{"id":36896,"date":"2025-02-14T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?page_id=36896"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:45:47","slug":"activities-for-all","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/youth\/british-science-week\/british-science-week-resources\/activities-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities for all\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36898\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Summits on the Air activation\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/02\/John-working-2m-FM-including-a-summit-to-summit-contact.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>These ideas can be adapted to suit all ages and abilities. Remember to make it fun by using your enthusiasm to get people involved.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Get participants to practise talking to each other, using either PMR446 radios or <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">simple handhelds<\/span>. Use a script for people to follow<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Activate a <a href=\"https:\/\/parksontheair.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Parks on the Air<\/strong><\/a> (POTA) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sota.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Summits on the Air<\/strong><\/a> (SOTA) site as a group. This is a great activity for a ramblers\u2019 group, as well as for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scouts<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlguiding.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Girlguiding<\/strong> <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dofe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s Award<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Use a receiver to listen to 20m and identify the different call signs<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Purchase and build crystal radio kits. These are readily available via eBay and are great fun to build<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Build a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/09\/Snail_Morse_Key_A4_Leaflet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Snail Morse Practice key<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0This kit is perfect for using in schools to help explain how <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/morse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CW<\/strong> <\/a>works<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Enjoy a quick game of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/\/public\/events\/youth\/250415_Morse_Battleships_instructions_and_grid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morse battleships<\/a><\/strong>! Ideal for the Snail Morse kit or any other Morse key!<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>We love to hear from you! Let us know how you get on by sending a summary of your activity and photos to\u00a0<strong>comms@rsgb.org.uk<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These ideas can be adapted to suit all ages and abilities. Remember to make it fun by using your enthusiasm to get people involved. Get participants to practise talking to each other, using either PMR446 radios or simple handhelds. Use a script for people to follow Activate a Parks on the Air (POTA) or Summits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"parent":33813,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36896","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36896","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36896"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39523,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36896\/revisions\/39523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}