{"id":3297,"date":"2012-10-12T16:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.rsgbtestzone.biz\/wordpress\/?page_id=3297"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:03:07","slug":"setting-up-your-shack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/setting-up-your-shack\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up your station"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>When you are first licensed it may seem bewildering to work out what you need to buy.<\/h4>\n<h4>Obviously, you need an antenna and a radio transceiver, but what sort? Where do you get them from? And what else do you need?<\/h4>\n<h4>On these pages we look at what you are likely to need to set up a working amateur radio station. We also look at RF and electrical safety.<\/h4>\n<h4>Why not take a look at our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLmtHS6LSBybbq0AkmAJlx_0uqisB2J6_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foundation Practicals videos<\/a><\/strong> too?<\/h4>\n<h4>There is a separate section on antennas.<\/h4>\n<h4>\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<ul class=\"page-list subpages-page-list \">\n<li class=\"pagenav\"><strong>Read more about:<\/strong><ul><li class=\"page_item page-item-3590\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/setting-up-your-shack\/buying-a-new-transceiver\/\">Buying a new transceiver<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-3593\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/setting-up-your-shack\/buying-a-used-transceiver\/\">Buying a used transceiver<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-3595\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/setting-up-your-shack\/other-equipment-you-may-need\/\">Other equipment you may need<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-3597\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/setting-up-your-shack\/safety-in-the-shack\/\">Safety in the Shack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are first licensed it may seem bewildering to work out what you need to buy. Obviously, you need an antenna and a radio transceiver, but what sort? Where do you get them from? And what else do you need? On these pages we look at what you are likely to need to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1087,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3297","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=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46899,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3297\/revisions\/46899"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}