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DX News – 12 July 2015
EA1IQC is now active as a fixed and permanent station in Arosa Island, EU-080. See QRZ.com for details. S79HN will operate from Praslin Insland, in the Seychelles, AF-024, from 16 to 20 July. They will operate CW, RTTY and SSB on the 40 to 6m bands. QSL via JJ2VLY, direct or via the bureau, and […]
Contest News – 12 July 2015
Next Saturday and Sunday the IARU HF Championship takes place from 1200 to 1200UTC. SSB and CW can be used on all the contest bands from 1.8 to 28MHz. The exchange is RS or RST plus your ITU zone, which is 27 for the United Kingdom. The UK Six Metre Group’s Summer Marathon continues throughout […]
Propagation News – 12 July 2015
The sun was remarkably well-behaved during the first half of the week with few solar flares of note. The Kp index remained around one or two, apart from two excursions to three on the 7th and 9th. The solar flux index was, as predicted, around 125-135 all week. Conditions will remain very similar next week […]
Duncan Aird, G3MFE, 25 February 2015
My father Duncan Aird, G3MFE, sadly passed away on 25th February 2015. Changmee Aird
Repeater insurance
There are one or two repeater keepers who insured last year who have yet to renew for this year. Emails have been sent to the last known address but it is possible that there has been a change of keeper within the last year. If that is the case please check with your new keeper […]
UK Spectrum Strategy
In March 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron announced the UK Spectrum Strategy The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has subsequently given significant prominence to the industry-led UK Spectrum Policy Forum (UKSPF) which techUK is facilitating. The Forum has been established as a sounding board to Government and Ofcom on future approaches on […]
