{"id":28299,"date":"2021-05-25T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=28299"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:33:37","slug":"sophia-aged-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/award-stories\/2021\/05\/25\/sophia-aged-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia (aged six)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28303 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/05\/Sophia-Leviston-QSL-card-front.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sophia was mentored by her father Chris, M0KPW so that she could complete activities totalling six points to gain the Radio Surfer Award &#8211; for which the points total has to be the same as her age.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia has always shown interest in amateur radio and has enjoyed sending greetings messages for a number of years, especially to female operators.<\/p>\n<p>She has accompanied her Dad on a number of SOTAs over the last 18 months when restrictions have allowed.\u00a0 To gain the Radio\u00a0 Surfer Award she designed a QSL Card for a greetings message she had recently on HF (including a princess in her design) and sent four greetings messages on a SOTA activation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia was mentored by her father Chris, M0KPW so that she could complete activities totalling six points to gain the Radio Surfer Award &#8211; for which the points total has to be the same as her age. Sophia has always shown interest in amateur radio and has enjoyed sending greetings messages for a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28299","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=28299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}