• UK 5 MHz Beacon Shutting Down

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Tue Feb 18 20:32:29 2020
    02/18/2020

    The 5 MHz (60-meter) GB3WES beacon[1] in Westmorland, England (IO84qn), on 5.290 MHz will close down on March 11, 2020, when its Notice of Variation (NoV) expires. The beacon began service on October 30, 2004. At the time, it was one of a chain of three UK 5 MHz propagation research beacons; the others were GB3RAL in Oxfordshire, already shut down, and GB3ORK in Orkney, which will be the sole remaining beacon after GB3WES shuts down.


    [1] http://gb3wes.g3wgv.com/

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