News
DX News – 4 February 2018
At the time of writing this week’s script, the 3Y0Z Bouvet Island DXpedition team is now at anchor off Bouvet Island, but weather and sea conditions have not reached the point where the team can begin transporting equipment and personnel ashore. Apparently, winds are 35 to 40 knots, the ship is pitching and rolling up […]
Special Event News – 4 February 2018
Thinking Day on the Air 2018 will take place over the weekend of the 17 and 18 February. A list of known stations is displayed on the website. Currently, as well as UK stations, Guides and Scouts are taking part from Canada, USA, and the Netherlands. Please send in station details via the website or […]
Contest News – 4 February 2018
This Sunday, 4 February, the 432MHz AFS contest takes place from 0900UTC to 1300UTC. Using all modes on the 432MHz band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2000UTC. It is followed by the 144MHz UK Activity Contest that uses all modes […]
Propagation News – 4 February 2018
Solar activity remained at very low levels last week, with one barely-visible sunspot group pushing the sunspot number to a maximum of 13 and the solar flux index to 69. Geomagnetic conditions were largely settled, with some coronal hole activity pushing the K-index to three at times. Despite the low SFI, there was band activity […]
Prepare for Thinking Day on the Air
Thinking Day on the Air 2018 will take place over the weekend of 17 and 18 February 2018. A list of known stations is displayed on the station list page. There is a form on the page for stations to submit their details to be added to the list, and a Yahoo group for exchanging […]
Two Chinese amateur CubeSats launched
On Friday, 19 January 2018 two satellites carrying amateur radio payloads were launched. Both were developed by amateur students in Hunan province, China. The satellites, QuanTuTong-1 and Xiaoxiang-2, are 6U CubeSats. They will operate in the 435, 2400, 5650 and 5830MHz amateur-satellite service bands. 5650MHz is used for uplinks and 5830MHz for downlinks. Currently only […]
