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DX News – 26 April 2015
Mark, M0TVV will be operating holiday portable from 2 to 14 May as EA5/M0TVV on the 10, 20 and 40 metre bands QRP portable. This will be his first time operating outside the United Kingdom under his new Full licence and he hopes to be able to be on the air as often as possible […]
Contest News – 26 April 2015
The 24 hours of the SP DX RTTY Contest ends today at 1200UTC Sunday, the 26th. Non-SP stations can work anyone and there are multiples for DXCC entities and continents worked. The exchange is signal report and serial number with SP stations sending their Province code. The BARTG Sprint 75 runs for four hours this […]
Propagation News – 26 April 2015
Last week we said that the NOAA prediction was for a solar flux index of up to 135, but we thought this was pessimistic. We were proved right as the SFI soared to 154 on the 21st. However conditions remained very unsettled with the Kp index hitting four at times and with many M-class solar […]
RSGB’s New Twitter Name
From today, the RSGB’s new Twitter name is @theRSGB. We’ll be tweeting regularly so follow us for amateur radio news, images, events and Member offers. Congratulations to Adam Hutchison MM0KFX who won our Twitter photo competition, and to the two runners-up, Vaughan Ravenscroft, M0VRR and Charles Wilmott, M0OXO! Adam’s photo is our new Twitter profile […]
Talk to Tim Peak in Space
This Friday is the deadline for schools to apply to talk to Astronaut Tim Peake whilst he is in orbit in the International Space Station. The UK Space Agency, with the assistance of ARISS, AMSAT-UK and the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), has a limited number of opportunities for schools across the whole of […]
FUNcube-1 fails but gets restarted
On the evening of 15 April, amateur satellite FUNcube-1 stopped transmitting. During a later pass over Europe, PA3WEG commanded it back to nominal mode with full automatic mode switching. A restart has now taken place so the satellite, also known as AO-73, is transmitting telemetry once again.
