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Contest News – 16 June 2024
The 50MHz Trophy Contest started at 1400UTC on the 15 June and ends at 1400UTC today, Sunday the 16 June of June. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The All Asian DX Contest started at 0000UTC on the 15 June and ends at 2359UTC today, […]
Propagation News – 16 June 2024
No sooner do we say that conditions will remain good than the Sun emits an X-class solar flare! Such is the challenge of writing propagation predictions. Nevertheless, after the X1.5-class flare on the 10 June, things settled again and, at the moment, there are no incoming coronal mass ejections, or CMEs for short, to report. […]
RSGB 2024 Convention – your convention, your way
The RSGB 2024 Convention will take place from 11 to 13 October. What would you like to see at the Convention? This year the Society is offering everyone the opportunity to propose a presentation, a topic, a practical session or a project to share. Are you involved in some new research? Have you discovered something […]
Could you be the RSGB National Coding Week Coordinator
National Coding Week runs in September. Coding – or programming as it used to be called – is used in a range of amateur radio activities. This year the Society would like to develop its activities further by appointing a volunteer National Coding Week Coordinator. Could you encourage people, help them with their ideas and […]
Exercise Blue Ham is taking place this week
RAF Air Cadets are running the ever-popular Blue Ham Radio Communications Exercise, on the 60m band, between the 17 and 21 June. Subject to your licence conditions, the Blue Ham team hopes that you can put some time aside to join in with the cadets and staff who will be ready to take your calls. […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
The May 2024 edition of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Newsletter is now available. The newsletter contains details of intrusions into the amateur bands, and you can access it via the website This year, the popular British Inland Waterways on the Air event will take place between the 24 and 26 August. The event […]
