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SOS Radio Week to go ahead
SOS Radio Week will go ahead, with all participants able to operate from home using either a special event call sign issued by Ofcom, a club call sign, or an individual’s own personal call sign. The event starts at 0000UTC on 1 May 2020 and concludes at 2359UTC on the 31 May 2020. During that […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
In many areas of the UK, all the HF amateur bands up to and including 20m are being blighted by interference from VDSL. This is the most widespread means of providing residential broadband internet services in the UK. Ofcom, which is responsible for investigating radio interference, says that it receives, on average, only six complaints […]
GB2RS News Script for 19 April 2020
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Special Events News – 19 April 2020
Peter, G4XEX will be active as GB4SAH for Stay At Home until the 30 April to help amateurs pass the time during the lockdown. Euan, MM0VIK is active as GB1COR from his home QTH in the Shetland Islands, EU-012, until the end of April in recognition and support for the health professionals and essential key […]
Contest News – 19 April 2020
Due to social distancing and movement precautions around the world, most contest organisers are not accepting entries from multi-operator groups or from portable stations. Check the rules before taking part The First Machine Generated Modes contest ends its 24 hour run at 1400UTC this Sunday, the 19th. Using the 50 and 144MHz bands, the exchange […]
Propagation News – 19 April 2020
Last week we said that we expected the Kp index to rise over the weekend due to incoming solar particles from an Earth-facing coronal hole. But we did warn that it was impossible to tell how severe it might be. In the end it didn’t amount to much, as although the stream was travelling at […]
