News
New RSGB ETCC Chair appointed
The RSGB is delighted to announce that Andrew Barrett, G8DOR has been appointed as the new Chair of the Emerging Technology Coordination Committee (ETCC) for an initial period of three years. Andrew is the current Vice-Chair. The ETCC functions to develop and enhance the UK amateur radio repeater and data communications networks and to promote […]
Bodleian talk on What is Wireless
A forthcoming lecture at the Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford may be interesting to radio amateurs. Jacob Ward, a Bodleian Libraries Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow will be speaking on What is Wireless and will explore what happened to ‘wireless’, from after World War II to the birth of the ‘new’ wireless in the 1980s and 1990s, […]
NRC to open six days a week
The RSGB is pleased to announce that the National Radio Centre, located at Bletchley Park, will now also be open on Mondays. Starting from Easter Monday, 2 April 2018, the NRC will now be open six days a week, closing only on Tuesdays. NRC opening times run in accordance to the Bletchley Park museum, 9.30am […]
Also in GB2RS this week…
An international amateur radio team that postponed a December 2017 DXpedition to the disputed Spratly Islands now plans to be on the air in early March from Layang Layang Island, also known as Swallow Reef, under Malaysian call sign 9M0W. The IOTA reference is AS-051. The operation will be on the air on 160 to […]
GB2RS News Script for 25 February 2018
Please click the link below to download this week’s news script GB2RS News Script for 25 February 2018
Rallies and Events News – 25 February 2018
This Sunday, the 25th, the BRATS Medway Radio Rally takes place at The Victory Academy, Magpie Hall Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 5JB. Doors open at 10am, with disabled visitors gaining access at 9.30. Admittance is £2.50. There is free parking and talk-in on 145.550MHz using the call sign GB4RRR. There will be trade stands and […]
