{"id":46073,"date":"2026-03-06T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=46073"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:47:16","slug":"exam-handout-update-for-5mhz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2026\/03\/06\/exam-handout-update-for-5mhz\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam handout update for 5MHz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/full\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/direct-entry-to-full-licence-rsgb-consultation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Direct-to-Full<\/strong> <\/a>Exam Handouts, references EX309 and EX320, have been updated with immediate effect, so their 5MHz band plans now align with the main <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/band-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB band plan<\/strong><\/a> which was updated in January 2026. The new editions can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/exam-forms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/exam-forms<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The changes highlight that caution must be exercised to avoid out-of-band operation as well as the fact the band is for Full Licensees only. This follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ofcom<\/strong> <\/a>monitoring and warnings to errant operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Full and Direct-to-Full Exam Handouts, references EX309 and EX320, have been updated with immediate effect, so their 5MHz band plans now align with the main RSGB band plan which was updated in January 2026. The new editions can be found at\u00a0rsgb.org\/exam-forms. The changes highlight that caution must be exercised to avoid out-of-band operation as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073","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=46073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46149,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073\/revisions\/46149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}