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December 2013-January 2014: New Starter’s Newsletter
Welcome to the December 2013-January 2014 edition of the New Starter’s Newsletter. You will need to log into RSGB Membership Services to read the articles. In this issue How to make an effective ground for your HF antenna Understanding EchoLink Using the NATO phonetic alphabet Beginners’ guide to analogue SSTV
IMPORTANT – Ofcom licence review
The RSGB held its regular meeting with Ofcom last Thursday and, as you will know, Ofcom attended the Convention at the weekend. Feedback from those events is that— Only 300 or so people have responded to the consultation document so far Ofcom will be relying heavily on the volume and content of the responses as […]
Full licensees to get bigger 2m band
We start with a Stop Press item. On Friday morning Ofcom published a statement (20-page/142KB PDF) that included an intention to release 1MHz of additional spectrum to radio amateurs on the 2m band on a temporary basis. The frequencies, from 146 to 147MHz, will be available via a Notice of Variation to Full licence holders […]
JOTA founder passes away
With JOTA 2014 a little more than a week away comes the news that its founding father, Les Mitchell, G3BHK, died on 6 October. Les started JOTA in 1958, after launching the idea a year earlier at the World Scout Jamboree. That was the first year the Jamboree had an amateur radio station on site, […]
Ofcom licence consultation deadline soon
All radio amateurs are reminded that the closing date for responses to the Ofcom consultation paper Updating the Amateur Radio Licence (35-page/264KB PDF) is 20 October 2014. It is vital that anyone with an opinion on the proposals takes the time to put their views in writing, either by filling in the online response form […]
IARU award for Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
The RSGB would like to extend their congratulations to Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, who has been awarded the IARU Region 1, Roy Stevens G2BVN Memorial Trophy for his meritorious service to amateur radio over many years. Gaston was the chairman of the Eurocom Working Group and then the chairman of the Amateur Radio Space Exploration Working […]
