{"id":25357,"date":"2020-07-10T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=25357"},"modified":"2020-07-10T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:45:18","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2020\/07\/10\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-267\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week…"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article<\/strong><\/a> has just been published in Nature<\/em><\/strong><\/a> about the first amateur radio communication system in lunar orbit, Longjiang-2<\/em>, also known as Lunar-OSCAR 94<\/em> or LO-94<\/em>. It was built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology<\/strong><\/a>\u2014thanks to the Spectrum Forum<\/strong><\/a> for this information.<\/p>\n

Despite the closure of many amateur radio events, you can still visit the online QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo<\/em> on 8 and 9 August 2020. Attendance is free and registration is now open. There will be around 70 speakers over the weekend including Ward Silver, N0AX, speaking on grounding and bonding; Glen Johnson, W0GJ, talking DXpeditions, and John Portune, W6NBC, on building slot antennas. Go to qsotodayhamexpo.com<\/strong><\/a> to learn more and register.<\/p>\n

John Armstrong, GW3EJR will be celebrating his 100th birthday on 18 July 2020. He told us that, \u201cIt has been a long journey since 1920, although a rather shorter one from when I got my call sign, G3EJR, in 1948. I am still active, using a very ancient Icom IC-706, with a full size G5RV on HF and a Yagi on the 2m band. When I go out and about, I go on 2m with a Baofeng UV-5R5.\u201d Many happy returns John.<\/p>\n

Ofcom<\/strong><\/a> have advised the RSGB that their online licensing portal<\/strong><\/a> will be down between 4.30am and 11.30am on Saturday, 11 July 2020.<\/p>\n

Mid-Ulster ARC<\/strong><\/a> have been holding online talks during the COVID-19 pandemic. These talks are available for everyone to view on the club\u2019s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a>. Last week, RSGB Region 8<\/strong><\/a> representative Philip Hosey, MI0MSO made a presentation<\/strong><\/a>, which was followed by a Q&A session with RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB. They have also had talks by Dom, M0BLF on QO-100, George, GI4SJQ on coaxial cable and connectors and Tony, G2NF speaking about urban QRM, amongst several others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article has just been published in Nature about the first amateur radio communication system in lunar orbit, Longjiang-2, also known as Lunar-OSCAR 94 or LO-94. It was built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology\u2014thanks to the Spectrum Forum for this information. Despite the closure of many amateur radio events, you can still […]<\/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-25357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25357","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=25357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}