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DX News – 20 September 2015
David, OK6DJ, Petr, OK1FCJ/OL8R and Pavel, OK1FPS will be active from Zimbabwe from 20 to 30 September as Z21MG. They will operate on 160 to 10m on CW, SSB and digital modes including RTTY. They will also be active in the CQ WW RTTY Contest next weekend. QSL via OK6DJ, OQRS, LOTW or eQSL. Gerben, […]
Contest News – 20 September 2015
On Sunday, the second 70MHz contest takes place from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on Sunday, the BARTG Sprint 75 contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using 75 baud RTTY on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is just the serial number. On […]
Propagation News – 20 September 2015
Despite ongoing solar coronal holes, and their contribution to the high-speed solar wind, HF conditions have fared a little better than in previous weeks. This is due to the traditionally better autumnal HF conditions, which should improve further as the month goes on. Despite the geomagnetic K-index never really dropping below three, and often hitting […]
National Hamfest approaches
The National Hamfest takes place Friday the 25th and Saturday, 26 September at the Newark and Notts Showground. The postcode for satnav is NG24 2NY. There will be an opportunity to try digital mobile radio via the on-site temporary repeater. If you would like to operate the special event station on-site, please bring your licence. […]
Weather balloon to go up Sunday
A weather balloon is being launched Sunday, the 13th, in the Netherlands carrying an amateur radio transponder. The 37th annual balloon foxhunt will then be on and an estimated thousand or more amateurs will set out on an electronic chase of this flying fox. The signals will be on 2, at 200mW and an ATY […]
Are you missing a cable?
At last week’s Telford HamFest in Shropshire, a stand holder, Miles Cooper, sold a couple of new Motorola Atrix boxed units in good faith to two buyers. Unfortunately, these ancillary units require three cables to connect them to a Raspberry Pi microprocessor for which they are intended. If any one knows who purchased one of […]
