{"id":29844,"date":"2022-06-01T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=29844"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:50:47","slug":"amateur-radio-to-be-shown-on-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2022\/06\/01\/amateur-radio-to-be-shown-on-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur radio to be shown on television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hobby of amateur radio, and portable operating in particular, will receive some television coverage on Sunday, 5 June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The long-running BBC <em>Countryfile<\/em> programme airs at 6pm on BBC 1, and features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m00183kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Flat Holm island<\/strong><\/a> in the Bristol Channel; the site of Marconi&#8217;s first radio transmissions over sea.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker will be with leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sota.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Summits on the Air<\/strong><\/a> (SOTA) operator Ben Lloyd, GW4BML as he sets up a portable station on the island in order to contact SOTA activators on hill and mountain summits around the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hobby of amateur radio, and portable operating in particular, will receive some television coverage on Sunday, 5 June 2022. The long-running BBC Countryfile programme airs at 6pm on BBC 1, and features Flat Holm island in the Bristol Channel; the site of Marconi&#8217;s first radio transmissions over sea. Presenters Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844","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=29844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}