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DX News – 10 June 2018
MD/ON6KX is on the air from the Isle of Man, IOTA reference EU-116, marking the TT Races. He will also be activating Snaefell, GD-001. See QRZ.com for more information. Pasi, OH3WS will be active as OJ0W from Market Reef, EU-053, until the 16th He will operate on HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL via his […]
Special Events News – 10 June 2018
Next weekend sees Museums on the Air, with somewhere in the region of 50 stations active in the UK and around the world. A list of registered stations can be found at www.radio-amateur-events.org/IMW/stations.htm and examples include GB4GLM from Gloucester Life Museum, GB2MOF from the Museum of Flight, East Fortune, GB3PIT at the Lancashire mining Museum […]
Contest News – 10 June 2018
The IARU ATV contest ends its run at 1800 this Sunday. Using all forms of TV on all bands above 400MHz, the exchange is P-grade, serial number, your chosen four digit on-screen code, and your locator. Participation in this one can be relatively quiet so if you have any ATV gear it’s well worth digging […]
Propagation News – 10 June 2018
Despite poor geomagnetic conditions, HF propagation for last weekend’s National Field Day was actually better than we forecast. Norfolk Amateur Radio Club even managed to contact New Zealand via the F layer on 40 metres. NFD was no doubt helped by sporadic E, which gave good propagation to Europe on most bands. Speaking of sporadic […]
Threat to Belgian 70cm allocation
Amateurs in Belgium are facing severe restrictions on their 70cm band operations even though, unlike in the UK, it is a Primary allocation for amateurs. The regulator is proposing to reduce amateur privileges in the middle of the band to just a few milliwatts, and to ban certain modes outright. These may include digital and […]
Schoolboy makes silicon chips at home
We normally think of silicon chip fabrication as being a cutting-edge practice, requiring huge investments and hundreds of people. However, we learned recently of Sam Zeloof, a 17-year-old high school student in the USA, who is making his own chips in his garage. Using ingenuity and equipment purchased via eBay, including things like an electron […]
