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RSGB members, have you cast your vote in the RSGB 2026 elections yet? To help you get to know the candidates, the Society has prepared two sets of videos. The first will help you to get to know the three Elected Director candidates. Who do you think will best serve the Society and amateur radio? […]

The 2026 Youngsters on the Air Summer Camp takes place between 25 July and 1 August 2026 in Wagrain, in the Austrian Alps. This is a chance of a lifetime for young RSGB members to represent their country and their national society. To be part of this fantastic event, you need to be a RSGB […]

The RSGB EMC Committee has released a new leaflet explaining how to build a portable loop antenna to help radio amateurs find sources of EMF interference. Pair it with a portable receiver, and you can walk around an area, watching for changes in signal strength to pinpoint where interference is coming from. The antenna itself […]

The next Tonight@8 webinar is on Monday, 13 April 2026. During the presentation Mark Foreman, G7LSZ will be looking at what happens when your rig goes to the shack in the sky. He will look at what recycling is, its purpose, and the basics of recycling waste electronic and electrical equipment. Tonight@8 webinars are live […]

Today, 5 April, from 11am, the Broadcast Engineering Museum is holding an open day. The museum has one of the largest collections of historic broadcasting equipment in the world, including outside broadcast vehicles, TV cameras, videotape and telecine machines, audio equipment, transmitters, TV lighting and public address systems. The open day will include an exhibition […]

Godalming Museum in Surrey is hosting special event station GB2MGY on Saturday, 11 April from 11am to 2pm. The station is operating to celebrate the birthday of Jack Phillips, one of the Morse operators on the Titanic. Visitors to the museum can learn Morse code and send a message to earn a certificate. Find out […]

The Ramsbury Amateur Radio DX Group will be active as GB1RY during the first two weekends in April from the disused USAAF Ramsbury for Airfields on the Air. The team will be operating using CW, FT8 and SSB on the 40 to 10m bands. Paul, WA4PAW is active as C6APS from Great Abaco, A-080, in […]

The SP DX CW and SSB Contest started at 1500UTC yesterday, 4 April, and ends at 1500UTC today, 5 April. Using CW and SSB on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Polish stations also send their province code. Today, 5 April, The UK Microwave […]

Over the last week we have had a fair sprinkling of sunspots, along with some enormous coronal holes, including one almost rectangular hole. Coronal holes are lower energy areas on the Sun with open magnetic field lines, allowing solar plasma to flow out. Geomagnetic conditions have mainly been settled, with the Kp index hitting a […]