GB2RS News

Welcome to GB2RS News, the RSGB’s weekly radio broadcast news service relayed by our team of newsreaders to listeners across the UK and beyond every Sunday

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Join the final 2024 Tonight @ 8 live webinar

November 29, 2024

The final RSGB Tonight@8 webinar of 2024 is being broadcast on Monday, 2 December. Join Tim Hier, G5TM for a talk on the various HF antennas available for portable operating. He’ll also discuss how to use very basic modelling software to ascertain the choices you have at your disposal. Tim will look at topics ranging from balancing the convenience of multi-band systems with some trade-off in performance, to looking at using 40 metres po...

Strategic priority update: spectrum and licensing

November 29, 2024

The RSGB has taken the next steps to support its strategic focus on spectrum and licensing. The Society is now formally engaged on work for the 2027 and 2031 ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences. The RSGB has introduced a new special focus page on WRC-27 and WRC-31. This page includes topics such as 6G telecoms and satellites, wireless power, space weather, and lunar communications. Supporting a new WRC-31 opportunity, the RSGB is a...

RSGB HF Contests: what's new for 2025?

November 29, 2024

We have made some changes to our HF contests for 2025, outlined here. The details are available in our published rules; see the web link at the bottom of the article. FT4 Series The number of sessions in this popular series will be increased to 12 (one per month), with the best nine results contributing to each entrant’s final score for the year. With five bands available and lots of activity, each event will be extended to two hours, f...

Also in GB2RS this week…

November 29, 2024

Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) month begins on Sunday, 1 December 2024 and Marlborough Scout Group will be the first team of youngsters to operate. They are on the air up until midday on Sunday, and then again after 6pm. Also operating on Sunday is the Cambridge University Wireless Society, which is hosting the callsign GB24YOTA between 12pm and 6pm. Listen out for the group again on Friday, 6 and Saturday, 7 December. Other operators thi...