{"id":47025,"date":"2026-04-10T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=47025"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:12:52","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/04\/10\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-515\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughan Ravenscroft, M0VRR has stepped down as the RSGB&#8217;s Intruder Watch Coordinator. Ian Suart, GM4AUP has taken on this role, in addition to being the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/operating-advisory-service\/oas-coordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OAS Coordinator<\/strong><\/a>. The RSGB Monitoring System\u2014more popularly known as Intruder Watch\u2014forms part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/about-us\/committees-and-working-groups\/iarums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IARU Monitoring System<\/strong><\/a>. It submits reports of non-amateur transmissions heard on the exclusive HF amateur bands to both the Ofcom Monitoring Station at Baldock and to IARU Region 1. Find out more about the service at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/honorary-officers\/intruder-watch-co-ordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rsgb.org\/intruder-watch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that <em>Tonight@8<\/em> will stream live on Monday night\u201413 April 2026\u2014on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/jpGfmpnS1vs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB YouTube channel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>special BATC channel<\/strong><\/a>. The presentation will be delivered by Mark Foreman, G7LSZ who is an associate professor of industrial materials recycling at a university in Sweden. He\u2019ll be discussing the recycling process of waste electronic and electrical equipment, and what happens to your rig when it is no longer working. Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/tonight-at-eight-live-webinars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/webinars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next in the popular <em>145 Alive<\/em> series of events takes place on Saturday, 18 April 2026 from 1200 to 1500UTC. Many hundreds of operators are expected to be on the air using 145MHz FM and 144MHz SSB. For more information, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/906901577214402\/?locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>145 Alive<\/em> Facebook page<\/strong><\/a> or email <strong>145aliveuk@gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughan Ravenscroft, M0VRR has stepped down as the RSGB&#8217;s Intruder Watch Coordinator. Ian Suart, GM4AUP has taken on this role, in addition to being the OAS Coordinator. The RSGB Monitoring System\u2014more popularly known as Intruder Watch\u2014forms part of the IARU Monitoring System. It submits reports of non-amateur transmissions heard on the exclusive HF amateur bands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47025","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\/20399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47046,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47025\/revisions\/47046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}