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Special Events News – 15 June 2014
Several local club members will be running a special event station from Thurnham Castle in Kent today, 15 June, using the callsign GB4TCK. Crawley ARC will be activating a station from the Gatwick Aviation Museum on 15th, 21st and 22nd June using the 10 to 80m bands. On 21 June, Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society will […]
DX News – 15 June 2014
ZL1GWE will be active as 5WZ1JM from Savaii, Samoa until 23 June. He’s reported to be operating on the 10 to 40m bands using CW and SSB. QSL via his home callsign. JA3IUY will be active as AH0CI from the Saipan Rental Shack in the Northern Mariana Islands, OC-086, on 21 and 22 June. Operations […]
Contest News – 15 June 2014
The RSGB 2m Backpacker contest runs from 0900 to 1300UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Practical Wireless 2m Low Power Contest runs for 7 hours today, the 15th, ending at 1600UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also today, the 15th, the SHF UK Activity Contest runs […]
Propagation News – 15 June 2014
Several large sunspot regions appeared and some were complex enough to produce large solar flares. Solar activity started the period at moderate levels on the 6th when a M1 class solar flare occurred. Later, on the 10th and the 11th activity increased to high when a single X class solar flare took place on both […]
IOTA 50th Anniversary celebration next month
The RSGB’s IOTA programme is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a conference at Beaumont House, Windsor on 4 to 6 July. Full details of the conference are in the July RadCom that will arrive with Members next week, or can be found on the website at www.rsgb.org/iota50. Visitors will be interested to know that DXCC […]
Swiss 5MHz beacon goes on the air
Although the 60m band has not been released for amateur radio in Switzerland, the Sursee Amateur Radio Club has obtained the necessary authorisations for a 5MHz experimental beacon project. HB9AW became operational on 5291kHz at 0000hrs on 1 June. The transmission commences with the callsign HB9AW in CW, followed by five 2-second dashes. The dashes […]
