Archive for February, 2025
The Commonwealth Contest
The Commonwealth Contest is a unique annual event which has run every year since 1931. Held over the weekend nearest to Commonwealth Day, it is loved by many RSGB members and radio amateurs throughout the Commonwealth. In 2024 over 240 individual entrants and 15 Commonwealth Headquarters stations representing national societies were active. The Commonwealth Contest […]
3 March 2025 – Antipodean Antenna Adventures by Bob Bower, GM4DLG
The presentation Bob’s one-man DXpedition to ZL, ZL7, VK9L, VK9N and VK7, which took place in January to March 2024, is currently being serialised in RadCom. The first part was published in the February issue, with parts two and three to follow in March and April. This Tonight@8 presentation complements these, and will include additional […]
12 May 2025 – HamSCI: Space Weather We Can Do Together! by Nathaniel A. Frissell, W2NAF
The presentation Since the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO Party, the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI), has been bringing together amateur radio operators and professional space scientists to develop new and innovative ways to study space weather and its impacts on the ionosphere and radio propagation. In this presentation, we show results from the 2023 […]
NO REGIONAL NEWS FOR 23 FEBRUARY 2025
Because of staff illness, no regional news will appear on the RSGB website this week. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. For details of local regular nets or club meetings, check last week’s regional news or look in the latest RadCom.
GB2RS News Script for 23 February 2025
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s news script News script for 23 February 2025 (MS Word document)
ISS contact attended by HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh – new videos released
Girlguiding groups will be celebrating World Thinking Day on the Air this weekend so listen out for them and encourage the young operators. To highlight the opportunities for young people to get involved in amateur radio activities, this week the RSGB has published two new videos that celebrate the fantastic ISS contact and STEM day […]
