Happy Yorkshire Day everyone. Yes today is the day we celebrate all things that come from Yorkshire – Gods Country! I was born and bred in a small mining village called Conisbrough, near to Doncaster, in South Yorkshire and I am quite proud of this fact. So much so that even though I have moved around the UK I have never lost my Yorkshire accent. “You can take the boy out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take the yorkshire out of the boy!”
Any way back to radio and update blog. So this week we, when I say we I mean Icom UK, have announced the pricing for the new Icom ID-5200 VHF/UHF FM/DSTAR mobile transceiver
. We haven’t an official release date yet but hopefully won’t be too long. I have bought a new (to me) car to have one fitted today so I am hoping that I will have it before I go on my next sojourn North or to see friends in Norfolk. I haven’t got the car yet, but I am in the process of going through the finance etc which has all been agreed upon.
The radio club I am secretary for, East Kent Amateur Radio Society, has broken up for the summer with no meetings in August. Our next meeting is on the 9th of September, and is a talk by my friend Richard GI4DOH and his trip with the Mediterraneo DX Club to Burkina Faso in East Africa. Many adventures were had by the group on this trip – Richard is hoping to be in the UK and was going to come to the club for this one, but if not he will do it over Teams®. This is one I am looking forward to as it is my interest in the hobby, chasing the DXpeditions.
And there is some sad news from the recent WRTC 2026 event. This has nothing to do with the organisers of the event, the location, or the contest itself. But, from log analysis since the closing ceremony and we all returned home by some of the worlds elite contesters, it seems there has been a little cheating and a “pirate” station been giving out some rare multipliers. This is all being investigated and a full description of what is happening is available here on the Q5 Contest Crew’s website blog. As I say the whole event and organisation team in the UK is not in question, apart from the adjudication process to be changed for the next event if discrepancies are found to be true and some cheating has been going on.
And finally some DX news. Today there will be a special event station on the air from up in the Pennines – Yorkshire side – celebrating Yorkshire day, GB1YD. Give them a call and say hello.