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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RSGB elections: unopposed candidates

February 21, 2025

Nominations in the RSGB elections have closed. For some roles a single nomination was received, and the candidate is therefore elected unopposed and will take up their role at the end of the RSGB AGM in April 2025. These include the roles of President and also Regional Representatives in Regions 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12. In Region 9, no valid nomination was received. For more information about each of these unopposed candidates, see th...

2025 Band Plans

February 21, 2025

The 2025 Band Plans can be found in the March edition of RadCom. These incorporate further VHF and UHF changes in response to the increased demand that has been prompted by the new Ofcom Amateur Licence; and a few from the 2023 IARU Region-1 General Conference. The band plans are also available on the RSGB website in various formats, where more detailed change notes can also be found to guide users. In summary the changes for 2025 are: ...

A year in numbers: 2024

February 21, 2025

Despite continuing challenges nationally and across the world during 2024, the amateur radio community stayed strong and the RSGB supported it. The RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB wrote his annual feature A Year in Numbers for the March 2025 RadCom and shared some great things to celebrate, in which RSGB HQ staff often led the way. You can also see the highlights in a brief video on the RSGB YouTube channel. The April 2025 RadC...

Also in GB2RS this week…

February 21, 2025

Girlguiding groups will be celebrating World Thinking Day on the Air this weekend so listen out for them and encourage the young operators. To highlight the opportunities for young people to get involved in amateur radio activities, this week the RSGB has published two new videos that celebrate the fantastic ISS contact and STEM day held in the autumn and attended by HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh. You can watch both the videos on the RSG...