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Brits in ARDF World Championships
Eight British competitors are going to the ARDF World Championships in Bulgaria in the name of the RSGB. They flew out 3 September 2016, to Varna on the Black Sea Coast. The first of the four competitions is the FoxOring and takes place on Sunday, 4 September 2016. FoxOring is a combination of direction-finding and […]
RSGB 2016 Convention News
The RSGB 2016 Convention takes place 7 to 9 October 2016 at Kents Hill Conference Centre, Milton Keynes. The draft programme is on the website and there’s a full programme of events on both days with everything from DXpedition lectures to Raspberry Pi workshops and a Buildathon to microwave lectures. Go to www.rsgb.org/convention for bookings […]
Nominations sought for G5RP Trophy
The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly-licensed; it is open to any one who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing. If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend some one to be […]
Lunga Island activation
A team led by Dave, EI9FBB will be activating Europe’s second most-wanted IOTA until 6 September 2016. The team will be on the air from Lunga Island, which is EU-108, using the 80 to 6m bands. There will be four stations operating CW and SSB. Using the call sign MS0UKI, the six man team also […]
Italian hams aid earthquake response
Following the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy on 24 August, Italian radio amateurs are active in the emergency response. Please keep 7060kHz clear, along with other Emergency Centre of Activity frequencies in the 80 and 40m bands for emergency communications within Italy. No external assistance is required at this time. The Italian radio […]
60m and 630m for Latvian hams
Latvian amateurs have two new bands following the introduction of their new amateur radio licence on 9 August. Access has been allowed to the new WRC15 60m, or 5MHz, allocation from 5351.5 to 5366.5kHz with a power of 15W EIRP. 472 to 479kHz in the 630m band has also become available with a power of […]
