Award Stories

Joe, M7HJO

Communications Manager | October 20, 2023

We recently issued the second Foundation Gold Award (the first ever to an English licensee) and it was a richly-deserved reward for application and endeavour! Becoming licensed Nine-year-old Joe Holroyd passed his Foundation with Hereford ARS back in April this year; eight minutes after the exam had started, Joe strolled out with a huge grin […]

Simon, GM0SCA

Communications Manager | November 2, 2021

Early in 2021 Simon achieved a couple of the 50MHz awards for squares and countries. He is close to achieving IARU Region 1 Class 1, in addition to chasing other major awards including 5-Band DXCC. Simon was first licensed in 1985 as G1NWN followed quickly by passing the Morse test and gaining his current call […]

Robin, G8VVY

Communications Manager | September 2, 2021

Robin, G8VVY was licensed in 1979 and has been a VHF aficionado since those early days as a class B licensee. Although restricted to the bands 2m and higher he was always striving for dx. In the 1980s this meant working into places like Poland, what is now the Czech Republic and former East Germany, […]

Alice, Caitlin and Milly (aged 11)

Communications Manager | July 25, 2021

Alice, Caitlin and Milly proudly showing off their Radio Surfer Award certificates. Tutored by John, G7OHOT from Hilderstone ARS, they learnt Morse, received a personal message from the FUNcube-1 satellite using a Yagi-Uda antenna and did a variety of coding and kit-building to earn their award.

Andrew, 2E1BRT

Communications Manager | July 1, 2021

Andrew has been licenced since 1993 and an RSGB member since 1993. He first became interested in amateur radio as a youngster through his Dad, who bought him an FT690 Mk2 when he gained his licence. That rig gave him the DX’ing bug on 6 metres and he says that he is still a 6-metre […]

Keith, G6NHU

Communications Manager | July 1, 2021

Keith is an amateur who has been there and bought the t-shirt in terms of all the various aspects of the hobby. He has tinkered with the integration of radio and computers since the early days of the Acorn Atom and BBC computer, playing with packet radio nodes. His involvement with digimodes goes back to […]