Archive for January, 2014
YOTA 2014 Team Leader Wanted
The RSGB Board has given its approval for the Society to send a team to the IARU Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) event in July. The event is held in July every year in a Region 1 country and brings together young radio amateurs from 15 member societies. This year it is hosted by the […]
RSGB Centenary Challenge certificates
The Centenary Challenge was devised to recognise those amateurs who made the most contacts with the Gx100RSGB Centenary Station by region/band. Certificates will be sent to the lead and runner up stations up in overall total, HF and VHF/UHF in each UK licence category, as well as the lead and runner up station in each […]
ARRL centenary celebrations
The RSGB would like to extend fraternal congratulations to the American Radio Relay League on its centenary year. Celebrations include special station W1AW/x, which will be moving around the United States over the course of the year for a Worked All States programme. The /x suffix number changes to denote the location. The ARRL Centennial […]
Special callsigns for Homecoming Scotland
Homecoming Scotland is a programme of events and activities throughout 2014 to showcase all that’s great about Scotland. Ofcom has announced that it will allow radio amateurs based in Scotland to apply for a special Regional Secondary Locator to help them take part in the Homecoming. The Notice of Variation will allow the inclusion of […]
IOTA 50th Anniversary Conference
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Islands On The Air programme. To commemorate the half-century, a special 50th Anniversary Convention will be held on Saturday 5th July. The event takes place in Old Windsor, Berkshire, and details can be found online at www.rsgb.org/iota50.
Also in GB2RS this week…
The RSGB has published new band plans for all UK amateur allocations from 136kHz to 250GHz. Full information is printed in the February edition of RadCom. Copies of the band plan pages can also be freely downloaded from www.rsgb.org/bandplans. RSGB membership is not required to access these files. The VK6WIA Amateur Radio News Team has […]
