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Wednesday, 20 May 19:30 Don Field G3XTT Editor of Practical Wireless WhenWed, 20 May, 19:30 – 20:30 WhereVirtual meeting (map) Description Don Field G3XTT Editor of Practical Wireless Zoom meeting ID 278 609 9353 ( Join by phone 0330 0885830) https://zoom.us/j/2786099353 more details? copy to my calendar

https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2020/04/02/rsgb-to-introduce-remote-invigilation-for-foundation-exams/ The RSGB has today announced online invigilation of foundation exams. Could this be a step towards a more streamlined foundation process in the future. Finally with all that is going on currently, I hope everyone is keeping well.

Hi all- never seen a wanted ad on here before so hoping Im not offending anyone!! I'm looking for a 2m and 70cm dual band mobile radio, personal preference would be a Yaesu but I will of course consider other makes Please can you get in touch with details of what you have for sale inc the price, I'll obviously cover the postage too Thanks - Kev - G4XLO

have just been given a dmr ty2 mf380 have dowload the latest softwere can anyboy help me get it up and running i have the dongle plug into the computer i belive i need a codeplug not sure what else u help would be much arishated tristan mw3vjn

encouraging seniors to join ham radio in the uk we have 11 million seniors 4 million live alone 1 million say they often feel lonely 20% say they see family neighbors and friends less than weekly we should aim our efforts at getting these people to join in ham radio seniors know how to make and hold a conversation amateur radio would help them to socialize today most radio amateurs are seniors themselves the average age of arrl members is 65+

https://rsgb.services/public/publications/emc/191011_ofcom_letter_re_rsgb_vdsl_meeting_8_october_2019.pdf

This is the topic that's kicked off the creation of this online chat group... In the new RSGB Workshop Group, RSGB VHF Manager John Regnault G4SWX set out his proposal for a new Entry Level amateur radio licence - this kicked off some interesting, and at times, heated debate, but as RSGB Workshop is a predominantly Tech group, the moderator locked the thread, preventing further discussion. This led us to discover that there's no real online place to discuss the future of the hobby and to share ideas for moving the hobby forward. The original thread, called "Red Rag" can be found here: /g/RSGB-Workshop/topic/34442497 The thread also kicked off a story on Southgate, which has created some interest - See New UK Entry Level Licence proposed ( http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/october/new-uk-entry-level-licence-proposed.htm ). So, do we need a new licence level? Discuss! Pete M0PSX

IARU and Amateur Radio are Reaching “an Inflection Point” 11/08/2019 Participants at the 45th meeting of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council (AC) in late September discussed the organization’s role in advancing amateur radio going forward. The IARU released a summary record of the meeting this week. IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH/G4HUA, who chaired the AC meeting in Lima, Peru, observed that the IARU and amateur radio are reaching what he called “an inflection point.” He asserted that amateur radio is changing, but the IARU and its member-societies are not. Ellam’s remarks prefaced a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges to be overcome if the IARU and amateur radio itself are to remain relevant. After several hours of discussion, AC participants agreed on four top-level headings to identify the challenges that must be faced: What is amateur radio? The roles of IARU and its member-societies Recruitment into amateur radio IARU finances The AC also agreed that it is essential to involve younger people from outside the Council in determining how to address these challenges, and the three IARU regions were asked to identify individuals who “could take ownership of these topics.” A small working group was named, consisting of IARU Region 2 Vice President Ramón Santoyo, XE1KK; Region 2 Area A Director George Gorsline, VE3YV, and IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ. Using topics discussed to develop a starting point, the panel will aim to have a draft version of a plan by mid-December to address the challenges that would serve as a basis for further discussion. IARU Region 1 (Europe, Africa, and the Mideast) has been a leader in marshalling interest among next-generation radio amateurs, sponsoring Youngsters On The Air (YOTA), and other youth-related activities, including a summer camp each year attended by young radio amateurs from around Region 1. IARU Region 3 noted at the Council meeting that it plans a Youth on the Air activity in Thailand next October and expressed the hope that Regions 1 and 2 can participate. In other matters, based on a suggestion from Fred Matos, W3ICM — a National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) spectrum manager — the AC agreed to change the objective of the IARU HF World Championship contest to read as follows: “To support amateur self-training in radiocommunications, including improving amateur operating skills, conducting technical investigations, and intercommunicating with other amateurs around the world, especially IARU member-society headquarters stations, using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter bands.” According to an AC meeting document, Matos’ rationale is that the objective of an IARU-sponsored activity should tie directly to the ITU Radio Regulations. In a related matter, the Council agreed to indicate to ARRL, which administers the competition, that it would favor relaxing rules for multioperator, single transmitter, mixed-mode entries — which the AC views as more restrictive and punitive than those that apply to most other contests — without affecting scoring and adjudication. Under current rules, multioperator, single transmitter, mixed-mode entries must remain on a band and mode for at least 10 minutes before changing bands or modes, and violating the band change rules will reclassify the entry as a check log. The IARU event is held each July. To keep informed on IARU happenings, subscribe to the ARRL-IARU online group, moderated by IARU Secretary Dave Sumner, K1ZZ.

given the rather large debt ofcom has run up i am not sure they would be in a position to bring in a new licence at this time i support any initiatives that brings more people into the hobby the recent changes to the foundation exam making it harder has seen only 19 candidates passing it in september i am not sure if reducing the numbers was the objective but if it was it has worked well acma the vk ofcom has given the radio amateur exam to a private exam company taking if away from the wia the vk rsgb could that happen here https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/156156/annual-report-18-19.pdf 73 ian g3zhi

Just been notified Simone Wilson, M0BOX has left the RSGB board. Another member left a few months ago. Is it the stress of the job ? Andy G4JNT

Folks, The group is barely three days old, and I've already had complaints about other members, plus a message calling for moderator involvement. Time for a quick moderator intervention. I'm not a fan of heavy moderation, don't want to get into banning people, having to mediate between warring factions, or unilaterally deciding that I've had enough of a thread, and locking it. Anyone who's on either RSGBTech or RSGBWorkshop will know that heavy moderation can be pretty unpopular and heavy on the inbox! I believe that everyone is entitled to their views. and as long as they stay within the accepted convention for online discussion, that's fine. I am conscious that others may not want to, or be interested in, reading messages that are off-topic or outside the hopefully positive scope of this group. *Solutions:* To anyone not interested in a deluge of emails - there are two handy featuires of 开云体育 - Switching to a Digest (groups of 12 messages), or a Daily Summary - You can switch to these here: /g/HamChat/editsub To anyone not interested in a particular thread, then there is an option to "Mute" a thread at the bottom of each email. This is a very effective way of turning off something you're not interested in. To anyone interested in starting an off-topic thread... please consider whether this is the right group for it. If in doubt, tag your post with a hashtag of #OffTopic, so others can mute it easily if needed. I'd also suggest that we all try to get into the habit of starting new topics if there is a gear-change mid-thread. Again, this gives the option for people to mute off-topic discussion. Personally, I tend to agree that the spirit of this group should be to discuss the future of the hobby, not to try to reignite decades-old gripes that no-one in this groups knows about, or can do anything about. There are better corners of the Internet to do that. So, please can I ask that everyone plays nice, tries to be respectful of others, and uses the tools as necessary if you come across something you'd prefer not to read. Thanks all, Pete M0PSX

Nevertheless, we who have Full licences are an elite because we have privileges that are not available to the general public, and it is a characteristic to be jealously guarded. (And those with the Right Moral Fibre to have taken the 12WPM Morse test in the decades that it was available to them are the Bees Knees) By dumbing down ad nauseam the entrance qualifications for amateur radio to attract hoi polloi that eliteness is eroded and amateur radio is as surely slowly killed. Amateur radio is NOT about social chit-chat, there is CB Radio, PMR446 and GSM radio for that. Many seem to have swallowed hook, line and sinker the RSGB mantra but the membership levels of the RSGB are NOT the same thing as the good of amateur radio.

In response to the points raised about this group in the the off-topic comment posted on RSGB-Workshop this morning: Three members flagged a spam message sent to the group yesterday evening (an advert for what3words). The entire group was set to 'moderated' so that I could intercept any further potential spam overnight, so as not to clutter people's inboxes. All posted messages this morning were delayed, so that I could check for spam. Gareth's message arrived at 9:12 and approved 12 minutes later at 9:24 (5 minutes before his posting on RSGB-Workshop). Apologies to anyone who felt concerned as a result of their message being held back for a few minutes. Dissent is permitted. Nothing was censored. Check the timestamps and you will see that Gareth's message appeared publicly 5 minutes before he claimed that it hadn't! 400+ people, across 2 groups, will have received unnecessary emails about something that was irrelevent and wrong (by 5 minutes), when this could have been resoilved by a simple private email to the moderator. Not everything is a conspiracy. If anyone has a question to ask regarding the moderation policy, feel free to contact me direct, or in this group, rather than hoping I'll spot it in a different group. A copy of my valid UK Full licence (obtained under the more stringent licensing scheme is available for inspection as needed. Have a good Friday everyone! Pete M0PSX

... for it seems to me that the rush to get bums on seats by lowering the technical standards for amateur radio licences will mean that the amateur radio of the past 100 years will be dead and gone in the next 50.

By making something elitist, then you give something for those with a genuine interest in the technical pursuit that is amateur radio something to aim for and to feel justifiably proud when they achieve the status. As I said, _ALL_ are welcome to come and join. I pointed out before that the former "high" standard of the RAE was passed with ease by 14-year-olds who had not yet gained any national recognition in the shape of GCE, CSE or GCSE. I will assume that all those contributing to this discussion have been through the school system at a time when it was all freely available to them and I challenge all my naysayers that surely now as adults with adult job qualifications that they are not going to be outdone by unqualified 14-year-olds? Here is my take on what is amateur radio, something that has not changed for 100 years (but it is too easy to conflate the coffer-filling needs of the RSGB with the needs of amateur radio) and it reflects my becoming interested at the age of 10 years old ... -----ooooo----- Q. What is Ham Radio? A. Ham Radio is a technical pursuit for those who are interested in the science of radio wave propagation and who are also interested in the way that their radios function. It has a long-standing tradition of providing a source of engineers who are born naturals. Ham Radio awakens in its aficionados a whole-life fascination with all things technical and gives an all-abiding curiosity to improve one's scientific knowledge. It's a great swimming pool, please dive in! This excitement causes a wish to share the experience with ones fellow man, and shows itself in the gentlemanly traditions of Ham Radio. Radio Hams are in a unique privileged position in that they can construct and operate their own equipment! No-one else has this privilege. Users, such as broadcasters, the po lice and armed farces, CBers and mobile phone users have to purchase ready-made gear. Manufacturers are not licensed to operate their gear. Radio Hams are qualified to design, build and then operate their own pieces of equipment. They do this with gusto, and also repair and modify their own equipment. This is a privilege well worth the effort to gain, and one to be jealously guarded. The excitement that drives a Radio Ham starts with relatively simple technologies at first, perhaps making his own Wimshurst machine and primary cells. Small pieces of test equipment follow, possibly multimeters and signal generators. Then comes receivers and transmitters. It is with the latter that communication with like-minded technically motivated people takes off. The scope for technical development grows with the years and now encompasses DSP and DDS. There is also a great deal of excitement in the areas of computer programming to be learnt and applied. The technical excitement motivates Radio Hams to compete with each other to determine who has designed and manufactured the best-quality station. This competitiveness is found in DXing, competitions and fox-hunts. -----ooooo---- However, beware! A Ham Radio licence is such a desirable thing to have that there are large numbers of people who wish to be thought of as Radio Hams when, in fact, they are nothing of the kind! Usually such people are a variation of the CB Radio hobbyist; they buy their radios off the shelf and send them back to be repaired; they are not interested in technical discussion and sneer at those who are; they have no idea how their radios work inside and have no wish to find out; they are free with rather silly personal insults. -----ooooo----- One infallible way to disambiguate the CB Radio Hobbyist from the _REAL_ Radio Ham is to solicit their view of the difference between CB Radio and Ham Radio. A Radio Ham will perceive Ham Radio to be a technical pursuit and will perceive CB Radio to be a social communications facility no different in essence to a land-line telephone or a GSM mobile in the hands of a 6-year-old. Thus a Radio Ham could also use a CB set safe in the knowledge that such use says no more about him than having a land-line telephone, whilst continuing to re

In the late 1960s in my final years in the state grammar / latterly comprehensive school system, in a school of 1200 pupils, there were only 3 of us with an interest in amateur radio. 50 years on, is there any evidence that such small proportions have changed? It is my belief that the apparent panic and repeated failed attempts to attract young people (as opposed to those who gravitate naturally towards our numbers) come only from the RSGB whose concern is not about the good of amateur radio (otherwise they would have never proposed the Foundation Licence) but about keeping the coffers filled in an organisation where membership is decreasing, not from a reduction in radio amateurs, but because the RSGB itself is increasingly irrelevant to amateur radio. (I resigned in disgust from the RSGB in 1988) The palpably ridiculous proposal for an easier licence than the CB-like Foundation licence has, not surprisingly, come from a leading light in the powers-that-would-be in the RSGB (which organisation I have been deploring for years as the RSCB)

G4SWX so what will happen with all the M3s M6s M7s and 2E0 now will their powers be restricted even more instead of gaining members they’ll be driving members away and emergency services like Raynet will be loosing members there’s a lot of M3 and M6s like my self quite happy staying as we are with 10w of power we’ve paid for it I myself do Raynet but if we loose more any of our bands and power I’ll just sell up as will a lot of M3s M6s cause we feel we’re being pressurized into doing something we don’t want to do or some of us can do witch is continue onto the 2E and full license it’s ok for people at the top like G4SWX there driving people away not encouraging them to join M6PDJ

Hi all, I wonder if anyone here attended the RSGB Convention this week, and in particular, the last session of the day, about clubs? For those who didn't, here is an extract from my RSGB Convention 2019 Report Probably the highlight of my weekend. Run by the ICQ Podcast team, this was a panel of two ICQ presenters, two RSGB Board members (Ian Shepherd and Kamal Singh), plus Richard G4JJP (author of a controversial article in the June 2019 Radcom suggesting a change to club structures) ICQ Podcast’s “Gow, Merge or Disband your Club” session To be honest, I’m still digesting the contents of this talk and reviewing four pages of copious notes taken. There’s a lot to be said about this session – far too much for this summary. A few of the points I underlined: “Hubs not clubs” “Club baggage” “Hub” vs “Virtual clubs” “Should the RSGB be a hub?” To Google: “Disintermediation”, “centre set” “closed set” (bounded set?) A mention for the “Brickworks” scheme (that didn’t launch at the Convention) Some RSGB regional teams issue a “regional newsletter” Top-down vs Bottom-up approach Some interesting thoughts on youth access to amateur radio Clear divisions between single stand-alone clubs, and those acting as “hubs” to a greater or lesser extent It was great that the efforts of Essex Ham members was acknowledged, and it was very rewarding that both Richard and the ICQ team highlighted Essex Ham as positive examples of the hub model. Positive mentions too for CambHams and Suffolk RED. RSGB also acknowledged that virtual clubs are “starting to appear” Any thoughts? Pete M0PSX

Online last week, and at the weekend's RSGB Convention, there have been some discussion around the idea of a new entry-level route into the hobby. Last week, there was a posting in an RSGB discussion group outlining "A Proposal for a Beginner Amateur Licence” We caught up with the proposal’s author, John Regnault G4SWX, to discuss the idea, and you can take a listen here: https://www.essexham.co.uk/beginner-amateur-licence The ten-minute interview is well worth a listen, and with numbers in decline, could a new entry-level into the hobby be the answer? Please have a listen, and share your thoughts! Pete M0PSX

Hi all, I wonder if anyone here attended the RSGB Convention this week, and in particular, the talk from Kamal M0IOV? For those who didn't, here is an extract from my RSGB Convention 2019 Report The talk was presented by new RSGB Board member Kamal Singh M0IOV, this offered a refreshing view on the state of amateur radio, and the problems facing it. Surprisingly honest, the presentation outlined the problems, the missed opportunities, and the need for change. Some memorable highlights: Once we had many famous amateurs, a high profile and reputation for innovation. “Have we lost the technical edge?” Kamal doesn’t blame the Internet, but our ability to adapt, and that we missed the third Industrial Revolution Relevance is our Achilles heel. We’re seen as out-dated, and we didn’t keep up with the tech trends Warnings about the danger of limiting our boundaries with statements like “it’s not real radio”, “this isn’t what amateur radio is all about”, “this isn’t how do do things” Barriers: Licensing and hardware cost are limiting uptake of amateur radio Are we too “insular, niche and aloof”? Do we need to become more “integrated and broad-minded?” Key message: “Relevance, Visibility, Appeal” Our opportunity is to capitalise on the 4th Industrial Revolution, which will include automated vehicles, drones, sensors, smart cities and IoT Comments from the audience included: Is the term “radio” outdated? Would “Wireless Communication” be more apt? A suggestion that the RSGB rebrand to “The Communication Society of Great Britain” Some interesting observations from John Regnault, the RSGB’s VHF Manager: We should not keep doing “more of the same”. How are we seen in other people’s eyes? Does CW, voice and vintage military equipment at field days “sell us”. “1-to-1 personal communications without a service provider”. See also: Blog entry from Michael G0POT Anyone have any thoughts? Pete M0PSX