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Contest News – 18 August 2019
Just a reminder that August is the month of the traditional summer holiday, so there are no RSGB HF contests this month. On Tuesday the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Next Sunday, the 25th, the UK Microwave Group High […]
Propagation News – 18 August 2019
We had more of the same last week with zero sunspots, but no geomagnetic disturbances. The good news is that there appear to be no Earth-facing coronal holes coming around the Sun, although there are significant holes around the solar polar regions. The tool at Propquest.co.uk has been showing an interesting phenomenon over the past […]
Record numbers visit NRC
The RSGB’s National Radio Centre (NRC) at Bletchley Park experienced record numbers of visitors in July 2019. Before last month, the highest number of visitors was 10,713 in August 2018. July 2019 saw 10,860 visitors to the NRC, with several days seeing over 500 visitors through the door. If you’re interested in becoming an NRC […]
YOTA 2019 in Bulgaria
Up to 80 young radio amateurs, primarily from IARU Region 1, but including participants from other parts of the world, will gather in Bulgaria from Sunday, 11 August 2019 for the ninth annual Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) Summer Camp. Special call sign LZ19YOTA will be on the air during the week-long event, hosted by […]
ILLW next weekend
The International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) runs from 0001UTC on Saturday, 17 August 2019 to 2359UTC on the 18th. The event came into being in 1998 as the Scottish Northern Lights Award, run by the Ayr Amateur Radio Group. ILLW now attracts over 500 lighthouse entries located in over 40 countries. To see a […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. Dave Sumner, K1ZZ will open the convention with his talk Our Global Amateur Radio Community. Dave is the Secretary for the IARU and has recently written a very thought-provoking article in the ITU’s magazine (54-page/14.18MB PDF) on the value of […]
