Archive for November, 2021
David Stephens, G4CMQ, 1st November 2021
Our Dad David John Albert Stephens, G4CMQ passed away in Prince George House Care Home in Ipswich on 1st November 2021 after a short illness. He was a Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy in the 1950s and always a keen amateur radio enthusiast thereafter. Dad tapping away in morse code in the loft of […]
GB2RS News Script for 14 November 2021
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 14 November 2021 (14-page/424KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link
RSGB National Radio centre to close for three days
If you’re planning a visit to Bletchley Park and the RSGB National Radio Centre, please note that both will be closed to all visitors on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 17 to 19 November 2021 inclusive, due to filming that is taking place at Bletchley Park.
Canadians mark transatlantic first
CF3BP will be operating from the York region near Toronto until 12 December 2021. It will mark the anniversary of the first transatlantic amateur radio transmission from Canada by Edward Rogers Senior using the call 3BP. He was one of the few amateurs to successfully transmit across the Atlantic in an ARRL-sponsored test and the […]
Newsreader Jon Island Jon goes SK
The RSGB has learned, with sadness, that Jon Hague, GM3JIJ, has become a Silent Key. Jon was a member of the Society for 72 years. Affectionately known as “Jon Island Jon” to his many on-air friends, he delivered the GB2RS News from his QTH at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis for 26 years, his […]
