Colchester Radio Amateurs
Colchester Radio Amateurs have doubled their nets since the start of lockdown. See their website for details if you wish to join.
BBC Three Counties Radio
Steve Thomas, M1ACB and Paul Devlin, G1SMP were interviewed this morning on BBC Three Counties Radio – their piece starts at 1:23:48
BBC Three Counties Radio
Steve Thomas, M1ACB and Paul Devlin, G1SMP were interviewed this morning on BBC Three Counties Radio – their piece starts at 1:23:48
Newsie – Milton Keynes
Local newspaper coverage of our “Get on the air to care” campaign.
Get on the air to care – RSGB launches national campaign in partnership with the NHS
The Radio Society of Great Britain, working in partnership with the NHS, has launched a new campaign called “Get on the air to care” to support the emotional health and wellbeing of 75,000 licensed UK radio amateurs – just some of the 3,000,000 worldwide. Paul Devlin, NHS England Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and RSGB […]
Denby Dale ARC
When the Denby Dale amateur radio club was faced with having to cancel our regular meetings our immediate response was to organise a club net on 2m. This was well attended. I proposed that we should try to organise meetings online (as well as our regular radio nets) so that we could invite speakers to […]
Spalding DARS
The decision to temporarily suspended actual meetings made us evaluate how we stay in touch with the membership during a period of lockdown and social distancing. Our club meets every week and it is important and morally right that we consider not only each other’s safety, but also their mental wellbeing. To this end we […]
Two technical videos added to RSGB website
We’ve just added two new videos to the technical pages of our website, focusing on amateur television and microwave operations. They are a very basic introduction which, seen in conjunction with the explanatory information on the web pages, should give people an overview of these topics. They have also been added to a new ‘Technical […]
VDSL reporting – we need your help
In many areas of the UK, all of the HF amateur bands up to and including 20m are being blighted by interference from VDSL. This is the most widespread means of providing residential broadband internet services in the UK. Ofcom, which is responsible for investigating radio interference, says that it receives, on average, only six […]
Lockdown Morse
Fancy learning something new while you are at home? From 13 April Matt, M0PTO will be uploading videos to YouTube for a new course called Lockdown Morse. He has also created a Facebook page for the course.