GB2RS
Special Event News – 8 January 2017
GB2KW will be on the air from 1 to 28 January using vintage KW Electronics Ltd equipment. See the GB2KW listing on QRZ.com for full information. Humber Fortress DX ARC in Hull has organised a year’s multi-club activation to celebrate Hull as the UK City of Culture 2017. Ofcom have kindly granted the call sign […]
Contest News – 8 January 2017
The UK Six Metre Group Winter Marathon continues on 6m until the end of January. Details are on the UKSMG website. The ARRL RTTY Roundup runs for 30 hours until 2359 on the 8th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number, with US stations sending their state and […]
Propagation News – 8 January 2017
Firstly, a happy New Year to all. We’ve got off to a bad start with a massive coronal hole on the sun that has rewarded us with dire predictions for the period up to 8 January. We can expect the K-index to hit four or five at times with a consequent lowering of maximum useable […]
Final set of GB16YOTA activations
The special callsign GB16YOTA is on the air to introduce and promote amateur radio to young people. It will be operated from a variety of clubs and organisations throughout December. On the 28th and 29th Leicester Radio Club will be operating the callsign and on the 30th it will go on the air from the […]
New GB2RS broadcast in FreeDV
RSGB GB2RS news is now also broadcast in FreeDV. The transmission starts at 8.50am on 3.640MHz ± QRM followed at 9am by the news. The post-news net is from 9.30 to 10am. The initial launch is by Matthew Phillips, G6WPJ in Suffolk JO01jx. FreeDV is a new mode for sending voice over HF and VHF […]
Season’s Greetings from the GB2RS team
This is the final GB2RS news reading for 2016 and we start with seasonal greetings to all Newsreaders and listeners, both over the air and via the internet recordings, and not forgetting viewers of the ATV broadcast, which is available via several repeaters and kindly streamed via the BATC.TV website. We would like to take […]
