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Rallies and Events News – 26 February 2017
The Rainham Rally takes place on Sunday, 26 February, at The Victory Academy, Magpie Hall Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 5JB. The new venue is larger with on-site parking for 250 cars and is located a couple of miles from the M2, Junction 3. A talk-in station, GB4RRR, will operate on 145.550MHz. Doors open from 10am […]
DX News – 26 February 2017
Elvira, IV3FSG will be in Burkina Faso until 13 March. She will sign XT2SE on CW, SSB and Digital. QSL Manager is IK3GES. Steve, M1ACB, Rob, M0VFC and John, M0IDA will be active on the FM and SSB amateur radio satellites from Berry Islands in the Bahamas from4 to 10 March and will be using […]
Special Events News – 26 February 2017
GB0SMD will be operating from the historic church of St Margaret of Antioch on Saturday, 4 March from 10am-4pm. Operation will be on HF using the 10 to 80m bands and a special QSL card will be produced. PA2017BP is on the air until 20 March to commemorate Lord Baden-Powell who founded the Scout Movement, […]
Contest News – 26 February 2017
With HF conditions now so poor, the CQWW 160m DX CW Contest that ends its 48 hour run at 2200UTC on Sunday, the 26th, might be even livelier than usual. Using SSB only, the exchange is signal report and CQ zone, with V stations sending state and VE stations sending their province. The REF (French) […]
Propagation News – 26 February 2017
Last week was a mixed bag as far as HF propagation is concerned. We had a solar flux index that got as high as 83, but this was tempered by unsettled geomagnetic conditions at times. The planetary K-index his four on Wednesday due to incoming plasma from a large solar coronal hole. And it varied […]
RSGB publishes Band Plans
The RSGB has published the 2017 Band Plans in RadCom and online. These consolidate earlier changes made in June 2016 and just add one important change with respect to UK usage of 5MHz. For the 60m band a new footnote has been added that states that internal UK-only contacts should now be conducted outside of […]
