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Rallies and Events News – 25 December 2022
The Yeovil Amateur Radio Club Rally will be held on Thursday, 29 December at Davis Hall, Howell Hill, West Camel, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 7QX. Doors will be open from 9.30am to 1pm and admission is £3. Free parking is available. The event will include bring-and-buy as well as 20 tables for traders. For more information […]
Special Events News – 25 December 2022
To celebrate the festive season, the Market Reef DX Association in Finland will be using special callsign OG1XMAS. The team will be active on all bands and modes until Monday, 26 December. QSL via Logbook of the World, Club Log or directly to OH1NOA. Special callsign PD22SANTA will be active from The Netherlands until 31 […]
DX News – 25 December 2022
Lester, W8YCM will be active as W8YCM/6Y from Jamaica, NA-097, until January 2023. QSL directly via his home callsign. Andre, ON7YK will be active in Bijilo, Gambia until 24 February 2023. He is available as C5YK on the 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m bands using SSB, CW and digital modes. QSL via eQSL, Logbook […]
Contest News – 25 December 2022
The UK Six Metre Group Winter Marathon began on Thursday, 1 December. The contest will run until 31 January 2023. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report and locator. On Monday, 26 December, the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club Christmas Contest runs from 0830 to 1100UTC. Using CW and SSB on […]
Propagation News – 25 December 2022
The solar flux index stayed around 150 over the last week, bringing some choice DX to the higher HF bands. However, solar flares continue to plague us, bringing short-lived band fade-outs at times. These have all been moderate C and M-class flares. It is uncertain as to whether or not there will be an X-class […]
Three Convention presentations to be released
The RSGB is releasing three more 2022 Convention videos between Christmas and New Year to give radio amateurs some great content to watch during the festive season. Dr Colin Forsyth from UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory gives a fascinating presentation about Space Weather, whilst Prof Norman Billingham, M0EBI talks about plastics for the radio amateur. […]
