{"id":25794,"date":"2020-09-18T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=25794"},"modified":"2020-09-18T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:59:27","slug":"mainstream-media-features-amateur-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2020\/09\/18\/mainstream-media-features-amateur-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream media features amateur radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its continuing <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/gota2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Get on the air to care<\/em> campaign<\/strong><\/a> with the NHS, the RSGB has been working with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a> recently to highlight amateur radio in a number of ways.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex ran an interview with RSGB Board Director Stewart Bryant, G3YSX last week; BBC Radio Somerset aired an interview that included RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB this week; and BBC TV Points West shared the story of 10-year-old Caitlin, M6XTT, who passed her Foundation exam via remote invigilation recently after being tutored by her grandfather Don, G3XTT during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more, and listen to each of the interviews, on the Society\u2019s media pages at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/gota2c-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rsgb.org\/gota2c-media<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its continuing Get on the air to care campaign with the NHS, the RSGB has been working with the BBC recently to highlight amateur radio in a number of ways. BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex ran an interview with RSGB Board Director Stewart Bryant, G3YSX last week; BBC Radio Somerset aired an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25794","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=25794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}