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Special Events News – 11 August 2013
Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club will be operating GB2LBN at Barns Ness next weekend for International Lighthouse Weekend. A number of other lighthouses and lightships are hosting special event stations and callsigns to look out for include GB1DLH at Durness Light House, GB0REL for Rathlin East Light in Co Antrim, GB0NLH at Needles […]
DX News – 11 August 2013
Byron, KF8UN will be active as 5H3BB from Tanzania until 20 August. Operation will be mainly on SSB on 40, 20, 17 and 15m with a possibility of some CW. QSLs go via his home callsign. Luc, ON6DSL will activate Crete, EU-015, holiday-style, as SV9/ON6DSL/p between 12 and 21 August, using the 15 to 40m […]
Contest News – 11 August 2013
The 5th 70MHz Cumulative contest takes place today from 1400 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The first of this year’s The Worked All Europe contests ends today at 2359UTC after 48 hours of operation. In this CW event, stations in Europe only get points for working […]
Propagation News 11 August 2013
Numerous small sunspot regions were visible every day but all were quiet and most were in gradual decay. Solar activity was very low, with no C class solar flares taking place at all. This is the first week with no C class solar flares since the last solar minimum. Solar flux levels declined slightly from […]
Latest Centenary Convention news
The RSGB’s Centenary Convention, sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons, takes place over the weekend 11 to 13 October at Horwood House just outside Milton Keynes. This year Joe Taylor, K1JT, well known in the field of amateur radio weak signal communication, will be speaking on DXing with weak signals. Also, Terry Giles, G4CDY will […]
New South African 5MHz beacon
The South African Radio League will activate a new propagation beacon on 5.250MHz by the end of August. Its transmitter will be programmed to send signals at regular intervals and radio amateurs who have the proper software will be able to record these signals automatically on their computers. An article that explains the full operation […]
