{"id":23347,"date":"2019-10-08T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?page_id=23347"},"modified":"2021-10-02T23:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:53:55","slug":"foc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs\/special-interest-groups\/foc\/","title":{"rendered":"First Class CW Operators&#8217; Club (FOC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4foc.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23348 size-thumbnail\" title=\"First-class Opertors Club\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/10\/foc-logo-96x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/10\/foc-logo-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/10\/foc-logo-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/10\/foc-logo.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><strong>The First Class CW Operators\u2019 Club (FOC) aims is to promote good CW (Morse code) operating, activity, friendship and socialising. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Club was founded in 1938, is UK-based, with many international members.<\/p>\n<p>FOC has approximately 500 members, who will typically meet both on air and in person. The Club holds a wide range of social gatherings throughout the year, in many different countries. The character of the club is best expressed in its motto, \u201cA man should keep his friendship in constant repair\u201d (Samuel Johnson, 1755).<\/p>\n<p>Membership of FOC is achieved through a process of nomination by existing members, based on on-air activity and other criteria which are explained on the Club\u2019s web site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Info<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4foc.org\">www.g4foc.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Secretary: James Dingwall, G4ILW (email: <a href=\"mailto:secretary@g4foc.org\"><strong>secretary@g4foc.org<\/strong><\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Class CW Operators\u2019 Club (FOC) aims is to promote good CW (Morse code) operating, activity, friendship and socialising. The Club was founded in 1938, is UK-based, with many international members. FOC has approximately 500 members, who will typically meet both on air and in person. The Club holds a wide range of social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20368,"featured_media":0,"parent":9633,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23347","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\/20368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23347\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}