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Special Events News – 24 March 2019
From the 25 March to 1 April David, G4YVM will be running GB5EEE, Europe Europe Europe. Operating from Salisbury, he will be mostly CW. This is one of several special event stations planned to be on the air around the 29 March to mark the intended date of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, from […]
Contest News – 24 March 2019
The UK EI Contest Club DX CW contest ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC this Sunday, the 24th. Using CW only on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and district code. On Tuesday the 432MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2000UTC, using FM only. It […]
Propagation News – 24 March 2019
The Sun burst into life this week, with two new sunspots and solar flares aplenty. But before you get too excited the spots are from the outgoing solar cycle 24. Sunspot 2736 erupted on Wednesday with a C4-class solar flare. The Earth-directed explosion sent ionisation rippling through Earth’s upper atmosphere and caused a Dellinger fade-out […]
Syllabus 2019 tutors SDR presentation
On 17 March, a Syllabus 2019 presentation on Software Defined Radio for tutors took place at Jury’s Inn, East Midlands Airport. Over 50 tutors, representing clubs from all over the country, attended the meeting and saw presentations by Alan Betts, G0HIQ and Mike Bruce, M0ITI on the essential learning and tutorial slides for Software Defined Radio. […]
David Anderson, GM4JJJ, 14th March 2019
David Anderson, GM4JJJ passed away on the 14th of March 2019 after a long battle with cancer. First licensed as GM8HEY, David was heavily involved in the pioneering work of George Burt, GM3OXX on long-distance contacts using 10GHz wideband FM/MCW. From his own station, GM4JJJ became a very active VHF-UHF DXer, making contacts as far […]
George Dobbs, G3RJV, SK
It is with great sadness that we learned this week of the death of George Dobbs, G3RJV, founder of the GQRP Club and well known for his writing in SPRAT, RadCom and Practical Wireless. An obituary for George will appear in the May 2019 edition of RadCom. Our thoughts are with his family and many […]
