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Contest News – 11 June 2017
The IARU ATV contest ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC on Sunday, the 11th. Using the 432MHz and up bands the exchange is picture grade, four digit code, serial number and locator. The REF DDFM 6m contest ends its 24 hour run at 1600UTC on Sunday, the 11th. Using SSB, CW and FM on […]
Propagation News – 11 June 2017
Last weekend’s National Field Day saw only average HF propagation, with a geomagnetic disturbance on the Saturday evening sending the K-index to four. Nevertheless, there was DX to be had, even if most of it was on 20 metres. G4ARN/P in Norfolk reported working Brazil on 20m using five watts, but the majority of their […]
VHF Contesting Update
A briefing note from the UKAC workshop on 3 June is now available (3-page/94KB PDF). It describes what was discussed and the workshop group’s unanimous proposals for the further development of these successful contests.
RadCom June 2017, Vol. 93, No. 6
THIS EDITION IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE ONLINE We apologise for any disappointment This edition is currently being converted to our HTML5 online viewer, which will bring enhanced readability, download speed and picture quality C6APY DXpedition—testing WSPRlite in the field. News and Reports AGM presentations 22 Around Your Region – Club events calendar 83 Around Your Region […]
Aeronautical Mobile circumnavigation begins
On the 1st of June Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN left from Miami to recreate Amelia Earhart’s around-the-world flight on its 80th anniversary. He will be using HF SSB and automatic link establishment, ALE, from his single-engine plane named Spirit. He is communicating /AM while flying. The two month flight will follow Earhart’s historic route to circumnavigate […]
WSPR reports Canadian North West Passage
An amateur radio WSPR, or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network, beacon has been installed and activated on board the vessel Canada C3. The ship departed Toronto, Ontario, on the 1st of June on a 150-day expedition to Victoria, British Columbia, via the Northwest Passage as part of the Canadian Sesquicentennial celebration. This provides an opportunity […]
