Radio Listening Declining among Young

Fewer than half of young people aged 11-15 listen to live radio on a weekly basis

Last November Ofcom published a report Digital Day 2014 focusing on the data from the young person's quantitative 3-day diary study.

The report notes that just 42% of young people said they listened to live radio during the week. Instead among those aged 11-15, listening to online or digital ‘pull’ content was popular.

Tablets, such as iPads etc, are the most-used device among 6-11 year olds after TV sets, just 27% of that age group have a smartphone.

Only 15% of those aged 11-15 now use the old text&talk non-smart phones compared with 67% of that age group who use smart phones every week.

Read Digital Day 2014: Results from the children’s diary study PDF - http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/cross-media/digital-day/2014/digital-day-childrens

An Ofcom report released on March 19 has discovered, perhaps unsurprisingly, that young people multitask read -  

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/cross-media/digital-day/2014/media-multitasking

The World Wide Repeater Directory Bring Integrated Routing to Radio Programming!

RFinder and RT Systems have created a partnership to improve Amateur / Ham Radio programming.

The latest update to RT Systems includes integrated routing featuring RFinder - The World Wide Repeater Directory.  

This upgrade enables routes to be defined without uploading any files, just define your route and press a button. Instantly repeaters along your route are ready to write into your radio.

No more exporting, massaging data or importing. Just perform an online update to your RT Systems software Version 4 or above and you will have this new exciting feature... 

RFinder has 50.000+ repeaters in over 170 countries. Now repeaters over a route can be written into over 190 VHF/UHF radio models. Nearly anywhere in the world. Crossing country and state borders.

RFinder can be found in Google Play on Android or Apple App store on iOS devices...just search for RFinder.

The purchase price in the app stores of only $9.99USD includes the first year subscription that enables access from http://web.rfinder.net, http://routes.rfinder.net, CHIRP, RT Systems and RadioBuddy.

Windows Phone and Blackberry versions are currently in development and should be available by The Dayton Hamvention. 

Those without smartphones can purchase the subscription at http://www.rfinder.net. 

RFinder is the official repeater directory of Radio Amateurs Canada. Canadian Hams that purchase RFinder support RAC. 
RFinder is the official repeater directory app of Radio Society of Great Britain. UK Hams that purchase RFinder support RSGB.

RFinder - http://www.rfinder.net
RFinder on Facebook -  http://www.facebook.com/rfinderwwrd 

Ofcom Licence Emails

Ofcom have started the process of sending the new UK amateur / ham radio licence by email.

The emails are being sent to the address that people have been entered when registering with Ofcom. It may be worth keeping an eye on your Spam folder just in case it falls foul of the Spam detector.

Where there is no email address Ofcom will write to the postal address held on file.

If new licences have not been received by 14 April 2015, the contact Ofcom at ARL2015@ofcom.org.uk or via the online licensing system.