{"id":10255,"date":"2014-05-30T14:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:19:40","slug":"news-northern-ireland-1-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/all-regions\/region-8\/2014\/05\/30\/news-northern-ireland-1-june-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"News for Northern Ireland &#8211; 1 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We start with the very sad news that RSGB Deputy Regional Manager Melvyn Irvine, MI0MSR, passed away suddenly on Thursday evening whilst attending his local club. Melvyn was a faithful member of the Region 8 team and was well known as Jim Bob&#8217;s sidekick at rallies the length and breadth of the country. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club is taking part in the RSGB 2m activity night on Tuesday and making preparations for Lurgan Show, where the club will have a stand on Saturday. Next Sunday sees a video night, showing Tony Hancock&#8217;s The Radio Ham. Contact Brian Burns, MI0TGO, by email to muarc.secretary@yahoo.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 6 Grey Point Fort Amateur Radio Society starts its three day commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of D-Day. Details from Stephen McFarland, GI4RNP, on 02891 852 731.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start with the very sad news that RSGB Deputy Regional Manager Melvyn Irvine, MI0MSR, passed away suddenly on Thursday evening whilst attending his local club. Melvyn was a faithful member of the Region 8 team and was well known as Jim Bob&#8217;s sidekick at rallies the length and breadth of the country. Our thoughts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-region-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}