RSGB Notices
2025 Band Plans
The 2025 Band Plans can be found in the March edition of RadCom. These incorporate further VHF and UHF changes in response to the increased demand that has been prompted by the new Ofcom Amateur Licence; and a few from the 2023 IARU Region-1 General Conference. The band plans are also available on the RSGB […]
A year in numbers: 2024
Despite continuing challenges nationally and across the world during 2024, the amateur radio community stayed strong and the RSGB supported it. The RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB wrote his annual feature A Year in Numbers for the March 2025 RadCom and shared some great things to celebrate, in which RSGB HQ staff often led […]
Submit your RSGB Construction Competition entry
Don’t forget to submit your entry to the RSGB Construction Competition by Saturday 1 March. You’ll need to email a short description of your entry and up to four photographs. It is also recommended to send a link to a video that demonstrates your entry working. The judges will be considering entries in six categories: […]
March Tonight@8: a one-man antipodean adventure
Between January and March 2024 Bob Bower, GM4DLG took on a one-man antipodean adventure. The DXpedition is currently being serialised in RadCom, and on Monday 3 March, he will be delivering a Tonight@8 presentation to complement these features. The trip was eight weeks long and covered 27 activations from 11 sites on six islands. Bob operated on […]
RSGB Board – January 2025 key messages
Following its meeting in January, the RSGB Board has shared these key messages: 2024 Membership: At the end of 2024 the total number of RSGB members stood at 20,401 which is a nett fall of 153 members or 0.74% in the year. However membership is slightly higher than it was in 2014. As the budget assumption […]
March 2025 – Strategic priorities update
Taking amateur radio to a new audience As a radio amateur I consider myself to be in a very privileged position as a licence holder. The licence offers me almost endless opportunities to tinker – and that’s what I very much like to do. Over the last couple of weeks, I have constructed a couple […]
