{"id":20626,"date":"2018-09-21T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=20626"},"modified":"2018-09-21T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:47:01","slug":"rsgb-2018-convention-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2018\/09\/21\/rsgb-2018-convention-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB 2018 Convention latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Convention takes place from 12 to 14 October 2018 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentshillpark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre<\/strong><\/a> in Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks to the principal sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamradio.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martin Lynch &amp; Sons<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the whole Convention lecture programme at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/convention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/convention<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will be pleased to know that Jim Bacon, G3YLA will be speaking with a lecture entitled <em>Sporadic E Revisited\u2014Is It Any Clearer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sporadic E is a complex propagation mode so Jim will start with a review of where we are with current understanding of sporadic E, ideal for the many newcomers to amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p><em>VHF Baluns\u2014Fact and Fancy<\/em> by Ian White, GM3SEK shows how our ideas about HF baluns have changed dramatically in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ian extends those ideas into the VHF-UHF spectrum, taking a critical look at some long-established methods for feeding Yagi antennas and identifying a new list of dos and don&#8217;ts for modern conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Convention takes place from 12 to 14 October 2018 at Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre in Milton Keynes. Our thanks to the principal sponsor, Martin Lynch &amp; Sons. You can see the whole Convention lecture programme at rsgb.org\/convention. Visitors will be pleased to know that Jim Bacon, G3YLA will be speaking [&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-20626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626","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=20626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}