{"id":39822,"date":"2024-05-30T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=39822"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:13:32","slug":"awards-manager-and-qsl-bureau-sub-manager-lindsay-pennell-g8pma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/volunteers-week\/2024\/05\/30\/awards-manager-and-qsl-bureau-sub-manager-lindsay-pennell-g8pma\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards Manager and QSL Bureau sub-manager, Lindsay Pennell, G8PMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Awards Manager and also QSL Bureau sub-manager for call groups G1, G2, and G3G to G3L<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32314\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32314\" class=\" wp-image-32314\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/06\/Lindsay-Pennell-G8PMA-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Lindsay Pennell, G8PMA\" width=\"168\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/06\/Lindsay-Pennell-G8PMA-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/06\/Lindsay-Pennell-G8PMA-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/06\/Lindsay-Pennell-G8PMA.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay Pennell, G8PMA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I volunteer because, quite simply, it adds to my enjoyment of the hobby. Being the Awards Manager allows me to encourage and coach other amateurs in an aspect of the hobby that I enjoy, awards chasing, and has prompted me to write a few articles for RadCom on the subject. Awards provide a focus for my operating, things to aim for rather than just making whatever QSOs come my way.<\/p>\n<p>Handling the QSL cards lets me see some great QSLs from all over the world, and the expeditions that I\u2019ve missed! I like receiving physical cards myself, so it\u2019s nice to be part of the system that gets them to other amateurs who collect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards Manager and also QSL Bureau sub-manager for call groups G1, G2, and G3G to G3L I volunteer because, quite simply, it adds to my enjoyment of the hobby. Being the Awards Manager allows me to encourage and coach other amateurs in an aspect of the hobby that I enjoy, awards chasing, and has prompted [&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-39822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteers-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822","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=39822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40145,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822\/revisions\/40145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}