GB2RS News on 4m.

From Sunday October 17th the GB2RS have started to broadcast from East Bedfordshire on 70.425 MHz.
The transmission is at 10.00am local and will be simultanious with the existing 2M broadcast from the same location.
This is initialy for a 6 week trial but will continue indefinately if there is an audience.
The coverage is estimated to be Herts, Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Northants and the west of Essex and Suffolk.

Any reports will be appreciated a few minutes after close down at 10.30am or by email to g4oxy@btinternet.com

About Me...............

Hi All.
I am located in Drogheda,County Louth,north of Dublin city on the east coast of Ireland, locator IO63TR.
We have a sked most nights with a few local hams on 70.400 FM.
We have good vertical antennas and 3 to 5 element vert beams up.
Have a listen for us and if you hear us or want to try a sked email me at ei4dib@gmail.com
The email will come straight to my mobile and I will know that you are there trying and we can get your direction and we will point our beams for you.

Many thanks and 73's

Tony EI4DIB.

Magazines and Publishers on paper and web

• American Radio Relay League
• Antennex (lots of antenna modeling stuff)
• Buckmaster Publishing(Callsign Database)
• eHam.net
• Ham Radio On-Line Magazine
• Hard-Core-DX.com
• QRZ Communications(Callsign Database)
• THE 59(9) DX REPORT
• The Daily DX (Internet DX Bulletin)
• EA7JX QSL cards 
• LZ1JZ QSL cards
• Contesting.com
• eHam.net
• QSL.net
• QTH.com
• ePanorama.net on Radio BIG list of links and references on the web their main site has lots more topics.
• Radio-Electronics.com collection of general radio/electronics info and well organized book list.

4-meter band

The 4-metre (70 MHz) band is an amateur radio frequency band in the lower Very High Frequency (VHF) spectrum.

Before World War II, British radio amateurs had been allocated a band at 56 MHz. After the war ended, they were allocated the 5-metre band (58.5 MHz to 60 MHz) instead. This only lasted until 1949, as by then the 5-metre band had been earmarked for BBC Television broadcasts.
In 1956, after several years of intense lobbying by the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), the 4-metre band was allocated to British radio amateurs as a replacement for the old 5-metre band allocation. For several years the 4-metre band allocation was only 200 kHz wide—from 70.2 MHz to 70.4 MHz). It was later extended to today's allocation of 70.0 MHz to 70.5 MHz.
A small number of countries in Europe and Africa have also allocated the 4-metre band to radio amateurs as a result of the decline in VHF television broadcasts on the 4-metre band. Movement away from the old Eastern European VHF FM broadcast band and migration of commercial stations to higher frequencies have led to slow but steady growth in the number of countries where 4-metre operation is permitted.
The 4-metre band has a unique character, because very few countries have an allocation there, very little commercial equipment is available, and therefore most amateurs active on the band are interested in home construction. As a result there is a lot of camaraderie on the band and long ragchews are the norm, as long as there is some local activity