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Hello all,
Due to continuing problems at GB7IPF/GB7CIP gateway, Andy/G4TNU has asked me
to kindly forward his news bulletins from my BBS.
So here goes....
GB2RS Main News for Sunday 20th April 2014
The news headlines:
* Longer opening hours for National Radio Centre
* Welcome to new RSGB Regional Managers
* STELAR grants available for educational computing
The RSGB is pleased to announce longer opening at the National Radio
Centre based at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes. The NRC is a
showcase for radio communications technology provides the opportunity
to get ‘up close and personal' with the history and technology of
radio communications. It is now open Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to
4pm, and will also be open on Bank Holiday Monday. Our thanks to the
team of volunteers who work so hard to keep the centre open and put
GB3RS on the air every week.
Following the AGM on 12 April, the RSGB would like to welcome the new
Regional Managers for Regions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11 and 12. They take up
their posts immediately and details of their names and contact
details can be found on the RSGB website at
http://rsgb.org/main/about-us/regional-managers/
The RSGB Board would also like to welcome John Gould, G3WKL who took
up his role as RSGB President and Steve Hartley, G0FUW who was
elected to the board at the AGM. A recording of proceedings at the
recent AGM will be available to download from the RSGB website in due
course.
The education and science charity STELAR has been active in promoting
radiocommunications in schools and colleges for over 20 years. The
phenomenal success of the Raspberry Pi computer has opened up new
opportunities and stimulated demand for educational projects linking
communications systems, via computers. STELAR is seeking to support
the very best of those ideas by making available grants to
educational groups, with projects designed to stimulate experiments
with radio linked computing. Educational groups can apply for funding
to develop a project of their choice, by submitting ideas for
consideration by 31 June. Groups should set out their aims and giving
as much detail as possible. Successful entries will be notified
during the Autumn term. Full details are on the STELAR website,
www.stelar.info/contact
The British Young Ladies Amateur Radio Association is celebrating its
35th anniversary on 29 April with the callsign GB35BYL. The station
will operate from Chapmanslade Village Hall, High Street,
Chapmanslade, Westbury, Wiltshire BA13 4AP on 40m, around 7.175MHz,
from 9am. Visitors and members are most welcome to visit the station
or call in to the QSO party on the air.
QSL cards have been sent out to those radio amateurs who participated
in the Juno Earth flyby experiment last October. The Juno team
confirmed that more than 1400 radio amateurs participated,
representing all seven continents.
The Amateur Radio Section of ORF, the Austrian Broadcasting
Corporation, and the Documentary Archives Radio Communications QSL
Collection will operate OE14M from 25 to 27 April. It is an official
International Marconi Day station and contacts made on 26 April are
valid for the IMD Award.
And now for the details of rallies and events for the coming week
On Wednesday, Crawley ARC is holding a used equipment sale in the
club house. Doors open at 7pm and the sale starts at 8pm. All members
and visitors are welcome.
The RADARS rally and surplus sale will take place today, 20 April, in
the Hugh Ripley Hall, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 2TP. Doors open at
10am and there will be a talk in station. Stall holders can have
access to the hall from 7.30am. Admission will be GBP 2. Details from
rally<at>ripon.org.uk
The Andover Radio Amateurs Club Spring Boot Sale will be held on 27
April in the Wildhern Village Hall, Andover. There will be trade
stands as well as a car boot area. Doors open at 10am. Details, by
e-mail, from Aracsec<at>hotmail.co.uk
The 30th Yeovil QRP Convention takes place on 27 April at Digby Hall,
Hound Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3AA, adjoining the central
shopping car park. Doors are open from 9.30am to 3pm with lectures,
trade stands and a Bring & Buy. Full details from Steve, G7AHP on
01803 666 407.
If you have any rally or event information you'd like to appear in
future editions of GB2RS News, in RadCom and on the RSGB website,
please e-mail details to GB2RS<at>rsgb.org.uk.
Now for the news of special events
GB0STG will be on the air on 23 April to celebrate St George's Day
from the church of St George and St Mary at Church Gresley,
Derbyshire. Activities include Morris Dancers, a village quiz, a
photographic exhibition and a display by the South Derbyshire Mining
Preservation Group, plus many other activities in and around the
church. GB0STG will be operating on the 40m band from around 10am to
7.30pm, plus 2m and other HF bands if conditions permit. For more
information please visit www.M0PHX.org.uk or see GB0STG on QRZ.com
Aldridge and Barr Beacon Amateur Radio Society, in the West Midlands,
is running a Special Event Station to commemorate St. George's Day on
23 April. Transmissions will run from 12 noon to 5pm using the
callsign GB8STG. They plan to operate on 7 and 14MHz as well as 2m.
QSL cards should be sent via the RSGB Bureau.
GB2SOH will be operated from the Isle of Scalpay, EU-010, on the
Outer Hebrides from 27 April to 9 May by Elaine, 2E1BVS, Val, G6MML,
John, G3WFK & Glenn, G6HFF. Operation will be on various HF bands,
using SSB and PSK31, subject to band conditions. It is hoped that
some portable SOTA and WAB will also take place during the two weeks
of activation under their own callsigns, weather permitting.
Marconi's wireless station on Brow Head near Crookhaven in West Cork
operated from 1901 to 1914. Cork Radio Club members are on the air
from the site on 26 April for International Marconi Day. EI5IMD will
operate two stations on CW and SSB, and possibly a third on
digimodes.
South Tyne Side Amateur Radio Society will be on the air from Souter
Light house Whitburn Sunderland from 25 to 27 April for International
Marconi weekend under the callsign GB2SJ. Operation will be on all HF
bands as well as 2 and 6m and 70cm. All are welcome to call in both
on the air and in person.
And now the DX news compiled from 425 DX News and other sources
Wolfgang, OE1MWW will operate from Mahe in the Seychelles, AF-024,
and he will use the call S79WK until 25 April. His activity will be
mainly in the evenings, local time.
Michael, DF8AN will be travelling in the Caribbean and will be active
from Montserrat, NA-103, as VP2MMN until 24 April, St Kitts, NA-104,
as V4/DF8AN on 24 and 25 April and from Nevis, also NA-103, as
V4/DF8AN on 25 to 29 April.
Members of Kilmarnock and Loudoun ARC will be visiting the Isle of
Canna from 21 to 25 April. Using the callsign MM0KLR, activity will
be from 160m to 2m using SSB, CW and digital modes. Canna is IOTA
reference EU-008. QSL via the bureau and EQSL via MM0KLR and direct
via MM0GHM.
Camb-Hams will be operating GS3PYE/P from the Isle of Lewis, IOTA
reference EU-010, from 26 April to 3 May. 13 operators will be active
on all bands and many modes from 4m to 80m as well as 2m and 70cm for
satellites and 2m and 23cm for EME.
Now the contest news
The IRTS 2m Counties contest take place on Easter Monday from 1300 to
1500UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report and serial
number, with EI and GI stations giving their county too.
On Tuesday the 50MHz UK Activity Contest takes place from 1900 to
2130UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number
and locator.
Also on Tuesday it's the SHF UK Activity contest, also running from
1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2.3GHz and higher bands, the
exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.
On Thursday the 80m club championships Data leg runs from 1900 to
2030UTC. The exchange is signal report and serial number.
Two data contests take place next weekend. The SP DX RTTY contest
runs from 1200UTC on 26 April to 1200UTC on the 27th. Using the 3.5
to 28MHz bands the exchange is signal report and serial number with
SP stations sending their Province code too.
The BARTG 75 Baud Sprint runs for four hours on Sunday 27th from 1700
to 2100UTC. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is serial
number only.
Now the solar factual data for the period from Friday the 11th to
Thursday the 17th of April, compiled by Neil Clarke on Friday the
18th of April.
The number of sunspot regions increased during the period. 11 were
visible on the 16th. Several developed in size and magnetic
complexity, though solar activity remained at low levels when only
large C class solar flares took place. However, late on the 16th, a
M1 class solar flare occurred. Solar flux levels increased from 136
units on the 12th to 184 by the 16th. The average was 151 units. The
90 day solar flux average on the 16th was 155 units, that's one unit
up on last week. X-ray flux levels increased from B4.4 units to B8.7
by the 16th. The average was B6.1 units. Geomagnetic activity
increased on the 12th and the 13th when the Ap index increased to 22
and 14 units respectively. Activity then declined to quiet levels for
the remained of the period. The average was 10 units. Solar wind data
from the ACE spacecraft saw solar wind speeds decline from 430
kilometres per second to 290 by the 15th. Particle densities were
moderate most days at around 20 particles per cubic centimetre but on
the 13th increased briefly to 64 particles per cubic centimetre. Bz
varied between minus 9 and plus 5 nanoTeslas on the most unsettled
day and between minus and plus 4 nanoTeslas on the quietest days.
Finally, the solar forecast for the coming week. This week will see
most of the present active sunspot regions rotate out of view and
solar activity is expected to remain at low levels but with a chance
of increasing to moderate levels on some days. Solar flux levels are
also expected to decline and be in the 140's later in the week.
Geomagnetic activity should be quiet every day. No coronal hole
disturbances are expected but if a coronal mass ejection heads are
way then activity would increase. MUFs during daylight hours at equal
latitudes should be around 27MHz. Darkness hour lows should be about
14MHz. Paths this week to the east coast of North America should have
a maximum usable frequency of about 24MHz. The optimum working
frequency with a 90 per cent success rate will be around 19MHz.
And that's all for another week from the propagation team.
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 gb2rs<at>rsgb.org.uk to arrive by
10:00 on the Thursday before transmission.
73 Mike G4FVG
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