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Special Events News – 5 March 2017
The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, will host a variety of special events throughout the weekend of 11 and 12 March to support the local charity, Samaritans of West Cumbria. In addition to the scheduled beacon exhibits on display, members of the RSGB will operate GB1SWC. As well as live tracking of the International Space Station and […]
Contest News – 5 March 2017
The ARRL International DX contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC today, the 5th. Using the 1.8 to 28MHz bands the exchange is signal report and transmit power. American stations will also send their state and Canadians their province. The 144/432MHz contest ends its 24 hours of operation at 1400UTC today, the 5th. Using […]
Propagation News – 5 March 2017
We were pleased to get the HF propagation prediction pretty much spot on last week. While Monday and Tuesday were reasonably settled, Wednesday saw the effects of solar material from a large coronal hole as it hit the Earth. The K-index leapt to five around lunchtime and there were reports of HF openings up to […]
Long path propagation SOTA event
Mike, 2E0YYY, Andrew, VK1AD and Ed, DD5LP are planning another long path propagation SOTA Summit to Summit event for 11 March starting at 0630 UTC. Activity will be SSB or CW on 20 metres and going by the last action in October 2016, over 30 summits are expected to be active concurrently over Europe, Australia, […]
Review of Contesting seeks your thoughts
RSGB President Nick Henwood, G3RWF is writing a report on the implementation of the 2015 Review of Contesting. A questionnaire forms an important part of the input to this report, but there will also be feedback from clubs, groups and individuals as well as factual analysis of performance where possible. The questionnaire is now available […]
CRS-10 mission to ISS to launch
The CRS-10 mission carrying vital amateur radio equipment to the International Space Station launched at 1439UTC on 19 February. Included was an ARISS Ericsson two metre VHF radio. This radio will replace the Ericsson radio that failed a few months ago. The VHF radio is used for school group contacts and amateur packet radio in […]
