{"id":16650,"date":"2017-01-12T14:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2017-01-12T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:26:56","slug":"note-from-our-patron-hrh-the-prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-kg-kt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2017\/01\/12\/note-from-our-patron-hrh-the-prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-kg-kt\/","title":{"rendered":"Note from our patron, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Commonwealth Contest (formerly known as the British Empire Radio Union &#8211; BERU) is one of the longest-running contests in the HF contesting world. It promotes contacts between stations in the UK&amp;CD, Commonwealth and Mandated Territories. The 80<sup>th<\/sup> Commonwealth Contest will take place on 11 &#8211; 12 March 2017 between 1000 &#8211; 1000 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to have received a letter from our patron, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT congratulating us on this special contest anniversary and wishing everyone well who takes part.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the contest rules are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/hf\/rules\/2017\/beru2017.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">contest website<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou can find out about the contest\u2019s special awards on the dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/berucontest.wordpress.com\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16652 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2017\/01\/170104-Buckingham-Palace-reply-Note-from-HRH-Duke-of-Edinburgh-e1484230141700.png\" alt=\"170104 Buckingham Palace reply - Note from HRH Duke of Edinburgh\" width=\"500\" height=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Commonwealth Contest (formerly known as the British Empire Radio Union &#8211; BERU) is one of the longest-running contests in the HF contesting world. It promotes contacts between stations in the UK&amp;CD, Commonwealth and Mandated Territories. The 80th Commonwealth Contest will take place on 11 &#8211; 12 March 2017 between 1000 &#8211; 1000 UTC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,55],"tags":[315,309,314],"class_list":["post-16650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-rsgb-notices","tag-commonwealth","tag-contest","tag-patron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650","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\/20361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}