To celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE day, the RSGB was planning to run GB3RS, GB1SOE and GB2DAY from the RSGB’s National Radio Centre. Due to current lockdown regulations, NRC Coordinator Martyn Baker, G0GMB will instead operate GB2DAY from just outside his house tomorrow as part of his street’s celebrations (with proper social distancing in […]
Thank you to members of South Bristol ARC who are supporting GOTA2C through all their current activities. As well as posting details about the campaign on the club website they have also sent details to their club members via email and shared it on the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn channels. They’ve created a temporary homepage […]
In March, during a routine 80m net, an amateur in the south-west remarked that he was elderly, without family to help him and was virtually out of food. The nearest RAYNET group, local to the gentleman concerned, were asked to see if anything could be done to help. The local coronavirus support network were alerted […]
Duncan Barkes on BBC London 94.9 (Radio) chatted about amateur radio on his programme on 5 May, following the feature on BBC news online. He outlined the topic from 09:19 and then had a phone-in chat to a radio amateur called Mark which starts at 36.18 We’re delighted that Mark is getting back into the […]
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On Tuesday 5 May the Dundee Messenger covered the BBC online news feature about the RSGB, amateur radio and the way that our ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign with the NHS is helping people during these times of social isolation.
It is great to see that Radio Enthusiast magazine has featured coverage of the BBC news online feature about amateur radio.
The RSGB and amateur radio were featured in a short piece on Midlands Today local TV news. It starts at 20:46 and ends at 22:54 but will only be available until about 6.30pm on Wednesday 6 May so listen soon!
“We started the daily net on 20 March and since then there have been hundreds of QSOs logged with stations from England, Wales, Ireland, France and Germany.” Nigel Spear, G4RWI “After joining the NRC as a volunteer I realised how much had changed with the hobby and as a result I was reluctant to get […]
