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Special Events News – 15 March 2020
GB0SPD, GB2SPD and GB4SPD are three special callsigns that will celebrate St Patrick’s Day. The St Patrick’s Day On The Air event will run from 1200UTC on the 16th of March until 1200UTC on the 18th of March. See http://stpatrickaward.webs.com/ for details. It is 700 years since the first written mention of Dobruška, so the […]
Contest News – 15 March 2020
The longest running RSGB contest of them all is the Commonwealth Contest, formerly known as BERU. It ends its 24 hours run at 1000UTC today, the 15th. It’s CW only on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands and the exchange is signal report and serial number. Today, the 15th, the 2nd 70MHz Cumulative contest runs […]
Propagation News – 15 March 2020
A new sunspot group, numbered AR 2758 and from upcoming Solar Cycle 25, appeared this week. The region was located in the Sun’s southeast quadrant, but had faded away by Thursday the 12th. This was the first numbered sunspot region to appear in over a month as solar activity continues on at very low levels. […]
RAYNET helps in flooding emergency
North Humber RAYNET were recently activated during the widespread flooding that occurred on 27 February 2020 in Snaith, East Yorkshire. A temporary control station was first established at the ‘washlands’ near the village of the East Cowick during the afternoon of the 26th, with 13 members attending the developing situation over three days. Members were […]
Exercise Blue Ham this weekend
The RAFAC tell us that the next Blue Ham Radio Communications Exercise will be this weekend, 7 and 8 March 2020, using the 5MHz band. Details of the exchange of information to count as a QSO is at alphacharlie.org.uk/exercise-blue-ham. A Blue Ham certificate is available if you contact 10 or more special MRE call signs […]
February sees 6,873 visitors to the NRC
No fewer than 6,873 visitors were welcomed to the RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park during February. As part of the on-going recruitment campaign, two new volunteers joined the NRC team: Mike, G0RBB and Nick, M0NPH. The RSGB would like to thank them and the other NRC volunteers for their time.
