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Contest News – 17 August 2014
On Tuesday, the 19th, the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest takes place from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The IRTS 2m Counties Contest takes place on Sunday 24th between 1300 to 1500UTC, with awards for the leading non-EI station in each of the six sections of […]
Propagation News – 17 August 2014
All visible sunspot groups were small and not very flare productive. Only eight small C class solar flares took place up to the 11th, since then solar activity declined to very low levels with no C class solar flares taking place. Solar flux levels declined from 123 units on the 8th to 103 by the […]
December is YOTA Month
December is IARU Region 1 YOTA month and the RSGB has arranged for clubs and groups to use the special Callsign G14YOTA—and its regional variations—on a rota basis. The application process for the use of the special callsign has now been finalised and the application form is available here (1-page/51KB PDF). There are only 31 […]
December is IARU YOTA Month
December is IARU YOTA month and this year the RSGB has arranged for UK Clubs/Groups to use the special Callsign G14YOTA (and its Regional variations) on a rota basis. The application form is available to download from this webpage G14YOTA APPLICATION FORM. There are only 31 allocations so applicants are asked to give three choices of […]
Thomas J Coleman, K6VW, 1st July, 2011
Thomas J Coleman MD, K6VW was a prominent orthopaedic surgeon and passed away on 1 July 2014 at the age of 89. He was a graduate of Providence College and Yale Medical School and saw active duty in the USN/MC Reserves, 1942-1957. A member of QCWA, number 10230, and OOTC, number 4045. He is survived […]
90 years of UK-NZ contacts
Mill Hill School celebrates the anniversary of the dawn of mass global communication. In 1923, tests were conducted to span the Atlantic with radio. Then, in 1924, as both transmitter power and receiver sensitivity improved, the dream was to span the globe by radio. After some false starts, on 18 October 1924, two-way communication was […]
