GB2RS News

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Introducing the RSGB web app

March 21, 2025

We are excited to give you a first look at the RSGB app! We’ve just launched the web version of our app which is your one-stop shop for all RadCom publications and club newsletters. The web version gives RSGB members easy access to over ten years of back issues of RadCom, as well as RadCom Basics and RadCom Plus. We’ll be adding more back issues of RadCom from the archive in the coming months to make it even more valuable. You’ll ...

Unopposed candidates for Elected Board Director

March 21, 2025

For some roles in the RSGB elections, a single nomination was received. These include the two vacancies for Elected Board Directors. Peter Bowyer, G4MJS and Mark Savage, M0XIC will each take up the role of Elected Board Director at the end of the RSGB AGM on 12 April 2025. They were interviewed separately to enable RSGB members to hear their views on the current issues facing amateur radio and the RSGB. Their answers were combined into ...

RSGB 2025 AGM

March 21, 2025

The RSGB 2025 AGM will take place at 10am on Saturday, 12 April 2025 and will be held online to ensure as many members as possible can watch and take part. The formal business of the meeting will include the results of members’ votes on the resolutions and details about the election. The RSGB President John McCullagh MBE, GI4BWM will give a video review of 2024 and then the Society will announce the recipients of its annual awards and t...

Also in GB2RS this week…

March 21, 2025

Maritime Radio Day 2025 starts at 1200UTC on the 14 April and finishes at 2200UTC on the 15 April. The annual event takes place to commemorate the almost 100 years of wireless telegraphy service for seafarers, which ended in the UK with the closure of Portishead Radio on the 30 April 2000. This event is a great opportunity to have a QSO with former Marine Radio Officers and Coast Station professionals who will be exchanging details of t...