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

You can also check GB2RS Regional News for local news in your area

Items for GB2RS News must be sent to radcom@rsgb.org.uk by 10am on the Thursday of the week of broadcast

RSGB Lecture Coordinator vacancy

December 20, 2024

The RSGB facilitates just over sixty lectures each year in a mixture of in-person, hybrid and remote formats. Fifty of these are at the RSGB Convention, and eleven are delivered through the livestreamed Tonight@8 webinars programme of events. This set of presentations aims to cover a wide mix of amateur-radio-related subjects, across all depths of amateur radio experience and knowledge. They are watched and admired by RSGB members and n...

YOTA Month draws to a close

December 20, 2024

Youngsters on the Air Month is nearly at a close. It has been filled with some brilliant activity from young people using special callsign GB24YOTA. Thank you to everyone who has been involved, including those who have been supervising young amateurs and those making contact with them on the air. Before the year ends, we still have some activity using GB24YOTA, so please continue to listen out. Tomorrow, Monday 23 December, Hilderstone ...

The first RSGB Tonight@8 webinar of 2025

December 20, 2024

The first RSGB Tonight@8 webinar of 2025 will be live on Monday 6 January. The presentation is all about the RSGB’s news service ‘GB2RS’ which will be celebrating its 70th anniversary next year. A team of people will contribute to the live presentation and will give you a behind-the-scenes insight into how the script is compiled as well as a Newsreader’s perspective of the weekly broadcast. They’ll share details of the plans being put i...

Also in GB2RS this week…

December 20, 2024

The RSGB will be releasing four new presentations from its 2024 Convention over the festive season. If you’d like to be the first to hear about new releases as soon as they are available, go to youtube.com/theRSGB and subscribe to receive notifications. The RSGB YouTube channel has hundreds of other videos and webinars to enjoy, as well as numerous playlists on amateur radio construction, useful practical skills, technical topics and mu...