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Rallies and Events
With a weekend of snow forecast and major disruption on both road and rail networks, please check that the rally or event is still taking place before you travel any distance. The Dover Amateur Radio Club Rally will take place today, 20 January, at the Whitfield Village Hall, Dover CT16 3LY. Doors open at 10am […]
Special Events
The RNLI SOS Radio Week runs until 27 January and more than 40 stations have registered to take part. For full details of those stations, check out the website, www.sosradioweek.org.uk. Anybody working one of the registered stations can apply for the Worked SOS Radio Week Award. Pontefract & District ARS will be operating GB0SRW until […]
DX News
Members of the ‘Buddies in the Caribbean’ suitcase mini-DXpedition group are going to Barbados, IOTA reference NA-021, and will be active between 29 January and 6 February. All members will use Buddipole portable antennas at 100 watts or less. Several teams will be battery-only, field portable either from Barbados beaches or from scenic mountain tops […]
Contest News
The 50MHz UK Activity Contest takes place on 22 January from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on 22 January, the SHF UK Activity Contest takes place from 2000 to 2230UTC. Again using all modes on the 2.3 to 10GHz bands the exchange is signal […]
Propagation News
And now the solar factual data for the period from Friday the 11th to Thursday the 17th of January, compiled by Neil Clarke, G0CAS on Friday the 20th of January. Sunspot groups gradually disappeared from ten groups at the start of the period to only five by the end. Two large and magnetically complex groups […]
GB2RS News for Sunday, 13 January 2013
5MHz band news The new variation to the UK Amateur Full Licence, allowing a wider range of privileges, came in force from 1 January 2013. Following the Christmas and New Year period, RSGB web support for the new frequencies has been updated. You will find a link at www.rsgb.org/main/5mhz [LINK TO OLD SITE]. Whilst the RSGB […]
