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The RSGB National Radio Centre, located at Bletchley Park, will be closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. There will be reduced hours on New Year’s Eve when the Centre will be closing at 2pm. In addition to this, it will be closed for essential maintenance works on 5 and […]

Today, 7 December, Mid Devon Amateur Radio and Electronics Fair is taking place at Winkleigh Sports and Recreation Centre. The doors will be open from 9am to 1pm. Entry costs £3 per person and there is no charge for partners and under 16s. For more details contact Phil, G6DLJ on 07990 563 147 or email […]

Celebrating the city of Chemnitz, one of the European Capitals of Culture for 2025, a number of special event callsigns are active from Germany until Monday, 15 December. All QSOs will be uploaded to eQSL, Logbook of the World and Club Log. To read more, including information about certificates that are available for working the […]

Vlad, OK2WX and Paula, OK2YL are active as HP3/OK2WX and HP3/OK2YL from Panama until Wednesday, 10 December. They are operating CW and SSB with a focus on the 160, 80 and 40m bands. See QRZ.com for more information. Pierre, VK3KTB is active as VY0ERC from the Eureka Amateur Radio Club station on Ellesmere Island, NA-008, […]

The ARRL 160m Contest started at 2200UTC on Friday, 5 December and ends at 1559UTC today, 7 December. Using CW on the 160m band, the exchange is signal report. American and Canadian stations also send their ARRL or RAC section reference. Today, 7 December, the RSGB 144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest runs from 1000 to 1400UTC. Using […]

Andover Radio Amateur Club has a net on Sundays on 70.475MHz, starting at 11am. There is also a net on 145.275MHz on Mondays at 8pm. On Thursday, there is a net on GB7KT from 8pm. More details are available at arac.org.uk  Mal, G8FHI mal.g8fhi@btinternet.com  arac.org.uk Banbury Amateur Radio Society has a net on 144.5125MHz FM […]

Do you want to make a difference to the amateur radio community in your RSGB region? The RSGB has three Regional Representative posts that are available for nominations in the upcoming 2026 elections. These are for: Region 2 – Scotland North and the Northern Isles Region 7 – South Wales Region 9 – London and […]

An increasing number of modern technologies are being used in different ways within amateur radio. From artificial intelligence that helps you to write software, to a 3D printer that you can use to create amateur radio equipment. The RSGB has gathered some of these together in our Making Use of Emerging Technologies pages, and has […]

The RSGB reminds all radio amateurs that they must only operate within the UK allocated bands for each mode. Ofcom has noticed that, increasingly, radio amateurs are using FT8 outside of the UK 60m allocations. They are monitoring usage and will write to you if they observe your call sign operating outside of this band. […]