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In this edition of DIG IT, Peter Brown and Chris Day chat with seedsman and passionate foodie Paolo Arrigo about Seeds of Italy, an importer for the prestigious seed producer Franchi Seeds. Paolo discusses the importance of regionality in food growing, how heritage seeds are now more important than ever and how the bureaucracy of the EU has caused issues for the vegetable seed market.Plants mentioned Aubergine, Kale Cavolo Nero, Basil, Spinach, Baby Leaf Spinach, Swiss Chard, Tomato, Broad beans, Garlic, Lambs Lettuce (Corn Salad), Peas, Sweet Peas, Brussel sprouts, Parsnips, Swedes, Peppers, Holy trinity of veggies – carrots, onions and celery, English Cucumbers, Spinach Monstreux de Virflay, good beefsteak tomato varieties – Marmande and Coeur Di Bue (Ox Heart), The Eternal Tomato – Principe Borghese da Appendere, Spaghetti tree, 100% Wildflowers with no fillers, Courgette for flowers Da Fiore Toscana and Papaver (Poppy)People and companies mentioned: Thomas Cook, Mozart, Montpellier Brothers, Kings Seeds, Thompson & Morgan, Real Seeds, Delia Smith, Dolmio sauces, Haxnicks cloches, Royal Horticultural Society, Eden Project, Charles Darwin, Hairy Bikers, Gallo wine, Jamie Oliver and U3A.The film, A Room with a View featured the grand tour in Victorian times and Stanley Tucci's BBC series Searching for Italy, highlighting regionality of food.Places mentioned: Apennines, Dolomites, Turin, Tuscany, Borough Market in London, RHS Harlow Carr, Kew Gardens, Lee Valley for Tomato growing and Welsh Tourist Board.Food mentioned: Meatballs, Panettone, Mushrooms, Cornish pasties (listed under Protected Food Names legislation), Buckinghamshire or Bedfordshire Clanger (savoury/sweet pasty), Devon/Cornish Scones, Pizza is a Neapolitan dish, Vesta Curries, Chick Pea Pasta, Ricotta, Dal, Parma Ham, Lime Oil, Peter's homemade Pesto, Spaghetti, Zucchini flowers and Omelettes.Ark of Taste is an international catalogue of endangered heritage foods maintained by the Slow Food movement.Seeds of Italy websiteSocials: X: @FranchiSeedsUKInstagram: @franchiseedsofitalyFacebook @SeedsOfItaly Book: From Seed to Plate by Paolo ArrigoOur thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin runs into his first boss who recalls the time Martin told legendary TV gardener Percy Thrower that he wanted to be in his job! Martin & Jill also visit the U3A in Mansfield and answer their questions on Ginger Lily, Cloud Tree, Aeonium & Lavender. #podcast #gardening #gardeningPodcast Visit potsandtrowels.com for links to all the videos & podcast episodesEmail Questions to info@potsandtrowels.com Our weekly YouTube videos are here: Pots & Trowels YouTubeThe Pots & Trowels team:Martin FishJill FishSean RileyFind out more about Martin & Jill at martinfish.com Find out more about Sean at boardie.comPodcast produced by the team, edited by Sean, hosted by buzzsprout.com

How far off 'sustainability' are we today? How did we get here, and where do we go next? These are questions tackled by Rod Taylor at a U3A event in June. This wide ranging talk is based on the book co-authored with Mark Diesendorf, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation. https://sustainablecivilisation.com The video version of this talk with slides is https://youtu.be/IFqqLCle4vI

Apart from writing humorous family poetry, Anne had little writing experience. She won awards for two short stories at U3A and joined a creative writing group with Fin Ross who suggested her students enter a Scarlet Stiletto short story competition. She was fortunate to win two categories with her story Out of the Dark in 2011. One of these prizes was a mentorship at Olvar Wood Writers Retreat and these inspired her to write two young adult stories and an illustrated children's book. Recently Anne has been dealing with sickness in her family and writing has been put on the back burner for a while. She hopes to return to it soon.CreditsConcept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna LobezCo-producer: Carmel ShuteProductionManager: Tim CoyGraphic Designer: Caz BrownCopyright Sisters in Crime Australia

Ever thought about starting your own podcast?This is an excerpt from the April edition of the U3A Podcast when I was interviewed by Lee Wellbrook.In the conversation we discuss the resources available and basic technological requirements for  starting your own show. There is a lot of information available both online and in book form to help you get started and the podcast community itself is very helpful.So if you are thinking about starting a show or are just curious I hope you enjoy this episode.Links:https://www.u3a.org.uk/U3A is UK wide collection of a thousand plus charities that provide the opportunity for those no longer in work to come together and learn for fun.Undercurrent Stories links:https://linktr.ee/undercurrentstoriesIntro and outro music, 'Time for a Coffee'  Robert J. Wells © 2020Question or comment? Send us a text message.www.undercurrentstories.com

Oliver Rogers talks to the Southport Gardening Group about their gold medal success at the Southport Flower Show with a special garden to celebrate the U3A. == We're delighted to have Gro-rite Horticultural Supplies sponsoring World Radio Gardening, find out about automatic pot watering systems available for mail order delivery: https://bit.ly/3wCPyHy For 2024, World Radio Gardening is planning a series of 4 exclusive newsletters. These will be loaded with extra special content and deals for you as a gardener. Make sure you don't miss out by signing up today via sign-up page: https://bit.ly/3RWwhYR The first newsletter is out now here: https://bit.ly/3TfbXT1 – don't miss the next one! Also, don't forget – if you like what we do, why not tip Ken and team with a coffee – Buy us a coffee (https://bit.ly/48RLP75) – as a thank you for the work done to bring this website to life.

This talk will consider how and why the frontispiece to this edition was different from those in earlier editions and place the image in relation to other images of ballroom dance bands before and after 1728. The music publisher John Playford built his success on the publication in 1651 of the first book to give tunes and dance instructions for country dances. He named it The English Dancing Master and in subsequent editions The Dancing Master. The frontispiece to the eighteenth and final edition of vol. 1 (c.1728) shows a trio of musicians – violin, oboe, bassoon – accompanying a group of country dancers in a ballroom. This talk will consider how and why the frontispiece to this edition was different from those in earlier editions and place the image in relation to other images of ballroom dance bands before and after 1728. The speakers will also examine Hogarth's print A Country Dance and what it tells us about decorum and licence in mid-18th century ballroom dancing. Jeremy Barlow specialises in English popular and dance music from 1550 to 1750, and also has a particular interest in the illustration of music and social dance over the centuries. He has lectured on a variety of subjects for organisations such as the The Arts Society, U3A, the Art Fund and National Trust. His books include The Enraged Musician: Hogarth's Musical Imagery (Ashgate) and The Cat & the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (Bodleian Library). The Bodleian Library has also published A Dance Through Time: Images of Western Social Dancing from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Jeremy is well known for his work on Playford and has published an edition of Playford's dance tunes, The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1651–ca.1728) (Faber Music). Alice Little is a Research Fellow at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, part of the Music Faculty of the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on collectors and collecting, particularly eighteenth-century tunebooks and their compilers, looking at what sources the collections were gathered from and what the selection of music says about the people and cultures that collected and used them.

One unique way to help seniors feel great about themselves is via memory training. In this episode, Dana Steinova discusses her memory training approach based on mnemonics. Its power is in its ability to change the mindset of people who suffer from memory lapses and people who are giving up, accepting their memory problems as inevitable or something that belongs to the natural aging process. Her program convinces the participants that, in reality, they have tremendous mental potential. They activate special circuits in the brain that people unfamiliar with such techniques leave idle. The program works because cognitive and social effects are so connected. People learn to remember well and usually don't resist performing their new skills in front of family members or friends.Once people get proof that they can remember well, they start to approach any new information with a positive expectation that they will remember it, which affects the result. The outcome is that they minimize memory lapses in daily life. They do not need any calendar because they keep the entire year in their mind and can tell you what day of the week is any date in the current year. They can easily remember a shopping list with 150 items or any line of digits, and they improve their ability to remember faces and names.In this episode, participants will discover how to:Use mnemonics rather than memorization to make memories more durableMinimize memory lapses.Exercise new parts of the brain and build our brain reserve to help in the case of stroke, brain injury, or onset of dementia.About Dana Steinova:Dana Steinova travels the world training memory trainers. Based in Prague, she is a specialist in organizing educational activities. She is also the very active secretary general of the European Federation of Older People (EURAG), created in 1962, with 156 member associations in 33 European countries.She holds degrees from the Institute of Enlightenment, the Economics University, and the Charles University in Prague. She has, over the past 30 years, initiated a wide variety of programs, including the U3A movement in the Czech Republic (1986), reciprocal senior student exchanges with more than 42 exchanges within its first ten years (1991), and founding the first intergenerational non-vocational "University of Free Time" (1993) in the Czech Republic.She is fascinated by neuroscience and has been deeply involved with memory training since 1993. She founded the Czech Society for Memory Training and Brain Jogging in 1998 and later, the EURAG Memory Training Center in Prague in 2002 with the objective of making training opportunities available worldwide. Since then she has traveled the world extensively to achieve this objective. She organized the first National Day of Memory Training as a part of Brain Awareness Week, the worldwide event launched in 2005 by the DANA Alliance of the Brain and which takes place in March every year. In 2008 it became the National Week of Memory Training and has been growing ever since. In 2016, 309 free lectures were held throughout the Czech and Slovak Republic, attended by 7,781 persons.Get in touch with Dana Steinova:Visit Dana's website: https://www.trenovanipameti.cz/eurag-memory-training-center/  What to do next: Click to grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition Please leave a review at Apple Podcasts. Join our Revolutionize Your Retirement group on Facebook.

After nearly half a lifetime living away from her home country in the UK, Shirley decided it was finally time to go home. Initially it wasn't going to be ‘home-home' (aka Sheffield) but in the end, ‘Shirley from Sheffield' returned to her roots, and it's been just over a year since she left Singapore. Throughout this year, I've watched Shirley really flourish and connect with her local community. I've been so impressed with the joy she is experiencing following such a massive change in her life, more so, because I've tried to return home a couple of times and I didn't find it easy at all. Since the pandemic hit, the expat community saw an instant exodus of families leaving to go home – I think many felt safer in their own countries during a time like this, which makes perfect sense. However now, two and a half years later, more families have made the decision to return home permanently too. Going through a global crisis like we all did, I believe it forces us all to really reflect on what matters in life, and many have been going through that process. Looking ahead for our family, we know because of climate change, that we will have to move (either North or South) to put our boys in the best position for their future. Therefore, this sort of decision is part of our future plans, but I am also very aware that whether it's my husband (Steve) going home, or me going home, it won't be easy for the person returning. Unless we take the chance to learn from those who go before us. And so, I thought it would be valuable to learn from someone who has gone home beautifully and is building a new life – a life that is making them smile every day. If you have repatriated or will be doing it at some point, have a listen and take some inspiration from Shirley from Sheffield. I have so much admiration and respect for what she's done and how she's thriving back home. Thanks for speaking with me Shirley. Here's a link to U3A in the UK, but remember, it's global https://www.u3a.org.uk/ You can follow Shirley Taylor HereWebsite Connecting The Dots To Inspire The Leader In You – Shirley's latest bookOn LinkedIn To get in touch with me, here I amWebsites www.andreatedwards.com and www.uncommon-courage.com My book Uncommon Courage, An Invitation And the Uncommon Courage workbook My other book, 18 Steps to an All—Star LinkedIn Profile (2022 edition)    LinkedIn @AndreaTEdwardsTwitter @AndreaTEdwardsInstagram @UncommonAndrea My professional Facebook page And my Facebook Group Uncommon Courage Tik Tok @uncommonandreatedwards   

Barry Croke (pictured) has a long history in agricultural science and farming, and after 30 years in the latter has retired and now coordinates the Natural Resources sessions at the Shepparton-based Goulburn Valley University of the Third Age (U3A). Barry was among a handful of U3A members who voluntarily sat down early in June this year to have a chat with Climate Conversations. The City of Greater Shepparton has declared a climate emergency and recently sought the views of residents about what the city should be doing in response to the declared emergency, and Barry was one of the respondents. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Allan Wilson (pictured) is a former President of the Goulburn Valley University of the Third Age and has many concerns about our inattention to the climate crisis. 'Climate Conversations' is eager to get the view of so-called "ordinary people" and so a few months ago we spent a day at the Bendigo Sustainability Festival to hear the views of eight people, and just recently we visited the Echuca-Moama Market on two occasions with little success except that we got to talk with many encouraging people, although none were prepared to "go on the record". However, a two-hour visit to the Shepparton-based U3A was both satisfying and rewarding, in that four people sat down for a short interview. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Brian Tippett a retired Winchester University lecturer on literature talks to Alan Cosh about his talk to U3A in Petersfield about Charles Dicken's books to screen, and the life and background of this very interesting 19th century writer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Description: Morry Frenkel opens tonight's L'Chaim chatting with his guest Ron James, the highly sought after U3A and B'nai B'rith facilitator of local and global affairs classes. If you would like to contact us here at L'Chaim our email is lchaim3zzz@gmail.com For only $16 Please consider becoming a member of the Jewish Group here at 3ZZZ for Seniors only $11 click on 3ZZZ.com.au L'Chaim Am Yisrael Chai PEACE Click on the link: https://anchor.fm/lchaim---to-life for a full library of past programs. Or visit https://anchor.fm/lchaim---to-life-podcasts for a full library of past podcasts.

It's the day of the Petersfield Ups and Downs cycle ride for 2021. Four routes - around 300 riders and £3,500 raised for good causes too. We hear from organiser Tom North of Petersfield Round Table, and members of cycling groups at the U3A and Petersfield Bike Buddies. Plus Katie, Beatrice and Oliver who completed the 5 mile route ahead of everyone else. But first Shine Radio's Stephen Martin met Bertie and his family who are doing the ups and downs for the first time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On The Alfred Daily Today: West Melbury man launches petition over Shaftesbury pedestrianisation. Four emerging choreographers prepare Shaftesbury show. Shaftesbury what's ons and jobs. Tenor Thomas Cameron returns to Shaftesbury for concert. 75 people enjoy folk songs and recitals at Shaftesbury Abbey Gardens. Sharing knowledge and friendship - Shaftesbury's U3A group. Health and wellbeing – Laura Langley on houseplants. Soundscapes - a goldfinch at Castle Hill steps.

Well hello Toowoomba, welcome to Ep 53 of the Talkin Toowoomba podcast, We are proudly brought to you by our good friends at Recognition Plus, put your name, where it counts!. From promo gear and trophies, to name badges, they will help you be seen. This week I am talking to Toowoomba’s young entrepreneur Hamish Brown better known as Hammy’s Cupcakes. A young man who has his sights set on giving people enjoyment through delicious cupcakes and baking on his success. Now let's catch up on some news around town and what's on this week. Want to get Christmas festive in July get your tickets for this month's business networking event, at the Toowoomba Showgrounds, Saturday, July 17. Join us and a variety of small businesses in Toowoomba for some fun, and networking, hosted by Terri Adams-Munn from Ten Thousand Dreams, and Dale Kaschula of Kasch Designs & Personal Styling.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Monday 12.07.2021 Storytime at the Library is a great way to develop a love of reading and introduce your child to books. For kids children aged 0 to 5 years, at the Crows Nest Library, 9:15 am - 09:45 am Another session will be delivered at Peacehaven Park, Highfields. 11:00am - 11:30am See Council events page for details Tuesday 13.07.2021 U3A Open Morning for new and prospective new members to come along and meet the tutors. Find out what U3A offers and how you can become a member. 9:30am - 11:30am @ Philharmonic Performance Complex, 7 Matthews Street, Toowoomba, QLD 4350 Australia Also on Tuesday Eat Digital has an online Workshop about Email Marketing get in quick, it's on from 5:30 pm. The Toowoomba Farmers markets on from 07 am under the windmill at Cobb n Co museum Also this Saturday Cobb n Co museum has another one of their Learn the basics of blacksmithing and create your own set of blacksmithing tools Cost: $410 includes expert instruction, all materials, and meals, See Council events page or Cobb n Co website for more details The Renal Race Day will feature live racing, yabby races and plenty of raffles and auctions to be won. The race day will be held in the Clive Berghofer Grande Atrium with funds raised benefiting the Toowoomba Hospital Renal Unit and Emerge Cafe. Sunday 18.07.2021 Learn how to carve your own wooden spoon using traditional techniques and your own hands by attending this small group one day workshop from 8:30 am till 3:30 pm see council events page for details The Toowoomba PCYC Markets at the PCYC Toowoomba from 6 am Queens Park Markets also this Sunday at Frogs Hollow 8 am till 1 pm Well, that's it for another week. Thanks again to our local supp

This time I'm looking at how inspirations for our writings are shaped by emotions and the influences loyalty, birth, location, and pride of a nation play in our putting pen to paper. There's a song 'Man's Best Friend' and two takes on 'Welshness', then some poems by  a member of Bridgend Writer's Circle, Aberkenfig's own Kevin Bryant, ending with two more writings from members of Porthcawl's U3A.

GB2RS News Sunday 20th June 2021   The news headlines: Latest rally news Ofcom updates guidance ARISS SSTV from ISS   The organisers of the Dartmoor Radio Rally have revised the date to the 15th of August. It will be held at the new venue of The Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Meavy Lane, Yelverton PL20 6AL. Doors open at 10 am. Details can be found at dartmoorradioclub.uk. The McMichael Rally Committee has announced that this year's rally is, sadly, cancelled. It was due to take place on the 11th of July. They expect to be back in 2022. Keep checking the website for the latest information. With the recent change to the Covid restrictions, the organisers of the East Suffolk Wireless Revival have decided to cancel the event for 2021. This event is popularly known as the Ipswich Rally and was due to take place on the 11th of July. Ofcom has updated the guidance document What you need to know as an amateur radio user and the Ofcom EMF calculator. The guide provides an overview of what you need to do to comply with Ofcom's EMF licence condition and is much simplified from the earlier version. Links to all of the documents and calculators can be found at rsgb.org/emf. A slow-scan television ARISS event is scheduled between the 21st and 26th of June. Transmissions from the ISS will be on 145.800MHz FM using PD120 SSTV mode. The SSTV images will be transmitted continuously. Transmissions will start at or about 0940UTC on the 21st and will end by 1830UTC on the 26th. Signals should be receivable on a handheld with a quarter-wave whip antenna. Use 25kHz channel spacing if available. Since reopening just over two weeks ago, the RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park has welcomed more than 3,800 visitors. With the improved signage and Bletchley Park interactive map, the NRC is typically seeing close to 50% of the Park's footfall. The RSGB would like to thank Martyn, G0GMB and the NRC volunteers for making this possible. The NRC is open every day, except Wednesdays, to pre-booked visitors to Bletchley Park. Sad news next, particularly for those in Region 9, as Tom O'Reilly, G0NSY became Silent Key last week. Tom volunteered for the RSGB as Regional Representative 9, covering London and Thames Valley from 2016 and as a District Representative before that. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time. The lecture programme for the weekend of the virtual Ham Radio World Weekend has been announced for the 25th to the 27th of June. Go to www.darc.de and click on the advert for the event at the top of the page. There are lectures in English and these can be seen by their English titles. The Summer Sale in the RSGB Shop has started and will run until the 18th of July. Go to rsgbshop.org to find out more. To increase participation in the FMH Portable Operations Challenge in September, parallel regional or local group competitions are being encouraged by Ed, DD5LP. Those who would like to do this for their group or region should send an email to regionalcontestlist@gmail.com. The regional organiser's callsign and the geographic area or group of people to be covered should be in the email. Full details of the Portable Operations Challenge can be found at foxmikehotel.com. Slovenian Amateur Radio Union will celebrate the country's 30 years of independence by issuing a special award. Between the 26th of June and the 31st of December, Slovenian amateur radio stations can add the number 30 into the suffix. For example, S50ZZ would become S5030ZZ. Search for Slovenia Contest Club using your favourite search engine and click on the Union Jack flag to read all the qualifying details in English. Now the DX news Michel, F6GWV and Gildas, F6HMQ will be active as TO11A from Guadeloupe, IOTA reference NA-102, until the 5th of July. QSL via F6HMQ. Paul, G4PVM will be active as GM4PVM from the Isle of Lismore, EU-008, from the 29th of June to the 4th of July. He will operate holiday style on the 40 to 10m bands using CW and SSB. QSL via Logbook of The World and eQSL. A team will be active as 7D9BA from Lembongan Island, OC-022, between the 25th and 28th of June. They will operate CW, SSB, FT8/FT4 and some RTTY on the 80, 20, 17, 15 and 10m bands. QSL via Logbook of The World or direct to EA7FTR. Now the Special Event news Kent Weald Radio Club will be at the Headcorn Aerodrome in Kent today, the 20th, and next weekend, the 26th & 27th, for Museums on the Air. They will operate as GB1HA. Harlow and District ARS will be operating today, the 20th and on the 26th of 27th from their clubhouse for Museums on the Air. The museum is Harlow Museum and Gardens and is next door to the clubhouse. Using GB0HMG on HF and 2m, operations are expected from 9.30 am to 4 pm each day. QSL cards will only be sent out on receipt of a card. GB0UTA will be on the air until the 28th of June promoting the University of the Third Age. This special event station will be operating on behalf of the Honiton, Devon branch. GB5UTA will be on the air during the same period on behalf of the Cirencester and Tetbury branches of the U3A. See the QRZ.com entries for more information. Now the contest news With different parts of the UK having different lockdown restrictions, please make sure you follow the appropriate regulations. Several contests now accept portable entries, so please check the contest rules. Above all, please follow relevant national and local restrictions. The 50MHz Trophy contest ends its 24-hour run at 1400UTC today, the 20th. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also this weekend, the All Asian DX contest ends its 48-hour run at 2359UTC today, the 20th. Using CW only on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and age. The Worked-All-Britain 50MHz phone contest will take place today, Sunday the 20th of June, from 0800 to 1400UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and WAB square. Entries to be with the WAB Contest Manager by 30th of June. Due to the easing of restrictions, the mobile and portable categories will be resumed; but please act sensibly. Today, the 20th, the UK Microwave Group 122 to 248GHz contest runs from 0900 to 1700UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the SHF UK Activity Contest runs from 1830 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2.3 to 10GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Thursday it is the SSB leg of the 80m Club Championships from 1900 to 2030UTC. The exchange is signal report and serial number. Next Sunday, the 27th, the 50MHz CW contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The 4th 70MHz Cumulative contest also takes place on the 27th, from 1400 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Sunday the 27th, the UK Microwave Group 5.7 and 10GHz contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon runs until the 1st of August. Just exchange your 4-character locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA & G4BAO on Friday the 18th of June. A large coronal hole returned last week and started to become Earth-facing on Monday the 14th. The high-speed solar wind stream from the hole impacted the Earth on Tuesday evening, pushing the Kp index to five. Luckily, conditions returned to normal by late Wednesday and the Kp index was down to two or three thereafter. It now looks like we are free of coronal hole effects for the time being. Sunspot-wise, region 2833 put in an appearance. Its effects on the ionosphere have been minimal with the solar flux index stuck at 76 on Thursday the 27th and the sunspot number at 11, representing one spot in one group. HF propagation has been adequate rather than outstanding, with the real talking point remaining Sporadic-E. Conditions on 10 metres have been good with long, solid openings to Europe popping up each day. Do make the most of these, as F2-layer openings on 10m may be harder to find once the Sporadic-E season ends. Next week NOAA has the SFI at around 80 and quiet geomagnetic conditions with a Kp index of two. We are still not seeing the ramp-up in sunspot activity that we would like, although fingers are crossed that this Autumn might be more positive. In the meantime, make the most of the Sporadic-E openings, particularly on the higher bands such as 12 and 10 metres. These openings can affect lower HF bands too, although it is sometimes hard to distinguish them from F2-layer openings. So please don't ignore 15 metres and lower at this time and look for short-skip contacts on these bands as well. And now the VHF and up propagation news. It looks like the majority of next week will see low pressure predominating with further periods of unsettled and potentially thundery weather. The pattern places the main area of low pressure over or just west of the UK, forcing a thundery showery southerly flow across the country. There will be some interludes when brief ridges of high pressure show up, especially in southeastern areas, but overall Tropo will not be high on the list. So, apart from some rain scatter prospects and the occasional extended sea path Tropo across the North Sea or English Channel, it will mostly be a week for chasing Sporadic-E. The northern part of Europe and Scandinavia have a good jet stream flow and this extends into northern Russia, making it worth checking those DX paths into the Far East and Japan. The other region looking well favoured with jet stream patterns is to the south into Spain and Portugal. We are in peak season for Sporadic-E, so keeping a regular routine of checking the bands mid-morning and early evening is the best procedure to follow. The Moon is at perigee on Wednesday so path losses will be at their lowest. Sadly, with minimum Moon declination on Friday, visibility windows and peak Moon elevations will also be at their shortest and lowest of the month. The June Bootids meteor shower peaks on Sunday 27th. This shower, although normally small, has a reputation for outbursts of activity. Until then, continue to look for the best random meteor scatter propagation around dawn. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

GB2RS News Sunday 13th June 2021   The news headlines: National Hamfest postponed to 2022 Kyrgyzstan amateurs get 5MHz band allocation Volunteers sought for 100th-anniversary station   It is with much regret that the organisers of the National Hamfest have decided to postpone the event planned for the 24th and 25th of September 2021 until September 2022. A number of factors have made the organisation of the event impossible to predict this year. At this point, the organisers cannot reliably commit to successfully and safely holding an event that takes upwards of three months of continuous effort to organise. The organisers not only wish to act in a responsible way towards the large team of volunteers who staff the event and make it possible every year, but also the visitors and the partner organisations, all of whom make the event such a success each year. The organisers are looking forward to more certainty in 2022 and welcoming you to the event in September next year. The national amateur radio society for Kyrgyzstan has announced that on the 4th of June, the national regulator made a 5MHz allocation available to amateurs. The WRC-15 Amateur Secondary Allocation of 5351.5 – 5366.5kHz is available at a maximum power of 100W. Other secondary allocations made available at the same time were 472 – 479kHz at 1W, 122.25 – 12 GHz and 134 – 141GHz both at 100W. To celebrate the first one-way amateur radio QSO across the Atlantic that took place on the 12th December 1921, the ARRL has joined with a group of UK operators who plan to re-create the event in December this year. To celebrate the centenary of Paul Godley, 2ZE's success, in collaboration with North Ayrshire Council, special event stations GB2ZE and GB1002ZE respectively will be operating from the 1st to the 28th of December. Volunteers are sought to help. See GM0DEQ on qrz.com for email details. The RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park will be closed to all visitors between the 14th and 17th of June. This is because groundworks are taking place around the building blocking the fire escape. Normal opening hours will be resumed after the work is finished. The RSGB's Friendship on the Air Award is a new way of getting on the air, representing your club and having a proper chat with radio amateurs on the airwaves. It is a great way to start chatting to other radio amateurs if you are a new licensee. There are monthly and annual awards for individuals, clubs and the highest-scoring club in each region. If you have taken part already don't forget to upload your logs. If you would like to get involved for the first time this month, you will find all the details at rsgb.org/friendship-award. The inaugural Gateways On The Air Event takes place between the 12th and the 20th of June. The main aim is to increase communications through linked analogue and digital simplex gateways that are accessible to all licensed amateurs. More details can be found at gota.org.uk. Murray Niman, G6JYB, the RSGB Spectrum Forum Chairman, gave a spectrum presentation and Q+A session via Zoom to Mid Ulster ARC. The presentation covered an overview of the functions of the RSGB Spectrum Forum, where do your frequencies come from and what they do for UK radio amateurs. The talk, and others, is now available on YouTube with the suffix /muarcmedia.   Now the DX news Jun is active as XV9RH from Hanoi and will remain in Vietnam until the 26th of June. In his spare time, he operates CW and FT8 on the 20 to 10m bands. QSL via OE1JUN. Harald, DF2WO will be active as XT2AW from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso starting on the 13th of June for three weeks. He will operate CW, FT8 and SAT modes; SSB will be used but only when conditions allow. QSL via M0OXO.   Now the Special Event news GB0UTA will be on the air until the 28th of June promoting the University of the Third Age. This special event station will be operating on behalf of the Honiton, Devon branch. GB5UTA will be on the air during the same period on behalf of the Cirencester and Tetbury branches of the U3A. See the QRZ.com entry for more information.   Now the contest news With different parts of the UK having different lockdown restrictions, please make sure you follow the appropriate regulations. Several contests now accept portable entries, so please check the contest rules. Above all, please follow relevant national and local restrictions. This weekend is the Argentinian CW Group's contest, running for 24-hours until 1500UTC today, the 13th. It uses the 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands and entrants should observe the CW segments according to their national band plan. The exchange is signal report and CQ Zone. Full rules at contest.com.ar. The IARU ATV contest ends its 30 hour-run at 1800UTC today, the 13th. Using the 432MHz and up bands, the exchange is picture quality, serial number, four-digit code and locator. Today, the 13th is the Practical Wireless 2m QRP contest, which runs from 0900 to 1600UTC. Using phone only, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also, today is the second 144MHz Backpackers contest that runs from 0900 to 1300UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday, the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday it is the CW leg of the 80m Club Championships. Running from 1900 to 2030UTC, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The 70MHz UK Activity Contest takes place on Thursday from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Next weekend the 50MHz Trophy contest runs from 1400UTC on the 19th to 1400UTC on the 20th. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also next weekend, but running for 48 hours is the All Asian DX contest. Using CW only on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and age. The Worked-All-Britain 50MHz phone contest will take place on Sunday the 20th of June from 0800 to 1400UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and WAB square. Entries to be with the WAB Contest Manager by 30th of June. Due to the easing of restrictions, the mobile and portable categories will be resumed; but please act sensibly. Next Sunday, the 20th, the UK Microwave Group 122 to 248GHz contest runs from 0900 to 1700UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon runs until the 1st of August. Just exchange your 4-character locator.   Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA & G4BAO on Friday the 11th of June. The predicted geomagnetic disturbance we spoke about last week didn't amount to much. The Kp index rose to four on Monday evening, but the disturbance was short-lived and it was back to one later on Tuesday. Region 2829 was the only sunspot group visible on the Sun later in the week. This pushed the solar flux index to 80, but we are still a long way away from the kind of activity needed for real F2-layer DX. The good news was a lack of coronal hole activity, which allowed the ionosphere to settle. This means that daytime maximum useable frequencies were often above 14MHz, but below 18MHz at times. Nightime critical frequencies are around 3.75-4MHz, which translates to a maximum usable frequency of around 10-13MHz over a 3,000km path. The better news was that Sporadic-E continued to provide excitement on the upper HF band with many reports of single and double-hop openings. The 10m UK Net group on Facebook reports that 7X2VFK in Algeria was workable on SSB, plus there were 28MHz openings to the US, Canada and the Caribbean. Next week NOAA predicts more of the same with the SFI in the mid-70s, although regions 2824 and 2826 will rotate into view next week. Geomagnetic activity should generally be settled, although we may expect a Kp index of four on or around the 16th due to a high-speed stream from a returning coronal hole.   And now the VHF and up propagation news. It is going to be another summer mix for the coming week. Some periods of high pressure with summertime Tropo overnight and throughout the 24 hours across adjacent seas. There will also be some frontal activity with weather systems affecting northwestern areas and decaying into isolated showers as they move southeast into the high pressure.  This could mean that there are likely to be a few rain scatter opportunities again for the GHz bands. At present, the second half of next week looks a bit more unsettled with the possibility of thundery weather, especially in the south. Sporadic-E has taken a bit of a pause lately or, at best, been rather ‘sporadic' and the indications of jet stream patterns for next week suggests that favoured directions for openings will probably involve the UK across northern Europe and Scandinavia.  This northern positioning of the jet stream pattern may be what is needed for the more exotic paths across to the Far East via northern Russia. There may also be some valuable second hop possibilities across the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean. The basic rules are to check mid-morning and late afternoon and expect it to reach up to 144MHz if the conditions are favourable. The longest distances are often recorded at the start of a band opening so if you are working Es, remember to try the next higher frequency band. With peak Moon declination passed, the week will feature shortening Moon visibility windows, lower peak elevation and falling losses as we approach perigee a week on Monday. The Arietids meteor shower is declining now and the next one is the June Bootids peaking in a fortnight. This shower normally has a low ZHR of one or two but has a reputation for outbursts of activity. The last being in 1998 when the ZHR hit 100. Until then, continue to look for the best random meteor scatter propagation around dawn. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

GB2RS News Sunday 30th May 2021   The news headlines: Phillip Brooks, G4NZQ, SK RSGB to report survey results Listen for ISS on Monday   We start with the sad news that following a recent illness, Phillip Brooks, G4NZQ became a Silent Key last week. For many years, Phillip worked tirelessly for the RSGB in a variety of roles, including reading the GB2RS news script every Sunday morning for almost 23 years, only retiring in 2017. He was also the RSGB Regional Manager for Region 12 for several years as well as a member of the RSGB Board and several RSGB Committees. Described as “always a gentleman, in all senses of the word”, he really will be sadly missed by many, both on the airwaves and within the RSGB. The RSGB’s amateur radio survey has now closed. Over 1,000 people took the time to reply and the Society is very grateful for their responses. Once the data has been reviewed, it will initially be used for the IARU workshop alongside that from other countries in the IARU region. However, the RSGB will also publish a summary of the responses in RadCom and on the website in due course. If you’d like to listen to a wider discussion about the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats to amateur radio in the UK, the RSGB President Stewart Bryant, G3YSX was interviewed on ICQ Podcast. You can find the interview on Episode 351 and it begins at 51 minutes and 43 seconds. Go to icqpodcast.com to listen. An ARISS educational school contact is planned for Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG with students in France. The contact is scheduled for the 31st of May at approximately 1349UTC. The link to the ISS will be operated by the amateur radio telebridge station IK1SLD, located in northern Italy. Downlink signals will be audible in Europe on 145.800MHz, narrow FM. Some of the RSGB’s GB2RS web pages have been updated recently and the Society has launched a video to explain more about the news service. The RSGB is always keen to find additional newsreaders so do get in touch if you’d like to join the team. To see the video, find out more about GB2RS or apply to be a newsreader, go to rsgb.org/gb2rs-manager. Dragon ARC is running a VHF Day on Saturday the 12th of June from 10 am until 5 pm. They are encouraging all amateurs to get active on the 6, 4 and 2m bands using FM, SSB or AM. Club members will be using the callsign GB0VHF from Parys Mountain on the island of Anglesey, locator IO73TI. The aim of the day is to create activity on the VHF bands, so please do join in! If you email a copy of your log to Simon, MW0NWM at darc.secretary@gmx.co.uk you will be sent a pdf participation certificate via email. Vinny, M0TAV, the Region Representative for Region 5, which is the West Midlands, is looking for a District Representative for area 51, Staffordshire & Warwickshire. If you are an RSGB Member living in the area and are interested in representing the RSGB and supporting local amateurs, you can find out more from Vinny via email to  rr5@rsgb.org.uk. The inaugural Gateways On The Air Event takes place between the 12th and 20th of June. The main aim is to increase RF communications and portable or mobile activity over an eight-day period through linked analogue & digital simplex gateways. More details can be found at www.gota.org.uk.   Now the DX news Jean-Louis, 5N7MSF is active from Nigeria until the 15th of September. He works for Doctors Without Borders and will be operating during his spare time and the weekends. QSL via eQSL. Steve, VK6SJ now plans to be active as VK9XX from Christmas Island, IOTA OC-002, until the 11th of June. Expected hours of operation are 1100 to 1500UTC and 2200 to 2359UTC on a daily basis. All FT8 operation will be Fox & Hound mode. SSB operation will be split frequency, listening 5kHz up and ±QRM. See VK6SJ on QRZ.com for updates. QSL via EB7DX.   Now the Special Event news Hull & District ARS continues its GB1OOH centenary celebrations, now with over 1,500 QSOs logged from around the world. GB5UTA will be on the air between the 1st and the 28th of June promoting amateur radio among the 450,000 strong University of the Third Age members. U3A is an organisation that aims to help people learn, stay active and have fun in later life. This special event station will be operating on behalf of the Cirencester and Tetbury branches of the U3A. Look up GB5UTA on QRZ.com. On the 2nd of June, the branches will be celebrating U3A Day alongside other UK branches. More information about 2 June at u3a.org.uk. The former minesweeper HNLMS Hoogeveen will be taking part in the Museum Ship Weekend. Between 0000UTC on the 5th of June and 2359UTC on the 6th of June, PA827HGV will be on the air. They plan to use all HF bands using both CW and SSB. HNLMS Hoogeveen is moored in Den Helder, Netherlands. For more about the weekend go to nj2bb.org/museum.   Now the contest news With different parts of the UK having different lockdown restrictions, please make sure you follow the appropriate regulations. Several contests now accept portable entries, so please check the contest rules. Above all, please follow relevant national and local restrictions. The CQ World Wide WPX CW Contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC today, the 30th of May. Using the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Today, the 30th, The UK Microwave Group High Band Contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC. Using all modes on the 5.7 to 10GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday, the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. It is followed by the all-mode 144MHz UK Activity Contest from 1900 to 2130UTC. The exchange is the same, signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the 144MHz FT8 Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. The exchange is signal report and your 4-character locator. Next weekend, the CW National Field Day runs for 24 hours from 1500UTC on the 5th to 1500UTC on the 6th. Using the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Also next weekend is the 24-hour SEANET contest. This runs from 1200UTC on the 5th using CW and SSB on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands. The exchange is signal report and serial number. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Contest runs from 1300UTC on the 5th to 1300UTC on the 6th. Using all modes on the 50MHz band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Next Sunday, the 6th, the UK Microwave Group Low Band contest runs from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using all modes on the 1.3, 2.3 and 3.4GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon runs until the 1st of August. Just exchange your 4-character locator.   Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA & G4BAO on Friday the 28th of May. “May you live in interesting times.” So says the ancient Chinese curse, and last week was interesting, to say the least. Sunspot region 2824 was joined by region 2826, pushing the solar flux index to 88. At the same time, a coronal mass ejection from region 2824 threatened to push the Kp index high on the 25th. The reality was that the solar matter actually struck the Earth late on the 26th, elevating the Kp index to five. The after-effects of the enhanced solar wind were still being felt on Thursday the 27th with the Kp index still fluctuating between three and four. The solar wind speed stayed above 400km per second affecting MUFs over a 3,000km path. On Thursday they were distinctly below 18MHz after an enhancement the evening before had pushed them to nearly 24MHz. The good news is that Sporadic-E was much in evidence last week with numerous multi- and single-hop openings reported. VU2XO in India was worked from the UK on 10 metre SSB, as was YI1SAL in Iraq. An unusual copy was the German icebreaker Polarstern signing as DP0POL/MM on 28MHz WSPR. The solar flux looks like it will diminish next week, according to NOAA, with the SFI in the mid-70s again. But at the time of writing, there were few signs of major coronal hole activity next week and NOAA predicts that the Kp index will hover around two. So it looks like it could be another week where Sporadic-E propagation dominates HF activity with perhaps reduced F2-layer activity, but with more settled geomagnetic conditions.   And now the VHF and up propagation news. At long last, there are signs of some proper summer weather as high-pressure returns. This will mean that Tropo should appear as a good VHF/UHF mode for much of the next week. Worth noting that paths can be limited during the daytime as heating breaks down any surface night-time inversion, so the operating rule is to concentrate on evenings and overnight for Tropo paths. The Sporadic-E season is well underway but due to its sporadic nature, it was no surprise that we failed to predict the short opening on 144MHz from the UK to Italy and the Balkans last Tuesday. Late May and especially the first weeks of June usually produce something spectacular, but the jet stream positions look slightly less favourable in the coming week. Remember that optimum times for Sporadic-E are the mid-morning period and again late afternoon and early evening. Toward the end of next week, the models suggest that we may see a showery breakdown with a possibility of thunderstorms. These are ideal sources of GHz band rain scatter from the large cumulonimbus clouds. The Moon passed minimum declination yesterday, so visibility windows and peak Moon elevations will increase throughout the week. We also passed perigee last Wednesday so path losses will also increase. No significant meteor showers this week so continue to be active around dawn for the best random meteors. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.  

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GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 2nd of May 2021 The news headlines: RSGB AGM appointments Club, Beacon and Repeater insurance renewed Help survey amateur radio At the RSGB AGM on the 24th of April, it was announced that Stewart Bryant, G3YSX has been elected as President of the Society and will serve until the 2023 AGM. We congratulate him and welcome him as RSGB President. Dave Wilson, M0OBW was elected as a Director of the Society and will serve until the 2024 AGM. Congratulations to him and many thanks to those Directors who have served during the year. Paul Devlin, G1SMP and David Hills, G6PYF were endorsed as nominated Directors of the Society and will serve until the 2024 AGM. Congratulations to them both. RSGB Club Insurance and Beacon and Repeater Insurance has now been renewed for the year to April 2022. Club Insurance Certificates can be downloaded from the RSGB website; please use your Membership Services login to obtain a copy of your Certificate. To ensure that your beacon or repeater is covered under the insurance, a £10 admin fee is required and you may renew this online at the RSGB shop. Please allow a couple of days after renewal for your certificate to be dispatched. The IARU Region 1 is running a strategic workshop on the future of amateur radio. Each of the national societies in the region has been asked to contribute information about amateur radio in their country. In preparation, the RSGB is conducting a short survey of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that apply to amateur radio in the UK. The Society would like to hear the views of all UK radio amateurs so please take a few minutes to fill in the survey at www.rsgb.org/survey. The deadline for responses is the 23rd of May. There are three new ways to listen to GB2RS news. John, G4TRN and Sean, G7NJX have been providing a regular UHF service via GB3ZB in Bristol for some time. Now, this repeater is interlinked to GB3FI in Cheddar to give extended coverage on both sides of the Mendips. The broadcast is at 9.30 am. Another new transmission comes from Richard, G0NAD near Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, serving the Tendring area on 433.525MHz FM at 11 am. GB2RS can now also be heard via the QO-100 amateur radio satellite. The transmission is provided by Keith, GU6EFB at 0800UTC, using upper sideband on 10489.900MHz, which is in the mixed-mode section of the narrowband transponder. QO-100 is a geostationary satellite with a footprint that covers Europe, Africa and India, so this news bulletin is a specially adapted international version. The RSGB would like to thank AMSAT-DL for their kind cooperation in making this broadcast possible. If you don’t have any 10GHz equipment but would still like to monitor the broadcast, there is a dedicated webSDR at batc.org.uk that requires no radio equipment. Just click on the ‘online’ tab. SOS Radio Week is an annual event that sees many amateur radio stations get on the air throughout the month of May. The aim is to raise awareness of the voluntary work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and National Coastwatch Institution. The event coincides with the RNLI’s own Mayday fundraising month. For further details of the event, visit sosradioweek.org.uk. Earlier this month Mike, G4GUG was interviewed on the University of the Third Age, or U3A, podcast. Mike is the amateur radio subject adviser at U3A. He shared his personal experience of enjoying amateur radio throughout his life and also highlighted the influx of new licensees over the last year. You can hear the podcast on the U3A YouTube channel; search for Episode 7. Mike’s interview starts about nine-and-a-half minutes into the podcast. Sixteen awards were given at this year’s AGM. This included the prestigious RSGB award of Life Vice President, which was bestowed on Dave Wilson, M0OBW. This rarely-given award was for his tireless devotion over many years to all aspects of amateur radio and the Society. Congratulations to everyone who received an award. You can see the trophies, the winners and read the full citations at rsgb.services/gb2rs/010. Now the DX news This year’s International DX Convention will be a virtual two-day meeting to be held on the 15th and 16th of May, with eight DX-related and eight exhibitor Zoom webinars respectively. Free pre-registration is required and is now open. See dxconvention.com for more information, including the programme details. Matthew, M0ZMS will be seconded to the RAF station at Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands, IOTA reference SA-002, from late April to late August. He will be active as VP8ZMS, hopefully using the Royal Air Force ARS club station shack. He operates digital modes, CW and some SSB. QSL via home call and Logbook of The World; logsearch on Club Log. Lee, HL1IWD will be active holiday style as HL1IWD/4 from the Kogunsan Islands, AS-148, until the 3rd of May. He will operate CW and some FT8 on 40-20 metres. On his way back he will make a short stopover on Anmyon Island, AS-080, and will try to operate as HL1IWD/3. QSLs via EA5GL. Now the Special Event news GB0ME will be on the air until the 16th of May to highlight awareness of the medical condition ME. The official awareness day is the 12th of May. The schedule of calling is to be confirmed but, until the 16th, George, MM0JNL will be operating as GB0ME when working from home to get the callsign out there. On the 8th and 9th of May, GB2SXC and GB0SCW will be on air for the Stone Cross Windmill near Eastbourne. The stations are part of the Mills on the Air event. For further details email canavp@gmail.com. Guernsey Amateur Radio Society will be using GB5LIB for the 76th anniversary of the Liberation of the islands. The call will be activated by club members from 0001UTC on the 8th to 2359UTC on the 14th of May. All bands and modes from 160m to 10m will be used and maybe 4 and 6m, if conditions allow. See QRZ.com for details. Paul, G1OVK will be operating GB0SOS throughout May for SOS Radio week. Using HF, 2m and 70cm, he will operate SSB and digital. QSL via the bureau. GB2HLS will be operated by Wirral ARS from Hoylake Lifeboat station throughout May. This is part of the SOS Radio Week activities. On the 8th and 9th of May, Chesham & District ARS will operate GB0BWN at Brill Windmill as part of the Mills on the Air weekend. They will be using the 80m, 40m and 2m bands. Now the contest news With different parts of the UK having different lockdown restrictions, please make sure you follow the appropriate regulations. Several contests now accept portable entries, so please check the contest rules. Above all, please follow relevant national and local restrictions. This weekend, the 432MHz to 245GHz Trophy ends its 24-hour run at 1400UTC today, the 2nd of May. Using all modes on those bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Today, the 2nd, the 10GHz Trophy runs from 0800 to 1400UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The ARI International DX contest ends its 24-hour run at 1200UTC today, the 2nd. Using CW, Phone and RTTY on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Italian stations also give their Province code. Today, the 2nd, the UK Microwave group Low Band Contest runs from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. It is followed by the all-mode UK Activity Contest from 1900 to 2130UTC. The exchange is the same for both, signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the 144MHz FT8 Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. The exchange is your signal report and 4-character locator. The fourth FT4 Series contest also takes place on Wednesday from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using the 3.5 to 14MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and your 4-character locator. Next Sunday, the 9th, the 70MHz CW contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode. The Worked All Britain 40m Phone and CW contest runs for 1000 to 1400UTC next Sunday, the 9th. Using SSB and CW, the exchange is signal report, serial number and the WAB area. Also on the 9th, the IRTS 40m Daytime Counties Contest runs from 1200 to 1300UTC. Using SSB and CW, the exchange is signal report and serial number. EI and GI stations also exchange their County. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon runs until the 1st of August. Exchange your 4-character locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA & G4BAO on Friday the 30th of April. Last week was characterised by relatively low sunspot numbers but reasonably settled geomagnetic conditions. The solar flux index never rose above 80 all week, despite a large cluster of sunspots. This cluster, composed of regions 2818, 2820 and 2821, were responsible for some C-class solar flare activity, but never really grew into anything. By the time you read or hear this, they will have rotated out of view. The Kp index started the week at five, thanks to the effects of a high-speed solar wind stream from a coronal mass ejection. This was relatively short-lived and the rest of the week saw more settled conditions with a maximum Kp index of three and often zero. HF conditions have been variable. There has been DX workable, as Norfolk ARC showed during last Saturday’s International Marconi Day. GB0CMS made more than 900 contacts on HF, including contacting the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Ecuador, Panama, the Falkland Islands, Australia and Indonesia. SSB activity on 10 metres has been reported as being relatively quiet, with the odd Sporadic-E contact into Europe. FT8 has thrown up a few contacts into South America during the late afternoon and early evening. Next week, NOAA predicts the SFI may dip again, perhaps down to 72-73. This weekend may see unsettled geomagnetic conditions with the potential for the Kp index to rise to four or five due to coronal hole activity. However, once this clears we may expect a more settled Kp of two as the week progresses. Propquest shows that, according to the Chilton digisonde data, daytime MUFs over a 3,000km path are generally reaching the 18MHz band and occasionally 21MHz. And now the VHF and up propagation news. Next week it will probably be very difficult to time the weather changes correctly. It will be a mix of classic April showers – in May! – and some longer periods of rain, but also weak ridges of high pressure or, more accurately, ‘cols’, between highs and lows. These are very rarely useful for Tropo but may facilitate temporary lifts in the early mornings. The trend towards a showery weather pattern is likely to be good news for the rain scatter operators on the GHz bands. With the arrival of May, expectations for Sporadic-E grow stronger. The daily blogs will begin this month on the Propquest.co.uk website where a commentary about the location of jet streams and potential for Sporadic-E will be discussed along with a chance to evaluate the new Sporadic-E Probability Index, or EPI, shown on the same website. Beams certainly help with weak Sporadic-E or multi-hop paths, but a strong opening will be found with even a colinear, so it’s not just for super-stations. If you’ve never worked Sporadic-E before, doing just one thing, checking 10m and 6m at teatime, will guarantee you the best chance of breaking your duck. Last week we had a Supermoon. No reason to get excited, this is simply a full Moon occurring within 10% of perigee. Perigee was last Tuesday so EME path losses will slowly rise all week. Moon declination is negative until Saturday so we’ll see lengthening Moon visibility windows and peak Moon elevations as the week goes on. Two meteor showers to look out for this week. The Eta-Aquarids has a broad peak around the 6th of May with a good Zenithal Hourly Rate or ZHR of 50, then the much smaller Eta Lyrids on the 8th. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

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After living in the U.K. for a number of years, retired audiologist Bob decided to make the move to Orba, Spain with his wife. Bob tells us all about his exciting move, how he and his wife have been making new friends via U3A, as well as how using a translator has proved to be helpful in getting used to Spanish life.   For full show notes and links mentioned in this episode, visit https://guides.kyero.com/en/podcasts.   And, whenever you’re ready, here are four ways we can help you: Ask a question by emailing beth@kyero.com.  We’ll try and answer them all in an upcoming Q&A episode Get a location guide also by emailing beth@kyero.com.  We’ll reply with the latest data and information on the areas you are interested in. Calculate your budget. Simply visit kyero.com/budget, enter two numbers and you’re done! Be our guest. If you’ve already purchased your home in Spain, we would love for you to share your story on the podcast.  Just email beth@kyero.com and we’ll take it from there.

GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 20th of September 2020 The news headlines: Mainstream media features amateur radio Antenna modelling and ionoscatter at Convention 2020 Radio Regulations now available As part of its continuing Get on the air to care campaign with the NHS, the RSGB has been working with the BBC recently to highlight amateur radio in a number of ways. BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex ran an interview with RSGB Board Director Stewart Bryant, G3YSX last week; BBC Radio Somerset aired an interview that included RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB this week; and BBC TV Points West shared the story of ten-year-old Caitlin, M6XTT who passed her Foundation exam via remote invigilation recently after being tutored by her grandfather Don, G3XTT during the lockdown. You can find out more and listen to each of the interviews on the Society’s media pages at www.rsgb.org/gota2c-media. During the online RSGB Convention for 2020, you will be able to enjoy some excellent lectures. On Saturday the 10th of October, the RSGB will be presenting two online streams for everyone to enjoy. In An introduction to… we will have Antenna modelling with MMANA-GAL with Steve Nichols, G0KYA. He will look at the free MMANA-GAL package and give hints and tips on how to use it, complete with some examples. In the Learn, more about… stream, Palle, OZ1RH will look at Ionoscatter on 50 and 144MHz. In this lecture, ionoscatter is examined more closely to evaluate its possibilities for QSOs on 50 and 144MHz. You can find out more at www.rsgb.org.uk/convention. The 2020 edition of the 2020 Radio Regulations, which will come into force on the 1st of January 2021, is now available as a free download. Go to https://tinyurl.com/GB2RS-0920A to get your copy. Like the RSGB Convention, the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2020 will also be online this year. Taking place on Sunday the 11th of October, there will be a lecture stream from 11 am to 4 pm. You can find out more at www.amsat-uk.org/colloquium. The registration URL is https://tinyurl.com/amsatukreg2020. The UK Six Metre Group AGM takes place at 1700UTC on the 27th of September, via videoconference. It’s followed by a talk by Peter Lund, JW7QIA on of recent 50MHz and 70MHz operations from Svalbard. More at www.uksmg.org. Mike Meadows, G4GUG has a passion for amateur radio that has led to a new University of the Third Age, or U3A, online group being set up. You must be a U3A member to take part. The RSGB is working with U3A to help support this special amateur radio interest group. For more details, email janine.aldridge@u3a.org.uk The RSGB 2020 Construction Competition is open for entries. There are four categories, including one specifically for people who are new to amateur radio. But hurry, the deadline for entries is the 25th of September. For more details, including how to enter, see www.rsgb.org/construction-competition. Are you heading for university this year? Several students who passed their remote-invigilation amateur radio exams are off to university in the next few weeks. If you would like to let others know which Uni you are attending, perhaps with the aim of setting up an amateur radio club, send your name, email and university to radcom@rsgb.org.uk and we’ll print the list in RadCom. UK University Amateur Radio also aims to help co-ordinate university clubs, see ukuar.org. A new attended propagation beacon has gone on the air. Operating on 3.510, 7.015, 14.015 and 10.110MHz, the power will be 20 or 25 watts. There is no timetable for transmissions and further information is on the QRZ.com page of M1EDF, including details of details the unusual construction. The RSGB Examinations Standards Committee has published its 2020 report that looks back on activities during 2019. You can read it on the ESC page on the Society’s website: https://tinyurl.com/esc-reports Now the special event news Since the change of regulations applying to special event stations in the UK, many activations are now able to go ahead. UK amateurs would like to thank Ofcom for their help in making this happen. Members of the Royal Air Force ARS will be operating GB80BOB until the 28th of September to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Details are at www.rafars.org/GB80BOB/ and on QRZ.com. Now the contest news Please remember to check before the contest for new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your own national and local government’s advice first and foremost, especially in the instance of local lockdowns. Today, the 20th, the 70MHz AFS Contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The BARTG Sprint 75 contest takes place today, the 20th, from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is the serial number. On Tuesday the SHF UK Activity Contest runs from 1830 to 2130UTC. Using all modes in the 2.3 to 10GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Thursday it’s the data leg of the 80m Autumn Series, running from 1900 to 2130UTC. The exchange is signal report and serial number. Next weekend, the CQ World Wide DX RTTY contest runs for 48 hours from 0000UTC on the 26th to 2359 on the 27th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and Zone, which is 14 for the UK. On Sunday the 27th, the UK Microwave group contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC on the 5.7 and 10GHz bands. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also next Sunday, the 27th, the PW 70MHz contest runs from 1200 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Friday the 18th of September. We had another uninspiring week with zero sunspots. However, there was DX to be had, with many Chiltern DX Club members reporting openings on 17 and 15 metres for well-equipped stations. Clive, GM3POI reported hearing India, Japan, Lebanon and South Africa on 17 metres and South Africa, Kenya, Oman and Kuwait on 15 metres. This was no doubt due to seasonal changes in the ionosphere and a very low Kp index, reflecting settled conditions. The Sporadic-E season in the Northern Hemisphere has now finished so 10 metre openings are now few and far between. Tony, G4CJC in his 10 metre band report said that it was an “appalling week” on 28MHz. The good news is that NASA and NOAA reported that Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media teleconference on the 15th of September, an international panel of experts found that the sunspot number hit rock bottom in December 2019. Since then, it said sunspot counts have been “slowly increasing”, with the solar maximum expected in 2025. Nevertheless, NOAA predicts that the solar flux index will remain pegged at 70 next week, with quiet geomagnetic conditions and a maximum Kp index of two. However, things become more unsettled next weekend when the Kp index may rise to four or five due to the return of a coronal hole and its associated high-speed solar wind stream. And now the VHF and up propagation news. It seems that we are continuing to show a strong hand for Tropo since high pressure remains close by for much of the time until the end of the coming week. A small blemish this first weekend is the risk of some isolated showers over southern England with possible GHz bands rain scatter options. With similar results, we also have a weak cold front moving south midweek. Otherwise, it’s high pressure predominating in the second half of the week and offering further Tropo opportunities. With negative Moon declination, visibility windows will shorten as the week progresses, reaching a minimum on Thursday. Last Friday’s perigee means that path losses will steadily climb throughout the week. 144MHz sky temperatures are close to 3,000K on Wednesday and combined with the low Moon, EME conditions will be poor midweek. However, it’s a good week to increase your satellite DXCC and square counts between the Tropo events. There are plenty of LEO sats to choose from plus, of course, QO-100 available 24/7. There is one meteor shower this week – the daytime Sextantitds. It has a radiant in the constellation of Sextans and is active until the 9th of October with the peak occurring on the 27th of September. The source of the meteor shower is asteroid 2005 UD. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 12th of July 2020 The news headlines: RSGB online Convention streams announced Latest news on ‘Get on the air to care’ RSGB expands Remote Invigilation to Intermediate exams The RSGB online Convention will consist of two streams. The first is called “An introduction to…” and will include a wide range of topics to support new and returning radio amateurs as well as existing amateurs who’d like to try something new. The second is “Learn more about…”, where speakers will dig deeper into the details of the subjects. We’re also pleased to announce that Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ, who is the co-founder of Elecraft, will be our keynote speaker. We’ll be releasing more details of the presentations over the next few weeks. The RSGB and NHS ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign continues to gain coverage in the national and amateur radio media as well as being supported by clubs and radio amateurs. There are some great stories to read on the Society’s website that feature clubs like Denby Dale ARS, individuals such as remote exam invigilator Donna, M7DON and publications ranging from the Emergency Services Times to ‘Third Age Matters’, which is the magazine of U3A. Go to www.rsgb.org/gota2c to find out more. Following on from the success of remote invigilation of Foundation exams, the RSGB is pleased to expand that to include Intermediate exams. From this Monday, the 13th of July, the automated exam booking system will accept bookings for both Foundation and Intermediate level exams. Please note that the earliest available bookings for exams at either level are during the second week in August. The requirement for Intermediate practical assessments is waived until further notice, but this will be reviewed at a later stage. An article has just been published in Nature about the first amateur radio communication system in lunar orbit, Longjiang-2, also known as Lunar-OSCAR 94 or LO-94. It was built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Read the Nature article at www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17272-8. Thanks to the Spectrum Forum for this information. Despite the closure of many amateur radio events, you can still visit the online QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo on the 8th and 9th of August. Attendance is free and registration is now open. There will be around 70 speakers over the weekend including Ward Silver, N0AX speaking on Grounding and Bonding; Glen Johnson, W0GJ talking DXpeditions and John Portune, W6NBC on building slot antennas. Go to www.qsotodayhamexpo.com to learn more and register. John Armstrong, GW3EJR will be celebrating his 100th birthday on the 18th of July. He told us that, “It has been a long journey since 1920, although a rather shorter one from when I got my callsign, G3EJR, in 1948. I am still active, using a very ancient Icom IC-706, with a full size G5RV on HF and a Yagi on the 2m band. When I go out and about, I go on 2m with a Baofeng UV-5R5.” Many happy returns John. Ofcom have advised the RSGB that their online portal was due to be down between 4.30am and 11.30am on Saturday the 11th of July. Mid Ulster ARC have been holding online talks during the Covid-19 pandemic. These talks are available for everyone to view on the club’s YouTube channel. Last week RSGB Region 8 representative Philip Hosey, MI0MSO made a presentation, which was followed by a Q&A session with RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB. They have also had talks by Dom, M0BLF on QO-100, George, GI4SJQ on coaxial cable and connectors and Tony, G2NF speaking about urban QRM, amongst several others. The MUARC YouTube channel is at https://tinyurl.com/GB2RS-07-12. Now the special event news Since the change of regulations applying to special event stations in the UK, many activations are now able to go ahead. UK amateurs would like to thank Ofcom for their help in making this happen. To commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days until the 31st of July. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix. An FTDMC Anniversary Award can be earned by working the FTDMC and FTDM stations and collecting points applicable for various award classes. See www.ft8dmc.eu for more details. 9A164T is the special callsign to commemorate the birth of Nikola Tesla, who was born on 10 July 1856. QSL via the bureau and eQSL. VC3STYWELL is the third Covid-19 special callsign to be operated by The Seven Thirty Social Distancing Nets in Ontario. It is on the air until the 19th of July. QSLs via VE3ES. Now the contest news Please remember to check before the events for new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your own government’s advice first and foremost. The IARU HF Championship runs for 24 hours until 1200UTC today, the 12th. Using SSB only on the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and ITU Zone, which is 27 for the UK. On Tuesday the 432MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. Then from 1900 to 2130UTC it’s the all-mode 432MHz UK Activity Contest. The exchange for both is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday it is the SSB leg of the 80m Club Championships, running from 1900 to 2030UTC. The exchange is signal report and serial number. The 70MHz UK Activity contest takes place on Thursday from 1900 to 2130UTC. It’s all mode and the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Next Sunday, the 19th, the Low Power Contest runs from 0900 to 1600UTC. This is CW only on the 3.5 to 14MHz contest bands, with an exchange of signal report, serial number and power. This is the only RSGB contest with a lunch break, so please check the rules. The 70MHz Trophy contest also takes place on Sunday the 19th. It runs from 1000 to 1600UTC. It’s all mode and the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode. The UK Six Metre Group’s Summer Marathon runs until the 2nd of August. Using all modes on the 50MHz band, the exchange is your 4-character locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Friday the 10th of July. An elevated solar wind stream moved past Earth late on the 4th of July and early on the 5th, sending the Kp index to three. This was the most significant solar event of the last week as otherwise the Sun remained calm. The Kp index remained at one or zero for the rest of the week, which no doubt helped boost propagation. There were no sunspots this week after the minor group, region 2766, which pushed the sunspot number to 12, vanished on Monday. Note that the number 12 represents two sunspots (2) in one group (+10), so it wasn’t quite as exciting as it sounds. Otherwise there was little to write home about. Sporadic-E continues to be the major mode of propagation, although there were days when it was more sporadic than the previous week! We have probably seen the best of the Sporadic-E season now although it should keep running until late August, albeit at lower levels. If previous experience is anything to go by, we can expect a few bigger openings yet so please don’t write off 10 metres completely. The NOAA space weather prediction for next week doesn’t exactly inspire either. It has the solar flux index pegged at 68-69, with a maximum planetary Kp index of two. The STEREO Ahead spacecraft view shows very little in the way of forthcoming activity, other than a few bright spots in the extreme ultraviolet view that may or may not come to something as the Sun rotates. Looking for some good news, according to the Chilton ionosonde data, 20 metres is generally staying open on 3,000km paths until around midnight on most nights, although you may find 30 metres more reliable. And now the VHF and up propagation news. It’s looking like another week of changes with last week’s unsettled weather making way for a new ridge of high pressure over this weekend. This means that, after a period of potential GHz bands rain scatter, we are now heading into some Tropo prospects, especially in the south for paths into France and across Biscay to Spain. But low pressure is never far away to the north, particularly after mid-week when a low passes close to Scotland and showery fronts are driven across the country to give a few rain scatter options again. The Sporadic-E season is still out there and as usual the best advice is to check the bands and clusters for activity mid-morning and again late afternoon and early evening. Moon declination goes positive today and 144MHz sky noise is low but rising as the week progresses. Apogee is tonight so path losses will be falling throughout the week. Peak Moon declination is just a week away, meaning longer Moon windows – time to get that EME system up and running again. There are no major meteor showers this week, so continue to operate around local dawn for the best chance of random meteor scatter contacts. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

In episode four of Island Influencers, I speak to Ravina Talbot. Ravina came to the Island in 1975, initially for two years, but ended up staying for 45 years (and counting!). She's well-known in the online community and has worked in the private, public, and third sector; tourism, hospitality, management, charities, churches, you name it! In 2012, Ravina founded the Island's branch of the University of the Third Age (U3A), and in 2018 formed the U3A ukulele group. Ravina's main work these days is for the Open University where she tutors students in the health and social care faculty. This specialism makes it particularly great to have Ravina as a guest for this episode, as we face the coronavirus pandemic, with the Isle of Man on lockdown. Here's my conversation with Ravina Talbot in episode four of Island Influencers.

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More than 130 people gathered the Esson St Goulburn Valley University of the Third Age (U3A) rooms for a recent day-long forum: "Live life, Live well; The art and practice of growing old gracefully.A range of speakers talked about the "art" of growing old, including an Associate Professor from the University of Melbourne's School of Psychological Services, Christina Bryant (pictured).The former Member for Shepparton, Jeanette Powell, addressed the question about whether or not "Retirement is just a state of mind?"Also among the speakers was fitness "guru" Lyn Davidson, octogenarian Ray McDonald who talked about "Aging, active and eighty", while former U3A president urged those at the forum to "Try something new".

Gestir þáttarins eru komnir yfir miðjan aldur og vissulega staddir á misjöfnum stöðum í lífinu en eiga það sameiginlegt að hafa fundið nýjar áskoranir á þriðja aldurskeiðinu, þ.e. eftir fimmtugs aldurinn. Hjalti Franzson, jarðfræðingur, starfaði hjá ISOR, Íslenskum orkurannsóknum. Hann hefur verið félagi í U3A, Háskóla þriðja æviskeiðsins og tók meðal annars þátt í skiptiheimsókn fyrir einhverjum árum, hefur mætt vel á viðburði og tók þátt í skiptiheimsókn samtakanna til Prag fyrir nokkru. Hann tók þ.a.l. á móti hópi Tékka sem komu hingað til lands í sumar. Hjördís Hendriksdóttir, stjórnmálafræðingur, er ein þeirra sem standa að baki Vöruhúsi tækifæranna, sem er vefsíða sem vísar fólki sem komið er á þetta æviskið á þá ýmsu möguleika sem lífið hefur upp á að bjóða. Ingibjörg Rannveig Guðleifsdóttir, skipulagsfræðingur, er frumkvöðull að stofnun U3A á Íslandi, sem er háskóli þriðja æviskeiðsins. Umsjón: Viðar Eggertsson.

Gestir þáttarins eru komnir yfir miðjan aldur og vissulega staddir á misjöfnum stöðum í lífinu en eiga það sameiginlegt að hafa fundið nýjar áskoranir á þriðja aldurskeiðinu, þ.e. eftir fimmtugs aldurinn. Hjalti Franzson, jarðfræðingur, starfaði hjá ISOR, Íslenskum orkurannsóknum. Hann hefur verið félagi í U3A, Háskóla þriðja æviskeiðsins og tók meðal annars þátt í skiptiheimsókn fyrir einhverjum árum, hefur mætt vel á viðburði og tók þátt í skiptiheimsókn samtakanna til Prag fyrir nokkru. Hann tók þ.a.l. á móti hópi Tékka sem komu hingað til lands í sumar. Hjördís Hendriksdóttir, stjórnmálafræðingur, er ein þeirra sem standa að baki Vöruhúsi tækifæranna, sem er vefsíða sem vísar fólki sem komið er á þetta æviskið á þá ýmsu möguleika sem lífið hefur upp á að bjóða. Ingibjörg Rannveig Guðleifsdóttir, skipulagsfræðingur, er frumkvöðull að stofnun U3A á Íslandi, sem er háskóli þriðja æviskeiðsins. Umsjón: Viðar Eggertsson.

Gestir þáttarins eru komnir yfir miðjan aldur og vissulega staddir á misjöfnum stöðum í lífinu en eiga það sameiginlegt að hafa fundið nýjar áskoranir á þriðja aldurskeiðinu, þ.e. eftir fimmtugs aldurinn. Hjalti Franzson, jarðfræðingur, starfaði hjá ISOR, Íslenskum orkurannsóknum. Hann hefur verið félagi í U3A, Háskóla þriðja æviskeiðsins og tók meðal annars þátt í skiptiheimsókn fyrir einhverjum árum, hefur mætt vel á viðburði og tók þátt í skiptiheimsókn samtakanna til Prag fyrir nokkru. Hann tók þ.a.l. á móti hópi Tékka sem komu hingað til lands í sumar. Hjördís Hendriksdóttir, stjórnmálafræðingur, er ein þeirra sem standa að baki Vöruhúsi tækifæranna, sem er vefsíða sem vísar fólki sem komið er á þetta æviskið á þá ýmsu möguleika sem lífið hefur upp á að bjóða. Ingibjörg Rannveig Guðleifsdóttir, skipulagsfræðingur, er frumkvöðull að stofnun U3A á Íslandi, sem er háskóli þriðja æviskeiðsins. Umsjón: Viðar Eggertsson.

Here's a chance to listen to the talk I gave to the U3A (University of the 3rd Age) Farm & Food group on Thursday 16th May in Ludlow, England. This was a group of retired knowledge seekers from many different backgrounds who were interested in allergies and epigenetics. Some really interesting questions as I talked about some of the causes of allergy, the difficulties in defining it, how I look at it integrally and finally how our Epigenetic Body Type can change what we are more susceptible to

Helgi Rafn Gunnarsson, framkvæmdastjóri Biobús: Biobú er fimmtán ára um þessar mundir, rætt var við Helga um lífrænar mjólkurvörur, framleiðslu, gengi og framtíð. Ingibjörg Rannveig Guðlaugsdóttir í stjórn U3A: Þriðja æviskeiðið, sköpun tækifæra og nýting, ráðstefna með niðurstöðum "Gríptu boltann" verkefnisins. Edda Olgudóttir: mænusótt; hvernig verður henni útrýmt?

Interview with Ronald B Harris about his new memoir My Life My Story. Chatting about life in London's East End during the lead up to WWII, becoming a London taxi driver to owner of the UK's most successful niche tour operator and finally to retirement leading U3A member on guided historical tours of Ron's beloved London.

Interview with Ronald B Harris about his new memoir My Life My Story. Chatting about life in London's East End during the lead up to WWII, becoming a London taxi driver to owner of the UK's most successful niche tour operator and finally to retirement leading U3A member on guided historical tours of Ron's beloved London.

Margaret Ward joins us again at Radio COTA to provide an update on Universal Housing Design, and we welcome first time guests, Julie Porteous, President of the University of the Third Age (U3A) and Greg Doolan, Vice President U3A. If you've never heard of the U3A or are looking for more information, Julie and Greg have all the answers here! We chat about new government incentives, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Home Care Today, gardening, and so much more! So, grab a cuppa, sit back, relax and enjoy the Radio COTA Summer Special! We value your feedback and look forward to hearing more topic suggestions and ideas - contact us at radiocota@cotaqld.org.au

Join us at Radio COTA this week to explore a variety of Hobby ideas - some certainly not for the faint hearted (!)... and share in the inspirational and motivational conversations with two community heroes, Lyn Brain from Coast To Coast Rock'n'Roll, and John King from the Cairns Men's Shed. Radio COTA News - includes a few Car Shows - changes to the Pension, and information on the U3A! The 'What's On!' section provides a reminder to us all about 'Keeping Kids Safe', and honoring the memory of Daniel Morcombe. Radio COTA is available on: Sound Cloud and iTunes and the COTA Queensland website: www.cotaqld.org.au We look forward to your feedback at radiocota@cotaqld.org.au So, put your feet up, grab a cuppa and enjoy!

Clare Balding completes one of her very favourite walks in South Devon, Fingle Bridge to Castle Drogo. Today she's in the company of a U3A local walking group, Stride Out.