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News for Wales – 21 February 2016
On Monday Llanelli Amateur Radio Society is having a social evening. Contact Craig, MW0MXT, on 01269 845 773. On Thursday Aberystwyth and District Amateur Radio Society is having a club net on 145.500 then 145.550MHz. Details from Ray, GW7AGG, on 01970 611 853. On Thursday North Wales Radio Society is looking at technical topics. More […]
Radio activity day for Arkwright Scholars
The Radio Communications Foundation (RCF) is to sponsor a radio activity day for Arkwright Scholars at the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park. One of the aims of the RCF is to promote radio communications in the UK. Every year the Foundation sponsors two Arkwright Trust scholars. However, we noted that the Arkwright Trust has hundreds of other […]
First school ham TV ISS link
The UK ARISS team achieved a world first at the Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth on Thursday, by receiving live ATV video from the ISS during the contact. Using the HamTV transmitter, which has recently been commissioned on board the ISS, Tim Peake was the first astronaut to use this equipment during a two […]
Thinking Day next weekend
World Thinking Day will take place on 20 and 21 February. This is when members of Girlguiding use amateur radio to try to contact other members throughout the world as part of the celebrations of their founders’ birthdays. For further details and to add your station to the list of participants go to www.guides-on-the-air.co.uk or […]
New 472kHz distance record set
Tuesday, 9 February saw a new record set for the longest DX on the new 600m band. WSPR was used by Phil Dwyer, VK3ELV and Laurence Howell, KL7L, the latter operating as WE2XPQ. The contact, from Victoria in Australia to Alaska in the USA, is the first ever between VK3 and KL7 on the 472kHz […]
Latest RSGB Band Plans finalised
The latest RSGB Band Plans have now been finalised. They cover all 29 UK amateur bands from 136kHz to 250GHz, including the special 146MHz band that is only available by Notice of Variation to Full licence holders. The Band Plans are available at www.rsgb.org/bandplans. They also appear in the March edition of RadCom, which should […]
