News from LRS and other sources
This section of the website includes a selection of news articles from both Leicester Radio Society members and any other news items from the Amateur Radio world that we think might be of interest to members.
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National Coding Week has been run for many years in the third week of September. Coding is used increasingly in amateur radio, and the BBC Micro:bit and the Arduino have made it easier for radio amateurs of all ages to discover more about this. As part of its commitment to encourage youngsters into amateur radio […]
Read more https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2023/06/16/coding-and-amateur-radio/
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Read more https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2023/06/09/distance-learning-for-full-licence-exam/
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Read more https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2023/06/06/new-map-for-rsgb-affiliated-contest-groups/
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Read more https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2023/06/01/celebrating-volunteers-week/
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Three weekends have been identified for some RSGB Beaconnect loop experiments: On 3-4 June 2023 there will be some regional loops and nets On the 10-11 June 2023 there will be an England-only loop and net, based round the activators who have registered for Beaconnect callsigns so far, but the Society would welcome new activators […]
Read more https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2023/05/26/rsgb-june-beaconnect-loop-experiments/
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Leicester Radio Society are now registered as a 'club' on the popular clublog.org website. Members are encouraged to register on Clublog and associate themselves with "LRS - Leicester Radio Society".
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Leicester Radio Society have the great honour of being given access to the GB23C callsign on 22nd May 2023. This callsign has been created to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III and is scheduled to be operated throughout May and June 2023 at various clubs and societies throughout the UK.
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We know that amateur radio is a great foundation for STEM careers.
With that in mind, why not help us celebrate International Women in Engineering Day this June?
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Although the Coronation itself has taken place, our Coronation activities run until the end of June 2023.
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The RSGB has released some updates about its planned Coronation activities.
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As Leicester Radio Society will be celebrating our 110th anniversary in 2023. We are planning various events, we have applied for the callsign GB1LRS to use throughout August 2023 with a 'launch' scheduled on 5th August.
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As part of our Coronation celebration activities, Ofcom approved R as the optional Coronation regional secondary locator prefix for all radio amateurs to use during May and June 2023.
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From 18 November 2022, all UK amateurs are required to have conducted EMF assessments for all the bands they use.
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It is now a requirement that all holders of UK amateur radio licenses comply with EMF rules when operating above 110 MHz and keep records of their station performance.
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Following on from the success of the remote invigilation exams for the Foundation and Intermediate licence, the RSGB is now expanding that to include Full licence exams.
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Following the success of remote invigilation Foundation exams, the RSGB is pleased to expand that to include Intermediate level exams.
