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Train the Trainers 2020 dates and venues
Venues and dates for the 2020 series of Train the Trainers courses can be found on the RSGB website at rsgb.org/train-the-trainers. In order for the organisers to ensure that courses are run as cost-effectively as possible, between 20 and 25 candidates are required for each venue. To reserve a place on any course please email trainthetrainers@rsgb.org.uk with your […]
Guidance for limiting exposure to EMF
Following last week’s launch of an Ofcom Consultation on EM field exposure, the RSGB has released a briefing paper for all UK amateurs. This gives more details as the proposals involve a change to licence conditions for any station operating with greater than 10W EIRP. The Society has formed a team to prepare a considered […]
US amateurs respond to 3.4GHz threat
A proposal by the FCC in the USA to remove the entire amateur 3.4GHz allocation without compensation has seen strong opposition as ARRL, AMSAT and hundreds of individual amateurs have filed comments in response to a current consultation. The ARRL highlighted decades of active usage and experimentation including mesh networks, amateur television, weak signal long-distance […]
Ofcom’s policy on two-letter call signs
Ofcom has recently updated its website to clarify its policy relating to the issuing of call signs with two-letter suffixes. The notes can be found on the Ofcom website—select “Amateur radio call sign allocation”.
RadCom March 2020, Vol. 96, No. 3
Anytone AT-D578UVPRO—a look at the dual band 144/430MHz DMR/FM mobile To read this edition, tap or click cover image News and Reports Around Your Region – Club events calendar 84 Around Your Region – Events roundup 89 New products 14 News 12 RSGB Matters 6 Special Interest Groups news 16 YOTA Winter Camp, Rob Evered, […]
New distance record on the 122GHz band
Using low power silicon chips with barely a milliwatt, an astonishing new world record of 139km has been achieved on the 122GHz millimetre wave amateur band. The distance record set in the California mountains is particularly notable as this frequency suffers from severe atmospheric losses due to an oxygen molecular resonance that add to significant […]
