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Special Events News – 27 April 2025
The Spanish national society, URE, is on the air to mark the 100th anniversary of the IARU. Members are active on 160m to 6m until the 30 April with ten different special event stations, including AO100IARU. Special awards will be available, as well as medals for the top participants from each continent who achieve the […]
DX News – 27 April 2025
Dom, 3D2USU is active again as 3D2AJT from Nadi in the Fiji Islands until the end of April. The call sign is in memory of JH1AJT, now Silent Key. QSL via Club Log’s OQRS and Logbook of The World. Yuris, YL2GM plans to operate as ZS8W from Prince Edward and Marion Island, IOTA reference AF-021, […]
Contest News – 27 April 2025
The UK and Ireland DX CW Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday 26 April and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday 27 April. Using CW on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. UK and Ireland stations also send their district code. The SP DX RTTY […]
Propagation News – 27 April 2025
We had yet another week of unsettled geomagnetic conditions. The Kp index peaked at 5.33 on the 21 April as the solar wind speed hit just above 600 kilometres per second, and active geomagnetic conditions were observed. This was caused by a massive coronal hole on the Sun’s surface, which measures nearly 700,000km in length. […]
RSGB President to activate GB0IARU
As part of the IARU centenary celebrations, the RSGB has been activating call sign GB0IARU throughout April. On Wednesday 30 April, the RSGB President Bob Beebe, GU4YOX will be activating GB0IARU from 2pm on 40m SSB, and then from 5pm on 80m SSB. Frequencies will be spotted on the day, and times may vary to […]
Exams reminder from RSGB Exams Quality Manager
The RSGB Exams Quality Manager would like to remind everyone that clubs can still run exams if they are a Registered Exam Centre. Exams will be conducted online unless a candidate has a special requirement for a paper exam. The introduction of remote invigilation to allow people to take an amateur radio licence exam in their […]
