{"id":31550,"date":"2023-03-06T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=31550"},"modified":"2023-03-10T15:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:55:46","slug":"further-2022-convention-presentations-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/2023\/03\/06\/further-2022-convention-presentations-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Further 2022 Convention presentations released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have released two more 2022 Convention presentations for radio amateurs to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cAntennas for an effective contest station\u201d Lee Volante, G0MTN<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span>reviews many of the options available to the HF contester when making antenna choices. He considers how antenna type, height, location and available resources have to be balanced with the type of contest and a contester&#8217;s personal goals.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFurther exploration of SDR\u201d by Gordon Lean, G3WJG<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span>covers the design and performance of Software Defined Radio systems from direct carrier generation to the use of units incorporating the GNU-Radio design software. It also focuses on experience and actual use of equipment on all bands from 80M to 10 GHz and some of the benefits and difficulties associated with SDR operation.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch them both on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/theRSGB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a> or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB members\u2019 portal<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have released two more 2022 Convention presentations for radio amateurs to enjoy. In \u201cAntennas for an effective contest station\u201d Lee Volante, G0MTN\u00a0reviews many of the options available to the HF contester when making antenna choices. He considers how antenna type, height, location and available resources have to be balanced with the type of contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-gb2rs","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550","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=31550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}