RSGB National Radio Centre Tourist Award

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The RSGB have announced that the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) has been recognised in Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards for 2025.

Winners of this award are in the top 10% of listings around the world on Tripadvisor. The award is based on genuine feedback from anyone in the community who has visited and left an authentic, first-hand review on Tripadvisor over a 12-month period.

This award recognises the passion and dedication of our volunteers, and the fantastic role they play in promoting amateur radio.

Receiving free entry to Bletchley Park (including the RSGB National Radio Centre) is just one of the fantastic benefits of RSGB membership. Download your voucher at http://www.rsgb.org/bpvoucher 

Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live

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Safety Stand-Down: Look Up and Live

Electricity is a killer. About 150 people die each year at work from contact with electricity, according to the Electrical Safety Foundation International. Half of those are from contact with power lines. That data is just workplace deaths, so recreational and public service volunteering aren’t even accounted for.

In a recent article, ARRL New Mexico Section Manager Bill Mader, K8TE, shared safety concerns and processes that can be implemented at ARRL Field Day sites. I’d like to share a simple phrase that may enhance your situational awareness: Look up and live.

“Look up and live” was drilled into me and every other television news employee who worked with electronic news gathering vehicles that had a pneumatic mast or satellite dish. It was the title of an industry-standard safety video published by the National Press Photographers Association.

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Canadian Amateurs in Yukon Territory Get Separate Section

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The amateur radio map of Canada has undergone a change with the creation of a new section. 

Radio amateurs who live in Canada's Yukon Territory now have a section to call their own. Radio Amateurs of Canada has separated the Yukon Territory from the overall Territories section and given it a designation of its own. It now carries the abbreviation Y U K, setting it apart from hams in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. Those regions will continue to be part of the section known as "Territories," which carries the abbreviation T-E-R. 

Radio Amateurs of Canada made the announcement in the July/August 2025 issue of the journal, The Canadian Amateur. The change took effect on the 1st of July. While the new section may have consequences for ARRL Field Day, Sweepstakes CW, Sweepstakes SSB and the 160 metre contest, the changes are not expected to have an impact on any major contests from the ARRL or RAC. Organisers of QSO parties may need to review their operating rules.