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Could you join the RSGB Youth Champion team?

| October 22, 2024

The RSGB has just appointed Chris Aitken, MM0WIC as the RSGB School Youth Champion and Rhys Williams, M0WGY/AJ6XD as the University Youth Champion. But the Society needs two more Youth Champions to join the team… Do you have what it takes to engage with young people, supporting them on their amateur radio journey? The role […]

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RSGB appoints two new volunteer Youth Champions

| October 11, 2024

The RSGB is delighted to announce the appointment of two new volunteer Youth Champion roles. Chris Aitken, MM0WIC will be the RSGB’s School Youth Champion and Rhys Williams, M0WGY/AJ6XD will be the University Youth Champion. Chris is a Computing Science teacher at Wick High School, Caithness. Since 2023, Chris has been running the Wick High […]

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December YOTA Month – get involved!

| October 11, 2024

YOTA (Youngsters on the Air) Month is just around the corner, and the RSGB is looking for volunteers to host the GB24YOTA call sign throughout the month of December. As in previous years, we are looking for schools, clubs, guide and scout groups and also individuals to host young radio amateurs whilst they operate with […]

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RSGB Board – August 2024 key messages

| October 9, 2024

Following its meeting in August, the RSGB Board has shared these key messages: Board noted that the Society was probably the most active publisher of amateur radio books in the world.  In 2023 the Society had introduced more than 30 new products, including 24 RSGB books and other merchandise, had invoiced 13,000 items across 255 […]

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7 October 2024 – Aircraft Scatter, the Hitch-Hikers Guide by Ian White, GM3SEK

| October 8, 2024

The presentation Aircraft scatter is about bouncing our VHF/UHF radio signals off high-flying aircraft; hitching a ride with someone else’s plane to extend our everyday working range out to 700-800km. This sounds rather technical, but aircraft scatter is actually very easy; here in north-west Europe there are so many planes in the sky that aircraft […]

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2 September 2024 – Meteor Beacon Project update by Brian Coleman, G4NNS

| October 7, 2024

The presentation The first phase of this project was completed in May 2022 when the UK meteor beacon GB3MBA went on the air from the Sherwood Observatory of the Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society, enabling studies of meteor events over the UK using simple equipment and making possible a range of STEM projects featuring radio […]

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