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Special Events News – 17 February 2019
Members of Radio Club F6KMB will be active as TM6C until 24 March during the traditional Dunkirk Carnival. QSL via F6KMB.
Contest News – 17 February 2019
The ARRL International DX contest ends its 48 hour run at 2459UTC this Sunday, the 17th. Using CW only on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and transmit power. American and Canadian stations will also send their state or province details. On Tuesday, the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 […]
Propagation News – 17 February 2019
We had another spotless week as the Sun continued its decline into solar minimum. Geomagnetic conditions were varied with the beginning of week seeing the Kp index hitting one and two. But this didn’t last due to ongoing coronal hole activity, which saw the Kp index climb to three and four by Wednesday, the 13th, […]
New compostable RadCom wrapper
We are proud to announce that Members, both in the UK and overseas, will now be receiving their copy of RadCom in a compostable wrapper derived from potato starch. As a Society we are committed to reducing reliance on single-use plastic, and by introducing the new wrapper we are preventing over 250,000 plastic wrappers potentially […]
Amateur radio research and development
Promoting active involvement in research and technical development Research, closely coupled with innovation, is one of the fundamental underpinnings of amateur radio, and has been since its inception when simply making a contact with another station was a cutting-edge achievement. The research contribution that radio amateurs make to the technology and physics of radio communication […]
RSGB Company Secretary vacancy
Stephen Purser, GW4SHF, RSGB Company Secretary has advised the Board that after more than two years in the role he wishes to step down in the spring. Stephen has been instrumental in updating the legal documents relating to the Society and regularly advising the Board where governance changes are necessary. We wish Stephen well in […]
