Author: rsgb

Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 14 July 2019 (12-page/166KB Microsoft Word document)

Confused by all the recent talk about the World Radio Conference, CEPT project teams, etc? The RSGB has put together a few slides (3-page/300KB PDF) that explain the layers in the international regulatory cake—these are part of the wider resource on WRC-19 at rsgb.org/wrc-19. Join VERON, the Dutch National Society, in a 2m propagation experiment […]

This Sunday, the 14th, the Cornish Radio Amateur Club Rally will be held at Penair School, St Clements, Truro TR1 1TN. Doors open from 10.30am to 4pm. There will be trade stands and a bring-and-buy. Catering is available on-site. Contact Mike Halloway on 01209 211 069. Today, the 14th, the McMichael Radio Rally and Boot […]

Ignazio, IT9AGZ will be active as IF9/IT9AGZ from Levanzo Island, EU-054 between the 16 and 28 July. QSL via his home call. Harry, JG7PSJ will be active as JG7PSJ/7 from Oshima, AS-206, one of the new IOTA designations, starting around 2200UTC on 19 July until around 0600UTC on the 21st. He will operate CW, SSB […]

Gilwell Park also hosts GB2GP and has been getting Scouts on the air for over 50 years. To celebrate Scouting’s 100 years, GB100GP this Sunday, the 14th of July, when Gilwell Park is open to Explorer Scouts and Ranger Guides. Leicester Radio Society will be hosting GB5EHL for Eagle Has Landed throughout the whole of […]

The IARU HF Championship 24 hour run ends at 1200UTC this Sunday, the 14th. Using SSB on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands the exchange is signal report and ITU zone, which for the UK is 27. On Tuesday the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal […]

Last week saw poor geomagnetic conditions on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the Kp index hitting five. This was due to a weak coronal mass ejection followed by the onset of a solar wind stream from a coronal hole. A solar wind speed above 650km/s, coupled with a strongly south-pointing Bz field, led to geomagnetic unrest […]

In our next step in an ongoing effort to protect the 144MHz band, the RSGB President has written to Ofcom regarding the recent World Radio Conference WRC-23 aeronautical proposal. Our input summarises the basis for our deep concerns, but also includes an appendix highlighting the multi-faceted nature of amateur radio activity and innovation in this […]

The RSGB invites young people, and an accompanying adult if the child is under 16 years, to join them at the National Radio Centre (NRC) at Bletchley Park on 6 August 2019 for a fun and hands-on workshop where they can learn more about radio and electronics. The workshop offers a short introduction to wireless […]

This week IARU expert and RSGB Microwave Manager Barry Lewis, G4SJH presented a key address to a panel session Keeping the Spectrum Clean at the 24th Annual Spectrum Summit in Germany that attracted 200 delegates from 34 countries. He said— The amateur radio community struggles with an ever-growing level of electro-magnetic pollution that is crowding […]