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Special Event News – 7 May 2017
Burton Amateur Radio Club will be taking part in Mills on the Air on the 13th and 14th from Claymills Pumping Station, operating as GB3NFC on 40m, 20m and 2m FM and SSB. Bangor District ARS will take part in Mills on the Air from Ballycopland Windmill, Millisle BT22 2DS on the 13th from 9am […]
Contest News – 7 May 2017
Ending its 24 hour run at 1200UTC today, the 6th, the ARI International DX contest uses phone and RTTY on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands. The exchange is signal report and serial number, with Italian stations also giving their Province code. The UK Microwave Group low band contests runs from 0800 to 1400UTC today, the […]
Propagation News – 7 May 2017
Last week saw the solar flux index in the mid-70s with only one sunspot group visible, slap bang in the middle of the disk. Conditions were more settled geomagnetically with the K index actually resting at zero at times on Wednesday and Thursday. This was due to a lack of coronal hole activity, although one […]
Ofcom licensing portal downtime
The Ofcom licensing portal will be down for maintenance from 18.00 on Friday, 5 May until 21.00 Sunday, 7 May.
Report on progress of the 2015 Presidential Review of contesting
RSGB President, Nick Henwood G3RWF, gave a short report at the AGM in April, which can be listened to via the audio links on the AGM 2017 page. The fuller written report and recommendations was prepared for the Board.
AGM changes in RSGB Board
At the RSGB AGM held last Saturday, the 22nd, in Cardiff, Sara McGarvey, 2I0SSW, was elected to the RSGB Board of Directors. Steve Hartley, G0FUW, stood down as Chairman but has been co-opted by the Board to oversee YOTA 2017 and the introduction of the RSGB’s new strategy, which was launched at the AGM. Graham […]
