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Contest News – 9 December 2018
The UK Six Metre Group’s Winter Marathon began on 1 December and runs until the end of January. There are no specific operating periods. Just work as many locator squares as you can, when you can, using any mode on the 50MHz band. The ARRL 10m Contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC this […]
Propagation News – 9 December 2018
We had a new sunspot group, Region 2729, appear this week, although it is a member of the weakening Solar Cycle 24. The region formed fairly quickly in the sun’s southwest quadrant and at the time of writing was producing only very minor B-Class solar flares. It is unlikely to do too much for the […]
Listen for YOTA stations
YOTA month has just started. The first club to activate the GB18YOTA call sign was Aberkenfig Radio Club in Bridgend on 1 December 2018. Sandringham School Amateur Radio Club, with help from Verulam ARC, will activate it on Monday, the 3rd. On the 5th, it’s the turn of Swansea Radio Club, then Silcoates School on […]
Introduction to Amateur Radio workshops
The RSGB is still taking bookings for the An Introduction to Amateur Radio workshops running in association with Bletchley Park on 15 and 16 December 2018. These workshops will give an introductory insight into the world of amateur radio, as well as a chance to see the RSGB’s National Radio Centre. So spread the word […]
High altitude balloon news
On 6 December 2018, a team from hi-impact on the Wirral will launch another high altitude balloon, in conjunction with pupils from St Bridget’s Primary School in West Kirby. Once again they will launch from Welshpool. They are hoping as many local amateurs and SWLs as possible will assist in feeding the data into HABHUB, […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
Two more 2018 RSGB Convention lecture videos are now available on the RSGB website. You will need your Membership Services login to watch them. Don Greenbaum, N1DG talks about the KH1/KH7Z Baker Island DXpedition and Bo Hansen, OZ2M lectures on PI4 the Digital Mode for Beacons and Why It Is A Success. To watch these […]
