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DX News – 17 December 2017
John, N9MDH will be in Togo as 5V7JE until the end of May. Main activity will be digimodes on the WARC bands. Volker, DJ8VW will be active as 5P8VW from Romo Island, IOTA reference EU-125, until 23 December. He will operate SSB, CW and FT8 on the 160 to 6m bands. QSLs are preferred via […]
Special Event News – 17 December 2017
The main special event station news is GB17YOTA, for Youngsters on the Air month. This call sign will be aired by clubs up and down the country during the month of December. This Sunday, the 17th, will see Durham and District ARS operating the call sign. This is followed from the 20th to the 22nd […]
Contest News – 17 December 2017
The UK Six Metre Group’s Winter Marathon continues. There are no set operating times, just work as many locator squares as you can. You can upload your log as many times as you like, while you build your score. On Tuesday the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes the […]
Propagation News – 17 December 2017
Last week, the solar flux index nudged into the low 70s, although the Sun remained spotless. The enhanced solar wind from a coronal hole pushed the K-index to four, and it remained around three for long periods during the week. So these were far from ideal conditions for F2 layer DX on the higher bands, […]
Croatia 5MHz-plus Top Band extensions
On 24 November 2017, the Croatian Regulatory Authority published changes to the rules on amateur radio communications in the Republic of Croatia. According to these changes, Croatian radio amateurs now have access to the WRC-15 60m amateur secondary allocation of 5351.5 to 5366.5kHz with 15W EIRP. They now also have access to the 160m band […]
RSGB Raspberry Pi lecture online
The RSGB has released the video of the RSGB Convention 2017 Raspberry Pi lecture by Mike Richards, G4WNC. Mike’s presentation includes a range of practical Pi projects to encourage people to get their Raspberry Pi out of the drawer and into use. These uses include a data modes terminal using FLDIGI and WSJT-X, a DVB-T […]
