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Also in GB2RS this week…
Reg, G8VHI is still looking for a second reader for the GB2RS news reading at 8.30pm on Sundays. He starts a new work shift system in mid-January 2019 and will not be able to broadcast every week. Please email radcom@rsgb.org and we will forward the details to Reg. YOTA month is almost upon us. The […]
Rallies and Events – 25 November 2018
This Sunday, the 25th, the Bishop Auckland ARC rally takes place at Spennymoor Leisure Centre, 32 High Street, Spennymoor, Co. Durham, DL16 6DB. This venue has good parking and access to a large ground floor hall. Doors open at 10.30am, 10.15am for disabled visitors. Admission is £2, accompanied under-14s free. There will be the usual […]
DX News – 25 November 2018
Norman Stewart will be active in Colombia from 30 November to 31 December. Operation will be on the 80 to 10m bands as time and band conditions allow. He will use the call sign HK3/MM0BMG. Note that the numeric part of the HK3 call sign may vary depending on the region of operation within Colombia. […]
Special Events News – 25 November 2018
The Radio Club de Nice will be active as TM8AB between 24 November and 12 December to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the first transatlantic amateur two-way contact between Leon Deloy, F8AB and Fred Schnell, 1MO, on 28 November 1923.
Contest News – 25 November 2018
The big contest this month, CQ Worldwide DX CW, ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC this Sunday, the 25th. Using all contest bands from 1.8 to 28MHz, the exchange is signal report and CQ zone, which for the UK is 14. On Tuesday, the 27th, the SHF UK Activity contest runs from 1930 to […]
Propagation News – 25 November 2018
Last week saw relatively quiet geomagnetic conditions, thanks to a reduction in coronal hole activity. The Kp index never got higher than three, and was usually between zero and two for most of the week. We had a solar flux index high of 72 and a low of 69, which is in keeping with this […]
