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DX News – 24 January 2016
The VP8STI team has been on the air from Southern Thule Island with three stations since arriving on the 17th. The 14-member team will activate South Sandwich, AN-009 and South Georgia, AN-007, over the course of their adventure. South Sandwich is the number 3 most-wanted DXCC entity, while South Georgia is the 8th most-wanted, according […]
Contest News – 24 January 2016
The first UK/EI DX CW contest of the year ends its 24 hours run at 12 noon today, the 24th. It is CW-only on the five contest bands from 80 to 10 metres. There are multi-op and single-op categories and the exchange is a serial and your district code. You’ll need to know your own […]
Propagation News – 24 January 2016
We’ve had yet another week with unsettled geomagnetic conditions. This time the Kp index hit five on Wednesday, and even six on Thursday, caused by a plasma emission from the Sun with a prolonged southward-facing Bz field. This was a shame as the field had been very settled on Monday, with a Kp index of […]
Peter Best, G8BLS, 23 December 2015
Peter Best, G8BLS passed away peacefully at St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich on 23rd December 2015, aged 71 years. I first met Peter just over 5 years ago when he was a tutor on the Foundation Course I was taking at the age of 62 – my first contact with amateur radio. Peter left me with […]
ISS school contact video released
A 92-minute video containing the Sandringham School GB1SAN and Tim Peake GB1SS amateur radio contact is now available on the ARISS UK Team channel on YouTube. The contact took place Friday, 8 January and was led by Jessica, M6LPJ. The video includes the presentations given to the students by ARISS UK’s Ciaran M0XTD, Head Teacher […]
Workshops wanted for EMF 2016
Electromagnetic Field 2016 will take place from 5-7 August near Guildford, Surrey. It is a UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things, aimed at hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists and engineers. The organisers are looking for talks and workshops for the festival. They are especially keen to […]
