on Day 4? In the Train the Trainer presentation, we learnt about NOTA (Nordics on the Air) subregional camps, which have been highly successful in previous years. Later, we practised and learnt knots for use with antennas. The day then continued with an excursion to Sofia, the capital of […]
YOTA Bulgaria Day 5
What did you get up to on Day 5? To begin we had a quick fire Train the Trainer lecture. Every country gave a snapshot of their radio amateur youth. Later we had introductions to ARDF and high speed telegraphy. We were amazed by the immense speeds of Morse possible. After this, we took part […]
YOTA Bulgaria Day 6
What did you get up to on Day 6? In the morning we split into groups then built and tuned VHF end-fed dipoles for use with HTs. After lunch we built 20m HF dipoles with simple choke baluns and then operated the station LZ19YOTA. This was interesting as many of us had never built an […]
RSGB President writes to Ofcom about 144 MHz
After due consideration, and as reported in GB2RS news on Friday, 5 July 2019, RSGB President Dave Wilson, M0OBW wrote to Ofcom strongly expressing the RSGB’s concerns about the proposed WRC-23 aeronautical Agenda Item that includes 144-146 MHz. The President’s letter started by stating that the RSGB “shares the concerns of the global amateur community […]
