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Amateur radio cyclone relief effort
An interesting item about amateur radio was broadcast on the BBC World Service this week. It dealt with the importance of amateur radio emergency communications during the recent cyclone in India. Listen to the broadcast—Ham Radio Aids Cyclone Relief Effort.
ISS contact on BBC Earth podcast
A BBC Earth PodCast featuring Eleanor Griffin, M6NWZ talking about her experience with an ISS link from Kings High School, Warwick was broadcast this week. Eleanor Griffin discusses leading the live question and answer session facilitated by ARISS, between King’s High School Warwick and the ISS in April last year. Go to bbcearth.com/podcast, scroll to […]
Syllabus 2019 updates page
The latest document to be added to the Syllabus 2019 updates webpage is a presentation Digital Signal Processing Without the Maths. This is aimed at tutors preparing training material. On the page you will also find the exam specifications, details of the tutors’ meeting held in March, as well as model tutorial slides on SDR […]
An introduction to QOscar 100
Noel Matthews, G8GTZ, Dave Crump, G8GKQ and Phil Crump, M0DNY gave a presentation at AGM 2019 on Qatar Oscar 100, the geostationary amateur transponder on the Es’hail-2 commercial satellite. QOscar 100 was launched in February 2019 and has seen stations making contacts across a third of the globe on the narrow band and wide band […]
RSGB ARDF Championships
This Bank Holiday weekend sees the annual three day RSGB ARDF Championships taking place in the Thames Valley. The areas chosen are Christmas Common near Wendover, Whiteleaf near Princes Risborough and Hodgmoor Woods near Amersham. The competitions will comprise ‘classic’ ARDF events on 144MHz and 3.5MHz on two of the days, with the final day […]
NRC visitor figures rising
There were 9,092 visitors to the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) at Bletchley Park in April 2019, bringing the total in the first four months of this year to 27,077. That’s nearly three times more than the 9,355 for the same period last year. Please note the radio room in the NRC will have reduced […]
