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DX News – 27 March 2016
The big DXpedition event this week will be VK0EK operating from Heard Island. They plan to be on the air until 10 April. This is a multinational effort is led by the experienced DXer Bob, KK6EK. Up-to-date info is available on http://vk0ek.org. Mike, VK8MA is involved with a climate project that will be operating on […]
Special Event News – 27 March 2016
The weekend of 2 and 3 April, GB1HPT will be on the air celebrating RAF Hooton Park, Cheshire. See the entry on QRZ.com for more information. Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club will be running a special event callsign to coincide with the club’s 50 year birthday during April. For further information contact the secretary, Dave, by […]
Contest News – 27 March 2016
The CQ WorldWide Worked All Prefix SSB Contest is on this weekend from 0000UTC on the 26th to 2359 on the 27th. In addition to all the common prefixes, expect to hear plenty of interesting and obscure ones too. Using the 1.8 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Tuesday […]
Propagation News – 27 March 2016
This week has seen more settled geomagnetic conditions with the K-index hovering around two, although Wednesday saw it spike up to four due to a high speed solar wind stream from a coronal hole. Sunspot wise, the solar surface was a little lacklustre, with just one sunspot group visible. This pushed the solar flux index […]
VK0EK team en route to Heard Island
The VK0EK team are almost at the end of their 10 day journey to Heard Island at the time of writing. The operators are currently active as ZL/ZS9HI/MM from Braveheart. Activity has been mainly on CW on 30, 15 and10 metres. See their website for more information on the DXpedition.
Register for Mills on the Air
Denby Dale ARS invite registrations for this year’s Mills On The Air weekend that takes place over the weekend 14 and 15 May.
