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Keep Haiti emercoms frequencies clear

| August 16, 2021

Following the major earthquake in Haiti on Saturday 14 August, the IARU Region 2 emergency co-ordinator CO2JC has asked amateurs to protect the following emergency frequencies: 3750kHz, 7150kHz and 14330kHz so that emergency traffic can be passed. Whilst the message is aimed mainly at amateurs in Region 2 (the Americas), the RSGB endorses the message […]

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The Last Word – EMF

| May 19, 2021

These are a selection of the letters received on the topic of EMF that were used as a basis for the Q & A article in the June 2021 RadCom. EMF Richard Benton, G4WKW Most radio amateurs will have received their email from Ofcom, as I did on 3rd March. At the time of writing, I […]

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May 2021 Scout Communicator badge lesson plan

| April 26, 2021

Work with Scouts on the Communicator badge was suggested by a Foundation licensee, Rani, M7KAU, who by chance told Troop Leader Phil Reed about her new hobby. WVARS member Andy, G0SFJ, created a lesson plan based on the Communicator badge syllabus. Download files (429KB .pdf)

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2020 – a year in numbers

| March 7, 2021
2020 – a year in numbers

2020 brought devastation across the world as we all faced the effects of the pandemic. The RSGB rose to the challenge of supporting radio amateurs in the UK and providing new ways for people to get started in, or come back to, amateur radio. The April 2021 RadCom will show in detail the work of […]

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Sharing a success story…

| August 11, 2020
Sharing a success story…

It’s been a while since I’ve written an editorial for RadCom and given a view of what has been happening at the RSGB. We have all found ourselves in unusual circumstances in recent months, so I thought it was time to share an update with you. My ‘2019 a year in numbers‘ article and infographic […]

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RSGB papers for IARU-R1 Conference

| July 11, 2020

Papers on a variety of topics by a team of RSGB volunteers are now available for the IARU-R1 Virtual Conference in October. HF-UHF Modernisation and the WRC-23 challenge in the 23cm band all feature  https://conf.iaru-r1.org/part-1/documents/ The full set of IARU papers is due by early August.

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