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News for Wales – 13 March 2016
On Monday Llanelli Amateur Radio Society is watching a DVD and putting GB4SDD on the air. Contact Craig, MW0MXT, on 01269 845 773. On Thursday North Wales Radio Society is having an evening with Les, G0NMD. Details form Ceri Jones, 2W0LJC, via email to 2w0ljc@mail.com. On Friday Blackwood and District Amateur Radio Society is having […]
Learn to write exam questions
Would you like to learn how the Examiners set questions and be able to take these skills back to your club? Club trainers are constantly challenged with the task of preparing practice questions which meet the needs of the syllabus and their students. Members of the Exam Group, led by the Chief Examiner, Alan Betts, […]
Longstanding newsreader retires
Trevor Harris, G2KF has decided to retire from reading GB2RS news due to ill health. The RSGB would like to thank Trevor for his service to GB2RS and the amateur community. If any one would like to be a news reader in the south-west please contact Ken, G3VBA by email to gb2rs.manager@rsgb.org.uk. Readers for other […]
Short call signs from the RSGB
As of 29 February, the RSGB has taken over the responsibility for administering and distributing special contest call signs on behalf of Ofcom. The criteria for the issuing of a SCC have also been reduced. Full details and an application form are available from www.rsgb.org/scc and you can also find a list of currently-issued special […]
Exam syllabus review
A review is ongoing of the syllabus for all three levels of Radio Communications exams. This is being done by the Examinations Group and the Syllabus Review Working Group. The intention is to better align the Advanced with HAREC and to smooth out the steps more evenly between the different levels of exam. Also, the […]
Contesting review volunteers wanted
During last year’s President’s Review of Contesting, some work was carried out on alternative scoring systems for VHF contests, with the aim of making the scoring evenly balanced across the country. This activity wasn’t completed and a commitment was made to come back to the subject in 2016. Volunteers who would like to get involved […]
