{"id":45590,"date":"2026-02-13T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=45590"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:37:06","slug":"learn-your-freedoms-and-restrictions-in-respect-to-repeaters-gateways-and-packet-radio-in-marchs-tonight8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/02\/13\/learn-your-freedoms-and-restrictions-in-respect-to-repeaters-gateways-and-packet-radio-in-marchs-tonight8\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight@8: Rules for repeaters, gateways and packet radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2024, Ofcom made significant changes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/licensing-novs-visitors\/uk-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>amateur radio licensing conditions<\/strong><\/a>, but how has that affected your freedoms and restrictions in respect to repeaters, gateways and packet radio?<\/p>\n<p>In the next episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/tonight-at-eight-live-webinars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Tonight@8<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, two members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/emerging-technology-co-ordination-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Emerging Technology Coordination Committee<\/strong><\/a> (ETCC) will answer this question for you.<\/p>\n<p>Join Steve Morton, F4VTF and John McCullagh, GI4BWM live on Monday, 2 March 2026 on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wM4oQDRy238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> RSGB\u2019s YouTube Channel<\/strong><\/a> or our <a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>special BATC channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a question on this topic, ensure you watch the webinar live and submit your question using the live chat feature.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight\/2026\/02\/02\/2-march-the-freedoms-and-restrictions-within-the-new-licence-ts-cs-with-respect-to-repeaters-gateways-and-packet-radio-by-steve-morton-f4vtf-and-john-mccullagh-gi4bwm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Tonight@8<\/em> page<\/strong><\/a>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2024, Ofcom made significant changes to the amateur radio licensing conditions, but how has that affected your freedoms and restrictions in respect to repeaters, gateways and packet radio? In the next episode of Tonight@8, two members of the RSGB Emerging Technology Coordination Committee (ETCC) will answer this question for you. Join Steve Morton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45590"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45693,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45590\/revisions\/45693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}