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Special Events News – 29 August 2021
Nigel, M0NJW will be active as GB1SAK between the 3rd and the 5th of September during the St Anne’s Kite Festival. QSL via M0OXO’s OQRS. This special event station will run from the beach using a long wire supported by a kite flying at a maximum of 60m above the ground. The Shropshire Linux User […]
Contest News – 29 August 2021
When operating in contests, please keep yourself and fellow amateurs safe by following any government recommendations during the pandemic. This weekend is the World Wide Digi DX contest. It runs for 24 hours from 1200UTC on the 28th to 1200UTC on the 29th. Using FT4 and FT8 on the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands, the […]
Propagation News – 29 August 2021
We had another week with a quiet Sun, but it wasn’t as settled as you might think. Yes, the solar flux index was in the low- to-mid-80s, but the Sun started to get very active. The first event on Sunday saw a prominence eruption off the west limb that flung a coronal mass ejection, or […]
Changes to the Regional Team
We would like to welcome three members to the Regional Team or to new posts within that team: We are delighted that Ron White, G6LTT has been co-opted as Regional Representative 9 until the RSGB 2022 AGM Martin Hallard, G1TYV takes up the role of District Representative 52 (Central and East Birmingham) Leigh Preece, M5GWH […]
GB2RS News Script for 22 August 2021
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Latest Convention details released
The RSGB has announced further details of its online Convention, which will be held on Saturday, 9 October 2021. The event will be streamed live on the Society’s YouTube channel. Dan, M0WUT will be focusing on hand-soldering techniques that will allow you to tackle all but the most challenging of components. If levels of interference […]
