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DX News – 5 January 2020
Sergey, RX3AMY will be active holiday style as 8Q7BS from the Maldives, IOTA reference AS-013, until 23 January. He will operate SSB and some CW on the 40 and 20m bands. QSL via his home call. SP3PS will be active as C5SP from The Gambia until 17 January. He will operate SSB and FT8/FT4. QSL […]
Special Events News – 5 January 2020
From Monday until next Sunday, Hilderstone Radio Society will be operating GB1RNLI from the RNLI lifeboat station in Margate. TM70TAAF will be activated by François, F8DVD from 12 to 26 January. The special call sign commemorates the 70th anniversary of the first amateur radio contacts with French Southern and Austral Territories that took place in […]
Contest News – 5 January 2020
The ARRL RTTY Roundup ends its 30 hour run at 2359UTC this Sunday, 5 January. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands the exchange is signal report and serial number, with US stations sending their state, and Canadian stations their province. The second session of the EUCW 160m CW Party runs from 0400 to 0700UTC […]
Propagation News – 5 January 2020
After the two new solar cycle 24 sunspots that appeared last week, we now have another spot developing in the Sun’s south-west quadrant. Don’t get too excited though, as the last two spots soon disappeared and this one might not amount to much either. It is, however, a positive sign that the next cycle is […]
Final GB2RS of the year
This is the final GB2RS news reading for 2019 and we start with seasonal greetings to all newsreaders and listeners, both over the air and via the internet recordings, and not forgetting viewers of the ATV broadcast, which is available via several repeaters and kindly streamed via the BATC.TV website, as well as those that […]
Last chances to work GB18YOTA
YOTA Month is gathering pace and the two day event at the RSGB’s National Radio Centre last weekend was a great success. This Sunday, 22 December 2019, the Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society at Blandford Camp will operate from 1200 to 1800UTC at the Headquarters Station. There is still time to apply to host the […]
