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Contest News – 15 December 2019
The second Machine Generated Mode contest ends its 24 hours at 1400UTC this Sunday, the 15th. Using the 50 and 144MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and your four character locator. The ARRL 10m contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC this Sunday, the 15th. The exchange is signal report and serial number, […]
Propagation News – 15 December 2019
This week NOAA and NASA produced their latest forecast for the upcoming solar cycle. It predicts that we will be at solar minimum in April 2020, plus or minus six months. We should therefore begin to see a slow rise in new cycle sunspots towards the end of 2020. It says the next cycle is […]
GB2RS Christmas schedule
Because of the way Christmas and New Year falls there will be no GB2RS News script for Sunday, 29 December 2019. An abbreviated script will be prepared for Sunday, 5 January 2020 for those newsreaders who are able to read that day. Normal service resumes 12 January 2020. The RSGB would like to take the […]
YOTA Month news
YOTA Month is in full swing and thanks to local clubs, schools and Scout groups it has already introduced large numbers of youngsters to amateur radio. Hilderstone Radio Society used GB19YOTA to give 40 children aged seven to eight the chance to speak to Santa, and chat to him about what they would like for […]
Sweden to discontinue 2.3 and 3.4GHz permits
Amateurs in Sweden have been able to apply for temporary permits to allow operation in 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands. Their regulator, the PTS, has announced these temporary permits will no longer be issued from 1 January 2020. The reason is 5G. Swedish amateurs are presently permitted by their regulations to run a maximum of 100mW […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
Following a tutors’ Syllabus 2019 presentation on software defined radio earlier in the year, the RSGB has now published three short videos to help tutors teach this aspect of the new Syllabus. You will need your Membership Services login to access the presentations. They were filmed by members of the exam team to accompany the […]
