{"id":17596,"date":"2017-06-09T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2017-06-09T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:53:26","slug":"new-122-and-241ghz-uk-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/06\/09\/new-122-and-241ghz-uk-records\/","title":{"rendered":"New 122 and 241GHz UK records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The existing 122GHz and 241GHz UK distance records were both extended to new distance of 6.8km with two-way contacts in CW between John Hazell, G8ACE, operating from his home, to Ian Lamb, G8KQW\/P located at Shroner Wood, Winchester.<\/p>\n<p>The contact took place on Sunday, 21 May.<\/p>\n<p>Transmit power levels were around 200 microwatts at both ends on both bands, and the antennas were 30cm dishes with separate 122GHz and 241GHz feed horns.<\/p>\n<p>RST was 539 each way on both bands.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the contacts thanks to the video uploaded to YouTube by John\u2014see <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k6ZkNyYJb_Qa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/k6ZkNyYJb_Qa<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existing 122GHz and 241GHz UK distance records were both extended to new distance of 6.8km with two-way contacts in CW between John Hazell, G8ACE, operating from his home, to Ian Lamb, G8KQW\/P located at Shroner Wood, Winchester. The contact took place on Sunday, 21 May. Transmit power levels were around 200 microwatts at both [&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-17596","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\/17596","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=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}