Archive for 2014
RadCom Editor helps produce science video
RadCom Editor Elaine Richards, G4FLM, has helped to produce an informative video about early radio technology for the Science Museum. You can watch the video and find out more by following the links below. Information Age: the radio transmitter that changed our world (The Guardian) Information Age (Science Museum)
Towards a new RAYNET
For 60 years, RAYNET groups have been offering the community a unique service — emergency communications independent of infrastructure which is vulnerable to disruption by natural causes or technological failure. The leadership of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and the Radio Amateurs’ Emergency Network (RAEN) believe there are considerable benefits to there being one RAYNET organisation. This […]
Last GB2RS for propagation stalwart
This week, the RSGB says thank you and farewell to one of the stalwart members of the GB2RS team. Neil, G0CAS has been preparing the solar report for the weekly GB2RS scripts for 20 years and this week is his final report. The RSGB would like to thank Neil, and Martin, G3USF who fills in […]
Ofcom amateur licence review closes
Ofcom’s consultation on proposed changes to the amateur radio licence concluded last Monday, 20 October. Many thanks to the 2,000-plus people who responded. Ofcom will be publishing the responses in due course, and a statement about the changes to be introduced is expected at the end of November. The response submitted by the RSGB is […]
Falkland Islands WWI commemoration
The RAF Amateur Radio Society, G8FC, is sending an expedition to the Falkland Islands and will be operating from the Joint Services Welfare Facility Amateur Radio Station using the SES callsigns VP8RAF/100 and VP8FIR/100. This is to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands in WWI on the 8 December. The […]
GB1SS for UK astronauts
Ofcom has confirmed that the callsign GB1SS will be made available for issue to UK astronauts who wish to operate from the ISS. After a gap of 24 years it looks as though two more UK astronauts may be flying to the International Space Station in 2015. In September 2015 Sarah Brightman hopes to become […]
