Articles by Andy (G7KNA)

The licence change requiring all licensees (amateur and commercial) to demonstrate compliance with the ICNIRP will be implemented by 18 May 2021. Compliance is not required until November 2021 for frequencies above 10MHz or May 2022 for frequencies below 10MHz. This short (15 minute) video shows how to employ the RSGB/Ofcom calculator spreadsheet which is still undergoing development. […]

The RSGB 2021 AGM was held virtually, here is a summary of key items […]

On 21 April 2001, ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni first set foot, or hand, on the International Space Station, making him the first European to visit and work the orbiting outpost. Since then, the Space Station has grown immensely, as have the number of Europeans to have worked in it, together with the science experiments performed in orbit. […]

The Friendship on the Air Award is designed to celebrate the friendship of amateur radio over the airwaves. The main purpose is to contact other people in a friendly and non-competitive way, connecting with them rather than simply making a quick QSO and moving on. […]

Carine Dubois F5ISY developed this YL contest but never got to see it to the end. So it is in this respect that a group of YL’s have vowed to continue to make this happen, twice a year, in her memory. […]

The RSGB have produced a range of videos demonstrating simple practical tasks that can be accomplished by any one old or new to the hobby […]

There are expectations that the Moscow Aviation Institute will be broadcasting a short SSTV activity period which should be heard in Europe […]