{"id":43401,"date":"2025-11-07T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?page_id=43401"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:35:25","slug":"rsgb-construction-competition-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/construction-competition\/rsgb-construction-competition-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Construction Competition 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43403\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/11\/Construction-Comp-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/11\/Construction-Comp-2024.jpg 602w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/11\/Construction-Comp-2024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/11\/Construction-Comp-2024-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Antennas category winner<\/strong>: David Matthews, GM8HFP for \u201cMagnetic loop antenna and controllers\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Antennas category runner up:<\/strong> Matt Heywood, M7ENW for \u201cJaromir Yagi\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Beginners winner and recipient of the Gavin Nesbitt, MM1BXF trophy<\/strong>: Charlie Camilleri, G3ABC for \u201cQO-100 DATV-capable station\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Beginners runner up<\/strong>: Hannah Lee, M7YYQ for \u201cQuarter-wave vertical antenna\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Construction excellence winner:<\/strong> James Winnard, G3SPE for \u201c1kW linear amplifier\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Construction excellence runner up:<\/strong> Craig Shaw, G0KVL for \u201cScrapheap challenge bug\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Innovation winner<\/strong>: William Cooper, G7FDD for \u201cThe tomato ketchup antenna\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>(Note: there wasn\u2019t a runner up in this category)<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Software winner<\/strong>: Heather Nickalls, M0HMO for \u201cMeteor Beacon Network Software\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Software runner up<\/strong>: Steven Hiscocks, M1SDH for \u201cMap tool to help UK amateurs\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Most creative and\/ or elegant PCB Design winner<\/strong>: Jon Trinder, GM0HYY for \u201cCode Practice Oscillator\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>(Note: there wasn\u2019t a runner up in this category)<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Overall construction competition winner:<\/strong> Heather Nickalls, M0HMO\u00a0 for \u201cMeteor Beacon Network Software\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Comments: In terms of the amount of effort required, the understanding shown and its value to the amateur radio community, the judges felt that this project was the clear winner.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antennas category winner: David Matthews, GM8HFP for \u201cMagnetic loop antenna and controllers\u201d Antennas category runner up: Matt Heywood, M7ENW for \u201cJaromir Yagi\u201d Beginners winner and recipient of the Gavin Nesbitt, MM1BXF trophy: Charlie Camilleri, G3ABC for \u201cQO-100 DATV-capable station\u201d Beginners runner up: Hannah Lee, M7YYQ for \u201cQuarter-wave vertical antenna\u201d Construction excellence winner: James Winnard, G3SPE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"parent":28405,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43401","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=43401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43411,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43401\/revisions\/43411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}