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WRC-19 Day-8: Progress!?

Wednesday saw some encouraging signs for two key items  – Wireless Power (WPT-EV) and 50 MHz. First up was the re-work on the short AI-9.1.6 WPT-EV report that had been asked for by the Plenary. Significant background effort had been made to hone a couple of paragraphs for Committee-6 (COM6) to consider. This had a […]
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Membership Services scheduled downtime

There will be a server reboot for essential maintenance from 14.00 to 14.30 this afternoon, which will result in temporary unavailability of RSGB Membership Services Other services on the website will be unaffected.  Our apologies for any inconvenience.  
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WRC-19 Day-7: 23cms and A Long Day

A somewhat difficult start to the day’s proceedings began with another AI-10 Proposal being introduced for WRC-23 – protecting RNSS (Galileo etc) from secondary amateur usage in the 23cm band. From an amateur viewpoint this is more complex and unwelcome as a top level WRC item, than as a local CEPT work item (which has […]
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UPDATE. RSGB website connectivity issue

Investigations into this issue have continued by our service provider this evening but the issue is still effecting the server in question.  Again, our apologies for any inconvenience caused by the problem. ———————– We are experiencing intermittent connectivity on some of our web services. These services are being affected— RSGB Shop Live news feeds Some […]
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WRC-19 Day-6: Work resumes on all fronts

Week-2 started with both 50MHz and other items – inc a new arrival from afar. 50 MHz resumed after the weekend session. Discussions resumed in the sub-working group, trying to create a delicate balance between various potential allocations for amateurs; and appropriate protection criteria for other incumbent services such as mobile or broadcasting. A very […]
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WRC-19 Day-5+Sat: Dont Count your chickens…

Friday saw progress, as a few items became clear, or so people thought – as we went to overtime on Saturday. The third Plenary session of the conference was held on Friday afternoon. This saw items where there was a consensus for ‘No Change’ (aka NOC) being addressed. Two Agenda Items of interest were given […]
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Snips – News For Scotland – 3rd November

The news headlines:

  • New edition of RadCom Plus released
  • Latest news on WRC-19
  • 5MHz Newsreader wanted

GB2RS Script – HERE 

CLUB NEWS:

On Tuesday Dundee Amateur Radio Club is taking part in the VHF UKAC contest. Contact Martin, 2M0KAU, on 0776 370 8933.

On Tuesday Kilmarnock and Loudoun Amateur Radio Club has an activity and training night. Contact Len, GM0ONX, via email to klarcinfo@gmail.com.

On Tuesday Livingston and District Amateur Radio Society has an operating and training evening. Details from Cathie, 2M0DIB, on 01506 433 846.

On Wednesday Inverness and District Amateur Radio Society has its net from 8pm on 145.575MHz and GB7BI slot 1. Contact John, GM0OTI, via email to InvernessRadioSociety@gmail.com.

West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society has a Solder Group meeting on Wednesday and a hands-on evening on Friday. For details, see wosars.club.

On Thursday Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society has a junk sale. Contact Fred, GM3ALZ, on 01975 651 365.

On Thursday Lomond Radio Club is having a club night. Contact Barrie, GM4HEL, via email to gm0kzx@googlemail.com.

On Thursday Wigtownshire Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on programming computers by Oli, MM0YOS. Details from Clive, GM4FZH, via email to info@GM4RIV.org.

On Friday Ayr Amateur Radio Group has a club night. Contact Derek, MM0OVD, on 0744 793 1941.

On Friday Mid-Lanarkshire Amateur Radio Society is having a club night with tuition and radio operations. For details see mlars.co.uk.

From today to next Sunday Cockenzie and Port Seton Amateur Radio Club has activity days. More information from Bob, GM4UYZ, on 01875 811 723.

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New edition of RadCom Plus released

The RSGB is pleased to announce the new edition of RadCom Plus, Volume 4, Issue 1, is out now at rsgb.org/radcom-plus. RadCom Plus is the RSGB’s digital technical supplement and RSGB Members can read it in HTML5 flipbook, PDF and Epub formats. This issue contains over 50 pages and includes an Arduino Vector Network Analyser, […]
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WRC-19 latest news

The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) opened in Egypt on 28 October 2019. Daily reports of proceedings can be found on the RSGB’s social media and special focus page at rsgb.org/wrc-19. These reports are prepared by the RSGB volunteers attending the Conference. WRC-19 has a wide-ranging agenda, of which the amateur issues are but a […]

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