ICQ Podcast reports: “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.”
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We’re delighted that amateur radio and our ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign with the NHS is featured prominently in the BBC news today. The RSGB worked with the journalist to provide facts and contacts; thank you to Vanessa Pearce and everyone who spoke to her. #GOTA2C
The Guernsey Amateur Radio Society (GARS) is holding a weekly “virtual club night” every Friday on 145.525MHz from 7.30pm (1830UTC). We also have an online forum where we can plan things, arrange help, discuss ideas etc. This is proving to be very popular, and we plan to keep it running after the lockdown. Phil Cooper, […]
Peter Valentine, a 96-year-old radio amateur from Eastbourne, is celebrating his birthday by aiming to contact 96 amateurs over the airwaves and walk 96 miles over the coming weeks. As a thanks to the NHS which has given him good care recently, he is using the special call sign GB0EDH to represent Eastbourne District General […]
Bury St Edmunds Amateur Radio Society, 94th Radio Shack and Waveney Radio will be operating special call-in stations on 2m and 80m, on Friday 8 May. Four special call signs will be on air: GB0RTM and G2TO for the Bury Club; MX0MFR for 94th Radio Shack; and MX0WRR for Waveney Radio. The three groups will […]
Following the AGM, the Nominations Committee met and John Rogers, M0JAV, John Spurgeon, G4LKD and Philip Willis, M0PHI were co-opted to join the Board of Directors until the 2021 AGM. The Board welcomes these experienced members and looks forward to working with them. The newly-defined areas of responsibility for all Board members will be on […]
Jerzy Jakubowski, SP7CBG was a past President of the Polish national society. He was a very active radio amateur for more than fifty years. For a long time, he served for our community as President of the Regional Division OT-15 of the Polish Amateur Radio Union (PZK), as Vice-President and President of the Presiding Committee […]
The RSGB is delighted with the support from radio amateurs and clubs for its Get on the Air to Care campaign with the NHS. You can find out more at rsgb.org/gota2c. On these pages we will also be highlighting stories and photos from clubs and individuals. If you have a story to tell about how […]
The latest figures for the RSGB’s remote invigilation of amateur radio exams shows that 116 exams have been run as of Friday, 1 May 2020. Of these, 109 candidates have passed and a total of 997 different questions have been asked. There are currently 80 exams booked and ready to be taken up until 8 […]
