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Contest News – 8 July 2018
The RSGB VHF National Field Day is in progress. Running from 1400UTC on Saturday to 1400UTC on Sunday, all modes can be used on all bands between 50MHz and 1.3GHz. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Today also sees the 3rd 2m Backpackers contest, running from 1100UTC to 1500UTC, overlapping the last […]
Propagation News – 8 July 2018
The 2018 Baker Island DXpedition has now concluded. As we said last week, the path from the UK to the Pacific is a difficult one, but plenty of UK amateurs did manage to make a contact with KH7Z. Twenty and seventeen metres did indeed prove to be the best bands, but on the whole it […]
GB2RS News Script for 1 July 2018
Please click the link below to download this week’s news script GB2RS News Script for 1 July 2018
Receive SSTV from the ISS
This weekend ARISS Russia is running a special slow-scan television event from the International Space Station. Unfortunately we learned the details too late to include in last week’s bulletin. The transmissions started around 0900UTC on Friday and continue until around 1830UTC, Sunday, 1 July 2018. The cosmonauts will be sending images commemorating the various satellites […]
SAQ transmitting on Sunday
This Sunday is Alexanderson Day, the day when Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden fires up its Alexanderson alternator to transmit as SAQ on 17.2kHz VLF. For those who don’t know the story, this is the last surviving high frequency alternator CW transmitter from the pre-electronic transmitter era. Built in the early 1920s, it was used […]
IARU welcomes new member
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has welcomed the St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Amateur Radio Society as its newest member-society, to represent St Kitts and Nevis. The Society does not claim to represent Anguilla, which is already represented in the IARU by the Anguilla Amateur Radio Society; the inclusion of Anguilla in their name dates back to […]
