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RSGB to activate IARU centenary special call sign
As part of the celebrations of the centenary of the International Amateur Radio Union, the RSGB will be activating the call sign GB0IARU during the month of April 2025. If you would like to be an activator, you need to be an RSGB member with a Full licence, as UK licence conditions only allow Full […]
British Science Week events
British Science Week began on Friday 7 March and will continue until Sunday 16 March. The annual celebration presents radio amateurs with the opportunity to showcase the hobby to new audiences. Crowthorne and Wokingham Men’s Shed will be operating as G8EYM during the forthcoming week. Organisers who would like to set up skeds with other […]
RSGB PSC members to give talks at HamSCI event
Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) is holding its 8th annual workshop in New Jersey, USA on 14 to 15 March 2025. This year’s workshop features nearly 50 presentations, four tutorials, as well as a keynote address by the ARRL‘s Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R. RSGB Propagation Studies Committee (PSC) associate member Prof. Gwyn Griffiths, G3ZIL will […]
Exam availability over Easter
The RSGB remote invigilation team will be taking a break over the Easter weekend. You will be able to book to take an exam on Friday 18 April or Saturday 19 April, but no exam slots will be available on Sunday 20 April or Monday 21 April. Exam bookings will resume as normal after that.
7 April 2025 – 40m on a glue stick by Nick Wood, M0NTV
The presentation April’s Tonight@8 features Nick Wood, M0NTV with his presentation ‘40m on a glue stick: a homebrew, all-analogue, all-discrete Direct Conversion Receiver’. Nick will show you how to use a regular glue stick housing in a rather novel way to form the basis of a variable tuning inductor in a homemade 40m receiver. After […]
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 […]
