The RSGB receives complaints from time to time regarding incidences of deliberate jamming and foul or inappropriate language on the air. The Operating Advisory Service provides advice on the RSGB website about how to deal with these problems. The Society has been trying to quantify the size of the problem and recently made a Freedom […]
This year’s RSGB Convention on Saturday 10 October has moved online due to the Covid-19 social distancing restrictions. We’ve just released a short video on our YouTube channel in which the Convention Chair David Bondy, G4NRT chats to Tonight@8 host David Palmer, G7URP about how this new-style event will run and how you can take […]
The RSGB and NHS campaign ‘Get on the air to care’ was featured in this week’s Amateur Radio Newsline report. The report also includes the RSGB’s announcement of the expansion of remote invigilation exams to include the Full licence exam.
Following on from the success of the remote invigilation exams for the Foundation and Intermediate licence, the RSGB is now expanding that to include Full licence exams. From Thursday 24 September the automated booking system will accept exam bookings for all three licence levels. Please note that the earliest date available for exam bookings at […]
The proceedings from the RSGB August Board meeting are on the website. Key points were: An IARU Region 1 update from Don Beattie G3BJ, President IARU Region 1 The continued dramatic rise in numbers of both exam entrants and joining members which underpins the RSGB’s ability to represent the interests of radio amateurs in the […]
On Sunday 20 September the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) held its 2020 Conference and AGM online. RSGB General Manager, Steve Thomas, was invited to participate in the keynote presentation with IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH; ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR; and RAC President Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA as moderator. The focus was “Amateur Radio during […]
The RSGB’s Examinations Standards Committee (ESC) has published its 2020 report which looks back on activities during 2019 – you can read it and previous reports on our website.
Today BBC Points West ran a short feature at lunchtime and a longer piece in the evening news about ten-year old Caitlin, M6XTT who passed her Foundation Licence exam via remote invigilation recently after being tutored by her grandfather Don, G3XTT during the lockdown. Caitlin’s Mum, Jane, also talked about the family tradition of being […]
This morning BBC Radio Somerset interviewed ten-year old Caitlin, M6XTT, her grandfather Don, G3XTT and RSGB General Manager, Steve Thomas, M1ACB. Caitlin passed her Foundation licence recently via remote invigilation after being tutored by Don. You can hear the interview for 30 days on iPlayer. The pre-recorded trailer with Steve was used as part of […]
The latest ICQ Podcast Episode 333 is out now. It features an in-depth chat with the RSGB/NHS ‘Get on the air to care’ team about how it has inspired the growth of amateur radio over the last six months. The interview with RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB; NHS Representative Paul Devlin, G1SMP; and RSGB […]
