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Rallies and Events News – 12 May 2019
There are no rallies in the diary for this weekend, 11 and 12 May. Dayton Hamvention® takes place on 17 to 19 May at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA—the RSGB will be represented with a book stall and Membership stand. On Sunday, 19 May, the Dunstable Downs National Amateur Radio […]
DX News – 12 May 2019
To celebrate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on 17 May a special station, 8J1ITU, will be on the air throughout May from the Japanese island of Honshu. QSL via the Bureau. Tom, DL7BO will be active again as XV9BO from Mui Ne, Vietnam on 13 to 19 May. He will operate sporadically on the […]
Special Events News – 12 May 2019
This weekend you can expect to hear special event stations taking part in SOS Radio Week, Pubs and Clubs on the Air and Mills on the Air. Several of these stations are mentioned in local news this week. Cwmbran ARC will be operating from Llanyravon Mill, Llanyravon Way, Cwmbran over the weekend for Mills on […]
Contest News – 12 May 2019
The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon runs until 4 August. Using all modes on the 50MHz band, the exchange is just your four character locator. This Sunday, 12 May, the 70MHz CW Contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode. Also this Sunday, the 12th, the […]
Propagation News – 12 May 2019
Sunspot group 2740 has now returned and is emitting a lot of radio noise. Solarweather.com reports large bursts have been recorded on 20 and 25MHz. The bursts sound like waves breaking on the shore and are caused by beams of electrons accelerated by explosions in the sunspot’s magnetic canopy. As the electrons slice through the […]
An introduction to QOscar 100
Noel Matthews, G8GTZ, Dave Crump, G8GKQ and Phil Crump, M0DNY gave a presentation at AGM 2019 on Qatar Oscar 100, the geostationary amateur transponder on the Es’hail-2 commercial satellite. QOscar 100 was launched in February 2019 and has seen stations making contacts across a third of the globe on the narrow band and wide band […]
