{"id":26479,"date":"2021-01-15T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26479"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:29:09","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2021\/01\/15\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-293\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very low frequency enthusiast Joe, VO1NA reports that Stefan, DK7FC copied his 50-character EbNaut message transmitted from Newfoundland on 8.271kHz, with a radiated power of 10mW. We believe this is a new record for amateur transatlantic VLF. Joe\u2019s tower supports a VLF rotated L, which is 10 metre average height and 100 metres long.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB is delighted that 4,000 people have taken amateur radio exams via remote invigilation. This number covers exams at all three licence levels. We know that all radio amateurs will be encouraging as people progress and enjoy the diversity of amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>Could you be the RSGB\u2019s next President? Do you have the time and skills to serve on the Society\u2019s Board of Directors? We\u2019re into the final weeks of the nominations process for the RSGB elections, which will end at 2359UTC on the 31st of January. In addition to these two roles, there are three Regional Representative vacancies in Regions 2, 6 and 12. Each post-holder has indicated their willingness to stand for election but applications are also welcome from all RSGB Members living in these particular Regions. For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.rsgb.org\/election<\/a>\u00a0 The results will be announced at the RSGB\u2019s online AGM on Saturday the 24th of April.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamvention.org\/\">Dayton Hamvention<\/a> will not take place for a second year. Sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association, it was set to take place between the 21st and 23rd of May in Ohio. The committee said the show would return in 2022 and hinted at a QSO party for Hamvention weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 80m RSGB National Radio Centre net continues to run each weekday at 10.30am on 3.727MHz. The NRC volunteers have run 260 of these nets since March 2020 to support radio amateurs. They are keen for people to call in during the current lockdown. Get on the air and have a chat \u2013 they\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>South Dublin Radio Club hosted Michael O\u2019Connell from the I87 Astroshot Observatory to the club\u2019s first online live lecture of 2021, via Zoom. The lecture is titled Amateur Observations of Meteors and is now available to view on the club\u2019s YouTube channel. Michael\u2019s presentation covers Meteors, Meteor related radio phenomena and how radio techniques are used by amateurs to detect and track meteors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very low frequency enthusiast Joe, VO1NA reports that Stefan, DK7FC copied his 50-character EbNaut message transmitted from Newfoundland on 8.271kHz, with a radiated power of 10mW. We believe this is a new record for amateur transatlantic VLF. Joe\u2019s tower supports a VLF rotated L, which is 10 metre average height and 100 metres long. The [&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-26479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479","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=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}