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Special Events News – 17 May 2015

| May 15, 2015

Mark, G3ZRR has organised GB50LBC to celebrate the London Borough of Croydon’s 50th birthday. Starting from about 16 May, he intends to operate the station at venues throughout the borough, during the Council’s 50th anniversary. The idea is to include Croydon’s parks, educational establishments, Scout, guide, military and Cadet Force installations. On the 18th of […]

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DX News – 17 May 2015

| May 15, 2015

Iain, G4SGX will operate holiday style as FG/G4SGX from Guadeloupe until 19 May. He will use dipoles on an EU-facing beach on 40, 30, 20 and 15m CW. QSL via his home callsign and Logbook of The World. Three Japanese operators will be on Niue Island, OC-040, until 25 May. Look for the callsigns E6ZS, […]

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Contest News – 17 May 2015

| May 15, 2015

The 144MHz May Contest ends its 24 hours of operation at 1400UTC today, the 17th. This contest is part of the VHF Championship series. With 6- and 24-hour sections for single-op fixed and single-op open stations, plus an open section for multi-op stations, there are convenient categories for everyone. The exchange is signal report, serial […]

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Propagation News – 17 May 2015

| May 15, 2015

It looks like we got the HF forecast for last week about right. The Kp index stormed up to six on Wednesday 6th, remaining at four for the whole day. This was due to an enhanced solar wind stream above 700 km/s and a southward-facing Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field. This negative Bz […]

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RSGB President meets Patron

| May 13, 2015
RSGB President meets Patron

At the Buckingham Palace Garden Party yesterday, Dr John Gould, G3WKL, President and Graham Coomber, G0NBI, General Manager, were delighted to represent the Society and have the opportunity of speaking with our patron HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT .

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RSGB website maintenance

| May 8, 2015

Owing to essential maintenance some users may experience intermittent connectivity to the RSGB Shop and the Radioclubs.net websites between 19.00 and 22.00 on 8 May 2015. We apologize in advance for any issues arising from this work, which is replacement of essential hardware.

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