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Contest News – 26 April 2020
Due to social distancing and movement precautions around the world, most contest organisers are not accepting entries from multi-operator groups or from portable stations. Check the rules before taking part. The SP DX RTTY contest ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC this Sunday, the 26th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands the exchange […]
Propagation News – 26 April 2020
Last week showed how difficult it can be to prepare HF propagation predictions. We said that we expected the Sun to remain settled throughout the week. But on Wednesday, the 15th, there was a stealthy, slow-moving coronal mass ejection off the Sun that barely appeared in the SOHO spacecraft imagery. However, this CME was Earth-directed […]
Tony Hadley video message to support #GOTA2C
A big thank you to Tony Hadley and to BBC Three Counties Radio for supporting the Get on the Air to Care campaign we launched last week in partnership with the NHS. We’re trying to ease social isolation amongst the amateur radio community during these challenging times and we love your video message of support! […]
Get on the air to care – RSGB launches national campaign in partnership with the NHS
The Radio Society of Great Britain, working in partnership with the NHS, has launched a new campaign called “Get on the air to care” to support the emotional health and wellbeing of 75,000 licensed UK radio amateurs – just some of the 3,000,000 worldwide. Paul Devlin, NHS England Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and RSGB […]
Cast your RSGB election vote
Are you an RSGB Member? Have you used your vote yet? Don’t forget that voting for the RSGB elections is still open—it closes at 9am on Thursday, 23 April 2020. This is your opportunity to choose who you want to be part of the RSGB Board and help lead the Society over the next few […]
SOS Radio Week to go ahead
SOS Radio Week will go ahead, with all participants able to operate from home using either a special event call sign issued by Ofcom, a club call sign, or an individual’s own personal call sign. The event starts at 0000UTC on 1 May 2020 and concludes at 2359UTC on the 31 May 2020. During that […]
