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Contest News – 10 April 2016
On Sunday, the 10th, the First 50MHz contest takes place from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode. Also Sunday, the 10th, the UK Microwave Group 2nd Low Band contest takes place from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using the 1.3 to 3.4GHz bands, the exchange is signal […]
Propagation News – 10 April 2016
It is beginning to look like we’re getting an early taste of the upcoming solar minimum. The sun currently only has one small sunspot group and, at the time of writing, there were no new spots coming up behind it. The solar flux index hovered in the low to mid-eighties this week, giving a noon-time […]
YOTA 2017 UK Summer Camp
The RSGB is pleased to announce that the Youngsters on the Air 2017 summer camp will be held in the UK. The Society looks forward to welcoming teams of young amateurs from some 15 countries in IARU Region 1 to the UK in August 2017. The RSGB Youth Committee and RSGB HQ will be working […]
Ofcom pausing revocations
Representatives of the Society met with Ofcom last month. Further details are on the Notices section of the RSGB website. Subjects discussed included how the Society and Ofcom could work more effectively to tackle reports of EMC, implementation of the WRC-15 agreement to harmonise the spectrum allocation at 5MHz and progress with licence revocation. Ofcom […]
KH5K off DXCC List
The ARRL Awards Committee has voted to delete Kingman Reef, KH5K, from the DXCC List, effective from the 29th of March 2016. Honor Roll status will now be attainable after confirming 330 entities on the DXCC List and the total number of entities on the List will drop from 340 to 339.
Also in GB2RS this week…
The findings of the Amateur Radio Survey that was undertaken at the end of last year have now been analysed. An initial summary will appear in the June edition of RadCom and a presentation of the key findings will be made available to affiliated clubs later in the year. Sad news now. Northern newsreader Hugh […]
