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Contest News – 10 July 2016
This weekend, the IARU HF championships ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC on Sunday, the 10th. Using CW and SSB on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and ITU Zone, which for the UK is 27. The UK has an HQ team entering, GR2HQ, and you can help by working […]
Propagation News – 10 July 2016
We got the forecast for last weekend about right. Plasma from a coronal hole hit the Earth late on Saturday, pushing the K-index to four. The solar flux index, however, has remained doggedly in the 70s. DX has been possible on HF though. After a request for information last week Peter, M0RYB said he was […]
Bill Harrop, G4VPG / EA6ABM, 8 June 2016
It is with great sadness that I have to tell you that my husband Bill passed away peacefully on the 8th June 2016 in the Juaneda Clinic here in Mallorca where we had lived for the past 27 years. He was a very keen member of Warrington Radio Club for many years before we moved […]
Rupert Thorogood, G3KKT, SK
We start with the unexpected and sad news that Rupert Thorogood, G3KKT, became a Silent Key last weekend. Among many other achievements he was Company Secretary of the RSGB from 2006 until his death. Our thoughts are with his family at this very difficult time.
New RSGB Microwave Manager
The RSGB Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Barry Lewis, G4SJH to the position of Microwave Manager. Barry brings considerable experience to the role from homebrew and contesting to regulatory affairs. He succeeds Murray Niman, G6JYB, who had been covering the role since his appointment to Chair of the Spectrum Forum. The RSGB […]
Schools Link project starts
Now that the Tim Peake school contacts have finished, you might be thinking that it is all over. As far as the RSGB is concerned, this is just the beginning of another big project. The RSGB has set up the Schools Link Project to work initially with the 10 ARISS contact schools to develop wireless-related […]
