{"id":25409,"date":"2020-07-17T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=25409"},"modified":"2020-07-17T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:37:23","slug":"giant-health-talks-about-get-on-the-air-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/gota2c-online\/2020\/07\/17\/giant-health-talks-about-get-on-the-air-to-care\/","title":{"rendered":"GIANT Health talks about ‘Get on the air to care’"},"content":{"rendered":"

GIANT Health<\/a><\/strong> profiled the RSGB and NHS ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign in its recent newsletter. The company runs the biggest health tech event in Europe and has a global community of over 177,000.<\/p>\n

Get on the air to care – Using innovative channels in current times<\/h4>\n
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Get on the air to care – How amateur (ham) radio is connecting people during lockdown.<\/p><\/div>\n

Amateur (ham) radio use in the UK has seen a “significant” rise during the coronavirus lockdown as people seek new ways of staying connected. The national body that represents users – the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) – has said many people who formerly enjoyed the hobby are also returning to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Steve Thomas, RSGB General Manager, says the organisation has experienced a threefold increase in the number of people asking to sit licensing exams since social distancing rules came into place.<\/div>\n
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Amateur radio users have also been showing their support for the NHS by adding “\/NHS” as an extension to their call signs and taking part in a “get on the air to care” campaign (#GOTA2C). It’s aimed at supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of the radio communications community across the UK.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GIANT Health profiled the RSGB and NHS ‘Get on the air to care’ campaign in its recent newsletter. The company runs the biggest health tech event in Europe and has a global community of over 177,000. Get on the air to care – Using innovative channels in current times Amateur (ham) radio use in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-groups-societies","category-gota2c-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409","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=25409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}