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Special Events News – 26 September 2021

| September 24, 2021

GB8ROC will be operating from Scotland’s Secret Bunker, in Fife, on Thursday the 30th of September. Further activity may take place the following weekend. This is to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the national stand-down of the Royal Observer Corps, and also to mark the 80th anniversary of the award of Royal title to the […]

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Contest News – 26 September 2021

| September 24, 2021

When operating in contests, please keep yourself and fellow amateurs safe by following relevant pandemic-related government recommendations. The 48-hour CQ World Wide DX RTTY Contest ends at 2359UTC today, the 26th. Using the contest bands between 3.5 and 28MHz, the exchange is signal report and Zone, which is 14 for the UK. The UK Microwave […]

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Propagation News – 26 September 2021

| September 24, 2021

This week saw the Sun more active with up to five sunspot regions in place. Two of the regions are quite large, pushing the solar flux index up to 89 on Thursday with a sunspot number of 76. That should be enough to get the ionosphere up and running and we are also seeing early […]

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RSGB Convention on 9 October 2021

| September 17, 2021

The RSGB Online Convention is taking place on 9 October 2021. There will be two live streams of talks available all day with a Q&A session at the end of each talk. After the event, on the RSGB YouTube channel, you will be able to view the lectures as many times as you wish. Callum, […]

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Join in with Exercise Blue Ham on 5MHz

| September 17, 2021

The RAF Air Cadets are planning to run the next Blue Ham Radio communications exercise on 16 and 17 October 2021. They hope that radio amateurs can put some time aside to join in with the cadets and staff on the shared section of the 5MHz bands. A Blue Ham participation certificate is available to […]

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GB2RS News Script for 19 September 2021

| September 17, 2021

Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 19 September 2021 (15-page/421KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link

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