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DX News – 30 July 2023
Today is the last chance to contact Giuseppe, IK5WWA who is active as IM0C from San Pietro Island, EU-165. He is QRV on the 40 to 2m bands. QSL via his home call. The IP1X team is active from Gallinara Island, EU-083, today, the 30 July. They are operating CW and SSB on the 80 […]
Contest News – 30 July 2023
The RSGB IOTA, or Islands On The Air, Contest will end at 1200UTC today, the 30 July, Using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number and IOTA reference. Today, the 30 July, the UK Microwave Group 5.7 and 10GHz Contest runs from […]
Propagation News – 30 July 2023
It was a mixed bag last week with periods of settled conditions, but two periods when the Kp index was above four. These unsettled geomagnetic conditions impacted HF, subduing signals and generally not helping at all. The cause was a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that passed Earth late on Tuesday 25 July. This triggered […]
RadCom Plus & RadCom Basics – new editions
We are pleased to announce that new editions of RadCom Plus and RadCom Basics were released today RadCom Plus, Vol. 8, No. 1 RadCom Plus is the RSGB’s digital technical supplement and RSGB members can read it in HTML5 flipbook, PDF and EPUB formats. This issue includes an article on a compact broadband active antenna […]
Paul Holman, 2E0PKH – 26 June 2023
Paul became interested in electronics and radios as a youngster when his father made him a crystal radio set, but living in Leigh-on-Sea in the 1960s, all it would pick up was the Pirate Radio stations in the Thames Estuary. Later, his father gave him an old MW/SW/LW valve radio with a long wire antenna […]
