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DX News – 25 February 2018
A group will be operating from Rotuma Island, IOTA reference OC-060, from around 23 February until 16 March. The call sign will be 3D2EU. Activity will be on all bands from 160 to 10m using CW, SSB and digital. Rotuma is located about 650km north of Fiji and counts as a separate entity for DXCC […]
Special Event News – 25 February 2018
March 2018 sees the 80th anniversary of the launch of HMS Belfast and, to mark the event, the RNARS (Affiliated) London (HMS Belfast) Group have been granted the unusual call sign of GB80GGCN. Golf-Golf-Charlie-November was the marine call sign of HMS Belfast. The special event call will last from March through to May. Visitors to […]
Contest News – 25 February 2018
The CQ WorldWide 160m DX contest ends its 48 hour run at 2200UTC this Sunday, the 25th. It’s SSB only; the exchange is signal report and CQ zone, with US stations also sending their state and Canadians their province. The French REF Contest ends its 36 hour run at 1800UTC this Sunday, the 25th. Using […]
Propagation News – 25 February 2018
Despite warnings in the popular press that a massive solar flare was likely to cause chaos on Earth, we managed to survive! In the event, a coronal mass ejection, which was linked to the solar flare, caused the K-index to rise to five on Monday, the 19th, but conditions became more settled from Tuesday onwards. […]
New Amateur Radio Observation Service (AROS) and Intruder Watch Coordinator
RSGB is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Lamont, G4DYA to the joint role of AROS Coordinator and Intruder Watch Coordinator. Richard has been a broadcast engineer with the BBC, an editor of radio magazines and a company director. He also knows his way around the ITU Regulations. We welcome him to his new […]
New Chair of the Emerging Technology Coordination Committee (ETCC)
We’re delighted to announce that Andrew Barrett, G8DOR has been appointed as the new Chair of the ETCC for an initial period of three years. Andrew is the current Vice-Chair. We would like to thank John McCullagh, GI4BWM for the enormous level of work that he has put into the role of ETCC Chair over […]
