Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site for Thursday 24 December 2015
 

Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site

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RSGB HQ opening times

Posted: 23 Dec 2015 05:57 AM PST
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The RSGBs offices will be closed for the Christmas and New Year break from
12 noon on Thursday, 24 December until 8.30 on Monday, 4 January.

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Students to speak to spaceman Peake

Posted: 23 Dec 2015 05:52 AM PST
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Students at Sandringham School, St Albans are expected to speak to Tim
Peake aboard the International Space Station some time during the period of
5 to 10 January, using the special event call sign GB1SAN. This is the
first of several planned schools contacts in the coming weeks. Three of the
students have been trained []

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News of 5MHz in Spain

Posted: 23 Dec 2015 05:48 AM PST
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At the end of November, the existing Spanish 5MHz permission came to a
close. Following the result of the WRC-15 decision on 5MHz, the Spanish
administrator has now permitted access to the new allocation from 5351.5 to
5366.5kHz with 15W maximum EIRP and 3kHz maximum bandwidth, using SSB and
CW modes. The permission runs until []

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Surprise activity from North Korea

Posted: 23 Dec 2015 05:45 AM PST
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The world’s most-wanted entity, North Korea, was briefly on the air on 20
December. Polish DXer Dom Gryzb, 3Z9DX worked several hundred stations as
P5/3Z9DX on 20, 15 and 10m. He reported very high noise levels in
Pyongyang, from where he ran 100W to a vertical just above ground level.
The site was amid many []

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Also in GB2RS this week

Posted: 23 Dec 2015 05:43 AM PST
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The Irish regulator ComReg is considering additional spectrum allocations
to the amateur services in the bands 30 to 49MHz and 52 to 70.5MHz. The
intention is to facilitate propagation beacons, digital amateur television
repeaters and to align current allocations with those in the European
Common Allocation Table. During December, groups from schools, universities
and local []