Reading DX Meeting - going strong for 50 years!
Saturday 20 September 2025: Radio Love Warbler . Last chance to hear the special SW broadcast: 9500 kHz at 1900-2000 UTC via Woofferton (UK). Part of Creative Folkestone art festival.
Saturday 18 October 2025: Reading International Radio Group meeting at Reading International Solidarity Centre, 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 5PS. 1430-1700 BST. Chris Greenway will give a talk about Radio Vltava, the GDR-based clandestine station that targeted Czechoslovakia in 1968-69 and some interesting radio-related video recordings will be presented. As well as a break for tea/coffee there will be plenty of time for informal chat. The meeting is open to non-members as well as members. Note: Access to the meeting rooms on foot is via a passage at the side of building just past the RISC World Shop. Parking onsite is very limited. Nearest public car park is Queens Road, RG1 4PX. Enquiries to meeting organiser Ian Kelly iankelly27 [at] gmail.com .
24 December 2025: NDR Gruss an Bord. Annual Christmas Eve broadcast to German seafarers around the world. Schedule in 2024 was 1800-2100 UTC on 6030-Issoudun, 6080-Tashkent, 11650-Issoudun, 13830-Nauen, 15770-WRMI.
Sunday 21 June 2026: BBC World Service annual mid-winter broadcast to Antarctica for British Antarctic Survey staff working at UK bases on Antarctica's midwinter's day. Shortwave schedule in 2025 was 2130-2200 UTC on 5960-UAE, 9575-Ascension Island, 12065-Woofferton(UK). A slightly shorter version may be carried the same day on BBC World Service English streams as well as via DAB in the UK. .
Saturday June/July 2026 Date TBC: BDXC members Dorset DX Gathering at Durlston Country Park, Swanage BH19 2JL. Enquiries to David Morris: mailbox [at] bdxc.org.uk
Saturday Summer 2026: BDXC Twickenham DX meeting . Annual summer meeting for BDXC members. Date to be confirmed. Stephen Howie hfl [at] bdxc.org.uk. .
These are held around the UK throughout the year. A full list of rallies and other amateur radio events may be found on the RSGB web site
For the specialist VHF DXer, a list of key dates for when the meteor showers will peak during 2025 (*minor meteor showers only):
Name of shower Peaking dateThe following meetings are held regularly. Feel free to go along and enjoy the chance to meet fellow radio enthusiasts! Details of the dates of future meetings are in the Diary above.
Reading DX Meeting - going strong for 50 years!These meetings of the Reading International Radio Group have been held regularly since 1976 and are still proving to be very popular. Since February 2005 the meetings have been held in the meeting rooms at the Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS. RISC has a shop (The World Shop) in London Street, the meeting rooms are at the back, the entrance is via a small passage just beyond the RISC shop - or ask for directions in the shop. The meeting itself starts at 1430 and lasts about two and a half hours (including a break for refreshments). The meeting is followed by an optional drink at a nearby pub and a curry at a local Indian restaurant. For anyone attending the meeting by car the nearest car park is Queen's Road. By rail, London Street is approx 12 minutes walk from Reading station. It is just south of the main town centre. Further details from Ian Kelly e-mail - tropical [at] bdxc.org.uk ** RISC has a web site including directions (see "Where Are We?") at www.risc.org.uk
Twickenham Summer DX MeetingA Saturday in mid Summer has become a firm favourite event on the BDXC calendar. A lazy summer afternoon by the Thames supping a pint and chatting about anything and everything - though naturally radio is top of the agenda! - is the prospect and for those that wish to do so an Indian meal at a nearby restaurant follows at about 7pm. If you want to come to the meal please be sure to let us know well in advance so that we can book a place for you.
Photo taken at our Twickenham DX meeting on 29 June 2013 (left to right: Gareth Foster, Alan Roe, Mark Savage, Mike Barraclough, Colin Ferris, Mike Terry, Dave Kenny, Chris Greenway, Stephen Howie, Darren Rozier, Michael Blake, Sergej Rogov, Chrissy Brand, Alan Pennington).
Photo taken by the River Thames at our Twickenham DX meeting on 19 June 2010 (left to right: Merub Greenway, Chris Greenway, Darren Rozier, Mike Barraclough, Gareth Foster, Mark Savage, Mike Terry, Alan Roe, Colin Ferris, Ian Kelly, Dave Kenny with Tecsun AN-200 MW loop, Stephen Howie, Steven Overall, Stuart Heathcock, Alan Pennington).
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