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DX News – 25 December 2022
Lester, W8YCM will be active as W8YCM/6Y from Jamaica, NA-097, until January 2023. QSL directly via his home callsign. Andre, ON7YK will be active in Bijilo, Gambia until 24 February 2023. He is available as C5YK on the 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m bands using SSB, CW and digital modes. QSL via eQSL, Logbook […]
Contest News – 25 December 2022
The UK Six Metre Group Winter Marathon began on Thursday, 1 December. The contest will run until 31 January 2023. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report and locator. On Monday, 26 December, the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club Christmas Contest runs from 0830 to 1100UTC. Using CW and SSB on […]
Propagation News – 25 December 2022
The solar flux index stayed around 150 over the last week, bringing some choice DX to the higher HF bands. However, solar flares continue to plague us, bringing short-lived band fade-outs at times. These have all been moderate C and M-class flares. It is uncertain as to whether or not there will be an X-class […]
Three Convention presentations to be released
The RSGB is releasing three more 2022 Convention videos between Christmas and New Year to give radio amateurs some great content to watch during the festive season. Dr Colin Forsyth from UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory gives a fascinating presentation about Space Weather, whilst Prof Norman Billingham, M0EBI talks about plastics for the radio amateur. […]
RSGB NRC volunteer gains Intermediate licence
Before I passed my Foundation licence, I thought amateur radio was all about making contacts on air, rather than understanding and experimenting with wireless communications or getting computers to talk to computers over a radio link. I’m Phil. I was M7ANW, am now 2E0IFI and I’m just getting started in amateur radio. My QTH is […]
GB2RS News Script for 18 December 2022
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 18 December 2022 (20-page/470KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link
