Archive for March, 2020
News for England South-West – 8 March 2020
Amateur radio clubs in the Somerset area are being invited by Mid-Somerset ARC to take part in a local day conference later this year to find ways of supporting each other, connecting better with others in a rural setting, and growing the hobby. Richard, G4JJP, one of the organisers, said: “Increasing age, declining membership, and […]
News for Wales – 8 March 2020
Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society has its net on 80m SSB from 2.30pm this Sunday and next Sunday. Contact Andy, GW0JLX, on 0776 828 2880. Pencoed Amateur Radio Club has its table-top sale today from 9.30am at Pencoed Rugby Club, The Verlands, Felindre Road Pencoed CF35 5PB. Contact Madeline Roberts, on 0773 837 5775. On Monday […]
RSGB’s new policies web page
We have created a new policies page where you will find all the RSGB’s main policies in one place. Where relevant you can also still find them on the appropriate sections of the website. The policy pdf documents have been updated into our current branding so do make sure you refer to the most recent […]
Beyond Exams (BE) Coordinator appointed
Chris Colclough, G1VDP has been appointed to the role of Beyond Exams (BE) Coordinator. He was first licensed in 1986 and enjoys operating on HF using CW, is active on RTTY, CW and most other digital modes and enjoys working DX with the new FT8/FT4 modes. Chris is a founder member of the Strumble Head […]
Amateur Radio Development (ARD) Chair announced
Tony Jones, G7ETW has been appointed as Amateur Radio Development (ARD) Chair. Tony was licensed in 1989 and was a RAYNET operator and group controller for some years. For the last ten years he has been heavily involved in training, managing education programmes for two radio clubs. He was a member of the new Syllabus […]
Announcement regarding randomised answers in exam papers
Given that online exams are fully-randomised, we decided in August 2019 to enable the randomisation of the answers for each question in paper exams from 1 September 2019, when Syllabus 2019 was introduced. This ensures that there is no relative advantage or disadvantage between online and paper exams. With hindsight, Exam Secretaries should have been […]
