{"id":25444,"date":"2020-07-24T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=25444"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:50:33","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2020\/07\/24\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The objective of the AMSAT-UK OSCAR Satellite QSO Party is to encourage all radio amateurs to make contacts via satellites during northern hemisphere summer. Whether you are a seasoned operator or a newcomer, all are welcome. Although points are given per QSO, this isn\u2019t a contest. The QSO party will be supported by an online leaderboard that will be available from the start of the event, which runs from 0000UTC on 1 August 2020 until 2359UTC on 22 September 2020. Prizes will be awarded to the leading entries\u2014full details at amsat-uk.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The RSGB\u2019s\u00a0Tonight @ 8<\/em>\u00a0webinars continue on Monday, 27 July 2020 with a presentation by Dom Smith, M0BLF\u00a0Getting Started on QO-100<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. You can watch the live stream and ask questions on the\u00a0RSGB YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or the special\u00a0Tonight @ 8<\/em>\u00a0channel<\/strong><\/a> on the BATC website. The webinar series takes a break in August, then will be back on 7 September with James Stevens, M0JCQ who will be talking about\u00a0Portable Adventures with Summits on the Air<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. You can find out more about all the webinars at\u00a0rsgb.org\/webinars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

NZART<\/strong><\/a>\u2014New Zealand’s national amateur radio society\u2014has published an update on its 60m band page indicating that the current New Zealand 60m trial period, which was due to have concluded on 24 July 2020, has been extended for a further three months until 24 October 2020. Go to nzart.org.nz\/info\/60m<\/strong><\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

The European Space Agency<\/strong><\/a> has released a new video How to Get Pictures from the International Space Station via Amateur Radio<\/strong><\/em><\/a> that features radio amateur David Honess, 2E0XDO. It also has a collection of tutorial videos explaining how to receive ISS slow scan TV pictures for different computers and mobile devices.<\/p>\n

The RSGB has uploaded two more 2019 Convention lecture videos<\/strong><\/a> to its YouTube channel. In the first one<\/strong><\/a>, Richard Banester, G4CDN talks about 2m ionoscatter and using digital modes to open up paths that are usually unworkable. The second presentation<\/strong><\/a> is by Dean Pesnell from the Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/strong><\/a> who explains more about the observatory and how studying the Sun helps us understand the Earth and amateur radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The objective of the AMSAT-UK OSCAR Satellite QSO Party is to encourage all radio amateurs to make contacts via satellites during northern hemisphere summer. Whether you are a seasoned operator or a newcomer, all are welcome. Although points are given per QSO, this isn\u2019t a contest. The QSO party will be supported by an online […]<\/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-25444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444","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=25444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}