Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site for Saturday 5 March 2016
 

Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site

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Power back on at RSGB HQ

Posted: 04 Mar 2016 08:41 AM PST
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Power has now been restored to RSGB HQ. We apologise for any inconvenience
caused on Friday afternoon by a power outage that affected the business
park we are based in. All HQ services are now back online. If you find any
services are responding unexpectedly, please raise a ticket with the Web
IT Helpdesk.

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Learn to write exam questions

Posted: 04 Mar 2016 07:59 AM PST
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Would you like to learn how the Examiners set questions and be able to take
these skills back to your club? Club trainers are constantly challenged
with the task of preparing practice questions which meet the needs of the
syllabus and their students. Members of the Exam Group, led by the Chief
Examiner, Alan Betts, []

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Longstanding newsreader retires

Posted: 04 Mar 2016 07:57 AM PST
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Trevor Harris, G2KF has decided to retire from reading GB2RS news due to
ill health. The RSGB would like to thank Trevor for his service to GB2RS
and the amateur community. If any one would like to be a news reader in the
south-west please contact Ken, G3VBA by email to .
Readers for other []

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Short call signs from the RSGB

Posted: 04 Mar 2016 07:55 AM PST
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As of 29 February, the RSGB has taken over the responsibility for
administering and distributing special contest call signs on behalf of
Ofcom. The criteria for the issuing of a SCC have also been reduced. Full
details and an application form are available from www.rsgb.org/scc and you
can also find a list of currently-issued special []

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Also in GB2RS this week

Posted: 04 Mar 2016 07:47 AM PST
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A review is ongoing of the syllabus for all three levels of Radio
Communications exams. This is being done by the Examinations Group and the
Syllabus Review Working Group. The intention is to better align the
Advanced with HAREC and to smooth out the steps more evenly between the
different levels of exam. Also, the []