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Contest News – 21 December 2014
The UK Six Metre Group’s Winter Marathon began on the 1st and continues for two months. The Winter Marathon isn’t a contest in the traditional sense; it’s basically a way of promoting activity on 6m during the winter. There are no points for individual QSOs; just for working as many locator squares as possible. You […]
Propagation News – 21 December 2014
The sun remains peppered with a large number of spots. This has kept the solar flux index up in the 160s, even peaking at 192 on the 18th. This has also brought a lot of M and C class solar flare activity with associated short-term blackouts, although there have been no mammoth X-class events. Continuing […]
NRC Holiday opening times
If you are planning to visit the National Radio Centre over the holiday period, please note that the last day it will open this year will be 22 December. It will re-open on 2nd January 2015.
Licence review forum launched
Ofcom has now published the revised Amateur Radio Licence and has advised that there will be guidance to accompany the licence. The RSGB has opened a forum to provide the opportunity to discuss what information would be helpful in that document. There may also be questions about implementation that forum members wish to be clarified. […]
New record for Logbook of the World
The ARRL’s Logbook of The World online card-less contact confirmation service has recorded a new milestone of 100 million QSL records out of some 630 million uploaded contacts. That’s an increase of more than 18 million QSL records since the end of last year. WJ1B from the ARRL commented that if placed end to end, […]
Watch SSTV from the ISS this week
The Russian ARISS team members plan to activate SSTV from the International Space Station on the 18 and 20 December. The expected SSTV mode will be PD180 on 145.800MHz FM with three minute off periods between transmissions. A total of 12 different photos will be sent during the operational period. Start time will be around […]
