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Contest News – 13 November 2016
The WAE DX RTTY contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC today, the 13th. Using the 2.5 to 29MHz bands the exchange is the signal report and serial number. Between 1000 and 1400UTC today, the 13th, the UK Microwave group Low Band contest will be on the 1.3 to 3.4GHz bands, Using all modes […]
Propagation News – 13 November 2016
Last week saw DX being worked on HF as more-settled geomagnetic conditions allowed the ionosphere to strengthen. There were reports of US stations being worked on 40m before midnight, and DX contacts on 20m, 17m and 15m across the globe. The solar flux index remained in the high 70s, and the geomagnetic K index remained […]
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Download ITU Radio Regulation
The 2016 ITU Radio Regulations have been released. They are available as a free download via the ITU website, in English and five other languages. You can download your copy of the ITU Radio Regulations via www.itu.int/pub/R-REG-RR-2016
Warning over out of band signals
It has been brought to the attention of the Amateur Radio Observation Service that software commonly used by UK licensees for the production of signals in both JT65 and JT9 modes, uses a default preset frequency of 5.357MHz (JT65) or 5.359MHz (JT9) in the 5 MHz band. UK licensees are reminded that, after applying the […]
RAYNET agreement
At the RAYNET AGM held in Cambridge on the 29th of October, RSGB President Nick Henwood, G3RWF and Cathy Clark, G1GQJ, Chairman of the Radio Amateur’s Emergency Network, signed the agreement between the two organisations, for the reunification of RAYNET operations, as from 1 January 2017. Once the formalities associated with the change of name […]
