GB2RS News

The RSGB Online Convention is taking place on 9 October 2021. There will be two live streams of talks available all day with a Q&A session at the end of each talk. After the event, on the RSGB YouTube channel, you will be able to view the lectures as many times as you wish. Callum, M0MCX from DX Commander is no stranger to YouTube videos. He will talk about An Obsession with Antennas, covering everything from very basic antenna mode...

The RAF Air Cadets are planning to run the next Blue Ham Radio communications exercise on 16 and 17 October 2021. They hope that radio amateurs can put some time aside to join in with the cadets and staff on the shared section of the 5MHz bands. A Blue Ham participation certificate is available to those who contact 15 or more special Cadet call signs during the exercise—more details on alphacharlie.org.uk.

We have launched a new award to encourage people to use their new handheld and the substantial bandwidth we have at VHF and UHF, as well as— Do more radio-to-radio activity without the assistance of repeaters and internet gateways Be a bridge to other award programmes run by the RSGB (such as the 4-2-70 and 50MHz series), and to other organisations’ programmes (such as SOTA, WAB) where these bands are ideally suited and extensively equ...

Another casualty of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic is the 2021 Tokyo Ham Fair, scheduled for 2 and 3 October 2021. Due to the latest wave of infection this summer, the Japanese national society, JARL, has reluctantly decided to cancel the Ham Fair. They hope that the Tokyo Ham Fair will be back in 2022, under safer conditions. The recently formed Amplitude Modulation Amateur Society has announced the date of its very first monthly AM ...