IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter December 2020
The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter December 2020 is now available. Click on the link to read it! …
Provisional results Marconi Memorial VHF Contest
Provisional results for the last Marconi Memorial VHF Contest are available on IARU Region 1 VHF & Up Contest Robot .
We received a total of 892 logs from 28 different countries in the Region 1.
The complaining period will end on February …
RSGB NRC volunteers recognised
Despite the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) being closed to visitors since March, a lot of work has gone on to install or upgrade the radio station set-up and the supporting PC applications in the radio room. The NRC 80m NET has also run continuously every weekday and a slow Morse training session has been […]
White Horse News
Roy Bailey, G0VFS won the Lockdown Category in the RSGB’s annual Construction Competition and donated the beautifully-engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key for our charity auction which ended on 19 December for ‘Get on the air for Christmas’. Roy says, “It seemed only logical and fitting that the story of this key should end with it […]
The Munsters – ‘Just For The Memories’
Tonight @ 8 spring programme kicks off tonight
The RSGB’s Tonight @ 8 spring programme gets started this evening with Amateur Radio Construction by Steve Hartley, G0FUW and Pete Juliano, N6QW This presentation covers the reasons why people homebrew radio equipment, shares some ideas on how to get started, and provides some examples of homebrew gear, using hardware, and software. You watch this […]
5 MHz Band in South Africa
South Africa’s SARL has asked the communications regulator ICASA to allow radio amateurs a 100 kHz wide allocation in the 5 MHz (60m) band with 400 watts output. In terms of the outcome of the WRC-15, ICASA published on 25 …
Amateur Radio Takes Precedent
In 1911, George S. Barton, of Somerville, Massachusetts, founded and published the first edition of Boys’ Life magazine. It was edited by 18-year old Joe Lane of Providence, Rhode Island. He called it Boys’ and Boy Scouts’ Magazine. At that time there were three major competing Scouting organizations: the American Boy Scouts, New England Boy Scouts, and Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Five thousand copies were printed of the first issue of Barton’s Boys’ Life, published on January 1, 1911. The more widely accepted first edition is the version published on March 1, 1911. With this issue, the magazine was expanded from eight to 48 pages, the page size was reduced, and a two-colour cover was added. In 1912, the Boy Scouts of America purchased the magazine, and made it an official BSA magazine. BSA paid $6,000, $1 per subscriber, for the magazine.
MORE Info: Wikipedia .
Snips – News For Scotland – 10th January
The news headlines:
- Happy New Year from RSGB
- Volunteers invited to stand for election
- Celebrating 200 years of Greek independence
GB2RS Script – HERE .
CLUB NEWS
Details of all known nets in Scotland are collated by RSGB Regional Rep Tony, MM0TMZ in association with Jack, GM4COX and the West of Scotland ARS’s Website – RADIO NETS .
The Loch Lomond Sunday night net using MB7IBH and 144.9625MHz in the Vale of Leven area has resumed.
The GMDX January Activity Challenge 2021 continues until the 31st of January. The Challenge is open to all current members of GMDX. Full details from Rob, GM3YTS via email to gm3yts@btinternet.com or checkout their WEBSITE .
If you wish to have your net listed on the WoSARS website or to report any changes please contact Tony Miles, MM0TMZ by email to rr1@rsgb.org.uk. Remember also to keep GB2RS updated via email to radcom@rsgb.org.uk . Please note that the deadline for submissions is 10am on Thursdays.
Construction competition – still time to enter
‘Get on the air for Christmas’ has ended but you still have time to enter the special construction competition. It is open to projects that have been carried out during the autumn 2020 lockdowns, over the Christmas holiday season or in the current lockdowns and restrictions. Projects can be hardware, software or a system and […]