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Convention Meteor Scatter video
The RSGB 2016 Convention takes place 7 to 9 October 2016 at Kents Hill Conference Centre, Milton Keynes. One of the talks from last year—What Makes the Pings Go Ping?—is now available to Members online. In What Makes the Pings Go Ping? John Worsnop, G4BAO, looks at the principles behind meteor scatter. He covers everything […]
National Hamfest attractions
The National Hamfest takes place at the Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire on 30 September and 1 October 2016. This year the flea market has been redesigned providing low cost table space for selling your personal excess equipment and junk. If you do not wish to sell items yourself then the large bring-and-buy stand will look […]
New CISPR/H committee chair
The German national Society, DARC, has reported that Thilo Kootz, DL9KCE has been elected as Chair of the CISPR/H committee. CISPR is International Special Committee on Radio Interference.
YOTA 2016 in Austria
Youngsters on the Air 2016 is taking place in Austria all next week. Over 100 youngsters from 30 IARU member societies, including a team from the USA, will be having a lot of fun with amateur radio. There will be many workshops, optimising their skills in electronics and contesting and well as making new international […]
Ofcom licensing systems upgrade
We explained last month that Ofcom is upgrading the online licensing systems that support amateur radio. As part of these changes their online and in-house licensing services are offline from 5pm today and will undergo essential upgrade work until Wed 20 July. They apologise for any inconvenience.
Support GR2HQ in IARU contest
This weekend, station GR2HQ will be active in the IARU HF Championship from 1200UTC on the 9th until 1200UTC on the 10th, providing the RSGB HQ multiplier for the UK. This will probably be last time Ofcom issues the GR prefix so they hope to work as many stations as possible. The GR2HQ team are […]
