Also in GB2RS this week…
Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) month begins on Sunday, 1 December 2024 and Marlborough Scout Group will be the first team of youngsters to operate. They are on the air up until midday on Sunday, and then again after 6pm. Also operating on Sunday is the Cambridge University Wireless Society, which is hosting the callsign GB24YOTA between 12pm and 6pm. Listen out for the group again on Friday, 6 and Saturday, 7 December. Other operators this week include Wick High School Radio Club on Monday, the RSGB National Radio Centre’s GB3RS station on Tuesday, Sandringham School on Wednesday, and Thurso Scouts on Friday. Go to QRZ.com to view the full schedule and operating times. If you’d like to host the callsign, you’ve still got time. Visit rsgb.org/yota-month to find out more and then email Jamie, M0SDV at yota.month@rsgb.org.uk to register your interest.
Don’t forget that if you want to take an exam online at home, the last date you can do that this year is Friday, 20 December 2024. Exams will resume on Monday, 6 January 2025 and the booking system will be available over the festive season so you can book exams for January 2025 onwards. Book online on the RSGB website at rsgb.org/exampay.
The next in the series of 145 Alive events is taking place on Sunday, 26 January 2025. The organisers are looking for volunteer net controllers to help cover as many Maidenhead squares in the UK as possible. Whether you’ve been a net controller before or not, the team would love to hear from you. Find out more about the events by visiting the 145 Alive Facebook Group. To volunteer, send your intended individual, group or club callsign and your intended location and Maidenhead square to masenville@gmail.com.
The weekly shortwave broadcast from the Deutsche Amateur Radio Club (DARC) will be aired from Woofferton in England for the first time from January 2025. The broadcast will be made from an existing BBC broadcasting complex that is operated by the subsidiary company Encompass Media, where there is a total of 10 transmitters and just as many antennas. The station in Austria that is currently used by the club is ceasing its shortwave operations at the end of December 2024. Thanks to successful negotiations, the first programme will be broadcast from Woofferton on Sunday, 5 January 2025 on the previously used frequency of 9670kHz. Full details of how to access Radio DARC are on the club’s website at darc.de.
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