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DX News – 10 January 2021
Grant, VK5GR will be active as VK5KI from Kangaroo Island, OC-139, until the 22nd of January. He plans to operate holiday style on the 80 to 6m bands using CW, SSB and FT8, possibly with some RTTY and PSK. QSL via M0OXO’s OQRS. Seba, SQ1SGB and Will, M0ZXA expect to be active as VP8/SQ1SGB or […]
Contest News – 10 January 2021
Please remember to check before the contest for any new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your national and local government’s advice. Today, the 10th, the Datamodes AFS contest runs from 1300 to 1700UTC. The SSB AFS contest takes place on Saturday from […]
Propagation News – 10 January 2021
We start by welcoming in 2021, and here’s hoping that it proves to be more fruitful than 2020 in terms of HF propagation. We’ve started the New Year with zero sunspots and a solar flux index back in the mid-70s on Thursday the 7th. The STEREO Ahead spacecraft is not showing anything of note around […]
Get on the Air for Christmas continues
Get on the Air for Christmas continues until 9 January 2021 and there are still many activities you can take part in. The special construction competition encourages hardware, software or kit-based entries and in particular simple projects that other radio amateurs could try. The Christmas Hope QSO parties are also in full swing with different […]
Austrians get new bands
Claus, OE6CLD, the HF Manager of the Austrian National Amateur Radio Society, informs us that the Austrian regulator has granted access to the 60m and 630m bands for all CEPT Class 1 licensees. The 60m, or 5MHz changes are inline with the WRC-15 Amateur Secondary Allocation of 5351.5 to 5366.5kHz at 15W EIRP. For the […]
GB2RS News Script for 3 January 2021
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 3 January 2021* (11-page/208KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link. *This is an abbreviated script for 3 January 2021. As with last week’s reading, this script is optional. The full news […]
