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Special Events News – 31 March 2024
Special event station GB0WYT will be active from RAF Wyton during the Airfields on the Air event on the weekend of the 13 and 14 April. This is the 12th year that the station has put on a special event station for the event. The callsign will again be operated by RAF Air Cadet Communication […]
DX News – 31 March 2024
Felipe, CE3SX will be active as CB0ZIX from Juan Fernández until the 4 April. He will be QRV almost exclusively on the 6m band using SSB and FT8. QSL via Logbook of the World. Traditional QSL cards will not be available. Thaire, W2APF is active as VP2MDX from Montserrat, NA-103, until the 11 April. He is […]
Contest News – 31 March 2024
The CQ World Wide WPX SSB Contest started at 0000UTC on Saturday 30 March and ends at 2359UTC today, the 31st. Using SSB on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Monday 1 April, the IRTS 70cm Counties Contest runs from 1300 to 1330UTC. […]
Propagation News – 31 March 2024
What a tumultuous time we had last week. Active region 3614 produced an X1.1 solar flare and coronal mass ejection, or CME, in the early hours of the 23 March. This impacted Earth’s geomagnetic field sending the Kp index to 8 on the 24 March. In fact, there were simultaneous flares from active region 3614 […]
RadCom Basics, No. 39, March 2024
We are pleased to announce the March 2024 edition of RadCom Basics is now available on the RSGB website In this edition, Mark Hartley, M0XCZ reflects upon his own experiences of portable operating, and provides an account aimed at encouraging amateurs to get out there and experience the—sometimes unexpected—benefits of portable operating. Also in this […]
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