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Contest News – 16 July 2017
On Sunday, the 16th, the 70MHz trophy contest runs from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode. Also Sunday, the 16th, the Low Power contest runs from 0900 to 1600UTC using CW on the 3.5 to14MHz bands. The exchange is signal report, serial number and power. […]
Propagation News – 16 July 2017
Sunspot number 2665 caught NOAA by surprise last week. As we wrote in the last report it was only just rotating into view, but ultimately turned out to be very large indeed. It helped push the solar flux index up to 91 during the week, although it was the only sunspot group visible. We got […]
A sense of scale and proportion
The new RSGB Strategy is reaching down to a lower level of detail now. The purpose, values, goals and priorities launched at the AGM in April are being used by all parts of the RSGB, staff and volunteers, to help shape our activities for the next five years. There are just 11 full-time and 3 […]
Newsreader G4NZQ retires after 23 years
Phillip Brooks, G4NZQ has been looking after the GB2RS news service in Norwich since 20 November 1994, which makes it almost 23 years of newsreading. Together with support from the local stand-in news readers, he has provided an unbroken service over that period. Phillip has decided it is time to retire, although the others in […]
No GB2RS from Germany next week
On Sunday, 16 July 2017 there will be no news broadcast on 40m from Germany because both newsreaders are attending Ham Radio show at Friedrichshafen, Germany. They will resume reading the following Sunday, the 23rd.
YOTA handover at Friedrichshafen
Some members of the UK YOTA team will be at the Friedrichshafen Ham Radio exhibition, which takes place on 14 to 17 July 2017. They will be there to receive the YOTA key and official YOTA flag from last year’s hosts. If you are attending, please make your way to the RSGB stand on Saturday […]
