Following its meeting in July, the RSGB Board has shared these key messages. The Board: Received reports about the Society’s attendance at the Hamcation in Florida, the Dayton Hamfest and the Friedsrichafen “Ham Radio 2024” event. All three events had proven financially viable. Many new members joined the Society or renewed their membership. The events […]
The RSGB Convention this year will have a mix of presentations, workshops and forums to enable you to take part in the content that suits you. On Saturday morning there will be an EMC and EMF Update presentation, followed by an informal EMC and EMF Clinic in the afternoon. Led by RSGB EMC Committee Chair […]
The RSGB is thrilled to welcome the University Technical College South Durham Radio Club to its School Zone webpage. The Club, which is operating using call sign M1UTC, is being led by Professor Ian Neal, M0KEO who is also the RSGB’s British Science Week Coordinator. The Club is looking forward to operating at the start […]
As part of the RSGB commitment to keeping members updated, the Awards Manager has issued some key messages about RSGB operating awards so far this year. Lindsay Pennell, G8PMA is always keen to hear from radio amateurs about the type of awards they enjoy and new ones they would like the RSGB to develop if […]
At the halfway point of 2024, we had issued 19 awards this year, slightly less than usual 11 of the 19 awards issued have gone to non-UK amateurs, a higher percentage than usual although this evens out to between 25% and 33% by end of year usually IARU Region 1 awards are most popular, followed […]
The RSGB is delighted to announce that bookings are now open for its 2024 Annual Convention. This year, in response to requests for more flexibility, the Society has created a new booking system that allows attendees to create a Convention package that suits their preferences for attendance and hotel accommodation. In addition, the keynote speaker […]
The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly licensed. It is open to anyone who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing. If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend someone to be awarded […]
We are delighted to announce that Nigel Thrower, G3YSW will be the RSGB National Coding Week Coordinator this year. The RSGB took part in this national event for the first time last year and many groups had fun with the activities we supplied. You can see the activities we published last year on our website […]
The RSGB remote exam invigilation team was delighted that the 8,000th Foundation candidate took and passed their exam online recently. This is a significant milestone since the Society introduced remote invigilation exams in 2020. The RSGB would like to thank the dedicated remote invigilation team and sends its good wishes to all the candidates as […]
The RSGB’s popular Tonight@8 webinar series takes a break in August, but there are two great presentations lined up for the start of the autumn programme. On Monday the 2 September, Brian Coleman, G4NNS will give an update on the Meteor Beacon Project. The following month, on Monday 7 October, there’s a chance to hear about “Aircraft […]
