{"id":33860,"date":"2024-02-09T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=33860"},"modified":"2024-02-09T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:08:14","slug":"rsgb-board-january-2024-meeting-key-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2024\/02\/09\/rsgb-board-january-2024-meeting-key-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Board \u2013 January 2024 meeting key messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following its meeting in January 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>the RSGB Board<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has shared these key messages from that meeting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Board noted that 2,232 candidates had taken exams in 2023: 1,500 at Foundation, 416 at Intermediate, 289 at Full and 27 at Direct-to-Full level. The Society also issued 78 Foundation candidate numbers for successful cadet exam passes. The number of candidates had grown significantly for January and February 2024 \u2013 there was no obvious reason for this but it was welcomed<\/li>\n<li>The Board introduced a RSGB challenge for <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/bsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>British Science Week<\/strong><\/a> with a prize to be awarded to winning entries. The brief is: <strong>Using readily available components, material or other resources, provide a method of either measuring the frequency of a radio frequency source or signal, or providing a time reference to a radio operator or radio system<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The accounts to December 2023 continued to show that the level of deficit was less than as budgeted for, as expected. The date for the audit has been set<\/li>\n<li>Electronic RadCom: technical aspects were largely completed but further work was required to test the service and its interaction with the CRM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following its meeting in January 2024, the RSGB Board\u00a0has shared these key messages from that meeting: Board noted that 2,232 candidates had taken exams in 2023: 1,500 at Foundation, 416 at Intermediate, 289 at Full and 27 at Direct-to-Full level. The Society also issued 78 Foundation candidate numbers for successful cadet exam passes. The number [&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-33860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860","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=33860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}