Archive for July, 2021

News for England South-West – 4 July 2021

rsgb | July 2, 2021

Thornbury and South Gloucestershire ARC has a daily net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. Hopefully, club meetings at the Chantry will resume on Wednesday, failing which there will be a Zoom meeting from 8pm. On Friday, there is a net on 145.450MHz from 8pm. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk. Weston-super-Mare Radio Society has a club meeting on […]

News for Wales – 4 July 2021

rsgb | July 2, 2021

Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society has an 80m SSB net from 2.30pm every Sunday. There is a 2m FM open net from 8pm every Tuesday and Thursday via GB3FG. On Wednesdays, there is an FM net from 7.30pm via GB3CM. Contact Andy, GW0JLX, on 0776 828 2880. Newport Amateur Radio Society has a net on Sundays […]

Faisal Alajmi, 9K2RR, IARU R1 VP, 2nd July 2021

RadCom Technical Editor | July 2, 2021

IARU is saddened to announce that IARU Region 1 Vice President Faisal Alajmi, 9K2RR, died on 2 July 2021 following a prolonged period of hospitalisation with COVID. Faisal had been Region 1 Vice President since the 2014 General Conference and was an energetic and active supporter of amateur radio in the Arab world and globally. He was also an accomplished […]

Andrew, 2E1BRT

Communications Manager | July 1, 2021

Andrew has been licenced since 1993 and an RSGB member since 1993. He first became interested in amateur radio as a youngster through his Dad, who bought him an FT690 Mk2 when he gained his licence. That rig gave him the DX’ing bug on 6 metres and he says that he is still a 6-metre […]

Keith, G6NHU

Communications Manager | July 1, 2021

Keith is an amateur who has been there and bought the t-shirt in terms of all the various aspects of the hobby. He has tinkered with the integration of radio and computers since the early days of the Acorn Atom and BBC computer, playing with packet radio nodes. His involvement with digimodes goes back to […]