Archive for January, 2021
News for England South-West – 17 January 2021
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club has a daily stay well net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. On Wednesday there’s a Zoom meeting from 8pm and Fridays sees a net on 145.450MHz. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk On Wednesday 20 Newquay & District Amateur Radio Society has its net on GB3NC from 7pm. For details, see […]
News for Wales – 17 January 2021
Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society holds an 80m SSB net from 2.30pm every Sunday. Tuesday and Thursday see a net via GB3FG from 8pm. On Wednesdays there’s an FM or Fusion net from 8pm via GB3CM. Contact Andy, GW0JLX, on 0776 828 2880. Newport Amateur Radio Society has a net on Sundays from 10am around 3.705MHz. […]
Fred Robins, G3GVM
It is with sadness that I wish to inform you of the passing of Fred Robins, G3GVM. He had deep and longstanding links with the RSGB and I’m sure many of its Members will remember him. I am trying to contact as many people as I can who knew him to let them know and […]
Mike Owen, G4YTA, 13th January 2021
It is my sad duty to inform you that Mike Owen, G4YTA passed away on the night of the 13th of January 2021. Mike was the prime mover in the formation of Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society (FRARS). We first met at the Sports and Social bar back in 1978, just after he joined Flight […]
RSGB NRC volunteers recognised
Despite the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) being closed to visitors since March, a lot of work has gone on to install or upgrade the radio station set-up and the supporting PC applications in the radio room. The NRC 80m NET has also run continuously every weekday and a slow Morse training session has been […]
White Horse News
Roy Bailey, G0VFS won the Lockdown Category in the RSGB’s annual Construction Competition and donated the beautifully-engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key for our charity auction which ended on 19 December for ‘Get on the air for Christmas’. Roy says, “It seemed only logical and fitting that the story of this key should end with it […]
