Archive for April, 2020
Walter Blanchard, G3JKV, 7th March 2020
Walter Blanchard, G3JKV, became a silent key on 7 March 2020. Walter was a true Old Timer, whose professional and hobby involvement with radio extended over many decades – indeed, a whole working life, and then on into retirement. Walter was an RAF navigator from 1948 to 1957, mainly on transport aircraft in the UK, but also […]
Marc Litchman, G0TOC, 29 March 2020
Marc Litchman, G0TOC passed away on the evening of Sunday 29 March 2020. Marc had been in poor health for several months and didn’t recover from a major operation after a lengthy period in Intensive Care at St Bart’s Hospital, London. Joining Loughton & Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society (LEFARS) in 1995, Marc had many […]
Denby Dale ARC
When the Denby Dale amateur radio club was faced with having to cancel our regular meetings our immediate response was to organise a club net on 2m. This was well attended. I proposed that we should try to organise meetings online (as well as our regular radio nets) so that we could invite speakers to […]
Spalding DARS
The decision to temporarily suspended actual meetings made us evaluate how we stay in touch with the membership during a period of lockdown and social distancing. Our club meets every week and it is important and morally right that we consider not only each other’s safety, but also their mental wellbeing. To this end we […]
Two technical videos added to RSGB website
We’ve just added two new videos to the technical pages of our website, focusing on amateur television and microwave operations. They are a very basic introduction which, seen in conjunction with the explanatory information on the web pages, should give people an overview of these topics. They have also been added to a new ‘Technical […]
VDSL reporting – we need your help
In many areas of the UK, all of the HF amateur bands up to and including 20m are being blighted by interference from VDSL. This is the most widespread means of providing residential broadband internet services in the UK. Ofcom, which is responsible for investigating radio interference, says that it receives, on average, only six […]
