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Rallies and Events News – 11 February 2018
This Sunday, 11 February, the Harwell Radio and Electronics Rally will be held at Didcot Leisure Centre, Mereland Road, Didcot, Oxon OX11 8AY, which is three miles from the Milton interchange on the A34. Doors open from 10am and admittance is £3, with under-12s free. There is free car parking, with disabled parking and facilities. […]
DX News – 11 February 2018
OH2IS will be in Martinique, IOTA reference NA-107, from 18 to 28 February. He’ll be focusing on the low bands as FM/OH2IS using a full size 40m metre and top loading for 80m. On the higher bands he will have dipoles. Dick, AD7AR will be active as 5W0LR from Samoa, OC-097, until 22 February. He […]
Special Event News – 11 February 2018
Thinking Day on the Air 2018 will take place over the weekend of 17 and 18 February. Guides and Scouts are taking part from the UK, Canada, USA, the Netherlands and possibly other countries. A list of known stations is displayed on the website, and if your station isn’t listed, please send in details via […]
Contest News – 11 February 2018
The CQ World Wide WPX RTTY contest runs for 48 hours ending at 2359UTC this Sunday, the 11th. Using RTTY only on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Ending at 1200UTC this Sunday, the 11th, is the PACC contest. Using CW and SSB on the 1.8 to 28MHz […]
Propagation News – 11 February 2018
Sunspot region 2699 provided us with a small increase in solar activity last week. It also produced a number of minor C and M-class flares as the solar flux index rose to around 77. More significantly, quieter geomagnetic conditions, thanks to a lack of coronal holes, meant the K-index remained fairly low and the bands […]
Bouvet DXpedition cancelled
In the 72 hours to 2000UTC on 3 February 2018, the team continued to experience high winds, low clouds, fog and rough seas, which had prevented helicopter operations since their arrival at Bouvet. No improvement was predicted in the weather forecast for the next four days. Then an issue developed in one of the ship’s […]
