{"id":12820,"date":"2015-07-03T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=12820"},"modified":"2015-07-03T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:00:13","slug":"crowds-flocked-batc-friedrichshafen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2015\/07\/03\/crowds-flocked-batc-friedrichshafen\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds flock to BATC at Friedrichshafen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 radio amateurs visited the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.batc.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Amateur Television Club<\/a>\u00a0(BATC) stand\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de\/ham-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">international amateur radio exhibition<\/a> at Friedrichshafen.<\/p>\n<p>BATC chairman Noel Matthews, G8GTZ described it as a \u201cvery busy and worthwhile\u201d three day event promoting both amateur television and the BATC.<\/p>\n<p>Enthusiasts from across Europe, and beyond, were shown demonstrations of the latest reduced bandwidth digital television projects.<\/p>\n<p>Many commented on how impressed they were with the MPEG-4 picture quality using just 500kHz bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>The new USB tuner project MiniTiouner demonstrated by F6DZP also created a lot of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The BATC shop enjoyed a brisk trade and new joiners at the event helped boost the club\u2019s membership to more than 950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 radio amateurs visited the\u00a0British Amateur Television Club\u00a0(BATC) stand\u00a0at the international amateur radio exhibition at Friedrichshafen. BATC chairman Noel Matthews, G8GTZ described it as a \u201cvery busy and worthwhile\u201d three day event promoting both amateur television and the BATC. Enthusiasts from across Europe, and beyond, were shown demonstrations of the latest reduced bandwidth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820","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=12820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}