{"id":26783,"date":"2021-03-09T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T10:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26783"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T10:28:38","slug":"useful-practical-skills-videos-soldering-a-pl-259-onto-a-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2021\/03\/09\/useful-practical-skills-videos-soldering-a-pl-259-onto-a-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful practical skills videos &#8211; soldering a PL-259 onto a cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26784 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Useful-practical-skills-video-Soldering-a-PL-259-to-a-cable-thumbnail.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The third video in our \u2018Useful practical skills for new licensees\u2019 series shows Rob, M0VFC teaching Lee, M7MUT how to solder a PL-259 plug onto a length of coax, ready to attach to an antenna.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re providing these video resources to link with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishscienceweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>British Science Week<\/strong><\/a> and as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/gota2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8216;Get on the air to care&#8217; campaign with the NHS<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; supporting wellbeing amongst the radio amateur community during the ongoing restrictions when radio amateurs can&#8217;t meet up. They will also add to our existing <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/beyond-exams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond Exams<\/strong><\/a> suite of resources that help radio amateurs discover the diversity of amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>You can see today&#8217;s video and the earlier videos in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org.uk\/practical-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>on our website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third video in our \u2018Useful practical skills for new licensees\u2019 series shows Rob, M0VFC teaching Lee, M7MUT how to solder a PL-259 plug onto a length of coax, ready to attach to an antenna. We&#8217;re providing these video resources to link with British Science Week and as part of our &#8216;Get on the air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-groups-societies","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783","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=26783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}