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DX News – 28 June 2015
G8OFQ will be active stroke HC8 from the Galapagos Islands, SA-004, from 1 July to 30 September. Operations will be on the 160 to 6m bands. QSL via HA3JB. ON8VP, ON6QQ and ON5TQ will be operating as OJ0V from Market Reef from 28 June to 4 July. Activity will be on the 40 to 10m […]
Contest News – 28 June 2015
The 50MHz CW contest takes place Sunday, 28 June, from 09.00 to 12.00UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The 4th 70MHz Cumulative contest runs from 14.00 to 16.00 Sunday, 28 June. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Finally for Sunday, the UK Microwave Group contest […]
Propagation News – 28 June 2015
What a week it has been in terms of solar activity and its effects on HF propagation. We’ve had everything thrown at us. On Sunday we started with a series of strong M-class X-ray flares. One of these resulted in a full halo coronal mass ejection. The halo effect observed means the CME was coming […]
Tony Howard, G1TKX, 17 June 2015
b Sheffield, South Yorkshire 1957 – d Sheffield, South Yorkshire 17 June 2015, aged 58 Tony Howard was born in Sheffield and spent his entire life in the ‘Steel City’ otherwise, often referred to as ‘the biggest village in England’, a reference to the open, friendly people of the city. After attending primary and secondary […]
Richard Brett-Knowles, G3AAT, March 2015
Richard Brett-Knowles, G3AAT (B-K to his many friends) died in early March at the age of 91. Born in 1924, he was educated at Wellington School, where his abilities were recognised and, in those happy days before official obsession with health and safety prevented pupils from having any practical hands-on experience of technology at school, […]
Bill Pasternack, WA6ITF, 11 June 2015
A well-known voice in the Amateur Radio news media has gone silent. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, of Santa Clarita, California, died June 11 following a period of ill health. He was 73. Pasternak was co-founder (with Jim Hendershot, WA6VQP) ofAmateur Radio Newsline™ (formerly The Westlink Report) ham radio news webcast and a frequent presence at Amateur […]
