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From the 27 July to 3 August 2024, the Essex International Jamboree is welcoming around 10,000 scouts and guides—including 2,000 supporting volunteers from around the world—to Boyton Cross near Chelmsford. As part of the programme, amateur radio station GB24EIJ will be running a wide range of communications and electronics activities. The organising team intends the […]
Rallies and Events News – 28 July 2024
Today, the 28 July, Wiltshire Radio Summer Rally is taking place at Kington Langley Village Hall, Kington Langley, SN15 5NJ. The event is running from 9am to 1pm, admission is £3 and indoor tables cost £10. To take part in the car boot sale, a car-sized pitch costs £10 and a van-sized pitch is £15. […]
Special Events News – 28 July 2024
Special event station TM67JO is active to celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympic Games which began on Friday 26 July. The operators include F1LFL on SSB, F5PZT using FT8 and FT4, and F5TFW on CW. QSL to F1LFL via the Bureau or directly. For more information about the special event station, which will be operating until […]
DX News – 28 July 2024
Jeff, W7BRS is active as VK2/W7BRS from Lord Howe Island, OC-004, until the 1 August. He is operating using CW, SSB and FT8 on the 40 to 10m bands. QSL via OQRS. A team of five UK operators will attempt to activate MM0UKI from the Flannan Islands, EU-118, in August. The uninhabited island group is […]
Contest News – 28 July 2024
The IOTA Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday 27 July and finishes at 1200UTC today, Sunday 28 July. Using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number and IOTA reference. Today, the 28 July, the UK Microwave Group 5.7 and 10GHz Contest runs […]
Propagation News – 28 July 2024
We had yet another week of high sunspot numbers and low geomagnetic disturbances, but will it last? We dodged a bullet last week after a weak coronal mass ejection, or CME, on Tuesday 23 August failed to generate a geomagnetic storm. This was from a faint halo CME observed on Sunday, which was much weaker […]
