Wow! what a busy weekend that was. The 26th IMD arrived and on Friday 19TH I visited the store where the larger items of equipment are kept accompanied by Mike G1NRF and James M6ZXZ. My car was already very full with transceiver boxes, psu’s military masts and the like so the other two vehicles were […]
Quite a good response to my plea made a few days back to get confirmation e.mails from the regular IMD groups. Last ditch attempt to elicit responses from those yet to confirm as will not have time to update the website if notification os received after midday Thursday. As the World likes to see the […]
We confirm that IY0IMD from Civitavecchia – Forte Michelangelo – Italy will be on the air for the 2013 event. Best 73 de Stefano I0LYO and Roberto IZ0CHK. […]
Now that the Morse code requirement no longer exists, those who held a Technician class license before March 21, 1987, having already passed the General theory exam, can upgrade to General class without further testing Read More […]
After an EF5 tornado swept through Oklahoma on May 20, radio amateurs in that state assisted the American Red Cross with its communications efforts. “Amateur Radio operators were asked to support voice communications from the American Red Cross Oklahoma City Chapter Headquarters to their feeding station at the Incident Command Post located in Moore,” explain […]
This spring, the ARRL held two balloted elections for Section Manager. ARRL members in Nebraska elected a new Section Manager, while members in Utah -- faced with a three-way race -- voted to keep their Section Manager. In addition, ARRL members in New Hampshire and Wisconsin will each get a new Section Manager, and Section Managers in seven Sections ran uno […]
The annual WX4NHC On-the-Air Station Test from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami will take place Saturday, June 1, 1300-2100 UTC (9 AM-5 PM EDT). “The purpose of this annual station test is to test all of our radio equipment, computers and antennas using as many modes and frequencies as possible in preparation for this year’s hurricane season,” sa […]
With the departure of Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioner Robert McDowell this past weekend, the FCC now only has three of its full complement of five Commissioners. Pending the Senate confirmation hearings for Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s pick to head the FCC, Obama has named Mignon Clyburn, the FCC’s ranking Democrat, to serve as Acting Chairwom […]
Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales (GROS) Coordinator Raydel Espinet CM2ESP comments on the use of amateur radio satellites for emergency communications and describes how an amateur satellite was used in a Civil Defense exercise on May 18-19, 2013 […]
The annual WX4NHC On-the-Air Station Test from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami will take place Saturday, June 1, 1300-2100 UTC (9 AM-5 PM EDT) […]
Not a bad week at all, Thursday and Friday drooped a bit, but as usual the weekend compensated. G100RSGB and GW100C are genuine calls to celebrate 100 years of the RSGB. VP8DOH, Andy, did get on the air and into the list. There were other VPs out there. SX5KL (Athens) was well sought-after with CX1AZ (Uruguay) dominating on the weekend […]
Today 29th April Trader Booking Forms have become available for download from the site. Please visit the Trader Enquiries page within the Contacts Tab of the site. Ensure you also print the separate terms of trading .pdf […]
New Show & Shine 2013 As ever there will be a Show & Shine competition on the last full day of the show, Sunday. However for 2013 we have revised the classes to allow everyone to vote for the “Most Wanted ” class. Classes are as follows Class 1 Super class (All winners from previous year classes) Class 2 Standard Air Cooled Car 1936 – 1978 Class 3 Mo […]
Courtesy of Steve G7VOH (one of my amateur radio colleagues – Kernow Photography) here is a set of photos taken around the Trade area of Jamboree 2012. Many thanks Steve, much appreciated. Unfortunately I did not manage to get around the trade area personally but having seen the photographs I missed a treat as John […]
After a very wet and windy Friday & especially Saturday at least we awoke to some blue sky and sunshine on Sunday 26th August for the show and shine. The sun did not stay with us though and it became overcast but managed to stay dry for the last day of the show. Entries were […]
As ever Alan engaged his audience at the Jamboree as can be seen here during his rendition of the Beatles Classic Yellow Suibmarineoops! Campervan ! […]
Good to see Ty becoming an accepted regular feature of the Jamboree as he works so well with Alan the Belfast Busker. Alan had finished his stint and can be seen dancing here with the crowd as Ty plays after the presentation of the Show & Shine awards in the Marquee. […]
Today looking good, high cloud but dry possible light showers. Local forecast for the Weekend also looking pretty good, possible light showers Friday and Saturday but building high pressure and Sunday looking like a nice dry and sunny day. Hope they don’t change their mind. After the heavy rain over the past several months we […]
Site looking good, trade area marked out and ready to welcome the 56 traders booked in to attend (several have already turned up) in addition there are several auto jumble pitches booked. Today we made great progress on a rather nice sunny day with just one very light shower which lasted all of a minute […]
The site owners have become very aware that the post code applying to bulk of the site including the main buildings and trade area has been causing problems with neighbouring properties which share the same code.To circumvent this problem the Stithians Show Committee applied for a post code change and this has now been authorised. […]
Richard is expecting the usual large entry for our show and shine again this year and, in preparation has decided the following. Entries will be registered from 0830 on the Sunday morning and we therefore suggest that anyone camping on site make a special effort to get their vehicles up to the show field early […]