{"id":21415,"date":"2019-01-18T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=21415"},"modified":"2019-01-18T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:58:41","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/01\/18\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-192\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest versions of the UK band plans have been published. RSGB Members will receive a copy within the February edition of\u00a0<em>RadCom<\/em>, and the information is freely downloadable from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/bandplans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/bandplans<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two more 2018 RSGB Convention videos are now available for Members to view on the RSGB website. Convention favourite Ian White, GM3SEK can be seen speaking about VHF baluns, where he takes a critical look at some long-established methods for feeding Yagi antennas and identifying a new list of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts for modern conditions\u2014watch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/members\/resources\/?id=5762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>VHF Baluns \u2013 Fact and Fancy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Ian White, GM3SEK. Ray Burlingame-Goff, G4FON discusses the pitfalls of learning Morse and the work of the German psychologist Ludwig Koch that Ray used in his freeware training software. Drawing on his own experience and over 10 years of feedback by users of his software, Ray offers practical advice on how you can move from simply working stations with a 5NN TU reply to effortless casual rag chewing with them\u2014watch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/members\/resources\/?id=5763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Improving your Morse Skills<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Ray Burlingame-Goff, G4FON. Go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/videos<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to see these and many other videos.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead a little, The St Patrick Award is asking amateurs to come and celebrate on the air for St Patrick\u2019s Day on 17 March 2019. The award will be running over 48 hours from the 16th at 12 noon until the 18th at 12 noon to follow the worldwide celebrations. This year a new digital award has been added covering such modes as FT8, DMR, D-Star, JT65, Echolink, etc. To claim it you must have made 20 contacts with a registered St Patrick\u2019s Day station. For more information go to <a href=\"http:\/\/stpatrickaward.webs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>stpatrickaward.webs.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80,000 contacts went into logs at Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) suffix stations and others participating in December YOTA month, with most operations in IARU Region 1. The final tally included 46,989 on SSB, another 28,064 on CW, some 3,814 on FT8, and the rest on various other modes. This year, as many as 44 participating stations made 82,938 QSOs in December. You will be able to read about events in the UK in the March <em>RadCom<\/em>. A full report can be read at <a href=\"http:\/\/iaru-r1.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>iaru-r1.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of vintage radio and amateur radio related ebooks available for free download on Project Gutenberg. Among them is <em>Letters of a Radio Engineer to his Son<\/em> by John Mills. Written in 1922, in his letters the author teaches all about radio-telephony with simple explanations and \u201ccontain only what is important in the radio of to-day and those ideas which seem necessary if you are to follow the rapid advances which radio is making.\u201d For more details see <a href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/search\/?query=radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/search\/?query=radio<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest versions of the UK band plans have been published. RSGB Members will receive a copy within the February edition of\u00a0RadCom, and the information is freely downloadable from\u00a0rsgb.org\/bandplans. Two more 2018 RSGB Convention videos are now available for Members to view on the RSGB website. Convention favourite Ian White, GM3SEK can be seen 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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415","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=21415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}