Archive for 2020
Greetings from South Africa
I write this email to you today having just seen your “Get on the air to care” campaign which you have launched. As I represent 50 registered volunteers consisting of radio amateurs and no amateurs I would like to congratulate you on what you intend to accomplish with this campaign and wanted to share this […]
ARRL shares news of sample May RadCom
The ARRL reports: “As another facet of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) “Get on the air to care” campaign, the May edition of RadCom magazine is being made available to radio amateurs around the world online as a sample edition”
ICQ Podcast shares our BBC Three Counties Radio interview
ICQ Podcast reports: “The General Manager of the Radio Society of Great Britain Steve Thomas M1ACB and Paul Devlin G1SMP of the NHS were interviewed on BBC Three Counties Radio about Get On The Air To Care (GOTA2C)”
ICQ Podcast supports GOTA2C campaign
ICQ Podcast reports: “The Radio Society of Great Britain, working in partnership with the NHS, has launched a new campaign called “Get on the air to care” to support the emotional health and wellbeing of 75,000 licensed UK radio amateurs – just some of the 3,000,000 worldwide.”
Guernsey Amateur Radio Society (GARS)
The Guernsey Amateur Radio Society (GARS) is holding a weekly “virtual club night” every Friday on 145.525MHz from 7.30pm (1830UTC). We also have an online forum where we can plan things, arrange help, discuss ideas etc. This is proving to be very popular, and we plan to keep it running after the lockdown. Phil Cooper, […]
Peter Valentine, 96, is getting on the air to care
Peter Valentine, a 96-year-old radio amateur from Eastbourne, is celebrating his birthday by aiming to contact 96 amateurs over the airwaves and walk 96 miles over the coming weeks. As a thanks to the NHS which has given him good care recently, he is using the special call sign GB0EDH to represent Eastbourne District General […]
