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Special Events News – 14 May 2023
VI2023HRH is the special callsign for members of the Wireless Institute of Australia to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. The callsign will be active until the 31 May. QSL via operator’s instructions. Look for special callsign AU40NRO which is active until the 30 June to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the National Institute […]
DX News – 14 May 2023
Harold, DF2WO will be active again as 9X2AW from Rwanda until tomorrow, the 15 May. He will operate using CW, SSB and digital modes on the HF and 6m bands. QSL via M0OXO’s OQRS page. Giorgio, IU5HWS will be active as 5UA99WS from Niamey, Niger until the 15 June. In his spare time, he will […]
Contest News – 14 May 2023
Today, the 14 May, the 70MHz CW Contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using CW on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. UK and Crown Dependency stations also send the first two letters of their postcode. Also today, the 14 May, the UK Microwave Group Millimetre-Wave Contest runs from […]
Propagation News – 14 May 2023
Our topsy-turvy world of HF propagation continued last week with geomagnetic storms, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, proton events and more. The good news is that the solar flux index was at 170 by Thursday, but the bad news was that we had two episodes where the Kp index hit five and there were at […]
Martin Richmond-Hardy, G8BHC – 5 May 2023
Martin Richmond-Hardy, G8BHC, died on 5 May 2023. Although most of you will not have worked Martin on the air he has contributed significantly to the Microwave cause. He was on the organising committee of EME2012 which was held in Cambridge; he was an original committee member of Martlesham Radio Society when G4BPO was winning […]
Ian Douglas, G7MFN – SK
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Ian Douglas, G7MFN became a Silent Key on Saturday 6 May. Ian had held both RSGB Regional and District Representative roles for many years, as well as being a GB2RS newsreader for the Northeast of England until recently when ill health forced him to […]
