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Contest News – 4 July 2021
With different parts of the UK having different lockdown restrictions, please make sure you follow the appropriate regulations. Keep yourself and fellow amateurs safe This weekend is the RSGB VHF National Field Day. It runs for 24 hours until 1400UTC on Sunday, the 4th. Using all modes on the 50MHz to 1.3GHz bands, the exchange […]
Propagation News – 4 July 2021
Well, NOAA certainly got the sunspot predictions wrong last week. It said that the solar flux index would be in the range 76 to 78 with a maximum Kp index of two. As it turned out, the SFI ended up way higher than this, peaking at 94 on Thursday. Active sunspot regions 2835 and 2836 […]
GB2RS News Script for 27 June 2021
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COVID-19 affects VHF NFD
COVID-19 restrictions are extending into July and this means that VHF NFD is taking place with more controls in place than the organisers were hoping for. It is still viable to run the contest on 3 and 4 July 2021, but it will require some additional precautions and control to be exercised by entrants. All […]
Tree-felling to interrupt National Radio Centre
The RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park will be closed on 5 and 6 July 2021 whilst a large tree is felled in the immediate vicinity. Booked entries to Bletchley Park itself are unaffected.
Durham is 13 Colonies bonus station
Durham and District Amateur Radio Society is participating as one of the bonus stations in the 13 Colonies Special Event. The event began in 2009 as a way of celebrating American Independence with the original 13 colony states of 1776. Since the UK was a major historical player in the Revolutionary War, GB13COL from England […]
