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Special Events News – 4 October 2015
Houghton-le-Spring ARC is running GB6HF to celebrate Houghton Feast 2015 during the evening of Tuesday, 6 October. The station will be located at the Dubmire Royal British Legion Club, Fence Houses.
DX News – 4 October 2015
N7QT and N7BX will operate from Manihiki Island, OC-014, in the North Cook Islands until 27 October. The callsign will be E51MQT and activity will be on all bands 10m to 160m. QSLs go via N7BX. Ulrich, DL2AH will be on the air as NH0/DL2AH from Rota Island, OC-086, in the Mariana Islands until 16 […]
Contest News – 4 October 2015
There are coinciding VHF and microwave events this weekend. Running for 24 hours and ending at 1400UTC today, the 4th, the 432MHz-248GHz Contest is where the serious microwavers will be found. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The IARU event also runs at exactly the same time with the same frequency bands […]
Propagation News – 4 October 2015
Better autumnal HF conditions continued this week with more settled geomagnetic conditions and a healthy solar flux index that reached 131 on Thursday. However, the solar proton flux increased slightly that day, which may have caused some problems. During such an event, the Earth can be showered with highly-energetic solar particles. When these protons arrive […]
The Future of RAYNET
The RSGB and the Radio Amateurs Emergency Network (RAEN) formed a Joint Working Group (JWG) in 2014 to “facilitate a closer working relationship between the two organisations and to explore ways in which RAYNET could become a single unified body”. As part of that process the JWG asked all RAYNET members to voice their thoughts […]
Arie Dogterom, PA0EZ, 24 September 2015
It is with great sadness to inform you that Arie Dogterom, PA0EZ, passed away on 24 September 2015 at the age of 78. Arie has been Chairman of C5 for a great many years. Based upon his great work for the VERON he was nominated Member of Honour of the VERON in 1998. Remy F […]
