News
Also in GB2RS this week…
December is Youngsters on the Air month and 37 stations will be operating all around Europe, Africa and the Middle East getting young people involved in amateur radio. There are even two stations from Asia and the Caribbean that are part of this event. In the UK, the callsign G14YOTA is moving around the country […]
Rallies and Events News – 14 December 2014
The first rallies of the New Year are on 18 January when the Hatherleigh Rally will open in Devon at 10am and the Red Rose Winter Rally will open at 11am in Manchester. More details will be in the New Year GB2RS news. If you have any rally or event information you’d like to appear […]
Special Events News – 14 December 2014
WW1USA will be on the air on 27 and 28 December to commemorate the Christmas Truce of 1914. Details are on QRZ.com. Members of the GTM Radio Club in Belgium will be on the air using ON70BUTS until 14 January to commemorate the Battle of the Bulge. QSL via ON4CFB. Special event station R100DA is […]
DX News – 14 December 2014
Felix, DL5XL is on the air as DP1POL on Neumayer III, IOTA AN-016, until the end of February 2015. Activity is on the HF bands using mainly CW, but also some SSB and RTTY. QSL via DL1ZBO. Harald, DF2WO is QRV as D44TWO from Santiago Island, IOTA AF-005, until 8 January. Activity is holiday style […]
Contest News – 14 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 – 14 December 2014
NOAA and the US Air Force had predicted that last week’s solar flux index would be in the range 160 to 180, which turned out to be slightly over-optimistic. Geomagnetic conditions were also predicted to be unsettled towards the end of last week due to a recurrent coronal hole, but reality was a little better. […]
