Vintage Radio Weekend

The Vintage Radio Group will be 'sponsoring' a Vintage Radio Weekend on the air on 17-18 December 2016. 

This event is open to everyone with vintage gear to participate on-air, on any band, any mode, anytime over the weekend.

The group will be active using the club callsign MX0VRG, active on the 40m band (subject to conditions) during the weekend using a Yaesu FT-101ZD or Kenwood TS-830S and possibly an Icom IC-735.

'Vintage' is very loosely defined, but mainly applies to equipment made before 1985 or thereabouts, way back to the 1920's or beyond!. Further Vintage Radio Weekends are also planned for 2017, at bi-monthly intervals.

A free downloadable, high resolution, self-service Certificate is available to all participants - https://sites.google.com/site/vintageradiogroup/vintage-radio-weekends

Twitter Updates - https://twitter.com/M0PHX

Hull UK City of Culture 2017

The Humber Fortress DX ARC in Hull (UK) have organised a year's multi-club activation to celebrate Hull as the UK City of Culture 2017.

Ofcom have kindly granted the call sign GB0HCC for the whole year using the standard NOV format of 28 days, each club will apply for the relevant 28 day portion of the year, to follow on from the previous club.

HFDXARC will be starting the year off, at 00:01 UTC until 08:30 UTC from the Cottingham Road Baptist Church. After the Church services have finished in the afternoon about 16:00hrs we hope to activate for a few more hours.

We are only at the CRBC site for 24hrs as the NOV is then transferred to the HFDXARC clubhouse for the remaining 27 days. I can say that the station will be active on club nights Tuesday and Friday from 19:00hrs UTC until 21:30hrs. Other times such as weekends may also happen, so watch this space.

On the 29th Jan 2017 Hull and District Amatuer Radio Society take over for the next leg of the event, activation times for them will be made clear later.

Youngsters on the Air 2016

For the month of December 2016, the Amateur Radio Community are promoting their annual Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) event, with many YOTA Stations  attempting to make many contacts worldwide with each other.

This is an excellent opportunity to get young amateurs in their teens and early 20s to talk with their counterparts on the air.

This is not a formal contest, but a way to get young people on the air and to let them realise that there are hundreds of their peers around the world that feel just the same as they do about the hobby. The main aim is to get our youngsters on the air and for them to make contact with youngsters all over the world.

The League has registered with IARU Region 1 as a Member Society participant and the special call sign ZS9YOTA will be activated during the month of December.