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Special Events News – 20 October 2024
Special event station PF16F is active to say farewell to the F-16 fighter aircraft, or Fighting Falcon. After 45 years of service, from 1979 to 2024, the F-16 will retire from the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Members of Radio Club Limburg will be operating the callsign until 30 November 2024 and hope to work as […]
DX News – 20 October 2024
Harold, DF2WO is active as 9X2AW from Rwanda until 22 October. He is operating using CW, FT4 and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands. You might also catch Harold operating via the QO-100 satellite. When possible, he also hopes to be QRV on the 6m band. QSL via OQRS. Stephane, F5UOW is active as […]
Contest News – 20 October 2024
The Worked All Germany Contest started at 1500UTC on Saturday, the 19th, and ends at 1500UTC this Sunday, 20 October. Using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. This Sunday, the 20th, the RSGB 50MHz Affiliated Societies Contest runs from 0900 […]
Propagation News – 20 October 2024
The past week has been characterised by a low geomagnetic Kp index and excellent conditions on HF, including the 10m band. With a solar flux index between 168 and 195, and a Kp index that never rose above four, conditions have been better than the previous week, which suffered from the bad effects of solar […]
GB2RS News Script for 13 October 2024
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RSGB appoints two new volunteer Youth Champions
The RSGB is delighted to announce the appointment of two new volunteer Youth Champion roles. Chris Aitken, MM0WIC will be the RSGB’s School Youth Champion and Rhys Williams, M0WGY/AJ6XD will be the University Youth Champion. Chris is a Computing Science teacher at Wick High School, Caithness. Since 2023, Chris has been running the Wick High […]
