{"id":26220,"date":"2020-12-02T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26220"},"modified":"2020-12-02T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:07:12","slug":"rsgb-gm-interviewed-in-tx-factor-episode-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2020\/12\/02\/rsgb-gm-interviewed-in-tx-factor-episode-27\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB GM interviewed in TX Factor Episode 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"e2vm-0-0\">\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"e2vm-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26221 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/12\/201202-Steve-Thomas-interview-with-TX-Factor-in-Sep-2020-close-up.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.txfactor.co.uk\/episode-27.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TX Factor Episode 27<\/strong><\/a> has just been released &#8211; the only professionally-produced TV show dedicated to amateur radio. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an interview filmed in September, the RSGB\u2019s General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB explains how the Society\u2019s positive response to the lockdown helped to boost awareness and growth of amateur radio in the UK. He also stresses the importance of the ongoing work needed to maintain the impetus of\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-on-the-air-to-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8216;Get on the air to care&#8217;<\/strong><\/a> campaign. The interview begins at 21:24<\/p>\n<p>Bob, G0FGX and Mike, G1IAR also get to grips with using an RF Shark openSPOT Hostspot for some mobile DMR action and Bob pays a visit to Don Field, G3XTT to see how he has created some simple antennas to get on the air in his new home in Somerset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TX Factor Episode 27 has just been released &#8211; the only professionally-produced TV show dedicated to amateur radio. In an interview filmed in September, the RSGB\u2019s General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB explains how the Society\u2019s positive response to the lockdown helped to boost awareness and growth of amateur radio in the UK. He also stresses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,379,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-groups-societies","category-gota2c-tv","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220","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=26220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}