{"id":24727,"date":"2020-04-17T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=24727"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:18:04","slug":"get-on-the-air-to-care-rsgb-launches-national-campaign-in-partnership-with-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2020\/04\/17\/get-on-the-air-to-care-rsgb-launches-national-campaign-in-partnership-with-the-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Get on the air to care \u2013 RSGB launches national campaign in partnership with the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Radio Society of Great Britain, working in partnership with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS<\/a><\/strong>, has launched a new campaign called \u201cGet on the air to care\u201d to support the emotional health and wellbeing of 75,000 licensed UK radio amateurs \u2013 just some of the 3,000,000 worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Devlin, NHS England Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and RSGB District Representative, says: \u201cNow, more than ever, we need to optimise all modes of communication to help reduce loneliness and isolation within communities. Amateur radio provides a wonderful, unprecedented opportunity to help make this a reality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru.org\/on-the-air\/world-amateur-radio-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Amateur Radio Day<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday 18 April celebrates this innovative, global community. Whilst amateur radio evolves continually to include technologies which are at the forefront of modern radio communications, radio amateurs can \u201cGet on the air to care\u201d with a simple handheld device.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Thomas, M1ACB, General Manager of the RSGB explains: \u201cPlease help to increase amateur radio activity through club and repeater group nets, chatting with your friends or just by calling CQ. If you\u2019d like to show your support for the NHS at the same time, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Ofcom.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ofcom<\/a><\/strong> is happy for radio amateurs to add \u201c\/NHS\u201d to the end of their call signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networks.nhs.uk\/nhs-networks\/gb1nhs\/gb1nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GB1NHS<\/a><\/strong>, the UK&#8217;s National Health Service radio communications station will be on the air as part of this campaign so listen out for it!<\/p>\n<p>Our new \u201cGet on the air to care\u201d web page at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/gota2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rsgb.org\/gota2c<\/strong><\/a> includes our launch video so do take a look.<\/p>\n<p>As you get involved in \u201cGet on the air to care\u201d by being more active on the radio, please share your photos, video clips and news with us via comms@rsgb.org.uk and also on social media using the hashtag #GOTA2C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Radio Society of Great Britain, working in partnership with the NHS, has launched a new campaign called \u201cGet on the air to care\u201d to support the emotional health and wellbeing of 75,000 licensed UK radio amateurs \u2013 just some of the 3,000,000 worldwide. Paul Devlin, NHS England Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and RSGB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cv-news","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24727","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\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}