Get on the Air for Christmas Campaign Update
/The RSGB have announced a charity auction for the National Health Service (NHS) as part of its ‘Get on the air for Christmas’ (#GOTA4C) campaign with the NHS.
Roy Bailey, G0VFS, who is an active member of Trowbridge and District Amateur Radio Club, won the Lockdown Category in the RSGB’s Annual Construction competition. He offered to donate his beautifully-engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key to raise money for ‘NHS Charities Together’.
The auction will run from 9 – 19 December, ending on the day that the ‘Get on the air for Christmas’ campaign begins. Full details of how to take part are on the Society’s website: www.rsgb.org/gota4c
International Award
Amateur Radio Newsline’s International Newsmaker of the Year Award has been presented to the ‘Get on the Air to Care’ project operated jointly by the Radio Society of Great Britain and the UK's National Health Service. Conceived by Paul Devlin, G1SMP in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign has decreased social isolation in the UK and around the world by encouraging amateurs to ‘Get on the air to care’.