Keeping the spectrum clean

The radio communications consultancy LS telcom held its 24th annual spectrum summit on 3 July 2019 and invited the IARU to participate in a panel session, Keeping the Spectrum Clean. The IARU was represented by Barry Lewis, G4SJH, who is the RSGB Microwave Manager. He summarised the impact of the increase in man-made noise observed […]

Friday, 19th July 2019

G5RP Trophy nominations sought

The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly-licensed; it is open to any one who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing. If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend some one to be […]

Ian White, GM3SEK to speak at the RSGB Convention

The RSGB 2019 Convention takes place in Milton Keynes from 11 to 13 October 2019. Ian White, GM3SEK will present Clean Up Your Shack—Revisited. This is sure to be a popular talk, as there have been around 7,000 views on the RSGB YouTube channel of Ian’s 2015 talk. To book weekend packages or day tickets […]

New video: ‘Overview of the Icom IC-9700 SDR VHF/UHF Transceiver’

Following on from our initial ‘Introduction to the IC-9700 VHF/UHF/1200 MHz Base Station SDR Transceiver’ video, we have put together a more in-depth, video called ‘Overview of the Icom IC-9700 SDR VHF/UHF Transceiver’

Cuban FT8 user CO8LY records more than 60000 contacts

Cuban radio amateur Eduardo Somoano CO8LY has made more than 60000, yes, sixty thousand FT8 contacts, and requested applications for many awards and diplomas using the log of his FT8 contacts

2m band robbery high-visibility vest

Veron have designed a formidable vest that can be put on virtually

The Space Weather Woman

A Cycle 25 Storm Launch and Aurora Highlights - The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

New URL for RSGB Trainer information

The RSGB provides a resources page aimed at those involved in training new radio amateurs

Radio ham in Golden Book of World Records

The New Indian Express reports that radio amateur Sanil Deep VU3SIO has been Controller of the BC-DX Net, aimed at shortwave broadcast station dxers, since 1990. The net meets every Sunday on 7085 kHz

Call for nominations for the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame

Radio Amateurs of Canada recognizes deserving Amateurs by appointments to the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. A Call for Nominations is issued annually in the July/August issue of The Canadian Amateur magazine

DX News from the ARRL

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands