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Contest News – 17 June 2018
The All Asian DX contest finishes its 48 hour run at 2359UTC this Sunday. This CW-only event uses all the HF contest bands from 1.8 to 30MHz and the exchange is serial number plus the operator’s age. This Sunday is busy on 6m, with the WAB 6m Phone contest running from 0800UTC to 1400UTC. Using […]
Propagation News – 17 June 2018
It was more of the same last week with virtually zero sunspots, but some sporadic E to keep us amused on HF. We say virtually zero sunspots as a group had just appeared over the sun’s limb, pushing the sunspot number to 16 as the time of writing. This represents 10 for the single group […]
South Africans get 100kHz on 60m
The South African regulator, ICASA, recently published their 2018 National Radio Frequency Plan. In this, amateur radio was allocated 100kHz on a shared basis in the 60 metre band. 5.350 to 5.450MHz is now available to all licensed radio amateurs on a shared, non-interference basis, with a power limit of 15W EIRP. The South African […]
UK prepares for WRC-19
As the next World Radio Conference approaches in 2019, Ofcom has launched a consultation regarding its positions and priorities on a range of agenda items. These include next generation 5G wireless broadband and Wi-Fi, small satellites, amateur radio at 50MHz and wireless power transfer. The Society’s response will be coordinated by the RSGB Spectrum Forum, […]
New HEMA Activity Day award
A new, and some might say oddly named, SOTA-like awards programme has been launched to encourage chasing and activating a subtly different kind of summit. HEMA—HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award—is for summits or hilltops that have a prominence between 100 and 150 metres. The HEMA Activity Day is Saturday, 16 June 2018. Most activity will take […]
GB2RS News Script for 10 June 2018
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