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Rallies and Events News – 2 March 2025
Today, the 2 March, the Exeter Radio Rally is taking place at a new venue. The event will be held at The Kenn Centre, EX6 7UE, from 10am. Traders and catering will be available on site. For more information phone Pete, G3ZVI on 07714 198 374 or email g3zvi@yahoo.co.uk On Sunday 16 March, the Ripon […]
Special Events News – 2 March 2025
The British Railways Amateur Radio Society is running special event station GB0LMR and GB2SDR during 2025 to celebrate 200 years of train travel since 1825. Starting from April, it will also be running GB2TT to celebrate the same anniversary. QSL will be via the Bureau. More information is available at QRZ.com and via webrars.info From […]
DX News – 2 March 2025
Operators R1BIG, RW3RN, W8HC, R9LR and N3QQ are active from Chiriqui, Panama as 3F3RRC until the 3 March. The VK9XU Team will be active from Christmas Island, IOTA reference OC-002, until the 4 March. They will operate on 160 – 6m, CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8 and FT4. QSL via DL2AWG, ClubLog and Logbook of the […]
Contest News – 2 March 2025
The ARRL DX SSB Contest started at 0000UTC on Saturday 1 March, and ends at 2359UTC today, the 2 March. Using SSB on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange for non-US and Canadian stations is signal report and transmit power in Watts. US and Canadian stations will send their State/Province […]
Propagation News – 2 March 2025
We had another week of mixed geomagnetic conditions. The Kp index rose to a high of five with visible aurora over the UK at times. Two large coronal holes are now both facing Earth. A solar wind stream flowing from these zones is expected to flow past Earth, possibly on Friday 28 February or Saturday […]
Buy your ticket for Surfing the (radio) waves
On Saturday 29 March, the RSGB National Radio Centre Coordinator, Martyn Baker, G0GMB, together with Andy Webster, G7UHN from the Radio Communications Foundation, will be delivering a talk in the Fellowship Auditorium at Bletchley Park. It will introduce people to the radio spectrum and how to get to grips with the fundamentals of radio transmission. The […]
