Also in GB2RS this week…

| June 5, 2020

It is great to see amateur radio still being profiled on the wider media as the momentum of our ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign with the NHS continues to grow. This week RSGB Board Director Mike Bruce, Region 11 Representative Dean Brice, and Warrington Amateur Radio Club were all featured—go to rsgb.org/gota2c-media to find the links. Thank you to everyone who is showing their support by getting on the air, caring for other radio amateurs and trying new aspects of amateur radio. Go to rsgb.org/gota2c for more details about the campaign, and for stories from clubs and radio amateurs.

One from the history books now. On 14 June 1959 Leon Ward, G5NF made an AM contact with I1KDB in Naples using the 144MHz band. Leon was based in Fareham, Surrey, at IO91OF. At that time, it was a new world record for that band, at 1,084 miles. In January 2020, the record was set at 2,963 miles in a contact between D41CV and GM0EWX.

The first Youngsters On The Air online session took place on 28 May 2020. The successful session gathered more than 500 viewers from almost all of the Continent. If you didn’t have the chance to join the live event or just want to see all of it again, you can watch a recording of the event on YouTube.

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