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Support GR2HQ in IARU contest

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:34 AM PDT
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This weekend, station GR2HQ will be active in the IARU HF Championship from
1200UTC on the 9th until 1200UTC on the 10th, providing the RSGB HQ
multiplier for the UK. This will probably be last time Ofcom issues the GR
prefix so they hope to work as many stations as possible. The GR2HQ team
are []

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QRZ founder visits UK

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:29 AM PDT
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Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, President and Founder of QRZ.com is visiting London on
15 July. He will be the guest speaker at Havering and District ARC held at
The Spring House Club, Springhouse Road, Corringham, Stanford-le-Hope SS17
7QT. The talk will begin at 7.30pm sharp so please arrive early. For more
details contact or look []

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New 47GHz record set

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:20 AM PDT
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A new distance record was set on 47GHz between Whiteface Mountain in New
York at FN34bi and on Mont Tremblant in Quebec at FN26rf. The distance was
calculated at 215km, that’s 133.3 miles, a new US-Canada record on the
band. Congratulations to N1JEZ, KT1J, VE2UG and VE3FN.

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Also in GB2RS this week

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:18 AM PDT
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The number of instances of interference from VDSL has increased over the
last couple of years in the UK. To help amateurs to detect interference
from VDSL the RSGB has drawn up a leaflet, the 15th in a series of EMC
leaflets that the RSGB EMC Committee has produced. The leaflet has been
uploaded to []

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Talks at RSGB 2016 Convention

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:10 AM PDT
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The RSGB 2016 Convention takes place on 7-9 October 2016 at Kents Hill
Conference Centre, Milton Keynes. Two of the very different talks you can
expect are Restoring Old Radio Sets by Philip Lawson, G4FCL and Making the
Tim Peake Contacts A Reality with Graham Shirville and Noel Matthews.
Philip will give a taster as []