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Contest News – 10 March 2019
The RSGB Commonwealth Contest ends its 24 hour run at 1000UTC this Sunday, the 10th. It’s CW only on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, with the exchange signal report and serial number. HQ stations also send HQ. This Sunday, the 10th, the second 70MHz Cumulative Contest runs from 1000 to 1200UTC. Using all modes, the […]
Propagation News – 10 March 2019
The Sun sprouted a new sunspot this week bringing the sunspot number to 17 and the solar flux index to 73. The sunspot number represents 10 for a group and one for each of the sunspots in that group. Geomagnetic conditions were more settled over the week, with the Kp index hitting one and two. […]
Jim Stevenson, G0EJQ, SK
It is with great sadness that I inform everyone that Jim Stevenson, G0EJQ, RSGB Regional Representative for Region 13, passed away in hospital on 4 March 2019. He had been in hospital in Nottingham for some days with a breathing problem and seemed to be recovering well after recently undergoing an operation. The news came […]
Commonwealth Contest next weekend
The Commonwealth Contest, RSGB’s longest-running contest, takes place for 24 hours over the weekend of 9 and 10 March 2019. As mentioned in Propagation News, you should not expect much propagation on the upper HF bands, but some hardy travellers will undoubtedly activate countries that don’t appear on the air every day, so make the […]
Suggest talks for RSGB 2019 Convention
Planning has begun for the RSGB 2019 Convention, which will take place from Friday, the 11th, to Sunday, 13 October 2019, at Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre, Milton Keynes. The organising committee would like to encourage suggestions for this year’s lectures. Please email convention@rsgb.org.uk, in particular, if you are able to suggest a […]
Ham radio artwork returns to Tate Gallery
The artwork Ten Minute Transmission, featuring the Kenwood TS-2000 transceiver and the International Space Station is again on display at the Tate Gallery in London. Made of wire and attached to the TS-2000, this sculpture receives radio signals from the ISS and transmits them into the gallery space. The title of this work, Ten Minute […]
