{"id":30889,"date":"2023-01-09T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=30889"},"modified":"2023-03-22T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T09:26:24","slug":"9-january-2023-radio-and-rucksack-by-ben-lloyd-gw4bml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2023\/01\/09\/9-january-2023-radio-and-rucksack-by-ben-lloyd-gw4bml\/","title":{"rendered":"9 January 2023 \u2013 Radio and Rucksack by Ben Lloyd, GW4BML"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-X4y6W4xT8?start=150\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Ben\u2019s presentation<\/h4>\n<p>Ben will briefly explain the definition of portable operating and give reasons why portable operating has its benefits. He\u2019ll go on to explain a little about his adventures which mainly include SOTA, working DX and contesting&#8230;all by operating portable. Ben will run through everything that is packed away in his rucksack to enable a successful activation and he\u2019ll also share some of his adventures with everyone, with time for questions at the end.<\/p>\n<h4>About Ben<\/h4>\n<p>Ben is 38 and has been licensed for three years, having held his Full licence for just over a year. He works in the electronics industry, looking after customers and accounts globally.<\/p>\n<p>As well as enjoying walking the mountains, calling out &#8216;CQ SOTA&#8217;, Ben is a keen rally driver (when he has the time!)<\/p>\n<h4>Find out more<\/h4>\n<p>SOTA link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sota.org.uk\/\">www.sota.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slim-G 2m antenna link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrumcomms.co.uk\/Aerials.htm\">www.spectrumcomms.co.uk\/Aerials.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOTLAS summit routes link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sotl.as\/map\">sotl.as\/map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OS Maps link: <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.osmaps.com\/\">explore.osmaps.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOTABEAMS link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotabeams.co.uk\/\">www.sotabeams.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fraser&#8217;s YouTube channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5QimXRvJ72gABQ2dGj_9Jw\">www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5QimXRvJ72gABQ2dGj_9Jw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My email address: <a href=\"mailto:GW4BML@gmail.com\">GW4BML@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben\u2019s presentation Ben will briefly explain the definition of portable operating and give reasons why portable operating has its benefits. He\u2019ll go on to explain a little about his adventures which mainly include SOTA, working DX and contesting&#8230;all by operating portable. Ben will run through everything that is packed away in his rucksack to enable [&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-30889","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\/30889","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=30889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}