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Contest News – 27 April 2025
The UK and Ireland DX CW Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday 26 April and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday 27 April. Using CW on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. UK and Ireland stations also send their district code. The SP DX RTTY […]
Propagation News – 27 April 2025
We had yet another week of unsettled geomagnetic conditions. The Kp index peaked at 5.33 on the 21 April as the solar wind speed hit just above 600 kilometres per second, and active geomagnetic conditions were observed. This was caused by a massive coronal hole on the Sun’s surface, which measures nearly 700,000km in length. […]
New RSGB membership benefit for 2025
As a new benefit, the Society has teamed up with several museums to offer RSGB members discounted entry for 2025. Members can receive between 20 and 50 percent off admission fees at Amberley Museum, Bawdsey Radar Museum, Internal Fire Museum of Power, PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications, and The National Museum of Computing. Whether […]
RSGB Board announces Director liaison roles
Following the RSGB 2025 AGM on Saturday 12 April 2025, a brief Board meeting was held. The Board elected Stewart Bryant, G3YSX to continue in the role of Board Chair and Peter Bowyer, G4MJS to continue as Vice Chair. Both will remain in these roles until the 2026 AGM. The Board liaison roles with RSGB […]
RSGB shares original 1925 IARU formation announcement
World Amateur Radio Day is on Friday, 18 April 2025. On the same day in 1925 the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris. To celebrate this the RSGB has shared a T & R Bulletin from 1925 that details the original announcement about the IARU’s formation. This unique document has been made publicly available […]
Also in the weeks GB2RS…
The RSGB website has a wealth of information available to you, and the search function is a useful tool to find what you are looking for. However, to make things as straightforward as possible, the Society has updated the contacts page on its website. If you need to get in touch about something specific, you’ll […]
