The June 2019 issue of RadCom, the Radio Society of Great Britain’s equivalent to QST, contains the article, Building a strong local club structure, by Richard Thomas, G4JJP. In the article, G4JJP proposes changes to the way we organize amateur radio clubs.

Citing the dwindling membership of most local clubs, one of the proposals he makes is that instead of many small clubs, he proposes that we form more regional associations and that this regional association would exist primarily online, except for perhaps a club station. Organizing in this way would reduce the overhead costs of running a traditional club.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, 20m has been open more in the past couple of days. Today, for example, I made 7 20m contacts, including several in Europe. I don’t think this is a long-term trend, but it’s nice to make some contacts on 20m.

I copied the special bulletin for Field Day this year. My original plan was to copy the first Friday evening CW transmission at 20 wpm. So, just before the transmission was to begin, I tuned to 7047.5 kHz (I wonder how they chose that particular frequency?) and set up my digital recorder.

Southgate reported recently that there’s been a proposal by France to make the Aeronautical Mobile Service the primary users of the 144-146 MHz band and demote the Amateur Radio Service to secondary users. The report say that this is “part of a broader consideration of the spectrum allocated to that service.”