Successful Foundation Webinar

On Tuesday 30th June 2020, Essex Ham held a Webinar for those studying for their amateur radio Foundation licence which attracted 258 participants

Among the topics covered were Handhelds, RSGB Exams, HF bands, Waterproofing PL259s. Echolink, Logging, ERP, plus live demonstrations of repeater and simplex contacts, and the SDR dongle.

The next free amateur radio Foundation Online training course run by volunteers from Essex Ham starts on Sunday 5th July 2020.

Essex Ham Training - https://www.essexham.co.uk/train/foundation-online/

Online Remote Invigilation Expanding

The online remote invigilation of the UK Foundation amateur radio exam continues to be extremely popular, with over 800 successful candidates so far, and more than 650 already booked for future Foundation exams.

The RSGB is now contacting candidates and exam secretaries who had previously booked for Intermediate exams before social distancing caused their postponement.

Candidates will be offered online remote invigilation exam slots.

It is hoped that bookings can also be opened to new Intermediate candidates in the near future, once existing bookings are cleared.

Full exams will follow on in a similar manner in due course.

The FAQs on the RSGB website will be updated shortly.

Summer Licence Exams in Ireland Confirmed

Following the postponement of the exam scheduled for May, exams have now been arranged at venues in Dublin, Cork and Galway.

The Dublin exam will be on Saturday 25th July in the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, the Cork exam is on Saturday 8th August in the Radisson Blu Hotel, while the Galway exam is on Saturday 15th August in the Menlo Park Hotel.

IRTS Exams - http://www.irts.ie/exam