The General Manager of the RSBG, Steve Thomas M1ACB, and Paul Devlin G1SMP, of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) were interviewed on BBC Three Countries Radio about the RSGB’s Get On The Air To Care (GOTA2C) program.
The RSGB website notes:
In these challenging times when there are growing concerns about the effects of social isolation on people living in lockdown, “Get on the air to care” encourages the 75,000 radio amateurs across the UK—as part of the 3,000,000 worldwide—to use their radio licences to chat and support each other across the airwaves.
I love this expression of community in the UK.
Mervyn Foster, G4KLE, who is an RSGB District Representative 121, an NRC Volunteer, and chair of Huntingdon Amateur Radio Society appeared on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on April 2. The interview starts around 2 hrs 23 minutes into the recording. The interview starts at the 1:23:48 point of the recording.
Amid pandemic, amateur radio societies across the North are seeking new recruits.
Amateur radio enthusiast Ron Thompson has made contact with Russia from Yellowknife [the capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories]. He’s also used it to reach his wife to get milk from the store. He’s part of the Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society, which is joining other radio societies to recruit people to study as licensed operators during their self-isolation. Amateur radio is useful for emergency communications during natural disasters, but it can also be used for fun, for local non-commercial communications.
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