{"id":18716,"date":"2017-11-10T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:31:41","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/11\/10\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-134\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yasme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yasme Foundation<\/a> Board of Directors has announced five Excellence Awards that are presented to individuals and groups who have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. Receiving Yasme Foundation Excellence Award are the Dayton Amateur Radio Association for the new Dayton Hamvention; Paul, KD4STH, and Bill, WB8ELK for their work in amateur radio high-altitude ballooning; Nathaniel, W2NAF, and Magda, KM4EGE for creating and leading the organisation that sponsored the Solar Eclipse QSO Party; the WSJT Development Team and Dale, VK1DSH for in the ITU-R Working Party 5A. To read more about the contributions that warranted the award go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yasme.org\/yasme-excellence-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yasme.org\/yasme-excellence-awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The permanent special event station GB2RAF, based at the RAF Neatishead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarmuseum.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Defence Radar Museum<\/a> in Norfolk, will be off the air until 14 April 2018. This is due to the Museum closure until March 2018 for its winter break.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s amateur satellite group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat-ea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMSAT-EA<\/a> has released an English language edition of their November newsletter. It covers the recently activated linear transponder SSB\/CW satellites CAS-4A and CAS-4B, upcoming DXpeditions and an article on the QBITO satellite. The translation was made by Fernando, EC1AME. Download the newsletter from <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/GB2RS-1112C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tinyurl.com\/GB2RS-1112C<\/a> (4-page\/2.6MB PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yasme Foundation Board of Directors has announced five Excellence Awards that are presented to individuals and groups who have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. Receiving Yasme Foundation Excellence Award are the Dayton Amateur Radio Association for the new Dayton Hamvention; Paul, KD4STH, and Bill, WB8ELK for their work in amateur radio high-altitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716","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=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}