What is SOS Radio Week all about?
Barmouth Lifeboat during SOS Radio Week 2010
SOS Radio Week is nine days of fun, non-competitive, operating and fund raising by Radio Amateurs for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). It takes place at the end of January to co-incide with the RNLI’s own SOS fund raising day.
How to get involved
Getting involved is simple, regardless of whether you can operate all week, for one one day, or just a couple of hours each day – every penny raised makes a big difference to the RNLI.
Register on this site and we will send you your participant’s pack consisting of sponsorship forms, leaflets that can be printed out and given to your sponsors and details on how to bank the money you have collected. You then collect as many sponsors as you can before the event starts.
Operating during SOS Radio Week
Members of Porthmadog Amateur Radio Club during SOS Radio Week 2010
As soon as it’s 00:00 (UTC) on the start of the event you start making as many contacts as you can, promoting SOS Radio Week to everyone you speak to. Remember, though, you cannot ask for donations over the air – you can, however, direct them to this web site for further information.
The last day of the event is the Sunday following the RNLI’s own SOS fund raising day.
Last year saw several special event stations on the air during the event, some from local stations. It would be great to see you operating again.
Collecting in the money
At 23:59 (UTC) on the final day all operations cease and it’s time to start collecting in the money. We would like to have all funds banked by the end of March this year so that a presentation can be made to the RNLI at the Blackpool Amateur Radio Rally.
