{"id":1087,"date":"2012-07-08T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.rsgbtestzone.biz\/wordpress\/?page_id=1087"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:09:30","slug":"get-started-in-amateur-radio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/09\/Surrey-EARS-foundation-licence-course-ladies-cropped-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/09\/Surrey-EARS-foundation-licence-course-ladies-cropped-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/09\/Surrey-EARS-foundation-licence-course-ladies-cropped-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/09\/Surrey-EARS-foundation-licence-course-ladies-cropped-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/09\/Surrey-EARS-foundation-licence-course-ladies-cropped-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/09\/Surrey-EARS-foundation-licence-course-ladies-cropped.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>New to amateur radio? From courses and licensing, to setting up your equipment for the first time, it&#8217;s all covered in this section. Click on the links below to get you started.<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/what-is-amateur-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is amateur radio?<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/getting-started-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gained your licence &#8211; what next?<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/first-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First steps after gaining your licence<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/setting-up-your-shack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Setting up your station<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/operating-your-new-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operating your new station<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New to amateur radio? From courses and licensing, to setting up your equipment for the first time, it&#8217;s all covered in this section. Click on the links below to get you started. What is amateur radio? Gained your licence &#8211; what next? First steps after gaining your licence Setting up your station Operating your new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2974,"parent":0,"menu_order":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1087","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46906,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions\/46906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}