{"id":22754,"date":"2019-07-19T13:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22754"},"modified":"2019-07-19T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:20:54","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/07\/19\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-217\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the summer holidays looming, where can you take youngsters that\u2019s fun, educational and free? Bletchley Park, the former top-secret home of Britain\u2019s codebreakers, is now a vibrant museum and has a packed calendar of interactive exhibitions and events that tell the story of this historic site. Engineering challenges, codebreaking games and immersive displays are just some of the fun summer activities on offer. For a full list of what\u2019s on, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/bletchleypark.org.uk\/whats-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bletchley Park website<\/strong><\/a>. Don\u2019t forget RSGB Members can download a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>free entry voucher<\/strong><\/a> and you can always visit the RSGB <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalradiocentre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>National Radio Centre<\/strong><\/a> whilst you are there. Bring your licence and you can operate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalradiocentre.com\/find-out-whats-in-the-nrc.php?item=gb3rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>permanent special event station GB3RS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icqpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ICQ Podcast<\/strong><\/a> has announced a partnership in the founding of the Homebrew Heroes Award. This annual award is to recognise persons, groups or organisations who help define the frontiers in amateur radio technology through the long-standing tradition of homebrew construction. The new awards program is independent of the ICQ Podcast and you can find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/homebrewheroes.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>homebrewheroes.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The VX2A11 team is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing during a DXpedition on Grosse-\u00cele, \u00celes-de-la-Madeleine, NA-038, from 23 to 30 July 2019. They will also participate in the IOTA contest. See <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/vx2a11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>facebook.com\/vx2a11<\/strong><\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the summer holidays looming, where can you take youngsters that\u2019s fun, educational and free? Bletchley Park, the former top-secret home of Britain\u2019s codebreakers, is now a vibrant museum and has a packed calendar of interactive exhibitions and events that tell the story of this historic site. Engineering challenges, codebreaking games and immersive displays are [&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-22754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22754","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=22754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}