Subject: rsgb gb2rs news  4th october 1992
Distribution: world
Organization: 5/10
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:15:25 +0000

GB2RS NEWS BROADCAST

Good morning. It's Sunday the 4th of October and here is the GB2RS news
broadcast, prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

This week we have news for Jamboree on the Air stations, microwave
enthusiasts, repeater keepers and RSGB members in Shropshire; plus all the
usual DX, contest, rally, propagation and club news.


The 35th Jamboree On the Air takes place over the weekend of Saturday the 17th
and Sunday the 18th of October. Scouts and Guides all over the world will be
using amateur radio to celebrate their shared interest. Any participating
group may obtain a full list of JOTA stations by sending a large
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope to Sylvia Manco, RSGB, Lambda House, Cranborne
Road, Potters Bar, Herts, postcode EN6 3JE.

The next RSGB Microwave Round Table meeting has been arranged for Sunday the
18th of October. This meeting is the scheduled Autumn event of the Southern
series, now held at a range of venues across the south of England. The venue
is the Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society Club, Wimborne, Dorset, which
is signposted from the Wimborne by-pass. The meeting will start between 10.00
and 10.30am. It will feature an open forum; items under construction and
complete stations; a bring and buy sale; a calibration and alignment session,
and a short presentation.  Further details can be obtained by telephoning Ted
Jewell, G4ELM, on 0730 892462

All RSGB members should by now have received October's Radio Communication.
There are several items concerning licensing: The attention of those in charge
of speech, RTTY or TV repeaters is directed to the article Repeater Franchise
Update on page 8. This deals with the Letter of Authority to Operate, valid
until the 31st of March 1993. Repeater groups who need this letter will
receive it soon. The only group which will not receive this letter is GB3BM.
We apologise to the GB3GC group who were incorrectly listed in the RadCom
article as not having responded. Page 6 of the same edition invites comments
on a proposal to introduce Aeronautical Mobile into the UK Amateur Radio
Licence. Also on page 6 is a request for data from VHF operators to assist the
RSGB in preparing its submission to the Spectrum Review being carried out by
the Radiocommunications Agency.


Attention RSGB members in Shropshire:

The new RLO for Shropshire is David Whalley, G4EIX, whose address is: 1 Lees
Farm Drive, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire. His telephone number is 0952 588878.

Now some items of HF DX news from the weekly RSGB DX News Sheet which is
edited by Brendan McCartney, G4DYO. From Turks and Caicos,the Turks and Caicos
Amateur Radio Society will sign VP500CC from Friday the 9th to Monday the 12th
of October from Grand Turk to commemorate Columbus's landfall on that island
500 years ago. From Swaziland, a group of UK amateurs will sign 3DA/G3SXW,
3DA/G3TXF and 3DA/G4FAM from Saturday the 10th to Sunday the 18th of October.
They will cover the nine HF bands 160 to 10 metres using CW only. Special
effort will be made to use grey-line LF openings into Europe. Sunrise time is
0320 GMT and sunset is 1600 GMT. Check these frequencies:- 1833, 3503, 7003,
10103, 14023, 18073, 21023, 24893 and 28023 kHz. They will listen between one
and two kilohertz HF. From Minami Torishima, JA1KJW will be active as
JA1KJW/JD1 from Iwo Jima from today until the 14th of October, on the 80 to 10
metre bands.

Rally news now, and we know of three events for today Sunday the 4th.

The Blackwood and District Amateur Radio Society Rally is being held at the
Oakdale Community College, Blackwood, Gwent. Doors open at 10.30am and the
event features traders, a bring and buy. Talk-in is on channel S22. The Great
Lumley Radio Rally is being held at the Community Centre, Great Lumley, Nr
Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Doors open at 11am, 10.30am for disabled
visitors. The event features trade stands, a bring and buy, and refreshments
are available. The Wincanton Radio and Electronics Rally is being held at the
Wincanton Racecourse, Somerset. Doors open at 10.00am and the event features
trade stands, car boot sale and refreshments will be available. Talk-in will
be on channel S22.

There are three events for next Sunday the 11th of October.

The Armagh and Dungannon and District Amateur Radio Society Rally is to be
held at the Gosford House Hotel, Markethill, County Armagh. Doors will open at
12.00 noon. The event features the usual traders, a bring and buy and
refreshments will be available. Talk-in is on channel S22. Further details can
be obtained from GI8RLE, by telephoning 0762 870423.

The Hornsea Amateur Radio Club Rally will be held at the Floral Hall, Hornsea,
North Humberside. Doors will open at 11am, 10.30am for disabled visitors. The
event features trade stands, a bring and buy. Further details can be obtained
from G4IGY, by telephoning 0964 533331.

The South Devon Radio Club's 'Computercation 92' Computer and Radio Rally is
to be held at the Hillhead Camp Site, Dartmouth Road, Brixham, Devon. Doors
will open at 10.00am and the event features trade stands, car boot sale and
refreshments. Talk-in will be on channel S22 via GB4CPU. Unlimited free
parking and overnight camping. Further details can be obtained from G6ZRM by
telephoning 0803 522216.

Next some dates for your diary.

The Conference of the World Association of Christian Radio Amateurs and
Listeners will take place on Friday the 9th to Sunday the 11th of October, at
the High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Herts. Further details are
available from G4EZU, by telephoning 0474 533686. The Leicester Amateur Radio
and Electronics Exhibition will take place at the Granby Halls, Aylestone
Road, Leicester, during Friday the 23rd and Saturday the 24th of October. See
the centre pages of October's RadCom for further details.

HF Contest news now:

During Friday the 9th of October, the next leg of the RSGB QRS Cumulative
Contest will take place. This event features slow Morse and further details
can be found in July's RadCom. Next weekend, Saturday the 10th and Sunday the
11th, sees the VK-ZL CW Contest. September RadCom page 14 has further details.
Also next Sunday the RSGB's 21/28MHz Telephony Contest will take place between
0700 and 1900GMT. See April RadCom page 66 for further details.

Next the VHF/UHF Contest news:

The next RSGB event is the 1.3 and 2.3GHz Cumulative next Tuesday the 6th of
October. It runs from 1930 to 2200GMT and June RadCom has further details.

And now the solar factual data:

This week we cover the period 21st to 27th September. Although the quiet side
of the sun was looking our way with no flare activity of any note, the spot
numbers and solar flux levels hardly changed. Despite this, ionospheric levels
rose and HF band conditions considerably improved up to the best for over a
year. Sun spot counts have been reasonably steady and meaned around 107. The
solar flux levels slightly rose over the week and averaged 114 units but the
day-to-day variations were very small. The geomagnetic Ap indices have been
basically quiet most of the time and averaged 7.5 units, though the 24th and
27th were down to only 3 units - very quiet. The state has been nil, nothing
to report, throughout the period. The radio quality indices improved up to
excellent, with the Fort Collins and Tokyo circuits being extremely good. The
Moscow circuits were the poorest but even so, they were above normal all the
period. The aa indices, as supplied by the British Geological Survey for the
period 15th to 21st September, gave a daily average of 31.6 nanoTeslas.
However, the 17th was very disturbed with some aurora, and levels averaged
91.9 with periods up to 136 nanoTeslas.

Now the ionospheric data for England and Wales:

The F2 daytime critical frequencies at Slough, as reported by Appleton,
averaged 9.1MHz with levels hardly changing day to day. Peak level times are
now about 1400 hours. The darkness hour lows averaged 2.7MHz but there have
been some periods when the ionosonde was unserviceable.

Now the ionospheric data for the north:

The F2 daytime critical frequencies at Irkutsk averaged 8.0MHz and the
darkness hour lows 2.9MHz. The Ap estimated planetary Ap index which is given
in GB2RS data is derived from magnetometers at College, Alaska; Goose Bay,
Newfoundland; Loring, Maine; Boulder, Colorado and Upper Heyford, UK.

And lastly the solar forecast:

This week, the more active side of the sun will be looking our way and solar
flux levels are expected to be about the 120s. Geomagnetic activity is
expected to be mainly unsettled to quiet levels. Ionospheric MUFs during
daylight are expected be about 24MHz. and the darkness hour lows 18MHz, with
14MHz being best for east/west contacts around midnight.

And that is the end of the solar information.


Finally in the main news, the licence issuing agency, SSL, has informed the
Society that as of last Wednesday morning, the latest callsigns issued were in
the G0 S M and G7 N T series, and Novice calls in the 2 0 A D and
2 1 B C series.


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