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Rallies and Events – 21 December 2014
The first rallies of the New Year are on 18 January when the Hatherleigh Rally will open in Devon at 10am and the Red Rose Winter Rally will open at 11am in Manchester. More details will be in 2015. As a prelude to the move to larger premises in the New Year, Martin Lynch & Sons […]
Special Event News – 21 December 2014
WW1USA will be on the air on 27 and 28 December to commemorate the Christmas Truce of 1914. Details are on QRZ.com.
DX News – 21 December 2014
Special callsigns in the format E50x have been issued to the seven resident amateurs in the Cook Islands, OC-194, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of self-governance. They may be used at the operator’s discretion between 1 January and 31 December 2015. RV3ARY is planning to operate from Mount Vinson in Antarctica between 24 December and […]
Contest News – 21 December 2014
The UK Six Metre Group’s Winter Marathon began on the 1st and continues for two months. The Winter Marathon isn’t a contest in the traditional sense; it’s basically a way of promoting activity on 6m during the winter. There are no points for individual QSOs; just for working as many locator squares as possible. You […]
Propagation News – 21 December 2014
The sun remains peppered with a large number of spots. This has kept the solar flux index up in the 160s, even peaking at 192 on the 18th. This has also brought a lot of M and C class solar flare activity with associated short-term blackouts, although there have been no mammoth X-class events. Continuing […]
News for England Midlands – 21 December 2014
We start with clubs that have several events this week. Sutton Coldfield Amateur Radio Society has its 6m open net today and next Sunday on 50.135MHz SSB from 7.30pm. Monday sees an open net on 145.250MHz from 7.30pm. More information from Robert Bird, by email to spirit.guide@hotmail.co.uk. Wythall Radio Club has its club net on […]
