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. […]
Solar activity remains quiet, but on May 16 the daily sunspot number reached 212. I had to keep searching further and further back in the records to find a higher sunspot number. One year, six months and one week earlier -- November 9, 2011 -- the sunspot number was almost that high, at 208. Going back seven years, 10 months and 12 days to July 4, 2005, it w […]
There will be no ARRL Audio News on Thursday, May 30. The ARRL Letter will be distributed on its usual schedule. The Audio News will return on Thursday, June 6. […]
By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing EditorThis week, Surfin’ checks out a ham who is developing a handheld radio that’s a cross between a smart phone and an SDR.The Dayton Hamvention® was last weekend and I drove 735 miles to attend the event for the 25th time. Kudos go out to my smart phone and its map apps for getting me to Hamvention and back without erro […]
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 […]
The SEBA-3 amateur radio balloon with a 29.494 MHz RTTY transmitter launches today, May 25. Other balloons with 434 MHz transmitters are also launching this weekend […]
Cheltenham Amateur Radio Association (CARA) will be operating onboard SULA Lightship at the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival this weekend (Saturday 25th - Sunday 26th May) using the Callsign GB0TSG […]
Hello DXers all over the world! This time I am not announcing a new DXpedition (don't worry, the planning for the next one has already started). This time I want to call your attention to a campaign a colleague of mine (Tobias Höher) and me initiated […]
An interesting lecture presented on 23rd May 2013 on the history and research into Bistatic radar and work by Prof. Hugh Giffiths UCL, winner of the A F Harvey annual engineering research prize, can now be viewed online […]
Overall, solar activity is still pretty quiet, but one positive sign was on May 16, when the daily sunspot number was 212. I eyeballed the records, and had to keep searching further and further back to find a higher sunspot number […]
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 […]