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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 shows 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 a […]
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 […]
RSGB elections: unopposed candidates
Nominations in the RSGB elections have closed. For some roles a single nomination was received, and the candidate is therefore elected unopposed and will take up their role at the end of the RSGB AGM in April 2025. These include the roles of President and also Regional Representatives in Regions 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, […]
2025 Band Plans
The 2025 Band Plans can be found in the March edition of RadCom. These incorporate further VHF and UHF changes in response to the increased demand that has been prompted by the new Ofcom Amateur Licence; and a few from the 2023 IARU Region-1 General Conference. The band plans are also available on the RSGB […]
A helping hand from your local club
Tony, M0SHG took just eight months to go from studying for his Foundation licence to passing his Full licence exam. Now aged 66 and having missed a significant portion of his formal education, Tony has said this was no mean feat. The support of his local club, Cray Valley Radio Society, was instrumental in helping […]
