{"id":31249,"date":"2023-01-13T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=31249"},"modified":"2023-01-13T19:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:53:42","slug":"rsgb-volunteer-talks-about-morse-on-bbc-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2023\/01\/13\/rsgb-volunteer-talks-about-morse-on-bbc-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB volunteer talks about Morse on BBC Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent items in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/forget-dot-com-americans-are-making-a-new-dash-for-morse-code-bhqc29scv?fbclid=IwAR3vw22V26-Iy0Of7xDPNR9DEfSicgXSRb-G2xVHPbLfDzuGZ8LZz9vQo84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Times<\/strong><\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001h638?fbclid=IwAR16NHzYkU1T5yGhGHGnDiw4_v1ztc7aqp-j-N27NzCtwrtZMIOFuCyIiXk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BBC Radio 4 PM<\/strong><\/a> programme (starts at 51:43) about a rise in the use of Morse Code in America, we contacted BBC Three Counties Radio and arranged an interview for Mervyn Foster, G4KLE.<\/p>\n<p>Mervyn is a volunteer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/national-radio-centre-gb3rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB National Radio Centre<\/strong><\/a>, an RSGB District Representative and a life-long devotee of Morse Code.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to Andy Collins on the breakfast show on Friday 13 January. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0dqpyrt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>listen to the interview on BBC Sounds<\/strong><\/a> where it starts at 1:53:01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent items in The Times and on BBC Radio 4 PM programme (starts at 51:43) about a rise in the use of Morse Code in America, we contacted BBC Three Counties Radio and arranged an interview for Mervyn Foster, G4KLE. Mervyn is a volunteer at the RSGB National Radio Centre, an RSGB District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31249","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=31249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}