{"id":39746,"date":"2025-05-30T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=39746"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:14:10","slug":"rsgb-maker-champion-tom-wardill-2e0jji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/volunteers-week\/2025\/05\/30\/rsgb-maker-champion-tom-wardill-2e0jji\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Maker Champion, Tom Wardill, 2E0JJI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39747 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/05\/Tom-Wardill-2E0JJI-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Tom Wardill\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/05\/Tom-Wardill-2E0JJI-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/05\/Tom-Wardill-2E0JJI-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/05\/Tom-Wardill-2E0JJI-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/05\/Tom-Wardill-2E0JJI.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you been an RSGB volunteer? <\/strong>About two months so far!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to volunteer?<\/strong> To see if I can work out how to help people with their projects and to be interested in using radio in ways that I would never anticipate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you hope to get out of volunteering in your new role?<\/strong> To talk to people who are excited about what they&#8217;ve just built or hope to build.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you say to people thinking about volunteering for the RSGB? <\/strong>There is a lot of support from both within the RSGB and from people in the amateur radio community, so you don&#8217;t have to do everything on your own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun fact: do you prefer operating or tinkering\/constructing?<\/strong> Definitely tinkering, that&#8217;s why I was interested in the Maker Champion role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long have you been an RSGB volunteer? About two months so far! Why did you choose to volunteer? To see if I can work out how to help people with their projects and to be interested in using radio in ways that I would never anticipate. What do you hope to get out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteers-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39746","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39749,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39746\/revisions\/39749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}