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Contest News – 11 February 2018
The CQ World Wide WPX RTTY contest runs for 48 hours ending at 2359UTC this Sunday, the 11th. Using RTTY only on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Ending at 1200UTC this Sunday, the 11th, is the PACC contest. Using CW and SSB on the 1.8 to 28MHz […]
Propagation News – 11 February 2018
Sunspot region 2699 provided us with a small increase in solar activity last week. It also produced a number of minor C and M-class flares as the solar flux index rose to around 77. More significantly, quieter geomagnetic conditions, thanks to a lack of coronal holes, meant the K-index remained fairly low and the bands […]
Bouvet DXpedition cancelled
In the 72 hours to 2000UTC on 3 February 2018, the team continued to experience high winds, low clouds, fog and rough seas, which had prevented helicopter operations since their arrival at Bouvet. No improvement was predicted in the weather forecast for the next four days. Then an issue developed in one of the ship’s […]
ARISS APRS packet not working
An unidentified anomaly involving the radio serving the ARISS APRS packet system on board the International Space Station has led to the system not functioning. A similar problem has occurred on other occasions and solutions that resolved the problem proved to be only temporary fixes. The system may return to service as it has in […]
Nominate for the Golden Antenna Award
For almost 50 years, the German town of Bad Bentheim has organised the Dutch-German Ham Convention. During this event the Golden Antenna is awarded for outstanding humanitarian performance, recognising the importance of the hobby during or after disasters. Nominations for this year’s Golden Antenna award should be submitted by 1 June 2018, by email to […]
RSGBCC log upload practice site opened
The RSGB Contest Support Committee has produced a facility to enable entrants to practice uploading logs for HF and VHF contests to the RSGB Contesting Committees website. This facility accepts logs formatted for the 80m Club Championship Contest and UK Activity Contest. The practice facility uses the same robot that is used for all RSGB […]
