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Special Events News – 6 September 2015
Orkney Wireless Museum’s radio station GB2OWM will be active as part of Orkney International Science Festival until 9 September. Sunday, the 6th, members of Brickfields ARS are operating GB4AUK from the grounds of Wolverton Manor on the Isle of Wight to support Age UK. Contacts will earn a point for The Isle of Wight County […]
DX News – 6 September 2015
Chas, NK8O is on the air as 5H3DX from Zinga in Tanzania until 28 September. Activity will be mainly on CW on all bands 20m to 6m running 100W to a Hexbeam. QSL manager is EA7FTR. Robin, ZL4IG will operate as 5W0RM from Samoa until 13 September. It will be holiday style operation using QRP […]
Contest News – 6 September 2015
The 144MHz Trophy Contest ends its 24 hours run at 1400UTC on Sunday, the 6th. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Overlapping the last three hours of that contest and then continuing for one hour on its own, the fifth and final 144MHz Backpacker contest. In the Backpackers contest there are two […]
Propagation News – 6 September 2015
This week brought a much-needed break from the effects of the virtually continuous coronal holes on the sun. This saw the Kp-index come down to a more reasonable one or two most of the time, with a corresponding improvement in HF conditions. As we are now in September we should see a bigger improvement as […]
Tim Peake and ARISS – get involved
Later this year, astronaut Tim Peake will join the International Space Station for six months. During his time in orbit he will have contact with up to 10 schools via amateur radio. These schools have been chosen by the European Space Agency and the RSGB will be working closely with them, and their local clubs, […]
Book updates available for exam changes
It is now just one month to 1 October when the new UK Licence rules will be examined. The RSGB has published updates to the Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced training books and they are now available in the Books Extra section of the RSGB website. The revised Exam Reference Data Booklets and sample exam papers […]
