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DX News – 19 October 2014
KD6XH will be operational from Samoa as 5W0XH between 23 to 28 October. Activity will take place before, during and after the CQ World Wide DX SSB contest. QSL via his home callsign. M5RI and G8DX will be operational as GJ8DX from Jersey between 29 October and 4 November. Activity will be on all bands […]
Contest News – 19 October 2014
Sunday the 19th sees the 50MHz AFS contest taking place from 09.00 to 12.00UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 19.00 to 21.30UTC. Using all modes the exchange is the usual signal report, serial number and locator. The first SSB […]
Propagation News – 19 October 2014
Sunspot groups decayed and disappeared or rotated out of view and by the 12th only two groups remained visible. Since then new groups appeared but there are two sunspot groups about to rotate into view that are already producing M class solar flares. Solar activity was at very low levels on the 11th and the […]
RSGB helps pupils celebrate the birth of global radio communications
Pupils at Mill Hill School in London are taking to the airwaves this week to mark the 90th anniversary of the historic contact between Cecil Goyder, a former pupil at Mill Hill School, and Frank Bell, a New Zealand sheep farmer. The radio station (2SZ) is being run by RSGB volunteers and throughout the week […]
RadCom Plus
The RSGB is preparing to launch a new online quarterly newsletter with a specific focus on technical topics. Named RadCom Plus, this new online publication will be free to all RSGB Members. The aim is to bring RSGB Members the very best in technical articles covering a wide range of topics—not only to bring you […]
IMPORTANT – Ofcom licence review
The RSGB held its regular meeting with Ofcom last Thursday and, as you will know, Ofcom attended the Convention at the weekend. Feedback from those events is that— Only 300 or so people have responded to the consultation document so far Ofcom will be relying heavily on the volume and content of the responses as […]
