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GB2RS Main News for Sunday 10th March 2019
The news headlines:
* Amateur Radio Development Leader required
* Contact Cadets on 60m in Exercise Blue Ham
* DXCC Most Wanted list updated
The RSGB is looking to recruit to a voluntary leadership position in
the newly-formed Amateur Radio Development Committee. The post holder
will play a key role in contributing towards meeting strategic
priorities under Strategy 2022, especially Growth, Participation and
Diversity. As well as leading on existing elements within the
committee, the Chair will develop two new areas that will include the
recruitment of project leads. Full details can be found at
www.rsgb.org/volunteers
Next weekend, the 16th and 17th of March, Army, Navy and Air Cadet
units in the UK will be carrying out Exercise Blue Ham 19. Operating
on the 5MHz shared band, the expected period of operation will be
from 8am to 5pm both days. QSO exchange details can be found at
https://alphacharlie.org.uk/exercise-blue-ham Amateur operators may
claim a certificate if they contact 10 or more stations over the
weekend and submit a copy of their log sheet.
The DXCC Most Wanted entities list has been updated on Club Log. It
contains 340 entities. The top five most wanted are P5 North Korea,
3Y/B Bouvet Island, FT5/W Crozet Island, BS7H Scarborough Reef and
CE0X San Felix Islands. Scarborough Reef and San Felix Islands
switched places in the 4th to 5th position. The complete DXCC Most
Wanted entities list is available at
https://secure.clublog.org/mostwanted.php
A note for your diary next. Voting opens for the RSGB 2019 AGM on the
13th of March. Members will find the Resolutions and other details in
the April issue of RadCom and, after the 13th of March, on the RSGB
website at www.rsgb.org/agm2019. The 2019 RSGB AGM takes place in
Birmingham on Saturday the 27th of April.
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station US team will
offer two very unusual items in its first-ever auction. JVC Kenwood
generously gave a brand new TS-890S, signed by astronauts, and the
ARRL donated the limited edition 2019 ARRL Handbook for Radio
Communications box set, again signed by astronauts. Bidding starts on
the 8th of April at 1200UTC and ends on the 14th of April at 2200UTC.
More auction details will be posted at www.ariss.org
Finally, it is with great sadness that we learned this week of the
death of Jim Stevenson, G0EJQ. He was RSGB Region 13 Representative.
He passed away unexpectedly on Monday the 4th of March. An incredibly
enthusiastic amateur and an unique, irrepressible character, Jim will
be missed by a large number of people both inside and beyond his
Region. An obituary for Jim appears on page 95 of the April RadCom,
which will begin arriving on Wednesday this week.
And now for the details of rallies and events for the coming week
Today, the 10th of March, the Grantham ARC Radio and Electronics
Rally takes place at Grantham West Community Centre, Trent Road,
Grantham, Lincs NG31 7XW. Doors are open from 9.30am to 3pm and
admittance is GBP 3. There will be trade stands, RSGB bookstall and
Special Interest Groups. Catering is available on site. Contact Kevin
Burton, G6SSN, 07793 142 483.
Cardiff University Amateur Radio Club has gained a callsign, GW4CDF,
in time for the Microwave Roundtable event on the 16th of March. Held
at the Cardiff University Engineering Department, Newport Road,
Cardiff, you can find more details of the Roundtable at
www.cardiffars.org.uk/events/2019/roundtable/
Next Saturday, the 16th, the Laugharne Rally will take place at
Laugharne Millennium Memorial Hall, Clifton Street, Laugharne, Wales
SA33 4QG. Doors open at 10am. Details from Matthew on 0739 882 5024.
Next Sunday, the 17th, the 34th Wythall Radio Club Hamfest takes
place at the Club HQ, Wythall House, Silver Street, Wythall B47 6LZ.
Doors open at 9.45am, with disabled visitors gaining access at
9.30am. There is free on-site parking and admission is GBP 4. There
are four halls of traders including a Bring & Buy and a club stand. A
selection of refreshments will be available all day and bar
facilities within Wythall House open from midday. Contact Ian Reeve,
M0IDR on 01386 839 655.
To get your event into RadCom, onto GB2RS and on the RSGB website,
please send details as early as possible to radcom<at>rsgb.org.uk –
we need to know about four months in advance for RadCom.
And now the DX news from 425 DX News and other sources
Richard, G3RWL will be active as 8P6DR from Barbados, IOTA reference
NA-021, between the 13th of March and the 17th of April. He will
operate CW and RTTY on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL via Club Log's OQRS,
Logbook of The World or via his home callsign, either direct or via
the bureau.
Hans-Martin, DK2HM will be on the air as E51HMK from Rarotonga,
OC-013, in the South Cook Islands between the 14th and the 22nd of
March. He will operate SSB and FT8 on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL via
Club Log's OQRS, Logbook of The World, eQSL, or via his home
callsign, direct or bureau.
Jacek, SP5APW will be active as XV9JK from Thu Island, AS-157, in
Vietnam between the 10th and the 16th of March. He will operate SSB
mainly on the 17 and 20m bands; in case of bad propagation, he will
operate FT8 on 40 and 30 metres. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via his
home callsign.
Dagmar, DM7PQ and Rainer, DL1AUZ will be active holiday style as
E51NPQ and E51AUZ respectively from Rarotonga, OC-013, in the South
Cooks until the 11th of March, from Manihiki, OC-014, in the North
Cooks on the 13th to the 25th of March, and from Aitutaki, OC-083, in
the South Cooks from the 27th to the 31st of March. They will operate
CW only.
Andy, DK5ON will be active as PJ2/DK5ON from Curacao, SA-099, between
the 14th and the 30th of March. He will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8
on the 80 to 6m bands. QSL via Logbook of The World, Club Log's OQRS,
or via his home call either direct or bureau.
Now the special event news
As part of British Science Week, Frodsham C of E school will be
operating GB2OVE on the 12th and 13th of March, from 12noon to 3pm on
both days. If you hear the young people on the air, please give them
a call.
The James Clerk Maxwell Radio Society will be operating from Parton
Kirk, Parton Village, near Castle Douglas, DG7 4NE over this weekend.
They will use the call GB2JCM and the activities are part of British
Science Week. Feel free to come along and join them, just bring your
licence with you.
Please send special event details to radcom<at>rsgb.org.uk, as early
as possible, for free publicity on GB2RS, in RadCom and online.
Remember that UK stations with special event callsigns must be open
to the public, so our free publicity can help make your efforts more
widely known.
Now the contest news
The RSGB Commonwealth Contest ends its 24 hour run at 1000UTC today,
the 10th. It's CW only on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, with the exchange
signal report and serial number. HQ stations also send HQ.
Today, the 10th, the second 70MHz Cumulative Contest runs from 1000
to 1200UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial
number and locator.
The Worked All Britain 3.5MHz contest takes place today, the 10th of
March, from 1800 to 2200UTC. Entries need to be with the Contest
Manager by the 31st. The exchange will be RS plus serial number plus
WAB square. Full details are at www.worked-all-britain.org.uk
On Tuesday the 432MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 1955UTC,
using FM only. It is immediately followed by the all-mode 432MHz UK
Activity Contest from 2000 to 2230UTC. The exchange for both contests
is signal report, serial number and locator.
On Wednesday the 80m Club Championships CW leg runs from 2000 to
2130UTC. The exchange is signal report and serial number.
On Thursday the 50MHz Machine Generated Mode Activity Contest runs
from 1900 to 1955UTC. It is immediately followed by the all-mode
50MHz UK Activity Contest from 2000 to 2230UTC. The exchange for both
contests is signal report, serial number and locator.
Next weekend the BARTG HF RTTY Contest runs from 0200UTC on the 16th
to 0200UTC on the 18th of March. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands the
exchange is signal report, serial number and time.
Also next weekend is the Russian DX Contest. Running from 1200UTC on
the 16th to 1200UTC on the 17th, it uses CW and SSB only on the 1.8
to 28MHz bands. The exchange is signal report and serial number, with
Russian stations also sending their Oblast code.
Now the propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on
Friday the 8th of March
The Sun sprouted a new sunspot this week bringing the sunspot number
to 17 and the solar flux index to 73. The sunspot number represents
10 for a group and one for each of the sunspots in that group.
Geomagnetic conditions were more settled over the week, with the Kp
index hitting one and two. This was due to lack of coronal hole
activity. Looking at the extreme UV image taken by the Solar Dynamics
Observatory, or SDO, shows we can expect relatively calm conditions,
at least for the coming week.
NOAA still has a geomagnetic warning out until the tenth of March,
but it is hard to see why. We can expect the solar wind speed to
remain average over that time, but there are no Earth-facing coronal
holes to push the K index to four or higher.
Now that we are in March we can expect to see better HF conditions,
with good opportunities for North-South paths, such as the UK to
South Africa and UK to South America. Look for openings on 17 and
perhaps even 15m, which you might normally expect to be closed at
this time of year.
The charts at Propquest show that 20m is open most days, with
occasional openings on 17m. But do look out for fleeting openings on
15m, especially around lunchtime.
And finally, good luck in the Commonwealth Contest this weekend,
which often throws up excellent opportunities to work some DX.
And now the VHF and up propagation news.
It's shaping up to be a quiet propagation week, driven by low
pressure, which will be located to the north and east of the British
Isles. This implies a colder, north westerly weather pattern. At this
time of the year it's hard to get too excited about Tropo in such
disturbed weather conditions.
We're not far away from the traditional season of April showers, with
a chance of some heavy ones, perhaps with hail and thunder, which may
provide an opportunity to try some rain scatter on the GHz bands. But
in this thundery weather it's worth considering whether to disconnect
your antennas before going off to work.
High pressure is displaced well to the south-west of the UK, so if
there are any Tropo prospects, they'll be marginal and confined to
the south-west and into western France and Biscay.
There is a small meteor shower, the Gamma Normids on Thursday, but in
general we'll have to rely on random meteors around dawn for the best
chance of meteor scatter DX.
It's a good week for EME with rising Moon declination peaking on
Friday, and falling losses as we approach perigee a week on Tuesday.
Of course, when all other propagation modes fail there are always the
satellites. As well as the well-established low earth orbit
satellites, we now have a geostationary transponder, Oscar-100
available for use 24/7. Google Goonhilly Web SDR to find the online
receiver, and have a listen before you commit your efforts to
operating via this new one.
And that's all from the propagation team this week.
And that's the end of the main news for this week prepared by the
Radio Society of Great Britain. Items for inclusion in subsequent
bulletins can be emailed to radcom<at>rsgb.org.uk to arrive by
10:00 on the Thursday before transmission.
Our thanks to Andy G4TNU for providing this RSGB feed.
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