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Special Events News – 13 September 2015
The Enigma Event takes place until 25 September to commemorate its importance in the history of communications and encryption. There is an award for this activity and all the information on the schedule and those taking part can be found at www.enigma-reloaded.it. On the weekend of 19 and 20 September, the North Norfolk Amateur Radio […]
DX News – 13 September 2015
A group of UK operators will be activating Niue island as E6GG from 16 to 29 September. Don, G3BJ, Chris, G3SVL, Nigel, G3TXF, David, G3WGN, Mike, G3WPH and Hilary, G4JKS will be using four Elecraft stations with linear amplifiers on 160-10 metres, 24/7, from a cliff-edge location on the North of Niue. They will pay […]
Contest News – 13 September 2015
The second leg of the WAE DX Contest takes place for 48 hours over this weekend ending at 2359UTC today. Europe works non-Europe only. Using SSB on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The UK Microwave Group is holding two cumulative contests this month. The first is Sunday, […]
Propagation News – 13 September 2015
This week the HF bands were once again plagued by the effects of the high-speed solar wind as a result of ongoing coronal holes on the sun. The Kp-index hit six for more than 15 hours on Tuesday as incoming plasma caused a major geomagnetic storm. Listeners could be forgiven for thinking their receivers had […]
IMPORTANT – Construction Competition
An issue with our security software temporarily interrupted the delivery of some entries, but any entries suspended in the system have now been delivered and the issue has been resolved. If you have so far not received any confirmation of receipt of your entry from the RSGB General Manager’s Office, please either resubmit your entry […]
Clive Ward, G1EUC, 4 September 2015
Clive Ward, G1EUC suddenly became a silent key on Friday 4 September 2015. I learnt of his passing on the same night from his neighbour, barely two hours after speaking to him on the phone (and not long after he had help start up a packed 32nd Foundation course and enjoyed seeing his TX Factor […]
