{"id":19530,"date":"2018-03-23T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:09:04","slug":"prepare-for-sos-radio-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2018\/03\/23\/prepare-for-sos-radio-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for SOS Radio Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sosradioweek.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOS Radio Week<\/strong><\/a> starts in a little over five weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>It runs from 1 to 31 May 2018, in line with the Royal National Lifeboat Institute&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/rnli.org\/mayday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mayday fund-raising events<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOS Radio Week aims to raise awareness of the RNLI through amateur radio and, optionally, raise money.<\/p>\n<p>This can be for a specific lifeboat station, or for the RNLI&#8217;s Mayday fund.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the RNLI is hoping to raise\u00a0\u00a3750,000 to fund vital kit that will keep volunteer lifeboat crews safe.<\/p>\n<p>There is an SOS Radio Week award scheme for working registered stations.<\/p>\n<p>Registered stations can be individuals or groups operating on any band or mode.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sosradioweek.org.uk\/about\/registration-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>register for SOS Radio Week<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sosradioweek.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sosradioweek.org.uk<\/strong><\/a> for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s SOS Radio Week starts in a little over five weeks\u2019 time. It runs from 1 to 31 May 2018, in line with the Royal National Lifeboat Institute&#8217;s own Mayday fund-raising events. SOS Radio Week aims to raise awareness of the RNLI through amateur radio and, optionally, raise money. This can be for a [&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-19530","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\/19530","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=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}