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NRC radio room unavailable – Weds 11 September
Due to essential maintenance work on the SteppIR beam, the radio room at the RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park will not be operational for much of Wednesday 11 September. We apologise for the short notice and any inconvenience caused to NRC visitors.
British success in FoxO competition
Tuesday was the first race in the European Radio O Championships in Slovenia. This race was the FoxO competition, where the hidden transmitters are roughly indicated by a circle on the map. The competitor has to orienteer to the area of the circle and then use radio direction finding to locate the hidden transmitter. There […]
New exam sample questions released
As promised last week, the RSGB has just released documents with sample questions for every syllabus item in the Foundation and Intermediate exams. These new resources will provide additional help to tutors and candidates as they prepare for the exams under Syllabus 2019. The Society has also published a sample optical marking sheet to demonstrate […]
5MHz newsreader needed
Owing to retirements, the GB2RS 5MHz team has need for readers on the rota of its Sunday afternoon national broadcast at 1500UTC on 5398.5kHz USB. We would welcome applicants, who should contact the RSGB’s GB2RS Manager via email to gb2rs.manager@rsgb.org.uk in the first instance. Note that 5MHz readers need to possess a Full UK amateur […]
More 2018 Convention videos on YouTube
Four new videos from the RSGB 2018 Convention have been uploaded to the RSGB YouTube channel. Palle Hansen, OZ1RH speaks about troposcatter on the VHF bands; Cezar Trifu, VE3LYC shares his thrilling and unforgettable IOTA experiences of H44R and H40D; John Worsnop, G4BAO speaks on the Wednesday Night Digifest, and Steve Nichols, G0KYA looks at […]
Good news for the two-metre band
The past week has seen CEPT meet in Turkey, where it finalised positions on a wide range of WRC-19 Agenda Items, including proposals for WRC-23. So let’s look at the matters that interest radio amateurs. At 144MHz, after a major effort, the 144 to 146MHz frequency range was successfully withdrawn from the French WRC-23 aeronautical […]
