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SSTV Experiment Upcoming

ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) have organised another SSTV Experiment from the ISS over the Christmas/New Year break. It looks like a lot of the passes over IO81qk (the GX4WAW Club House) are in the early morning. […]

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OfCom Delays Phases 2 and 3 of UK Amateur Radio Licence Changes

OfCom have announced that the implementation of the third release of their Licensing Platform Evolution (LPE 3) has been delayed due to issues that have arisen during product development. The delays have impacted the availability of the first phase of automation for shared access licences and have also delayed implementation of a few other policy decisions.

The impacted (delayed) policy decisions include primarily those documented in:

Updating the amateur radio licensing framework (Phases 2 and 3);
Extending access in the 26 GHz bands for Shared Access; and
a subset of the Proposed enhancements for Shared Access.
LPE 3 was originally planned for calendar Q2’2024 and is now expected to be available in calendar Q2’2025. […]

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#ISS #SSTV Experiment

After what seems like an age ARISS are ready to try SSTV equipment from the ISS again. This long activity period from 8 – 14 October is an experiment to test the replacement equipment. […]

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VHF Field Day 2024 Predictions

The claimed scores form all submitted logs have been published on the RSGB CC Website. We’ve undertaken an unofficial analysis in much the same way as election exit polls are used to predict the outcome. See how we think we got on! […]

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On-Line UK Amateur Radio Foundation Course

Following confirmation of the Licence changes and the timetable for examination of the changed conditions, we believe we can fit in a single on-line Foundation Course before 1 September 2024 when the new Licence Conditions become examinable, so we’re going to re-launch our Training offer with an on-line Foundation Course. […]