Talk:Radio Society of Great Britain

Improvement

Hi, I am going to start improving this page for several reasons (mainly because there is a lack of good information on this subject on the web, because it is such an amateur topic the websites that contained good information seem to dissapear over time). The current plan is to seperate it out into the following sections:

1. the role of the RSBG
   1. and affiliate organisations such as RAYNET which have their own pages
   2. its relationship to the government, military and OfCom

1. Licensing information (classifications etc)
   1. bandwidths allowed + reasons and information
2. Informational services provided by the RSGB

1. The history of the RSGB (such as the changes in licensing)
   1. Possibly starting a stub page for the UK code prefixes including information such as what a G8 is and what a G6 is
   2. reasons for the changes (such as the decline of home-built ham-gear replaced with high quality gear from Japan etc providing better service & less interferance)

and also possibly

1. information about complaints (such as interfereance or missuse of communcations)
2. Starting to document all the information about individual events and developments
3. starting stub pages to contain information about suppliers and groups in the uk
4. starting stub pages containing information on the techincal meanings (including license discussion such as the difference between ERP and power into antenna)
5. providing links for learners and resources that can be used.

This will take me a couple of weeks... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mchicago (talk • contribs) .

- I am sure that if you contact the RSGB you will receive help. Suggest asking the guys at RadCom. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.2.202.178 (talk • contribs) .

Importance Tag

The tag needs to go. This article does assert the RSGB's Importance. The article may need to be expanded, however it no longer needs the tag for importance. Anonym1ty 17:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Changes by Yellowhammer 3 March 2007

User:Yellowhammer has added changes that put a definite Anti-RSGB slant on the article which is not NPOV. I think these changes do little to improve the article and intend to undo them if there are no objections. Dsergeant 08:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

My changes did not aim to put 'a definite Anti-RSGB slant' on the article; rather they were intended to neutralise what seemed to me an excessively pro slant within it. I have been an RSGB member since 1963, have held a licence since 1968 and I do support the society on most matters; however the article to me implied that the society acts with the wholehearted support of the majority of amateurs and that is far from being the case. Highlighting the number of members it has relative to the total of licences in issue is to report a fact (quoted from the RSGB's own report) and that seemed to me a reasonable way of showing the limits of their support and at the same time of moving the resulting article closer to an NPOV. As for 'it represents the interests of the UK's 60,000 licensed radio amateurs...' I would take the view that it can only do that with their consent - and as its membership is less than half of all licensees that is something many have chosen to withhold. However, life's too short etc and I shall not be undoing your changes, though I clearly disagree with them. Yellowhammer 17:12, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate link

Why remove the LPWS link ? While most radio amateurs might understandably have a problem with some of the activities promoted by "Laughing policeman wireless society" its website (and in particular the page to which the link pointed) does pose some valid criticisms of the RSGB. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.113.68.35 (talk) 17:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC).