{"id":28691,"date":"2022-04-04T21:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=28691"},"modified":"2022-04-04T21:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:16:31","slug":"4-april-2022-breaking-the-big-story-when-amateur-radio-was-the-only-way-by-laurie-margolis-g3uml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2022\/04\/04\/4-april-2022-breaking-the-big-story-when-amateur-radio-was-the-only-way-by-laurie-margolis-g3uml\/","title":{"rendered":"4 April 2022 &#8211; Breaking the big story &#8211; when amateur radio was the only way by Laurie Margolis, G3UML"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jut-9uB4O8w?start=220\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Laurie&#8217;s presentation<\/h3>\n<p>BBC journalist and long-time RSGB member Laurie Margolis broke the fact of the invasion of the Falklands through amateur radio. Here&#8217;s how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He will also cover his involvement in the 1970 King Hussein story.<\/p>\n<p>In this 40th anniversary year since the Falklands War, we are delighted to have this presentation from Laurie.<\/p>\n<h3>About Laurie<\/h3>\n<p>Laurie Margolis has been an RSGB member since 1959, originally A-2111; a licensed amateur as G3UML since 1965; and a BBC journalist working across the world since 1974.<\/p>\n<p>He currently works as an editor at New Broadcasting House in London.<\/p>\n<p>Twice in his life he\u2019s been central to amateur radio involvement in the biggest news stories.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch live<\/h3>\n<p><em>Tonight @ 8<\/em>\u00a0webinars are live-streamed for free on our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/theRSGB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special BATC channel<\/a><\/strong>, allowing you to watch the presentations and ask questions online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie&#8217;s presentation BBC journalist and long-time RSGB member Laurie Margolis broke the fact of the invasion of the Falklands through amateur radio. Here&#8217;s how&#8230; He will also cover his involvement in the 1970 King Hussein story. In this 40th anniversary year since the Falklands War, we are delighted to have this presentation from Laurie. About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tonight-at-eight-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691","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=28691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}