{"id":31024,"date":"2022-12-07T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=31024"},"modified":"2023-01-05T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:15:15","slug":"rsgb-nrc-and-mallaig-high-school-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2022\/12\/07\/rsgb-nrc-and-mallaig-high-school-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB NRC and Mallaig High School ARC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31029 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/20221207_102150-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-31030 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/221207-Mallaigh-High-School-link-with-NRC-photo-5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/221207-Mallaigh-High-School-link-with-NRC-photo-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/221207-Mallaigh-High-School-link-with-NRC-photo-5-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/221207-Mallaigh-High-School-link-with-NRC-photo-5-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/12\/221207-Mallaigh-High-School-link-with-NRC-photo-5.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In support of YOTA month, the RSGB&#8217;s National Radio Centre (NRC) had a live video link-up with students and staff at Mallaig High School. About 30 students studying Physics, Maths and History joined the 50-minute virtual tour and talk about the NRC, which concluded with a 40m QSO between GM5MHS and GB3RS in which several students were able to pass a greetings message. The talk covered the following areas:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why wireless was important to Bletchley Park<\/li>\n<li>How messages were sent (Morse\/Encrypted) and Intercepted by Y stations and RSS (VIs)<\/li>\n<li>Demo of high-speed Morse signal transmission (fewer errors\/harder to intercept)<\/li>\n<li>How wireless technology has developed and is so important in modern day life<\/li>\n<li>An introduction to the Electromagnetic spectrum and different radio frequencies<\/li>\n<li>A look at the GB3RS station radios \u2013 frequency bands used \u2013 typical use\/range<\/li>\n<li>Make an SSB QSO between GB3RS and GM5MHS (school radio club station) on 40m band<\/li>\n<li>Talk about ionosphere and how radio waves are propagated<\/li>\n<li>Demo of LEO satellites (FunCube) and how schools can download data for curriculum use<\/li>\n<li>Demo of QO-100 satellite station, in particular for demonstrating the speed of radio (electromagnetic) waves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Lyall Smith, GM4XID who arranged the event for Mallaig High School, said afterwards, &#8220;What a great presentation \u2013 you have made my day, inspired many youngsters and sown so many seeds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In support of YOTA month, the RSGB&#8217;s National Radio Centre (NRC) had a live video link-up with students and staff at Mallaig High School. About 30 students studying Physics, Maths and History joined the 50-minute virtual tour and talk about the NRC, which concluded with a 40m QSO between GM5MHS and GB3RS in which several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024","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=31024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}