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DX News – 15 March 2020

| March 13, 2020

Nigel, G3TXF will be in Mauritius until the 27th of March using the callsign 3B8XF. He will take part in the Commonwealth Contest this weekend and will concentrate on 80 and 160m during the remainder of his visit. QSLs go via Club Log OQRS and logs will be uploaded to Logbook of The World. Mike, […]

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Special Events News – 15 March 2020

| March 13, 2020

GB0SPD, GB2SPD and GB4SPD are three special callsigns that will celebrate St Patrick’s Day. The St Patrick’s Day On The Air event will run from 1200UTC on the 16th of March until 1200UTC on the 18th of March. See http://stpatrickaward.webs.com/ for details. It is 700 years since the first written mention of Dobruška, so the […]

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Contest News – 15 March 2020

| March 13, 2020

The longest running RSGB contest of them all is the Commonwealth Contest, formerly known as BERU. It ends its 24 hours run at 1000UTC today, the 15th. It’s CW only on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands and the exchange is signal report and serial number. Today, the 15th, the 2nd 70MHz Cumulative contest runs […]

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Propagation News – 15 March 2020

| March 13, 2020

A new sunspot group, numbered AR 2758 and from upcoming Solar Cycle 25, appeared this week. The region was located in the Sun’s southeast quadrant, but had faded away by Thursday the 12th. This was the first numbered sunspot region to appear in over a month as solar activity continues on at very low levels. […]

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RSGB election voting opens

| March 12, 2020

Voting for the RSGB elections is now open. On our AGM/elections web pages you will find: 1. The AGM Calling Notice 2. Details of the Resolutions 3. Candidate statements for the four people standing for elected Board Director 4. Candidate statement for the one person to be endorsed as a Nominated Director 5. Details of how to vote Internet voting […]

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The RSGB’s NRC to close temporarily

| March 12, 2020

The RSGB’s National Radio Centre welcomes individuals and large groups of people from across the world every week. With the increase in cases of coronavirus in the UK and other countries, the RSGB has taken the difficult decision to close the NRC temporarily from Wednesday, 18 March 2020. It will open as normal this weekend […]

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