Category: RSGB

We have no details of rallies in January. The first couple of the year will be the Barry ARS Table Top Sale on 1 February and the South Essex ARS Canvey Rally on 2 February.

Sergey, RX3AMY will be active as 8Q7MA from the Maldives until 23 January. This is a holiday-style operation and he will be mainly on 40 and 20m SSB. Jean, FG8NY, will be active with the special call sign TO10CWO from Saint Claude, Basse Terre Island in Guadeloupe, IOTA reference NA-102, between 17 and 31 January. […]

John, M0XIG will operate GB200FN until 3 February to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. QSL direct to M0XIG. The British Amateur Radio Teledata Group is celebrating its diamond anniversary. Members of the Group will be active as GB60ATG until June 2020. More information at bartg.org.uk.

We start with a reminder that all UK amateurs are required to revalidate their licence with Ofcom at least every five years. If it has been a while since you did that, go to www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your-licence or email spectrum.licensing@ofcom.org.uk. The process doesn’t take very long. Now for clubs that have more than one event this week. […]

We start with clubs that have more than one event this week. South Manchester Radio and Computer Club has a net today and next Sunday from 10.30am on 3,637kHz SSB. On Tuesday there’s a net from 8pm around 145.475MHz and Thursday sees a technical Q & A session. Details from Ron, G3SVW, on 01619 693 […]

No news items have been received for Northern Ireland this week.

We start with clubs that have more than one event this week. Burnham Beeches Radio Club has a club net today and next Sunday from 10.30pm, initially on 145.500MHz then QSY to 145.275MHz. Contact Greg, G4EBY, via email to ebytronics@gmail.com. Radio Society of Harrow has the shack open from 10am to 3pm today, Thursday and […]

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Changes to The IET Wiring Regulations (BS7671), which are now at 18th edition affect syllabus item 8A2 in the Safety section of the examination syllabus. Please see the following notice which explains further and is relevant to all three levels – Foundation, Intermediate and Full:- Changes to Syllabus Item 8A2 in the electrical safety section […]

Charles Frank Beech, known as Frank, was born on August 6th 1933. He grew up in England and attended radio school around the age of 16 where his love of radios began. From there he became a merchant marine radio officer for over 10 years, traveling the world on various ships. During that time he […]