News
Note from our patron, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT
The RSGB Commonwealth Contest (formerly known as the British Empire Radio Union – BERU) is one of the longest-running contests in the HF contesting world. It promotes contacts between stations in the UK&CD, Commonwealth and Mandated Territories. The 80th Commonwealth Contest will take place on 11 – 12 March 2017 between 1000 – 1000 UTC. […]
VDSL interference
The RSGB’s Electromagnetic Compatibility Committee (EMCC) has worked with BT Technology Services and Operations and also Openreach to design a new process to improve the way multiple line checks are done. This can only be used where the EMCC has received reports from amateurs that it checks and believes are caused by VDSL RFI. In these cases, lines in the near vicinity of […]
RSGB Awards Manager
The Board has appointed Chris Burbanks, G3SJJ to the position of RSGB Awards Manager. He will be working with a small team to review the RSGB Awards Programme and making recommendations to improve the processes for claiming and fulfillment of the awards. Active on all HF bands with a Worked DXCC total of 327 countries, […]
Happy New Year from RSGB
The news team and all the staff at RSGB HQ would like to wish our newsreaders, listeners and online readers a very Happy New Year. We would like to remind every one that the deadline for news items is 10am on Thursday mornings and we welcome your news every week. Please send all information to […]
GB2RS 5MHz time change
Due to ongoing propagation changes, the team of 5MHz GB2RS newsreaders has decided to revise the time of the Sunday afternoon GB2RS News bulletin in order to try and optimise reception conditions. The new transmission time will be 1500UTC. Please note that this is UTC and not local time, which is to cater for seasonal […]
Act now to get elected
This is the time of year when we call for volunteers to step forward for election at the RSGB AGM, which will take place at the Angel Hotel in Cardiff on 22 April 2017. In 2017 the RSGB will be looking to appoint one elected Board Director, one nominated Board Director and five Regional Managers. […]
