GB2RS 50th anniversary celebrations plan

The Radio Society of Great Britain is planning a series of celebratory news broadcasts to mark the 50th anniversary of its GB2RS news service.

The broadcasts will start on 25 September 2005 – exactly 50 years after the first GB2RS transmission was made by G6MB – and continue at regular intervals over the subsequent five weeks.

To mark this special occasion, the RSGB is hoping to include a greeting from its patron - HRH, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – within the broadcasts. The RSGB has also requested that communications regulator Ofcom allows the society to use a special event station callsign - GB50RS - during the celebratory period.

The plan is for GB2RS news readers to broadcast the special celebration greeting using the callsign GB50RS and then continue to read the weekly news under the normal call of GB2RS.

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB

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