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Contest News – 4 September 2022
The RSGB HF SSB Field Day ends its 24-hour run at 1300UTC today, the 4th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The IARU Region 1 Field Day runs for the same 24-hour period as the RSGB HF Field Day. Using SSB only on […]
Propagation News – 4 September 2022
The radio propagation report was compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Friday the 2 September 2022. Many amateurs thought Christmas had arrived early when a solar flux index of 252 was posted on the 28th of August. This would have been representative of a very good solar maximum. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be as the […]
Exam syllabus and sample question updates
The 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 www.rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/for-trainers/old-syllabus/ while […]
GB2RS News Script for 28 August 2022
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 28 August 2022 (22-page/464KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link
Get ready for the Transatlantic Tests
The RSGB is hosting The Transatlantic Centenary Tests on the HF bands, for the entire month of December 2022 This is to commemorate the centenary of the achievement of amateur transatlantic communication, during the tests that were held between 1921 and 1923. Unlike the tests of the 1920s, which consisted of one-way communication, the 2022 […]
National Radio Centre contacts the ISS
RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) volunteer Steve, 2E0YBJ, was able to show the visiting public a live radio contact with the International Space Station using GB3RS He was using the demonstration station at the NRC, running SatPC32. This is used to track Earth low orbit satellites and, more recently, the on-board ISS repeater. Steve put […]
