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  • [RSGB] Transatlantic Tests video released

    From RSGB via rec.radio.info Admin@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 14 16:59:01 2022
    XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio, rec.radio.info

    Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site

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    Transatlantic Tests video released

    Posted: 14 Apr 2022 12:57 PM PDT http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2022/04/14/transatlantic-tests-video-released/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

    The Radio Society of Great Britain and the ARRL have been celebrating the centenary of the Transatlantic Tests. The RSGB has just released a video
    that highlights the fantastic exhibition put on by the National Heritage
    Centre in Saltcoats, the 1921 message re-enactment by the Kilmarnock and Loudoun Amateur Radio Club and also the 160m []

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    GB2RS News Script for 17 April 2022

    Posted: 14 Apr 2022 08:39 AM PDT http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/gb2rs-news-scripts/2022/04/14/gb2rs-news-script-for-17-april-2022/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

    Tap or click the link below to download this week’s GB2RS news script GB2RS News Script for 17 April 2022 (19-page/441KB Microsoft Word document)
    Problems downloading the GB2RS news script? Try this alternative link

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    RSGB AGM to be livestreamed

    Posted: 14 Apr 2022 08:10 AM PDT http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2022/04/14/rsgb-agm-to-be-livestreamed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

    The RSGB AGM is being livestreamed on Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 12 noon.
    You can still submit a question for the RSGB Board to answer during the
    event, but you will need to do so before 9am on Wednesday, 20 April. Voting
    in the elections closes at 09.00 on Thursday, 21 April—the Society
    encourages []

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    Pop-up YOTA net on Easter Sunday

    Posted: 14 Apr 2022 08:09 AM PDT http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2022/04/14/pop-up-yota-net-today/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

    A special pop-up Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) net will be on the air Easter Sunday at 1400UTC. This pop-up net is aimed exclusively at youngsters under
    the age of 25 and encourages them to call in and have a QSO with fellow youngsters on the air. The net controller for the first hour will []

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  • From gareth evans@21:1/5 to RSGB via rec.radio.info Admin on Fri Apr 15 12:27:45 2022
    XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio

    On 14/04/2022 21:59, RSGB via rec.radio.info Admin wrote:
    Transatlantic Tests video released

    Posted: 14 Apr 2022 12:57 PM PDT http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2022/04/14/transatlantic-tests-video-released/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email


    The Radio Society of Great Britain and the ARRL have been celebrating
    the centenary of the Transatlantic Tests. The RSGB has just released a
    video that highlights the fantastic exhibition put on by the National Heritage Centre in Saltcoats, the 1921 message re-enactment by the
    Kilmarnock and Loudoun Amateur Radio Club and also the 160m []

    I find it to be hypocritical of the RSCB (sic) to repeatedly claim
    parity with activities and wireless clubs which existed several
    years before they, the RSCB, were incorporated.

    The experimenters in those days were tecnhnically motivated, which
    is in complete contrast today with the RSCB who, in order, I believe,
    to fill their own membership coffers pleaded with OfCom to
    introduce a lamentably poor level of technical competence in
    the shape of the Foundation (AKA Fools') licence.

    That licence is little removed from CB Radio and the associated
    licensees have flooded the RSCB membership lists, if the monthly
    tables in BadCon are to be believed. The danger is that those
    members with such lamentably poor licences may outnumber the
    Full licensees such that the fools will rule the asylum.

    RSCB? Yes, indeed. By becoming an organisation promoting
    and accepting for membership those with CB-like licences,
    the RSGB has become the RSCB.

    The great failure of the Foundation scheme is that there are
    many losers still with M3 licences after 10 years.

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  • From Roger Hayter@21:1/5 to gareth evans on Fri Apr 15 12:20:55 2022
    XPost: free.uk.amateur-radio, uk.radio.amateur

    On 15 Apr 2022 at 12:27:45 BST, "gareth evans" <[email protected]> wrote:



    The great failure of the Foundation scheme is that there are
    many losers still with M3 licences after 10 years.

    I think you need to revise your scripts occasionally; it's over twenty years now.

    --
    Roger Hayter

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  • From gareth evans@21:1/5 to Roger Hayter on Fri Apr 15 18:02:42 2022
    XPost: free.uk.amateur-radio, uk.radio.amateur

    On 15/04/2022 13:20, Roger Hayter wrote:
    On 15 Apr 2022 at 12:27:45 BST, "gareth evans" <[email protected]> wrote:



    The great failure of the Foundation scheme is that there are
    many losers still with M3 licences after 10 years.

    I think you need to revise your scripts occasionally; it's over twenty years now.


    Really? Then it's even worse than I realised.

    You'll have to pardon my estimate because the Foundation Licence has
    always been of great irrelevance, both to me, and also to _REAL_
    amateur radio.

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  • From Jim Stewart ...@21:1/5 to gareth evans on Fri Apr 15 18:18:59 2022
    XPost: free.uk.amateur-radio, uk.radio.amateur

    On 15/04/2022 18:02, gareth evans wrote:
    On 15/04/2022 13:20, Roger Hayter wrote:
    On 15 Apr 2022 at 12:27:45 BST, "gareth evans"
    <[email protected]> wrote:



    The great failure of the Foundation scheme is that there are
    many losers still with M3 licences after 10 years.

    I think you need to revise your scripts occasionally; it's over twenty
    years
    now.


    Really? Then it's even worse than I realised.

    You'll have to pardon my estimate because the Foundation Licence has
    always been of great irrelevance, both to me, and also to _REAL_
    amateur radio.

    it is just a joke

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  • From gareth evans@21:1/5 to gareth evans on Sat Apr 16 14:34:54 2022
    XPost: free.uk.amateur-radio, uk.radio.amateur

    On 15/04/2022 18:02, gareth evans wrote:
    On 15/04/2022 13:20, Roger Hayter wrote:
    On 15 Apr 2022 at 12:27:45 BST, "gareth evans"
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    The great failure of the Foundation scheme is that there are
    many losers still with M3 licences after 10 years.
    I think you need to revise your scripts occasionally; it's over twenty
    years
    now.
    Really? Then it's even worse than I realised.
    You'll have to pardon my estimate because the Foundation Licence has
    always been of great irrelevance, both to me, and also to _REAL_
    amateur radio.

    What I wanted to say, but did not do very well, is that as the
    proportion of Foundationees increases, they will become the
    preponderance in the RSCB, and then what the RSCB will stand for,
    promote and represent is not the technical world of the Full
    licensee, but the CB-like operator-only world of the
    Foundation Licence and the RSCB will really have become
    the RSCB in truth and not just as a cynical misnomer of RSGB.

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