Many thanks to Nicki Pointer for recording a short video message promoting International Nurses Day (IND) and our ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign with the NHS. Nicki is a Queen’s Award winner, the Crowborough Community First Responders’ Team Leader as well as a Ward Manager/Senior Sister at Tunbridge Wells Hospital. We are very […]
Worksop ARS is running nets on two frequencies: 145.225 for those requiring help 145.450 for companionship and wellbeing Several club members are monitoring 145.225 around the clock and many regularly check in on the frequency, especially self-isolators.
Dragon Amateur Radio Club and North Wales Radio Society are collaborating to run the special event station GB0GIG (Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol), which is Welsh for National Health Service. The aim of the station is to thank all the NHS workers in Wales for their strength and hard work in tackling the Covid–19 pandemic and also […]
Board Director Stewart Bryant, G3YSX leads the RSGB Operating Team. In this video he explains how that team is supporting ‘Get on the air to care’ through the various activities it has launched. Take a look and find out more…
Roy Bailey, G0VFS sent us this great photo for our ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign. It is of a project he has been working on during the coronavirus lockdown. It is his version of a vibroplex semi-automatic Morse key. You can find more details about it on his blog.
Paul Devlin, G1SMP—NHS England Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and also RSGB District Representative—was interviewed on the British Forces Broadcasting Services Breakfast Show on 7 May 2020. Paul chatted about the GOTA2C campaign, amateur radio, the RSGB and the NHS radio station GB1NHS. BFBS radio broadcasts nationally across the UK and in 20 countries, 10 […]
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 […]
