{"id":19321,"date":"2018-02-23T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=19321"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:49:04","slug":"another-2017-convention-talk-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2018\/02\/23\/another-2017-convention-talk-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 2017 Convention talk now online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another RSGB 2017 Convention presentation has been added for RSGB Members to view.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is by Ian White, GM3SEK, and called <a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/members\/resources\/?id=5724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>VHF-UHF DX\u2014the Game of Decibels<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a talk aimed at all technical levels, Ian explains that decibels are the \u2018currency\u2019 in which we measure our station&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>We can count our gains and losses, save our decibels or throw them away, and eventually find our own answers to the age-old question <em>what is one decibel really worth?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ian explains why we use decibels; why 1dB can be worth more to VHF-UHF DXers than almost any one else; and how \u2018counting the decibels\u2019 can point us to the next station improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rsgb.org\/videos<\/a> for this and many other talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another RSGB 2017 Convention presentation has been added for RSGB Members to view. The talk is by Ian White, GM3SEK, and called VHF-UHF DX\u2014the Game of Decibels. In a talk aimed at all technical levels, Ian explains that decibels are the \u2018currency\u2019 in which we measure our station&#8217;s performance. We can count our gains and [&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-19321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321","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=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}