{"id":26515,"date":"2021-01-22T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26515"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:54:54","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/22\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-294\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Redmayne, G6PQW has written an engaging piece in <em>The Telegraph<\/em> about how the lockdown has reinvigorated a teenage interest in amateur radio. The piece includes a quote from RSGB General Manager, Steve Thomas, M1ACB. Well done Nick.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Luka Vukos released his short film <em>ISS_Overs<\/em> that is available for previewing until the 29th of January on Vimeo, see tinyurl.com\/ISSOvers. The film will be entered for several festivals this year, and its contents could be of interest to radio amateurs. A solitary radio amateur endures Covid-19 lockdown in mid-2020. Hearing the crew of the International Space Station talking to schoolchildren as it passes over his home, he dreams of escape. Appearing to be a fly-on-the-wall documentary, <em>ISS_Overs<\/em> is actually scripted, with only Paul Thompson, GM3MEN on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>David, G8UOD recently contacted the RSGB about laptop donations to schools as he thought radio amateurs may have machines they no longer use. If you are interested in donating a laptop or similar to schools to aid with home-schooling, you can find many groups that will take them at the BBC website. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/gb2rs001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tinyurl.com\/gb2rs001<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re into the final weeks of the nominations process for the RSGB elections, which will end at 2359UTC on the 31st of January. There are a number of vacancies so for more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rsgb.org\/election<\/a>\u00a0 The results will be announced at the RSGB\u2019s online AGM on Saturday the 24th of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Redmayne, G6PQW has written an engaging piece in The Telegraph about how the lockdown has reinvigorated a teenage interest in amateur radio. The piece includes a quote from RSGB General Manager, Steve Thomas, M1ACB. Well done Nick. Filmmaker Luka Vukos released his short film ISS_Overs that is available for previewing until the 29th of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515","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=26515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}