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DX News – 2 March 2014

| February 28, 2014

WA2NHA will be active from 2 to 17 March as stroke P4 from Aruba, SA-036. His operating will be on the 10 to 80m bands mainly using CW. QSL via his home callsign. Alan, G3XAQ has returned to Uganda until 16 March. He will reactivate his 5X1XA callsign. QSLs go via G3SWH. John, KF0RQ will […]

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Contest News – 2 March 2014

| February 28, 2014

The 144/432MHz contest finishes at 1400UTC today, 2 March. It has six and 24 hour categories and the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The ARRL International DX contest ends at midnight tonight, 2 March having run for 48 hours. Work US stations in the contiguous 48 states, plus Canadians. Send a signal […]

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Propagation News – 2 March 2014

| February 28, 2014

Solar activity increased from low to moderate on the 23rd when one M class solar flare took place and again on the 24th when two took place. Activity increased further to high levels on the 25th when an X4 class flare occurred. The sunspot group responsible for the majority of these flares rotated into view […]

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Brian Davis, 2E0BGD, 15 February 2014

| February 26, 2014
Brian Davis, 2E0BGD, 15 February 2014

Brian G Davis, 2E0BGD, passed away on 15th of January 2014. Brian fulfilled his ambition to become a radio amateur after retirement from full time work in 1999. A life-long SWL, he had been a wireless operator with the RAF and had worked for Ordnance Survey and then in local government. Having passed what was […]

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Peter Pitt, G3ICH, 11 February 2014

| February 26, 2014

Peter Pitt, G3ICH passed away at the age of 87 on 11 February 2014, having been a Member of the RSGB for 61 years. He was almost solely a CW operator, this being his hobby and career. I often chided him, as I reckoned he didn’t own a microphone! Tribute by Doug Nias, G3VRB

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Website visual preferences

| February 24, 2014

The Society is pleased to announce that a Site Visual Preferences tool has been added to the site under the MyRSGB section. This feature, intended to facilitate accessibility and usability, enables visitors to our site to change elements such as font size, background colour and screen width. We hope you find this a useful addition […]

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