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Contest News – 21 February 2016
The ARRL International DX 48-hour contest is coming to a close tonight. Work the USA, contiguous 48 States, and Canada only, giving them a signal report and your transmit power. US/Canadian stations give a signal report and their state/province code. This is the CW leg of the event; the SSB leg takes place next month. […]
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 […]
Michael Wadsworth, GW3UOF, 10 February 2016
I have the sad duty to report the death of Mr Michael Wadsworth, GW3UOF, Ex Ships Wireless Op & GCHQ, and a RSGB & RNARS member. Mike lost his battle with Big C and went silent key on Wednesday February the 10th 2016. His wife Sheila was by his side. He asked me just before […]
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 […]
