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Special Event News – 6 December 2015
ANZAC centenary commemorations end with VI4ANZAC on the air between 12 and 20 December commemorating the work of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train. A QSL card will be available. The 200th Anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace will be commemorated by special event station GB200ADA at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, from 10 to 13 […]
DX News – 6 December 2015
Martin, W8AKS will be active as 8P9EZ from Barbados, IOTA reference NA-021, from 5 to 12 December. He will operate on 40m to 10m and logs will be uploaded to Logbook of The World. Haru, JA1XGI will operate from the South Cook Islands as E51XGI from 3 to 10 December. Operation will be on all […]
Contest News – 6 December 2015
The ARRL 160m contest runs until 1600UTC on Sunday, the 6th, concluding its 48 hour session. It is CW-only and the exchange is your signal report. US and Canadian stations will also send their ARRL or RAC section details. Also Sunday, the 6th, the 144MHz AFS contest runs from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using all modes […]
Propagation News – 6 December 2015
Last weekend saw reasonably settled conditions for the CQ Worldwide contest, with DX to be had on all the upper HF bands. However, 10 metres was a little lacklustre this year due to the lower solar flux index compared with 2014. Twenty and 15 metres proved to be the ‘money bands’ as the flux dipped […]
WRC-15 final news
The 2015 ITU World Radio Conference in Geneva has concluded. Following earlier success at 5MHz, the conference has agreed to include a future agenda item for the next conference, in 2019, which will consider harmonising the 50MHz band in Region 1. Several other agenda items that might have affected the amateur services have also concluded […]
K Regional Identifier for Cornwall
Ofcom has agreed that the special regional secondary locator, K, may be used between 1 January and 31 December 2016 inclusive by the holder of any amateur radio licence with a main station address in Cornwall, subject to the licensee obtaining a valid Notice of Variation. It may only be used when the radio equipment […]
