Heritage School Radio Club gets off to a Flying Start

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Heritage School Radio Club gets off to a Flying Start

During the Summer 2025 term, the Electronics Club at Heritage School in Cambridge became the ‘Heritage School Electronics & Radio Club (G7HSC)’ and had a term full of radio-related activity.

The club previously looked at making electronic circuits, with a focus on understanding the roles of individual components and how to use them in combination. This practical spirit has remained and during the last term club members made radio-related circuits including crystal MW receivers, metal detectors (to reinforce the role of the inductor) and a crystal oscillator. The latter allowed teams to compete against each other in Morsecode battleships.

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Call for G5RP Trophy Nominations

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The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing.

The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly licensed but is open to anyone who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing.

If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend someone to be awarded the G5RP Trophy for 2025, now is the time to send in your nomination.

Your nominee should be an up-and-coming HF DXer who has made rapid progress in the last year and has some real achievements to show. For example, they have a good total of new countries worked or some serious HF DXpedition activity.

Please email your nominations to Ian Greenshields, G4FSU via hf.manager@rsgb.org.uk to arrive no later than Friday 12 September.