{"id":10691,"date":"2014-08-08T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=10691"},"modified":"2014-08-18T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:24:27","slug":"rsgb-convention-10-12-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/uncategorized\/2014\/08\/08\/rsgb-convention-10-12-october\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Convention 10-12 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/\">RSGB Convention<\/a> takes place between 10 and 12 October and will be held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentshillpark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent\u2019s Hill Conference Centre<\/a> in Milton Keynes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The RSGB has extended the Early Bird discount until 1 September so there\u2019s still time to get a bargain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgbevents.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.rsgbevents.org<\/a> to book your place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The programme is available <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/rsgb-convention-2014-provisional-timetable\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> One of the highlights will be the talk by Bob Allphin, K4UEE who was a member of the successful 2014 FT5ZM Amsterdam Island DXpedition, the sixth most-wanted DXCC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Their story is a very interesting one and many UK station got a \u2018new one\u2019 from their DXpedition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The cost of this DXpedition was almost half a million dollars, the sea trip across the South Atlantic was dire and participants put in a lot of their own money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> Also confirmed is Mike Richards, G4WNC who asks is your Raspberry Pi collecting dust? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mike will show you how to get it doing something useful in the shack and starting working datamodes amongst other things. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Free factsheets will be available at the end of the talk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Convention takes place between 10 and 12 October and will be held at the Kent\u2019s Hill Conference Centre in Milton Keynes. The RSGB has extended the Early Bird discount until 1 September so there\u2019s still time to get a bargain. Go to www.rsgbevents.org to book your place. The programme is available here One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}