{"id":26440,"date":"2021-01-08T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26440"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:29:33","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2021\/01\/08\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-292\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get on the air for Christmas finished yesterday, Saturday the 9<sup>th<\/sup> of January, but you still have time to enter the construction competition. Projects can be hardware, software or a system and may be based on a kit. There is a prize of \u00a3100 and the winning entry will be featured on the Society\u2019s website and in <em>RadCom<\/em>. The deadline for entries is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of February. See the details at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/gota4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.rsgb.org\/gota4c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Elettra<\/em> is the vessel on which Marconi conducted many experiments. The <em>Elettra<\/em>: the miracle ship award commemorates the centenary of the ship&#8217;s official registration under the name of <em>Elettra<\/em>. The award period lasts the whole year and there will be a different special event callsign each month. Detail at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arifidenza.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.arifidenza.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Were you one of the 19,000 people who enjoyed the RSGB\u2019s Tonight @ 8 webinars last year? The 2021 series starts tomorrow, Monday the 11<sup>th<\/sup> of January, when Steve Hartley, G0FUW and Pete Juliano, N6QW will talk about amateur radio construction. Despite what many people think, building your own radio equipment is still a very popular aspect of amateur radio. This presentation will share some ideas on how to get started and provide some examples of homebrew gear, using hardware and software. Watch live and ask questions on the RSGB YouTube channel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/theRSGB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.youtube.com\/theRSGB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A QSO Party to celebrate the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Marconi Club AR Loano will take place on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> of January. Running from 0800 to 2200UTC using the 20, 40 and 80m bands with CW only, you can find out the rules at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariloano.it\/marconiclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.ariloano.it\/marconiclub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Permission has been announced for Category 1 Uzbek licensees to operate in the new WRC-15 Amateur 60m Secondary Allocation of 5351.5 \u2013 5366.5kHz with a maximum power of 100W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get on the air for Christmas finished yesterday, Saturday the 9th of January, but you still have time to enter the construction competition. Projects can be hardware, software or a system and may be based on a kit. There is a prize of \u00a3100 and the winning entry will be featured on the Society\u2019s website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440","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\/20377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}