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March 28, 2025

The RSGB is delighted to announce that Chris Aitken, MM0WIC, who is the current RSGB Youth Champion for Schools, is taking on the new position of RSGB Youth Chair. For now, Chris will continue to fulfil his Youth Champion for Schools role but will also take on more responsibilities by leading the Youth Champion team. Chris will work closely with the Board Liaison for Youth, and IARU Youth contacts, to help attract more UK youngsters to ...

RSGB AGM – ask the Board a question

March 28, 2025

Do you have a question about the RSGB strategy? Perhaps you have a query about recent licence changes? Or maybe you’d like to understand more about membership growth? Whatever the topic, the Society is asking you to get in touch. RSGB Board members will be answering your questions during the RSGB 2025 AGM on Saturday 12 April. You can submit your question in three ways: Live via Zoom Send a written question in advance During the live...

Tonight@8 in April – using a glue stick in a homemade 40m receiver

March 28, 2025

The next webinar in the RSGB Tonight@8 series will be with Nick Wood, M0NTV on Monday 7 April. Nick will show you how to use a regular glue stick housing in a rather novel way to form the basis of a variable tuning inductor in a homemade 40m receiver. After a brief description of a Direct Conversion Receiver and a short technical explanation of how it works, Nick will dive into four separate modules. At the end of the webinar, he will s...

The RSGB has published new forms for exam question queries

March 27, 2025

As part of its modernisation of the exams systems, the RSGB has introduced online forms for reporting possible errors found in exam questions. These forms replace the current procedure of writing to the Exam Department. RSGB Examinations Standards Chair Tony Kent, G8PBH explained that there are two forms: The first can only be submitted by exam candidates and is to formally challenge questions in actual exams, where the outcome of a ch...