{"id":17693,"date":"2017-06-23T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:15:46","slug":"maintenance-takes-saq-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/06\/23\/maintenance-takes-saq-off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance takes SAQ off the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no Alexanderson Day over-the-air VLF transmission on 2 July 2017 from SAQ, the <a href=\"http:\/\/alexander.n.se\/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton\/the-alexanderson-transmitter\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexanderson alternator station<\/a> in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>SAQ periodically schedules transmissions with the nearly century-old behemoth that operates on 17.2kHz from the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station.<\/p>\n<p>SAQ said the event was cancelled due to ongoing maintenance work at the site.<\/p>\n<p>The station will still observe Alexanderson Day with activities that include two startups of the Alexanderson alternator and a \u2018local\u2019 transmission.<\/p>\n<p>These events will be streamed via YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The site will be open to visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no Alexanderson Day over-the-air VLF transmission on 2 July 2017 from SAQ, the Alexanderson alternator station in Sweden. SAQ periodically schedules transmissions with the nearly century-old behemoth that operates on 17.2kHz from the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station. SAQ said the event was cancelled due to ongoing maintenance work at the site. [&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-17693","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\/17693","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=17693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}