Updating the amateur radio licensing framework: RSGB overview of key changes

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Updating the amateur radio licensing framework: RSGB overview of key changes

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@MachiningandMicrowaves 7 ай бұрын

These critical negotiations and the supporting technical work and presentations are a great reason to be a member of the RSGB, supporting these long-term efforts and indirectly, those of the IARU. Some folks whinge about the RSGB for reasons back in ancient history, or personalities from the past. I actually stopped being a member for a while late in the last century for reasons I can't even recall, but then rejoined a few years later to help support the preservation and extension of our privileges. Great to see the additional rights for all licence classes, and particularly the facilities for outreach to members of the public. The forthcoming battles about EME and the continual encroachment of cellphone bandwidth pushing us out of the SHF bands will be a continuing struggle. Huge props to Barry, Murray and everyone else involved in the WRC-23 process. Neil G4DBN

@bill-2018 7 ай бұрын

I left the RSGB for a while and almost gave up radio because of broadband QRM. S8 noise 160m to 20m. I don't really care about these changes. QRM was important to me and we are powerless. The RSGB have no teeth in this. I re-joined because 10m was opening up and I wanted to support the RSGB even though I feel they can do nothing about my problem. G4GHB.

@MachiningandMicrowaves 7 ай бұрын

@@bill-2018 Hi Bill, I don't use any of those bands other than 160. On the rare occasions I do, the VDSL noise is still terrible, but almost all of it is from terrible internal extension cabling in neighbouring houses. My own VDSL is quiet. Hard for the RSGB to tell my neighbours to stop using silly internal phone cabling that radiates. The other huge noise is from a zillion battery chargers, three-phase inverters, ground source heat pump cabling, dreadfully engineered solar installations, and by far the worst, rural point to multipoint broadband adjacent to 5.7 GHz. Oh, and that abomination of ethernet power line extenders. At least some of those are notched for amateur bands. 136 and 472 kHz here is pretty good, as is 160m and most of the eight bands I use above 1GHz. Hard for the RSGB to fight overseas manufacturers of terrible technology or consumers who have no idea what pain their uninformed economics-driven choices cause us. The RSGB needs to pick battles they can win.

@alanbaker9883 7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for clarifying the information M6NYI 73

@MI7DJT 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for keeping us informed guys.

@m3snusteve 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the update. Looking forward to the changes. M3SNU 73.

@tonym7cvk430 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the update M7CVK

@mi6xgzjon186 7 ай бұрын

thankyou for all your efforts and keep up the good work

@rogercarder7720 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the updates, Roger G7SRK

@cooldad4 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for keeping us informed M7FDJ

@G0FUW 7 ай бұрын

Around 14 minutes in Murray seems to suggest that the RSGB will not stick to its own rules about a 3 month notice of syllabus change. The publication of a (flawed) draft cannot surely act as the notice of change. Could we have a clear statement on the timetable for exam syllabus change?

@G0FUW 6 ай бұрын

Announcement now made showing RSGB will apply their rules and new rules will be examined from 1 September.

@MrBracey1970 7 ай бұрын

I’m still a little confused to when I can move to am M8 from a 2E0 ,any dates or time frame?

@bill-2018 7 ай бұрын

If you run 400 Watts now going to 1 kW is not even one S unit more. I run QRP 5 Watts maximum so not interested in that. I like the construction side idea for novices, I've been constructing things for years and enjoy it. I wish Ofcom had said something about interference to amateur radio in all this. I suffer S8 noise from internet broadband 160m to 20m when every day these bands are useless for anything but strong signals. I almost gave up radio. 10m is open and rekindled my interest. 60m for some reason is also fairly quiet, so I was only using 60m and 2m local contacts before. G4GHB.

@MachiningandMicrowaves 7 ай бұрын

If I am being received at 2dB under the decode limit, that increase from 400W makes the difference between a contact or no contact. Five watts is often WAY too much power for my needs, 100 milliwatts is often plenty, but sometimes 400 watts isn't enough. A bit more flexibility is definitely welcome, although the local top band nets do seem to be running kilowatts already! On most of the bands I use, we are secondary users anyway, so it's no help on 70cm, 23cm, 13cm, 9cm or 6cm. Anything that increases interest in construction, antennas, coding, new digimodes and research is definitely to be applauded of course.