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GB2RS News Script for 25 February 2018
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Rallies and Events News – 25 February 2018
This Sunday, the 25th, the BRATS Medway Radio Rally takes place at The Victory Academy, Magpie Hall Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 5JB. Doors open at 10am, with disabled visitors gaining access at 9.30. Admittance is £2.50. There is free parking and talk-in on 145.550MHz using the call sign GB4RRR. There will be trade stands and […]
DX News – 25 February 2018
A group will be operating from Rotuma Island, IOTA reference OC-060, from around 23 February until 16 March. The call sign will be 3D2EU. Activity will be on all bands from 160 to 10m using CW, SSB and digital. Rotuma is located about 650km north of Fiji and counts as a separate entity for DXCC […]
Special Event News – 25 February 2018
March 2018 sees the 80th anniversary of the launch of HMS Belfast and, to mark the event, the RNARS (Affiliated) London (HMS Belfast) Group have been granted the unusual call sign of GB80GGCN. Golf-Golf-Charlie-November was the marine call sign of HMS Belfast. The special event call will last from March through to May. Visitors to […]
Contest News – 25 February 2018
The CQ WorldWide 160m DX contest ends its 48 hour run at 2200UTC this Sunday, the 25th. It’s SSB only; the exchange is signal report and CQ zone, with US stations also sending their state and Canadians their province. The French REF Contest ends its 36 hour run at 1800UTC this Sunday, the 25th. Using […]
Propagation News – 25 February 2018
Despite warnings in the popular press that a massive solar flare was likely to cause chaos on Earth, we managed to survive! In the event, a coronal mass ejection, which was linked to the solar flare, caused the K-index to rise to five on Monday, the 19th, but conditions became more settled from Tuesday onwards. […]
