The 2013 SOS Radio Week is now a little over six weeks away and registrations are proceeding well with over twenty-four clubs and individuals having pledged to run a sponsored station during the event to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The event starts at midnight AM on the 19th January, 2013, [...]
Since we started organising SOS Radio Week as an official RNLI fund-raising event in 2009, Amateur Radio operators throughout the UK and Ireland have raised over £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Receipts received to-date for the 2012 event total over £2,900 which is a tremendous effort given the current financial climate. Add [...]
Peter Penycate, M6PAP and member of the Lifeboat Amateur Radio Society, took part in SOS Radio Week 2012 and raised £70 which was presented to George Woodland (a former Deputy Coxwain) of the Selsey RNLI Lifeboat Station. The presentation was to be made to the current Coxwain, Martin Rudock, but the stations big Tyne Class [...]
SOS Radio Week 2012 is drawing to a close and will end at 23:59 this evening. All of those taking part in the event are raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to help them save lives at sea. The RNLI is not funded by the government in any and relies on gifts [...]
SOS Radio Week 2012 started on the 21st January and over fifty Amateur Radio stations will be on the air during the 9-day event that finishes t 23:59 on Sunday the 29th January. Each station is sponsored and raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). If you’ve worked one of our special stations and [...]
SOS Radio Week 2012 has started and we’ve nearly fifty stations on the air the length and breadth of the UK, from Sennen Cove in the South West to the Orkney’s in the North – we’ve had a great response to this year’s event. The event concludes at 23:59 on Sunday the 29th January giving [...]