News for England South-West – 13 June 2021

Thornbury & South Gloucestershire ARC has a daily net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. Wednesday sees a Zoom meeting from 8pm and will, hopefully, resume on the 23rd. On Friday there is a net on 145.450MHz from 8pm. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk Weston Super Mare Radio Society has club night in the Weston Social Club from […]

News for Wales – 13 June 2021

Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society has an 80m SSB net from 2.30pm every Sunday. There is a 2m FM open net from 8pm every Tuesday and Thursday via GB3FG. On Wednesdays there is an FM or Fusion net from 7.30pm via GB3CM, which may still be operating at low power. Contact Andy, GW0JLX, on 0776 828 […]

IARU in the CEPT Working Groups

IARU volunteers have been participating in the CEPT FM and SE Working Groups looking after the amateur and amateur satellite service interests. CEPT WG-SE #88 took place during April and WG-FM #99 took place at the end of May. WG-FM’s …

Kyrgyzstan: Allocation for 60m / 5 MHz

The Union of Radio Amateurs of Kyrgyz Republic (ARUKR) announced that on 4th June 2021, the Kyrgyzstan Telecommunications Regulator made the new WRC-15 Amateur Secondary Allocation of 5351.5 – 5366.5 kHz available to Kyrgyz hams at a maximum power of …

HF Band Plan revised

The HF band plan in its version of 16 October 2020 (Virtual General Conference “Novisad”) including the annex has been revised. The band plan comprises 2 pages, as does the explanatory annex. It can be downloaded via this URL: https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/hf_r1_bandplan.pdf. …

GB2RS News Script for 6 June 2021

Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 6 June 2021 (16-page/411KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link.

National Radio Centre re-opens

The RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park re-opened last week in line with current Covid restrictions. The volunteers welcomed a fantastic 1,226 visitors over the Bank Holiday weekend and that number has continued to rise during the week. One young lad came with his father and they were both inspired to start studying for […]

Dartmoor Rally should run in June

The Dartmoor Radio Rally is due to take place on the 4th of July. In view of the uncertainties of Covid-19 restrictions that may be introduced at short notice, the organisers ask that visitors please check the website here before travelling.

HF radio performance on Tonight @ 8

The next Tonight @ 8 live webinar airs tonight at 20.00. In a change to the previously advertised programme, Rob Sherwood, NC0B is talking about Transceiver Performance for the HF DX and Contest Operator. His presentation explains the process that Sherwood Engineering go through to produce detailed performance figures for a wide range of transceivers, […]

Also in GB2RS this week…

IARU Region 1 Spectrum Affairs Chair, Barry Lewis, G4SJH, reports that efforts continue in defending the interests of amateur radio during preparations by CEPT for the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2023. Meeting on the 21st of May, the IARU worked with CEPT regional telecommunications organisations. The IARU put forward the agreed preliminary IARU positions for […]

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