Gazette & Herald
Pickering radio amateur Phil Catterall, G4OBK talked to his local paper, the Gazette & Herald, about how he has been enjoying amateur radio for 40 years.
Third Tonight @ 8 webinar streaming now
Our apologies, there is a short technical delay – we’ll get the webinar started as soon as possible Our third live webinar in the Tonight @ 8 series, How to check with VDSL RFI with John Rogers, M0JAV, is now streaming live. Watch on YouTube* Watch on RSGB website Watch BATC stream with interactive chat […]
Tonight @ 8: How to check for VDSL RFI
Tune in tonight for the third Tonight @ 8 webinar How to check for VDSL RFI by John Rogers, M0JAV. You can watch the live stream and ask questions on either the RSGB YouTube channel or the special Tonight @ 8 channel on the BATC website. You can find out more about all the webinars at rsgb.org/webinars and you can also watch […]
Cambodia (XU) Gets On The ‘Air’
Some years ago unknown Koreans amateur radio operators left behind a very complete set of ham radio equipment and antennas at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPIC) near Phnom Penh. This great shack was sitting idle for some years until the Engineering Service Team of FEBC, through locally resident engineer, Mike Adams (XU7AJA/KH0AS) made contact with the school.
NPIC thought it might help interest students in radio careers if an amateur radio club could be started and the shack brought back into operation, which is how the NPIC Amateur Radio Club was born. Since anyone can be behind the mic as long as a properly licensed control operator is present, lots of professors and students got to spend time on the radios.The radio club has been active in contests, using Adams’ XU7AJA call sign.
FEBC International – Engineering Service Team held the first ARRL VEC Amateur Radio examination session in Cambodia on April 5.2018.
FEBC – Far East Broadcasting Company) an association of local broadcast ministries.
For further information checkout: https://guychrisfebc.blog/tag/npic/
RSGB papers for IARU-R1 Conference
Papers on a variety of topics by a team of RSGB volunteers are now available for the IARU-R1 Virtual Conference in October. HF-UHF Modernisation and the WRC-23 challenge in the 23cm band all feature https://conf.iaru-r1.org/part-1/documents/ The full set of IARU papers is due by early August.
Snips – News For Scotland – 12th July
The news headlines:
RSGB online Convention streams announced
Latest news on ‘Get on the air to care’
RSGB expands Remote Invigilation to Intermediate exams
GB2RS Script – HERE .
CLUB NEWS
During the COVID crisis a list of known club nets, and activities, is now being published on the West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society (WoSARS) web site. They have a table listing times and frequencies and this can be found at
https://wosars.club/radio-nets/
And, as noted in last Sunday’s GB2RS the following:
CANCELLATION – Lomond Radio Club – Crianlarich Rally Sunday 2nd August cancelled.
CANCELLATION – the Cockenzie and Port Seaton Mini Rally/Junk Night on Friday 14th August has been cancelled.
CANCELLATION – GMDX Conventition – Bannockburn – October, cancelled.
All other News Items relate to the Club Nets. Checkout the above LINK .
RSGB online Convention streams announced
The RSGB online Convention will consist of two streams. The first is called An introduction to… and will include a wide range of topics to support new and returning radio amateurs as well as existing amateurs who’d like to try something new. The second is Learn more about… where speakers dig deeper into the details […]
Latest news on ‘Get on the air to care’
The RSGB and NHS Get on the air to care campaign continues to gain coverage in the national and amateur radio media as well as being supported by clubs and radio amateurs. There are some great stories to read on the Society’s website that feature clubs like Denby Dale ARS, individuals such as remote exam […]
GB2RS News Script for 12 July 2020
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 12 July 2020 (11-page/200KB Microsoft Word document) Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link.
Also in GB2RS this week…
An article has just been published in Nature about the first amateur radio communication system in lunar orbit, Longjiang-2, also known as Lunar-OSCAR 94 or LO-94. It was built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology—thanks to the Spectrum Forum for this information. Despite the closure of many amateur radio events, you can still […]