Archive for August, 2022
Exam syllabus and sample question updates
The Examinations and Syllabus Review Group (ESRG) has just completed an editing and checking exercise for all the v1.5 syllabus content on the RSGB website. The single-tier and three-tier versions should have exactly the same content and (by majority request) Oxford commas have been removed. The old syllabuses can still be found at www.rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/for-trainers/old-syllabus/ while […]
GB2RS News Script for 28 August 2022
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Get ready for the Transatlantic Tests
The RSGB is hosting The Transatlantic Centenary Tests on the HF bands, for the entire month of December 2022 This is to commemorate the centenary of the achievement of amateur transatlantic communication, during the tests that were held between 1921 and 1923. Unlike the tests of the 1920s, which consisted of one-way communication, the 2022 […]
National Radio Centre contacts the ISS
RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) volunteer Steve, 2E0YBJ, was able to show the visiting public a live radio contact with the International Space Station using GB3RS He was using the demonstration station at the NRC, running SatPC32. This is used to track Earth low orbit satellites and, more recently, the on-board ISS repeater. Steve put […]
GB3HA back on air in Northumberland
The Northumberland 2m repeater, GB3HA, is operational again serving the north-east of England To celebrate the switch on, a short check-in net will be held on Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at 7.30pm. Net control will be Roy, M0TKF, and all radio amateurs within the repeater coverage are welcome to call in for a quick hello. […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
NASA is well known for communicating with astronauts on space missions, but radio amateurs may also contact NASA centres around the world. Until the end of 2022, NASA will mark several past and present-day key milestones. NASA amateur radio clubs at the agency’s centres and support facilities across the United States plan to participate with […]
