Archive for 2021
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 […]
Tonight @ 8 – latest edition streamed live
The RSGB’s Tonight @ 8 spring programme began on 11 January 2021 with Amateur Radio Construction by Steve Hartley, G0FUW and Pete Juliano, N6QW Steve and Paul’s presentations cover the reasons why people homebrew radio equipment, share ideas on how to get started, and provide examples of homebrew gear and using hardware and software. If […]
Construction competition – still time to enter
‘Get on the air for Christmas’ has ended but you still have time to enter the special construction competition. It is open to projects that have been carried out during the autumn 2020 lockdowns, over the Christmas holiday season or in the current lockdowns and restrictions. Projects can be hardware, software or a system and […]
GB3RS on air for ‘Get on the air for Christmas’ (GOTA4C)
On Wednesday 30 December the GB3RS station was active again for a second day from the NRC to support the RSGB’s GOTA4C campaign. The RSGB NRC Coordinator Martyn, G0GMB started the day with SSB QSOs on 80m, so as to encompass the regular morning NRC NET. Over 50 stations were logged calling in but by […]
