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Propagation News – 21 July 2019
There is very little to say about HF propagation last week. Conditions were relatively settled, thanks to a respite from solar coronal hole activity, but the HF summer doldrums are still taking their toll. The summer ionosphere is composed mainly of diatomic gases rather than monatomic, and these are harder to ionise. This means maximum […]
RSGB President writes to Ofcom about 144 MHz
After due consideration, and as reported in GB2RS news on Friday, 5 July 2019, RSGB President Dave Wilson, M0OBW wrote to Ofcom strongly expressing the RSGB’s concerns about the proposed WRC-23 aeronautical Agenda Item that includes 144-146 MHz. The President’s letter started by stating that the RSGB “shares the concerns of the global amateur community […]
New Science Museum exhibition
Discover the remarkable world of codebreaking, ciphers and secret communications in a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London. From the trenches of the First World War to the latest in cyber security, Top Secret explores over a century’s worth of communications intelligence through hand-written documents, declassified files and previously unseen artefacts from the […]
RSGB 2019 Convention lectures
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. Two of the interesting lectures over the weekend will be Don Field, G3XTT talking about Guest Operating—being part of a multi-operator contest or DXpedition effort can be fun, it’s a great learning experience and he has been involved in many […]
GB2RS News Script for 14 July 2019
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 14 July 2019 (12-page/166KB Microsoft Word document)
Also in GB2RS this week…
Confused by all the recent talk about the World Radio Conference, CEPT project teams, etc? The RSGB has put together a few slides (3-page/300KB PDF) that explain the layers in the international regulatory cake—these are part of the wider resource on WRC-19 at rsgb.org/wrc-19. Join VERON, the Dutch National Society, in a 2m propagation experiment […]
