Archive for January, 2020
RadCom January 2020, Vol. 96, No. 1
Any waveform you want—Siglent’s SDG1062X DSP-based arbitrary signal generator reviewed To read this edition, tap or click cover image News and Reports Around Your Region – Club events calendar 84 Around Your Region – Events roundup 89 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2019, Murray Niman, G6JYB 32 New products 14 News 12 RSGB National Club of […]
Electrical Safety and Syllabus Item 8A2
Changes to The IET Wiring Regulations (BS7671), which are now at 18th edition affect syllabus item 8A2 in the Safety section of the examination syllabus. Please see the following notice which explains further and is relevant to all three levels – Foundation, Intermediate and Full:- Changes to Syllabus Item 8A2 in the electrical safety section […]
Charles Frank Beech, VK7BC, 14 November 2019
Charles Frank Beech, known as Frank, was born on August 6th 1933. He grew up in England and attended radio school around the age of 16 where his love of radios began. From there he became a merchant marine radio officer for over 10 years, traveling the world on various ships. During that time he […]
Happy New Year
The news team and all the staff at RSGB HQ would like to wish our newsreaders, listeners and online readers a very Happy New Year. We would like to remind everyone that we always welcome your news—by email to radcom@rsgb.org.uk—and the deadline is 10am sharp on Thursday mornings. Although it was slightly later than normal […]
GB3EG now on-air in Wigan
The GB3EG repeater, located in Wigan, is now on the air. It is an analogue repeater with no internet connection activity. The location is at the QTH of 2E0SAF, approximately 200ft above sea level, with a mast 11.5m above ground level. Its RF output is at 7dBW, that’s about five watts, but has had some […]
New tropo records on 2m and 70cm
Congratulations to Ian, GM3SEK who set a new 70cm world record distance on tropo on 28 December 2019 by working D41CV at a distance of 4,565km. That put him in the unique position of holding both EME and tropo records on that band as, back on 12 March 1989, he worked ZL3AAD at 18,970km. On […]
