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Special Events News – 15 March 2015
Farnborough and District Radio Society is celebrating half a century of support and promotion of amateur radio. G50FRS will be operating until 30 November this year. They run club nets every Monday on 1995kHz and Friday on 144.675MHz both at 8pm and welcome anyone to join in. GB0SGS will be on air on 16 and […]
DX News – 15 March 2015
Lukas, HB9EBT will be active as D44TEG from Sao Tiago, IOTA reference AF-005, from 15 to 27 March. He will operate CW on the 10 to 40m bands. QSL via his home callsign, either direct or via the bureau. Marc, ON5SM will be active as DU9/ON5SM from Mindanao in the Philippines, OC-130, from 16 March […]
Contest News – 15 March 2015
The Commonwealth Contest ends its 24 hours run at 10am today, the 15th. As ever there are DXpeditions to some countries that you don’t hear on the bands every day, so for most of us—even if we are not making a serious entry—there are some new or rare ones to work. Using the 3.5 to […]
Propagation News – 15 March 2015
Last week we said that the sun’s surface was looking a little bare, but that was before sunspot region 2297 erupted. This new area has helped keep the solar flux index around 120-130, but has spawned a number of solar flares. This region has so far produced an X2.2 flare, along with four moderate M-class […]
Investigating interference from VDSL
The EMC Committee is carrying out an investigation of the significance of interference to amateur radio from VDSL broadband. Where emissions occur from a normally working VDSL system the noise is continuous twenty-four-seven and sounds like white noise. Occasionally, when the VDSL system is faulty or disturbed by large external signals, different emissions may be […]
Places still available on Youth Dxpedition
Five places remain on the DXpedition to Wales from 23 to 30 July, organised by the RSGB Youth Committee. If you are under 26 and an RSGB Member why not join the group and take part in a week of radio? It only costs £50 for the whole week and the RSGB will cover travel […]
