News
DX News – 7 December 2014
IK1PMR and PA3LEO will be on the air signing portable EA8 from Tenerife, AF-004, until 8th January 2015. Activity will be on the 6 to 160m bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via HB9FKK or each operator’s home callsign, direct or via the bureau. Electronic QSLs go via Logbook of the World or direct […]
Contest News – 7 December 2014
The UK Six Metre Group’s Winter Marathon began on the 1st of December 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 […]
Propagation News – 7 December 2014
As predicted, HF conditions were very good for the CQ Worldwide contest last weekend, although NOAA were wrong with their predicted solar flux index. Instead of 135 it was actually 177. There were no major flares or coronal mass ejections to upset the ionosphere with the result that all of the HF bands were very […]
Tom Simpson, GM3BCD, 25 October 2014
Tom Simpson GM3BCD died on 25-10-2014 aged 96. I have written an extensive SK with photographs for the website of the Lothians Radio Society at http://www.lothiansradiosociety.com/lrs-archive/68-silent-keys/554-tom-simpson-gm3bcd-silent-key Tribute by Alan J. Masson, GM3PSP Secretary, Lothians Radio Society
Simon Dominic Williams, G4RGX, 22 November 2014
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you of the sudden and untimely death of an ex-colleague and friend, Simon Dominic Williams, G4RGX, on Saturday 22nd November 2014 at home. Simon and I worked together at WS Atkins in Epsom for 3½ years, and although he was not an active amateur, he […]
Youngsters on the Air month starts
December is Youngsters on the Air month and stations will be operating all around Europe getting young people involved in amateur radio. The callsign G14YOTA is moving around the UK throughout December. On the 1st it will be operated by the Wessex Contest Group, on the 3rd by Aberystwyth University, the 4th it is on […]
