GB2RS
New TX-Factor online TV show announced
Bob McCreadie, G0FGX, Mike Marsh, G1IAR and Nick Bennett, 2E0FGQ will be hosting a new streamed TV show, TX Factor, which goes live on Friday 21 February. The show aims to explore all aspects of our diverse and fascinating hobby. The free to view programme can be seen via www.txfactor.co.uk and should be compatible with […]
Amateur DXing at 500 million miles
Two amateurs have successfully heard signals from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet-seeking probe. The first was James Miller, G3RUH. He reports reception of Rosetta when it was at a distance of some 500 million miles from Earth. James accomplished this feat using the 20m dish at the Bochum observatory in Germany at 0934UTC on […]
Temporary Top Band permits for Portuguese amateurs
The Portuguese telecommunications regulator has granted Portuguese amateurs the temporary use of the 1.850 to 2MHz band. According to Portugal’s national amateur radio society, this will permit Portuguese radio amateurs the ability to participate in more radio sports competitions during 2014.
Also in GB2RS this week…
The AMSAT FUNcube Team has announced that the latest version of the Dashboard Software, Version 820, can now be downloaded. They have also made a few changes to the way Fitter Messages are handled or displayed on the Data Warehouse. Check out the changes at http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk. Users of 70MHz will be interested to know that […]
Special Events News – 2 February 2014
The Brazilian Amateur Radio League says that it will be celebrating its 80th anniversary throughout the month of February by conducting a special on the air operation. During this period, Brazilian Amateur Radio League stations operating in various states will use special ZZ 80 prefix callsigns. The operation will be on all of the HF […]
DX News – 2 February 2014
WS5K will be operational as PJ4F from the island of Bonaire, IOTA reference SA-006, between 7 February and 9 March. QSL via direct to WS5K or electronically using Logbook of the World. Seven operators will be active as 5I0DX as well as 5I0AM, 5I0WL and 5H3AN from Zanzibar Island, IOTA AF-032, from 2 to 13 […]
