RSGB Publishes Amateur Radio Survey Summary

The RSGB ran an amateur radio survey in May as part of its input to an IARU workshop.

Over one thousand people responded and gave their views of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for amateur radio both currently and in the future.

A summary of the responses has been published in the August RadCom. You can also read the summary by following a link on the RSGB’s survey web page - http://www.rsgb.org/survey

Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Community Meeting

The Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) will be holding their next community meeting on Saturday 24th July 2021, at 1700 Z. The meeting will be held via Zoom and is open to all. In the meeting, we’ll discuss:

• Grants made to date in 2021, including our first grant made outside the U.S. to DARC, -Introductions of two new staff members: Grants Manager Chelsea Parraga, KF0FVJ., and Content Manager Dan Romanchik, KB6NU.

• Questions from our attendees.

ARDC is a nonprofit that encourages and supports research regarding amateur radio, computer networking, and related topics. They have awarded more than $3 million in grants so far this year.

For more information on ARDC, go to https://ampr.org. For Zoom information for the community meeting, go to https://www.ampr.org/community-meeting-saturday-july-24-2021/.

Ofcom Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

Ofcom has published its Annual Report and Accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021

They have also published their Section 400 Accounts, with details of receipts from licence fee payments and financial penalties over the course of the year.

While Ofcom do provide figures for the number of licences issued during the year they have lumped Amateur Radio licences in with Maritime producing a meaningless figure.

Ofcom Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/annual-reports-and-plans/2020-21-annual-report