GOTA2C: Get on the air for Christmas (GOTA4C)
‘Get on the air for Christmas’ charity auction is live
Our ‘Get on the air for Christmas’ charity auction is live! Take a look at the item on eBay. Roy Bailey, G0VFS won the Lockdown Category in the RSGB’s annual Construction Competition and has donated this beautifully-engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key for the auction. It was created during the first lockdown period of self-isolation and […]
NHS charity auction for GOTA4C
We’re delighted to be running an NHS charity auction as part of our GOTA4C campaign. Roy Bailey, G0VFS, who is an active member of Trowbridge and District Amateur Radio Club, won the Lockdown Category in the RSGB’s Annual Construction competition. He offered to donate his beautifully-engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key to raise money for NHS […]
GOTA4C construction competition
As we approach this unusual Christmas, many radio amateurs will be warming up soldering irons and installing new development environments on computers – getting ready for projects they plan to tackle over the long winter break. The RSGB’s new GOTA4C construction competition is open to projects that have been carried out during the autumn 2020 […]
Special nets and call signs during GOTA4C
Antrim and District Amateur Radio Society plan to run a 2 metre FM net each evening from 19 December 2020 to 9 January 2021 between 1900 to 2000 hours. Listen out on or about 145.475, and they will be using the club call sign MN0GFE. They are keen to make contact with as many as […]
GB1NHS on the air
As part of the RSGB and NHS campaign ‘Get on the air for Christmas’ the NHS amateur radio station GB1NHS will be on the air on Sunday 20 December and Wednesday 30 December. It will be hosted at the RSGB’s National Radio Centre (NRC) so make a note to listen out for it on those […]
Christmas Hope QSO Party
Following the successful Hope QSO Parties earlier in the year, the HF Contest Committee is launching two short special Christmas series to run as part of GOTA4C. The first starts on Monday 21 December and the second on Monday 4 January. Each series has two phone, two CW, two RTTY and two FT4 events. Christmas HQP […]
