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Special Events News – 28 July 2019
Arrowe Jamboree 2019 is a weekend camp celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the 3rd World Scout Jamboree held at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, Cheshire. Wirral ARS will put GB2APJ on the air from Helsby High School this Sunday, 28 July, using most bands and modes from 3.5MHz through to 5.6GHz.
Contest News – 28 July 2019
The big contest this weekend is the Islands On the Air (IOTA), contest. It runs for 24 hours until 1200UTC this Sunday, the 28th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and IOTA reference. This Sunday, the 28th, the UK Microwave group contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC. […]
Propagation News – 28 July 2019
Last week HF was once again dominated by sporadic E openings. On Wednesday FT8 contacts were being made across Europe on 28MHz, from Finland in the north to Spain in the south. It was a similar story on Thursday with S9 signals from the Balearic Islands to Norway. As we head towards August it is […]
Keeping the spectrum clean
The radio communications consultancy LS telcom held its 24th annual spectrum summit on 3 July 2019 and invited the IARU to participate in a panel session, Keeping the Spectrum Clean. The IARU was represented by Barry Lewis, G4SJH, who is the RSGB Microwave Manager. He summarised the impact of the increase in man-made noise observed […]
G5RP Trophy nominations sought
The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly-licensed; it is open to any one who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing. If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend some one to be […]
Ian White, GM3SEK to speak at the RSGB Convention
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. Ian White, GM3SEK will present Clean Up Your Shack—Revisited. This is sure to be a popular talk, as there have been around 7,000 views on the RSGB YouTube channel of Ian’s 2015 talk. To book weekend packages or day tickets […]
