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DX News – 6 April 2025
The Toshiba Fuchu Amateur Radio Club, JA1YVT, is celebrating its 60th anniversary and, as part of the celebration, team members are staging a DXpedition to the Ogasawara Islands. They will be QRV as JA1YVT/JD1 until Thursday 10 April. The operating schedule, frequencies and QSL information are available via QRZ.com DA1DX, DK9IP, DM6EE and DL8LAS will […]
Contest News – 6 April 2025
The FT4 International Activity Day started at 1200UTC on Saturday 5 April and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday 6 April. Using FT4 on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your report. The SP DX Contest started at 1500UTC on Saturday 5 April and ends at 1500UTC today, Sunday 6 […]
Propagation News – 6 April 2025
We had a week of mixed solar conditions, but it ended with an SFI of 182 and a Kp of 3.67 on Thursday 3 April. The geomagnetic field declined to quieter levels following a prolonged period of active, Kp4 conditions earlier on Wednesday due to solar wind enhancements. This impacted propagation, with the critical frequency […]
April Tonight@8: using a glue stick in a homemade 40m receiver
The next webinar in the RSGB’s Tonight@8 series will be live on Monday 7 April. Nick Wood, M0NTV will show you how to use a regular glue stick housing in a rather novel way to form the basis of a variable tuning inductor in a homemade 40m receiver. Nick has a lifelong fascination with radio […]
David Barlow “Duke”, G3PLE – 23 February 2025
It is with great sadness that Poldhu Amateur Radio Club announce the passing of David Barlow, G3PLE. David will be greatly missed by the club, having been a loyal and active member for many years, in that time giving many presentations on Marconi, early wireless development, the Titanic disaster and wireless at sea. Prior to […]
GB2RS News Script for 30 March 2025
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