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IARU interim meeting consultation
In preparation for the 2016 Region 1 Interim Meeting, the RSGB has reopened its IARU forums so that UK amateurs can suggest topics on matters such as operating or technical recommendations, band plans, contests and EMC. The initial phase is an open call and will be followed by further opportunities as UK papers are developed, […]
GB0RWC celebrates Rugby World Cup
Worked All Britain is commemorating the Rugby World Cup 2015 with a period of activity until the 31 October. GB0RWC is being used by the nine radio clubs taking part. See the WAB website for the schedule. QSL cards are not required by WAB, but for those that require one for GB0RWC, eQSL is available. […]
RadCom Plus online now
The second edition of RadCom Plus is now available online to RSGB Members from the RSGB website. We received several requests to provide a version that can be downloaded and read offline and we are thus publishing this edition in two formats—the original flip version which also allows for a copy to be printed—and an […]
RSGB Convention next weekend
The RSGB Convention takes place next weekend, the 9th to 11th, at Kent’s Hill Conference Centre in Milton Keynes. Visitors may be interested to know that the IET will be represented in the Exhibitors’ Lounge. The IET is the professional society for the engineering and technology community, with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries […]
Sixty years of GB2RS broadcasts
On 25 September 1955, at 10am, the first RSGB news bulletin was broadcast from the station of RSGB Council member Frank Hicks-Arnold, G6MB using the call sign GB2RS. It had taken two years of negotiations with the GPO to get to the first broadcast. Initially, the GPO had declined to allow the HQ station to […]
New RSGB questionnaire
All UK radio amateurs are invited to complete the RSGB’s online questionnaire available at www.rsgb.org/ar-survey. The survey will be available until the 31 December. The data collected will be used by the RSGB when it reviews its strategy next year and the results published on the RSGB website and in RadCom. It takes between 10 […]
