News for England South-East – 15 March 2020

The situation with the Covid-19 virus is changing rapidly. You should check before travelling that the activities announced here are taking place. This listing is correct as of 12 noon on Friday the 13th of March. On Sunday Radio Society of Harrow continues its Intermediate course in the shack and there is a club net […]

News for England South-West – 15 March 2020

The situation with the Covid-19 virus is changing rapidly. You should check before travelling that the activities announced here are taking place. This listing is correct as of 12 noon on Friday the 13th of March. Torbay Amateur Radio Society Club has a net on 14.270MHz at 9.30am and 145.575MHz at 12 noon today and […]

News for Wales – 15 March 2020

The situation with the Covid-19 virus is changing rapidly. You should check before travelling that the activities announced here are taking place. This listing is correct as of 12 noon on Friday the 13th of March. Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society has a club net on the 80m band, SSB at 2.30pm today and next Sunday. […]

Walter Blanchard, G3JKV, 8 March 2020

Walter F Blanchard, G3JKV,   9 October 1930 – 8 March 2020 Stewart Bryant, G3YSX, was sad to hear that Walter, G3JKV, passed away on 8 March 2020 and says that “Walter did a lot to support amateur radio experimentation in the early days of our low frequency licence allocation”. The Royal Institute of Navigation […]

RSGB election voting opens

Voting for the RSGB elections is now open. On our AGM/elections web pages you will find: 1. The AGM Calling Notice 2. Details of the Resolutions 3. Candidate statements for the four people standing for elected Board Director 4. Candidate statement for the one person to be endorsed as a Nominated Director 5. Details of how to vote Internet voting […]

The RSGB’s NRC to close temporarily

The RSGB’s National Radio Centre welcomes individuals and large groups of people from across the world every week. With the increase in cases of coronavirus in the UK and other countries, the RSGB has taken the difficult decision to close the NRC temporarily from Wednesday 18 March. It will open as normal this weekend to […]

RAYNET helps in flooding emergency

North Humber RAYNET were recently activated during the widespread flooding that occurred on 27 February 2020 in Snaith, East Yorkshire. A temporary control station was first established at the ‘washlands’ near the village of the East Cowick during the afternoon of the 26th, with 13 members attending the developing situation over three days. Members were […]

Exercise Blue Ham this weekend

The RAFAC tell us that the next Blue Ham Radio Communications Exercise will be this weekend, 7 and 8 March 2020, using the 5MHz band. Details of the exchange of information to count as a QSO is at alphacharlie.org.uk/exercise-blue-ham. A Blue Ham certificate is available if you contact 10 or more special MRE call signs […]

February sees 6,873 visitors to the NRC

No fewer than 6,873 visitors were welcomed to the RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park during February. As part of the on-going recruitment campaign, two new volunteers joined the NRC team: Mike, G0RBB and Nick, M0NPH. The RSGB would like to thank them and the other NRC volunteers for their time.

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