Southgate Amateur Radio Club News

LED Bulb RF Pollution – Elektor Magazine investigates
DARC, the German national amateur radio society, are requesting amateurs to send LED bulbs which pollute the RF spectrum to the magazine Elektor for investigation

ARISS contact planned for three schools in Poland – Update
As already announced, an International Space Station school contact has been planned for three schools in Poland. The contact will be handled by US astronaut Ricky Arnold KE5DAU

The Royal Mint Experience
Members of the Barry Amateur Radio Society will be active from ‘Her Majesty’s Royal Mint’ at Llantrisant, South Wales, UK, signing GB4RME (Royal Mint Experience) between June 1st and 2nd

RSGB 2018 Convention
Bookings for the RSGB 2018 Convention are now open.
The event takes place between October 12-14th, 2018, and there will be topics to cater for all tastes and at all levels across five lecture streams

UBA celebrates 70th anniversary
The following stations are going to celebrate the founding of the Royal Union of Belgian Radioamateurs (UBA) 70 years ago during May

WIA Annual Radio and Electronics Convention
Over on the Gold Coast the Commonwealth Games have drawn to a close just in time for the WIA Annual Radio and Electronics Convention (Including the WIA AGM) which is to be held on the 18th to 20th of May, 2018

Possible ISS SSTV on Wednesday
The latest ARISS schedule notes that the 145.800 MHz FM Slow Scan Television on the International Space Station may be tested on April 25

Sunday Times publishes RSGB response
On April 8, the Sunday Times newspaper published a misleading item about amateur radio in their Home Help section

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Marconi day at Oxford museum
The Oxford Mail reports children and parents turned out and tuned in to help transform one of Oxford’s museums into an amateur radio station

Japanese Special Event
Look for special event station, 8J1ITU, to be on the air from Japan between 1500z, on April 30th, and 1459z, on May 31st

SWODXA DX Forum at Hamvention
Details of the SWODXA DX Forum for the 2018 Day-Zenia Hamvention have been posted

Canadian radio hams celebrate Marconi day
CBC report on the Prince Edward Island amateur radio operators who celebrated International Marconi Day on Saturday, April 21

‘Girls Can Do ICT!’
‘Girls Can Do ICT!’ is the theme of International Girls in Information and Telecommunication Technologies (ICT) Day on 26 April

Warwick students’ ham radio space link-up
The ARISS Operations UK Team have released a video of the amateur radio contact between students at King’s High School in Warwick and astronaut Ricky Arnold KE5DAU on the ISS

G3PSM receives the G2BVN Memorial Trophy
The 2017 Region 1 Conference agreed the award of the Roy Stevens, G2BVN, memorial trophy to Colin Thomas, G3PSM

3B7A Saint Brandon – Thank you everyone
I’m writing these words now the entire team is safe back in Mauritius. Of course our very first priority has been to give news to our family after 2 weeks without any exchange

Salado students use ham radio to call astronaut
“NA1SS, this is K5LBJ, over. NA1SS, this is K5LBJ, over,” 12-year-old Morgan Morrealesaid, and on the fourth “ring,” astronaut Scott Tingle KG5NZA picked up