News
Centenary Dinner Photographs
To celebrate the formation of the RSGB in 5 July 1913 the Society held a Centenary dinner on the same date in 2013. The dinner followed the Centenary activity at Bletchley Park on the same day and was held at Horwood House, Buckinghamshire. You can now download two high-resolution group photographs of those who attended […]
RSGB Centenary Convention
The RSGB’s Centenary Convention, generously sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons, takes place over the weekend 11th –13th October 2013 at Horwood House just a few miles outside Milton Keynes. Because last year’s event was so popular, the numbers this year will need to be managed so booking early is going to be essential to […]
Harvey Fletcher, G8HQ
I’m writing to let you know of the death of my father at the age of 98. Harvey Fletcher was a founder member of amateur radio in the Darlington area in the 1930’s with G8HQ. He built all his own kit and transmitted round the world on 10W! I have all his QSL cards and […]
A new News site
A News sub-site with a different presentation is now available at www.rsgb.org/news/. It’s running in beta test at present, in parallel with the existing section. The main change is that News articles can now be read either in tile format or in Newsreels that show the news articles continuously. There are other changes to the navigation, […]
The Secret Listeners
On the BBC website, Bob King G3ASE tells his story as a voluntary interceptor during WWII. Paul Cort-Wright, G3SEM, gave a lecture on the work of the VI’s at our Centenary Day celebrations at Bletchley Park on 5th July 2013 . See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23162846
Ofcom updates
On page 7 of the July RadCom there was news on a number of Ofcom consultations. The release of spectrum at 2.3 and 3.4GHz is the topic of a substantial and thorough Ofcom consultation that also has wider implications for Secondary allocations and licensing and will conclude on 22 July. Both the Society and some […]
