{"id":24011,"date":"2020-01-10T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=24011"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:48:03","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2020\/01\/10\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-241\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2020\/01\/03\/new-tropo-records-on-2m-and-70cm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Last week<\/strong><\/a> we told you about Ian, GM3SEK setting a new 70cm world record distance of 4,565km on tropo on 28 December 2019. The record didn\u2019t stand for long as Nick, G4KUX worked D21CV using FT8, establishing a new world record of 4644km. Congratulations to him. You will be able to read more about the excellent VHF conditions in the February edition of <em>RadCom<\/em> in the VHF UHF column. Any reports you may have for the column can be sent to <strong>radcom@rsgb.org.uk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB is looking for people to step forward for election at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/agm-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>RSGB AGM<\/strong><\/a>. There are vacancies for two elected <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Board Directors<\/strong><\/a> and six <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/regional-managers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Regional Representatives<\/strong><\/a>. Full details of the nominations process can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rsgb.org\/election<\/strong><\/a>. The deadline for your nomination is <strong>31 January 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 60th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus, members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyhams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cyprus Amateur Radio Society<\/strong><\/a> may use the prefix 5B60 during 2020 instead of the usual 5B4 prefix.<\/p>\n<p>The latest IARU Monitoring System newsletter for Region 1 is now available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>iaru-r1.org<\/strong><\/a>. It contains detailed reports from the national coordinators within IARU Region 1, including the UK report compiled by Richard, G4DYA. In his report you can see where the Russian Kontayner over-the-horizon radar is appearing on the 40m band and the occasional broadcast station that appeared on the wrong part of the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we told you about Ian, GM3SEK setting a new 70cm world record distance of 4,565km on tropo on 28 December 2019. The record didn\u2019t stand for long as Nick, G4KUX worked D21CV using FT8, establishing a new world record of 4644km. Congratulations to him. You will be able to read more about the [&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-24011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24011","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=24011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}