News
RSGB mounts Christmas charity auction
The RSGB is running a charity auction as part of its ‘Get on the air for Christmas’ campaign with the NHS. Roy Bailey, G0VFS won the Lockdown Category in the RSGB’s annual Construction Competition and has donated his beautifully-engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key to raise money for NHS Charities Together. The auction will run from […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
Listen out for Youngsters On The Air stations around the world. GB20YOTA will be operating throughout December. G8IXK will operate the station today, the 6th; then M0WJE on Monday. Tuesday sees the callsign under G4DJX’s guidance with M0NCG taking over on Wednesday. M0MUX will be operating on Friday and then M0SDV takes over for the […]
Special Events News – 6 December 2020
During the month of December, Welland Valley Amateur Radio Society will be running special callsigns GB1XMS, GB2XMS, GB5XMS and GB9XMS from the shacks of various members to celebrate Christmas and say farewell to 2020. QSL via eQSL and Logbook of The World. Celebrating the Christmas holiday season, the Market Reef DX Association will be active […]
DX News – 6 December 2020
Lee, DS4NMJ was expected to reach the Jang Bogo Station in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica around the 4th of December, and then King George Island, South Shetland, by mid-January 2021. Lee will be operating as DT8A through to the end of the year. QSL via DS5TOS. The log will be uploaded to Logbook of The […]
Contest News – 6 December 2020
Please remember to check before the contest for any new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your national and local government’s advice. As per tradition, December is a quiet month for contests, with no RSGB HF events at all. This weekend, the ARRL […]
Propagation News – 6 December 2020
What a great week it was for HF propagation. We started it off with the CQ Worldwide CW HF contest, which saw some DX openings up to 28MHz and solid DX being worked on 21MHz. The only downside was an M-class solar flare, which was launched off the Sun on Sunday. It was a big […]
