<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Diversity in amateur radio</h1><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">RSGB President <strong>Nick Henwood, G3RWF</strong>, said when he first attended an amateur radio meeting <em>&quot;No one spoke to me&quot;</em></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">In a post on the RSGB site, Nick notes that now some clubs are hardly recognisable as such. Suffolk RED and Essex Skills Night are just two examples and exist to bring together people from neighbouring clubs to share and enjoy innovation and activity. <br><br>Groups meet in pubs or for breakfast – and of course there is the internet. There are also other quite traditional clubs that are simply all-round successful!</p><p align="center" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><img src="https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20953799_1592193660804147_4319263349122743770_n.jpg?oh=45f7ef52fbb1dd71b255a43bdba6bd3a&amp;oe=5A2CBFF7" width="610" height="431"><br><font color="#666666" size="2">Nick Henwood G3RWF at Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">Read Nick&#39;s thought provoking RSGB post <br><a href="http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/2017/08/17/diversity-in-amateur-radio/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/2017/08/17/diversity-in-amateur-radio/</a><br><br>Suffolk RED <br><a href="http://www.suffolkred.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.suffolkred.co.uk/</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SuffolkRED/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.facebook.com/SuffolkRED/</a><br><br>Essex Skills Nights <br><a href="http://g0mwt.org.uk/skills/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://g0mwt.org.uk/skills/</a><br><br>Sign up for Essex Skills Night news list at <br><a href="http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/lists" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/lists</a></p></div>