eHam.net News for Wednesday 6 April 2016
 

eHam.net News

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RSGB Announces New General Manager:

Posted: 05 Apr 2016 05:49 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/36509


Following the announcement in January that Graham Coomber, G0NBI was to
retire from his role as General Manager of the Society, we are pleased to
announce that Steve Thomas, M1ACB has been appointed as his successor.
Steve joins us from a successful career in the IT and telecoms industry,
with senior roles in management, leadership and strategy. He has also
served as a director of an international standards organisation and brings
experience of contract, project and financial management. He will be
working with the Board to review the Society's strategy, to ensure that the
RSGB works effectively to increase awareness and understanding of amateur
radio, wireless science and its technologies, and also to make the hobby
accessible to everyone.


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Ofcom Pausing Revocations:

Posted: 05 Apr 2016 05:48 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/36508


Representatives of the Society met with Ofcom last month. Further details
are on the Notices section of the RSGB website. Subjects discussed included
how the Society and Ofcom could work more effectively to tackle reports of
EMC, implementation of the WRC-15 agreement to harmonise the spectrum
allocation at 5MHz and progress with licence revocation. Ofcom reported
that, due to the commissioning of a new IT system, there would be a pause
in the revocation process until later in the Spring.