News
DX News – 12 February 2017
Pista, HA5AO returns to Lesotho until 26 February. He will reactivate his 7P8EUDXF call sign that he aired last October. This is a spare time operation and QSLs should go via OQRS to HA5AO. Michael, DF8AN will operate as CE0Y/DF8AN from Easter Island, IOTA reference SA-001, until 17 February. He will be on CW and […]
Special Events News – 12 February 2017
The 14 February marks the 95th anniversary of the start of the UK’s first ever regular, advertised broadcast radio station, 2MT, which came live from Writtle in Essex. A team from Chelmsford ARS will be making operating GB952MT from the 12th to the 14th to mark this occasion. Details are on QRZ.com. Until 19 February, […]
Contest News – 12 February 2017
The CQ WW WPX RTTY contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC on Sunday, the 12th. It takes place on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands. The exchange is just the serial number. The PACC contest ends its 24 hour runs at 1200UTC on Sunday, the 12th. Using CW and SSB on the 1.8 to […]
Propagation News – 12 February 2017
Last week, the hoped-for settled geomagnetic conditions materialised, but could have been better. After Monday, the K-index settled down to one or two for the rest of the week. HF conditions have been variable, rather than outstanding. There have been some 15 metre openings at times, but 20 and 17 metres have been more consistent. […]
“Have your say” review
As part of the Society’s drive to improve communications across the organisation, the Chairman of the Board is going to investigate suggestions that the RSGB is not responding in a timely manner to comments received via Have Your Say. He will report his findings to the Board by 17 March.
VHF Contesting
There is a current external online petition about RSGB VHF/UHF/SHF contesting. It is mainly about dissatisfaction with an important rule change and how it was introduced. The change sought to address the 2015 Review recommendations about geographical weightings and scoring. The new scoring system is on a one-year trial with review. When there is a […]
