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DX News – 11 September 2022
A team will be active as 5R8CG, 5R8MM, 5R8WG and 5R8WP from Nosy Be island, AF-057, in Madagascar from the 11 to the 22 October. They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8 on the 6 to 160m bands with two stations. The logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World when they return. […]
Contest News – 11 September 2022
This weekend the WAE DX SSB Contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTc today the 11 September . Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, EU stations should only work non-EU stations. The exchange is signal report and serial number. Today, Sunday the 11 September, the UK Microwave Group 24 to […]
Propagation News – 11 September 2022
What a week we have just had! The Kp index stayed at four or more for most of the week thanks to an enhanced solar wind stream. This continued to stir up geomagnetic activity with minor ,G1, storm conditions. Visible aurora have been reported at higher latitudes. Sunspot region 3089 has now rotated behind the […]
BBC Radio Wales features amateur radio
BBC Radio Wales recently invited callers to join in on an amateur radio feature. The wide-ranging discussion included conversations with 8-year-old Isabella and her dad Matt, M0LMK talking about their recent ISS contact, as well as with Jeffrey from Swansea ARC (1:54:40) and Glyn, GW0ANA from Barry ARS (2:12:26). Listen on BBC Sounds from 1:38:10 […]
GB2RS News Script for 4 September 2022
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Syllabus 1.5 checks finished
The RSGB Examinations and Syllabus Review Group (ESRG) has just completed an editing and checking exercise for all the v1.5 syllabus content on the RSGB website. The single-tier and three-tier versions should have exactly the same content and, by majority request, Oxford commas have been removed. The old syllabuses can still be found at on […]
