{"id":13350,"date":"2015-09-25T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:00:55","slug":"first-ever-convention-buildathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2015\/09\/25\/first-ever-convention-buildathon\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever Convention Buildathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year sees the first ever Buildathon at an <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/\">RSGB Convention<\/a>; a kit building workshop with mentors on hand to assist and guide.<\/p>\n<p>The kit being built is the Kanga UK Acorn II SDR receiver for 7MHz.<\/p>\n<p>The build will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 10 October at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentshillpark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent\u2019s Hill Convention Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Places can be booked via the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.niceltd.co.uk\/rsgb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Convention booking page<\/a> on the RSGB Shop.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn a bit more about the kit, Dan, M0TGN, one of the mentors, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SFAtzTAE2V4\" target=\"_blank\">posted a video of his test build on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want any additional information you can email RSGB Board member Steve Hartley, G0FUW via g0fuw@rsgb.org.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year sees the first ever Buildathon at an RSGB Convention; a kit building workshop with mentors on hand to assist and guide. The kit being built is the Kanga UK Acorn II SDR receiver for 7MHz. The build will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 10 October at the Kent\u2019s Hill Convention Centre. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350","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=13350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}