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Contest News – 10 September 2017
The WAE DX SSB contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC on Sunday, the 10th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Note EU stations only work non-EU stations. On Monday the 80m Autumn Series runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using SSB on the 3.5MHz bands the […]
Propagation News – 10 September 2017
Last week the Sun caught every one out. While NOAA predicted the solar flux index would be in the mid-70s, the sudden appearance of a large number of sunspots pushed it up to 183 on Tuesday, although it had calmed down to 122 by Wednesday. This had a major impact on the bands, with openings […]
Ralph Lee, G4GRV, January 2017
Ralph Lee, G4GRV, passed away in January 2017 aged 93. He was active – mostly on HF – Â from when he passed his RAE in 1977, but on his retirement in the late 1980s other interests took over. Ralph encouraged me to take up the hobby, and I passed the RAE in 1978 thanks to […]
Report VDSL interference NOW
For three years the RSGB EMC Committee has been investigating the problems of interference from VDSL broadband on the HF amateur bands and lobbying for action to reduce the problem. It has a lot of historic data, but both Ofcom and Openreach contend that 150 reports from 50,000 amateurs are not indicative of a major […]
ARDF team heads to Lithuania
The RSGB Direction Finding team, which is entirely self-funded, is flying out to Lithuania this weekend for the 21st Region 1 ARDF Championships. There is a strong team in the M50 category, that is men aged from 50 to 59, with individuals competing in the M60 and M70 categories. Four separate competitions make up the […]
Valve Workshop at Computing Museum
A Valve Workshop will be held on the 14th of October at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park MK3 6EB. If you have a basic knowledge of electronics and can read an electronic circuit diagram then they will show you how electronics started for its first 50 years. Find out about valve history, how […]
