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Propagation News – 21 February 2016
This week has been a mixed bag in terms of HF performance. At times 10 metres has been open, with the 7P8C DXpedition to Lesotho putting in an appearance on the band for hours on Monday and Tuesday. But the high-speed solar wind is never far away and played havoc with geomagnetic conditions later on […]
Radio activity day for Arkwright Scholars
The Radio Communications Foundation (RCF) is to sponsor a radio activity day for Arkwright Scholars at the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park. One of the aims of the RCF is to promote radio communications in the UK. Every year the Foundation sponsors two Arkwright Trust scholars. However, we noted that the Arkwright Trust has hundreds of other […]
Elections 2016 – Unopposed nominations
The closing date for nominations for directly elected Board Directors and Regional Managers has now passed. Presidential Election Nick Henwood, G3RWF, is elected unopposed for a two year term as his was the only nomination received. Board Elections There were two vacancies for directly elected Directors, and two nominations were received. Len Paget, GM0ONX (current […]
First school ham TV ISS link
The UK ARISS team achieved a world first at the Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth on Thursday, by receiving live ATV video from the ISS during the contact. Using the HamTV transmitter, which has recently been commissioned on board the ISS, Tim Peake was the first astronaut to use this equipment during a two […]
Thinking Day next weekend
World Thinking Day will take place on 20 and 21 February. This is when members of Girlguiding use amateur radio to try to contact other members throughout the world as part of the celebrations of their founders’ birthdays. For further details and to add your station to the list of participants go to www.guides-on-the-air.co.uk or […]
New 472kHz distance record set
Tuesday, 9 February saw a new record set for the longest DX on the new 600m band. WSPR was used by Phil Dwyer, VK3ELV and Laurence Howell, KL7L, the latter operating as WE2XPQ. The contact, from Victoria in Australia to Alaska in the USA, is the first ever between VK3 and KL7 on the 472kHz […]
