Please send your rally and event news as soon as possible to radcom@rsgb.org.uk We’ll publicise your event in RadCom, on GB2RS, and online. The Cambridge Repeater Group Rally takes place on the 24th of April. The venue is Foxton Village Hall, Hardman Road, Foxton, Cambridge CB22 6RN. Doors open at 9.30am and admission is £3. […]
Braco, E77DX will be active holiday style as 8Q7DX from the Maldives, AS-013, until the 27th of April. He plans to operate on the 10 to 80m bands. QSL via Logbook of The World and E73Y. Michael, DF8AN will be touring the Caribbean until early May. He will be active from Martinique as FM/DF8AN until […]
Look out for GB1BB today from about 5pm to 7pm local time around 7.170MHz or 3.770MHz as well as 2m FM simplex and via GB3IW. Operators from the Isle of Wight Radio Society will be on the Bramble Bank in mid-Solent for the few minutes that it is exposed by this weekend’s extreme Spring tide. […]
On Monday the IRTS 70cm Counties Contest runs between 1300 and 1330UTC. It is followed by the IRTS 2m Counties Contest from 1330 to 1500UTC. Both use FM and SSB and the exchange is signal report and serial number. Please note that Irish stations will also send their county. On Tuesday the 1.3GHz UK Activity […]
Provisional results for the last 2021 IARU R1 VHF and UHF & Up Contests are available on IARU Region 1 VHF & Up Contest Robot.
For the 144 MHz band (September) we have received a total of 1999 logs from …
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, curator of the excellent Inches Per Second audio archive and blog. Bob kindly shares the following recording originally made on reel to reel tape. All of Bob’s recordings are lost and found sound, so the only information he has for each recording are the notes included on tape labels and boxes. If you can identify the date or any other information about this recording, please comment.
Bob notes the following about this found piece:
This [recording is] from the spring of 1968. [It] is a recording of broadcasts from Switzerland. The sound quality goes in and out here - it's never great, which is often the case with these shortwave recordings, but it's almost all listenable.
IARU R1 PRC in conjunction with the Region’s EMC Committee has submitted a paper to a recent European Commission Call for Evidence with respect to Solar Energy Strategy. Solar energy systems, which include Solar PV, are a progressive technology whose …
The recent long delays on the RSGB IT Helpdesk are now easing off, and while there is still a high number of tickets queued in the system, we hope to get to all outstanding cases by the end of this week. We know some of you have been waiting a very long time for a […]
We’ve just published a very short video outlining the new EMF regulations and the help/tools the RSGB provides for radio amateurs. There is a wealth of information and help on the RSGB website and we hope this video will point people towards that in a new way.
