Archive for 2025
Rallies and Events News – 9 March 2025
On Sunday 16 March, the Ripon and District Amateur Radio Society Rally will take place at Great Ouseburn Village Hall, Lightmire Lane, Great Ouseburn, York YO26 9RL. Doors open for traders at 7.30am and then to the public at 10am for an admission price of £3. Free parking, refreshments and bacon butties will be available. […]
Special Events News – 9 March 2025
The British Railways Amateur Radio Society is running special event station GB0LMR and GB2SDR during 2025 to celebrate 200 years of train travel since 1825. Starting from April, it will also be running GB2TT to celebrate the same anniversary. QSL will be via the Bureau. More information is available at QRZ.com and via webrars.info From […]
DX News – 9 March 2025
The VK9CU team will be active between the 4 and the 11 March from Cocos Keeling Islands, IOTA reference OC-003. They will operate on the 160 to 6m bands using CW, SSB, RTTY, FT4 and FT8. QSL via DL2AWG, ClubLog and Logbook of the World. Elvira, IV3FSG is active as D68Z from Moroni in the […]
Contest News – 9 March 2025
The Commonwealth Contest started at 1000UTC on Saturday the 8 March and ends at 1000UTC today, Sunday 9 March. Using CW on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. HQ stations also send ‘HQ’. On Tuesday 11 March, the 432MHz FM Activity Contest runs between […]
Propagation News – 9 March 2025
We started last week with geomagnetic disturbances that saw the Kp index rise to a maximum of 5.67 on the 28 February and then hover around the 4.5 mark for the next couple of days. As predicted, the rest of the week went quite well, with the Kp index in the range of one to […]
News for England Midlands – 9 March 2025
Meetings of Bolsover Amateur Radio Society take place on the first and third Tuesday of the month at the Bainbridge Hall, Bolsover, S44 6PX, from 8pm. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 18 March. Further information and reminders for meetings can be found on the Society’s Facebook page @bolsoverars Contact Richard, G0RRZ on […]
