{"id":33270,"date":"2023-12-18T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=33270"},"modified":"2023-12-18T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:07:21","slug":"4-december-amateur-radio-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2023\/12\/18\/4-december-amateur-radio-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"11 December 2023 &#8211; Amateur radio construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpEZMKR9HNQ?si=_vNpa0kNPeP3VCHW\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Do you enjoy amateur radio construction? Or would you like to try making something for the first time?<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB recognises the importance of construction as a key element of amateur radio, whether that is using traditional construction skills or a software or systems engineering project.<\/p>\n<p>In this presentation we&#8217;ll look at some of the projects that were entered into the RSGB Construction Competition over the last couple of years, and hear from the people behind them.<\/p>\n<p>We hope it inspires you to try something new!<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>About the presenters<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jenny Curtis, M7JNY &#8211; 2023 Beginners winner and awarded the MM1BXF Trophy for her Emergency Vertical Antenna<\/li>\n<li>Colin Murray, GM4EAU &#8211; 2022 Software winner for his WATT &#8211; WSPR Analysis and Traffic Tool<\/li>\n<li>David Law,\u00a0 G0LBK &#8211; 2023 Construction Excellence winner and given the Pat Hawker G3VA Award as overall winner for his 23cm band EME dish antenna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Watch live<\/h3>\n<p>Tonight@8 webinars are livestreamed for free on our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/URzrI7qIxEs?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special BATC channel<\/a><\/strong>, allowing you to watch the presentations and ask questions online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presentation Do you enjoy amateur radio construction? Or would you like to try making something for the first time? The RSGB recognises the importance of construction as a key element of amateur radio, whether that is using traditional construction skills or a software or systems engineering project. In this presentation we&#8217;ll look at some [&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-33270","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\/33270","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=33270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}