Also in GB2RS this week…
A reminder that the RSGB is looking for four licensed radio amateurs to help raise the profile of wireless communication amongst young people across the UK. We have had a good response, but we’d still like to hear from prospective volunteers in Northern Ireland and Wales. These volunteer Youth Country Representatives will represent the RSGB at externally organised events and will plan and deliver outreach activities. If you have plenty of ideas, a passion for getting young people involved in amateur radio and experience of running small-scale events, we would be very keen to hear from you. The deadline is Friday, 16 February 2024. For full details, visit rsgb.org/volunteers and, for an informal discussion, please email RSGB Board Director, Ben Lloyd, GW4BML at gw4bml@rsgb.org.uk.
GB2RS began broadcasting via the Es’hail-2 amateur satellite in May 2021. Every Sunday at 0800UTC you can hear the latest RSGB news on the dedicated narrowband QO-100 transponder frequency of 10489.855MHz. This has proved so popular that, by kind permission of AMSAT-DL, from 4 February 2024 we’re introducing a second reading at 2100UTC. This will suit our international audience in the western lobe of the footprint. The existing team of three newsreaders is looking for another volunteer to join them. If you are an RSGB member with a good QO-100 facility, and would be interested in broadcasting the news, please contact the GB2RS Manager, Steve, G4HPE at gb2rs.manager@rsgb.org.uk for further details.
During February 2024, the RSGB’s Photo Friday focus on social media is all about clubs. If you’d like your club to be included, let the RSGB comms team know what you’ve been up to, who’s been involved, and share all the brilliant things you’ve been doing. Email comms@rsgb.org.uk by the 31 January 2024 with a brief summary of the activity and some photos, and please make sure that everyone in the photo is happy to have their face on social media!
Chris Deacon, G4IFX has been awarded a PhD from the University of Bath after completing research on propagation. His thesis was entitled Radio Propagation through Ionospheric Sporadic E. This part-time work, over many years, involved looking at sporadic E on the 6m band, including making novel measurements of signal amplitude, phase, derived doppler, polarisation and potentially time delay, to discover the nature of sporadic E propagation at VHF frequencies. The RSGB Propagation Studies Committee congratulates Chris on this fantastic achievement. You can find out more by searching for Chris’ name on the University of Bath research portal. Chris has done a number of presentations about propagation at RSGB Conventions over the years, which you can see on the RSGB YouTube channel.
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