Archive for February, 2018
Nominations for President
Our Society has open elections for its President. Unfortunately no nominations have been received for 2018-20 and the post is now being re-advertised. The closing date is 2359 on 26 April. If an election is required, details will be published in the June edition of RadCom, available in mid-May. The current President Nick Henwood, G3RWF […]
Radioclubs.net closedown
The RSGB’s web-hosting service for clubs radioclubs.net will be closing down for good on 29 March 2018 when the hosting company we use discontinue their services. We emailed clubs using the service on 6 January 2016 to explain our plans and to give them sufficient notice to arrange a different way of hosting their club […]
New RSGB ETCC Chair appointed
The RSGB is delighted to announce that Andrew Barrett, G8DOR has been appointed as the new Chair of the Emerging Technology Coordination Committee (ETCC) for an initial period of three years. Andrew is the current Vice-Chair. The ETCC functions to develop and enhance the UK amateur radio repeater and data communications networks and to promote […]
Bodleian talk on What is Wireless
A forthcoming lecture at the Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford may be interesting to radio amateurs. Jacob Ward, a Bodleian Libraries Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow will be speaking on What is Wireless and will explore what happened to ‘wireless’, from after World War II to the birth of the ‘new’ wireless in the 1980s and 1990s, […]
NRC to open six days a week
The RSGB is pleased to announce that the National Radio Centre, located at Bletchley Park, will now also be open on Mondays. Starting from Easter Monday, 2 April 2018, the NRC will now be open six days a week, closing only on Tuesdays. NRC opening times run in accordance to the Bletchley Park museum, 9.30am […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
An international amateur radio team that postponed a December 2017 DXpedition to the disputed Spratly Islands now plans to be on the air in early March from Layang Layang Island, also known as Swallow Reef, under Malaysian call sign 9M0W. The IOTA reference is AS-051. The operation will be on the air on 160 to […]
