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DX News – 17th March 2013
A UK-led expedition to Easter Island is scheduled for 20 to 27 March, with activity planned mostly on CW on 160 through 10m. Plans are to use Elecraft K3s, small amplifiers and vertical antennas with plans to work challenging paths on the low bands, with emphasis on Europe. For receive antennas on the low bands […]
Contest News – 17th March 2013
The BARTG HF RTTY contest is in progress now and ends at 0200 UTC on Monday. Operation is on all contest bands from 80 to 10m and the exchange is RST plus serial number and time. Tuesday sees the 1.3GHz UKAC from 2000-2230 UTC. Operation is all modes on the 23cm band, and the exchange […]
Propagation – 17th March 2013
And now the solar factual data for the period from Friday the 8th to Thursday the 14th of March, compiled by Neil Clarke, G0CAS on Friday the 15th of March Up to eight sunspot regions were visible on the 11th but most were small and stable. However, a couple of groups produced occasional C class […]
GB2RS News, Sunday 10 March 2013
Rob, M0VFC wins the Cass Award The Cass Award encourages DXpeditions to maximise the number of unique contacts made. It comes with a $1000 prize for the single-operator DXpedition that works the most unique callsigns within a 4-week period. This award honours the wisdom and spirit of Cass, WA6AUD, after whom this new award was […]
G100RSGB lastest news
The special event callsign celebrating the RSGB Centenary stays in Region 4 this week. Sunday, 10 March, sees Durham and District ARS putting an HF and VHF station on the air using SSB and PSK. On 11 March, GD100RSGB will be heard again as the callsign goes back to the Isle of Man with CW, […]
