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Contest News – 6 October 2019
This weekend is busy, with several contests taking place over the two days. The IARU 432MHz to 245GHz contest runs for 24 hours, finishing at 1400UTC on Sunday, the 6th. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Oceania DX SSB Contest runs for 24 hours until 0800UTC this Sunday, […]
Propagation News – 6 October 2019
We had a real mixed bag in terms of HF propagation last week. The middle of the week through to Friday was actually quite good. Peter, G3XJE ran a very comprised 20m WSPR station from the Propagation Studies Committee stand at the National Hamfest and was picked up as far afield as the southern states […]
National Club of the Year 2018 winners announced
At the National Hamfest on 28 September 2019 we announced the winners of the RSGB National Club of the Year 2018. We thank Waters & Stanton for sponsoring this year’s event, and for kindly donating the prizes. This year’s competition had only one category for entrants, and as well as being open to clubs of […]
UK school to contact ISS
Another UK school has the opportunity to contact the International Space Station. Bampton School will make the contact sometime during the week of 7 October 2019, but won’t know the exact date and time until closer to the event. They will be operating as GB4BPS and contacting NA1SS on the station. They hope to speak […]
RSGB 2019 Convention latest
The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. It is kindly sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons. The provisional programme of lectures and workshops is now online at rsgb.org/convention. There will be a Meet the RSGB Board session, where delegates have the opportunity to discuss current issues and […]
Frequency measurement festival for WWV
HamSCI and the Case ARC will sponsor a Festival of Frequency Measurement on WWV’s centennial, 1 October 2019, from 0000 to 2359UTC. The event invites radio amateurs, short wave listeners, and others capable of making high quality frequency measurements on HF to participate and publish their data to the HamSCI community on the Zenodo open-data […]
