News
Brian Newman, G4TGN, November 2015
With a heavy heart I have to report the passing of a very dear friend, Brian Newman, G4TGN in late November 2015. His funeral was on 18 December. Brian worked at Heathrow Airport for 25 years from the late 1960s, with eighteen years in the Fire Service and seven as an Apron Controller. Latterly he […]
Students to speak to spaceman Peake
Students at Sandringham School, St Albans are expected to speak to Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station some time during the period of 5 to 10 January, using the special event call sign GB1SAN. This is the first of several planned schools contacts in the coming weeks. Three of the students have been trained […]
News of 5MHz in Spain
At the end of November, the existing Spanish 5MHz permission came to a close. Following the result of the WRC-15 decision on 5MHz, the Spanish administrator has now permitted access to the new allocation from 5351.5 to 5366.5kHz with 15W maximum EIRP and 3kHz maximum bandwidth, using SSB and CW modes. The permission runs until […]
Surprise activity from North Korea
The world’s most-wanted entity, North Korea, was briefly on the air on 20 December. Polish DXer Dom Gryzb, 3Z9DX worked several hundred stations as P5/3Z9DX on 20, 15 and 10m. He reported very high noise levels in Pyongyang, from where he ran 100W to a vertical just above ground level. The site was amid many […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
The Irish regulator ComReg is considering additional spectrum allocations to the amateur services in the bands 30 to 49MHz and 52 to 70.5MHz. The intention is to facilitate propagation beacons, digital amateur television repeaters and to align current allocations with those in the European Common Allocation Table. During December, groups from schools, universities and local […]
