Archive for April, 2013
RSGB AGM
Members are reminded that the AGM is to be held on Saturday 20th April at the IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL, commencing at 12.00. Lunch is available – please let us know if you are coming for catering purposes by registering at www.rsgb.org/main/attendagm.
Special Events – 14 April 2012
Gordano Amateur Radio Club will be operating GB5IMD, an International Marconi Day special event station, on all bands from 10 to 80m from Flat Holm Island in the Bristol Channel on 20 April. On the 19th and 21st the club will be operating as GW0GRG/P. Telford and District Amateur Radio Society will be operating from […]
World Amateur Radio Day
On 18 April, World Amateur Radio Day celebrates the forming of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) on 18 April 1925. This year the theme is Entering Its Second Century of Disaster Communications. This commemorates the first known use of amateur radio in a disaster situation when, in March 1913, the Scioto River in Columbus, […]
New RSGB website to go live
After almost a year of planning and building a new site by a small team led by Alan, G0TLK, we are pleased to announce the new RSGB site will be going live at the end of this week. It’s not yet complete and development work will continue. We need authors, particularly for the technical section, […]
GU100RSGB on the air later this week
G100RSGB, the special event callsign celebrating the RSGB Centenary, stays in Region 11 again this week. Today, 14 April, Torbay ARS are running a 24 hour HF station in Newton Abbot using SSB, digital modes and FM. Monday sees Taunton & District ARS running CW and SSB on the 10 to 40m bands. Tuesday the […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
RSGB amateur radio presentation at Ofcom On Thursday, the RSGB gave a presentation to staff at Ofcom entitled the RSGB’s first 100 years. It celebrated the history of the Society, its relationship with the regulator and what amateur radio can achieve in today’s world. After the talk, which was presented by Jim Lee, G4AEH, Ofcom’s […]
