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Contest News – 3 December 2023
Today, the 3 December the 144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest runs from 1000 to 1400UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday 5 December the 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal […]
Propagation News – 3 December 2023
We were lucky last week – the solar flux index remained quite high and, after the geomagnetic upsets around the 25 November, we had settled conditions, with the Kp index below two. Unfortunately, it looks like that is all about to change. On Tuesday 28 November, two M-class solar flares and associated coronal mass ejections […]
RSGB 2023 Convention – 23cms presentation
The latest RSGB 2023 Convention video to be released is three presentations in one, on the topic of 23cms. Barry Lewis, G4SJH talks about amateur/RNSS coexistence in the 23cm band John Worsnop, G4BAO considers how the possible RNSS changes will affect narrow band DX operation and EME Dave Crump, G8GKQ looks at the future of […]
WRC-23 Days-7+8: Work goes on – and IARU Interview
Week-2 of WRC-23 continued with slow progress on current items and the first signs of the future agenda. IARU President Tim Ellam VE6SH arrived to witness for himself the challenges, and got a cherished ITU video interview. Meetings continued on Tuesday and Wednesday on various items including 23cm, Radar Sounders and Space weather. Chairing the […]
WRC-23 Day-6: 50MHz and 23cm
Week-2 of WRC-23 started with a 9am meeting of the AI-9.1b, 23cm topic, followed by 40-50MHz radar sounders. The latest 23cm meeting considered a draft CEPT Resolution to incorporate/mandate the levels in new ITU Recommendation M.2164 to protect radio-navigation satellites (RNSS) in 1240-1300MHz. This predictably ran into some concerns from other regions. Alternatives on the draft […]
Website download file information change
From now on, we are no longer displaying file size information for downloadable files on the website You will be used to seeing a format like this – File Download (4-page/150KB PDF) This practice dates from a time when dial-up or very slow broadband connections were commonplace, and it was necessary to warn users before […]
