{"id":23276,"date":"2019-09-28T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=23276"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T13:00:54","slug":"national-club-of-the-year-2018-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/09\/28\/national-club-of-the-year-2018-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"National Club of the Year 2018 winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamradiostore.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/WSlogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/WSlogo.png 310w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/WSlogo-150x73.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/WSlogo-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalhamfest.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Hamfest<\/a> on 28 September 2019 we announced the winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs\/national-club-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSGB National Club of the Year 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We thank <a href=\"https:\/\/hamradiostore.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waters &amp; Stanton<\/a> for sponsoring this year\u2019s event, and for kindly donating the prizes.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s competition had only one category for entrants, and as well as being open to clubs of all sizes, we welcomed entries from all RSGB affiliated groups.<\/p>\n<p>Winner:\u00a0 <strong>Hilderstone Radio Society<\/strong> (Region 10)<br \/>\nRunner up:\u00a0 <strong>Bushvalley Amateur Radio Club<\/strong> (Region 8)<br \/>\nThird place: <strong>Essex Ham<\/strong> (Region 12)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the winners for the excellent job they do at the grass roots of amateur radio, and also to all the other clubs and groups who took part in earlier stages of the competition.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rsgb.org\\\/main\\\/blog\\\/news\\\/gb2rs\\\/headlines\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/28\\\/national-club-of-the-year-2018-winners-announced\\\/\",\"likes_blog_id\":false}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"640\"><div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 635px; 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We thank Waters &amp; Stanton for sponsoring this year\u2019s event, and for kindly donating the prizes. This year\u2019s competition had only one category for entrants, and as well as being open to clubs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23276","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\/23276","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\/20373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}