{"id":35118,"date":"2024-08-09T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=35118"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:38:10","slug":"operating-awards-update-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/awards-updates\/2024\/08\/09\/operating-awards-update-july-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Operating awards update &#8211; July 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>At the halfway point of 2024, we had issued 19 awards this year, slightly less than usual<\/li>\n<li>11 of the 19 awards issued have gone to non-UK amateurs, a higher percentage than usual although this evens out to between 25% and 33% by end of year usually<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/amateur-radio-awards\/rsgb-hf-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IARU Region 1 awards<\/strong><\/a> are most popular, followed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/amateur-radio-awards\/vhfuhf-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>50MHz<\/strong><\/a> and Commonwealth Century awards.<\/li>\n<li>No special event awards are currently planned this year, but consideration is being given to variations on the Marathon\/Challenge idea that runs over a specified time period to achieve target criteria.<\/li>\n<li>We are looking into the feasibility of offering electronic-only awards across more of the portfolio, and ways of automating their issue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lindsay Pennell, GI3KME<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/honorary-officers\/hf-awards-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Awards Manager<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the halfway point of 2024, we had issued 19 awards this year, slightly less than usual 11 of the 19 awards issued have gone to non-UK amateurs, a higher percentage than usual although this evens out to between 25% and 33% by end of year usually IARU Region 1 awards are most popular, followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118","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=35118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}