{"id":41054,"date":"2025-07-11T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=41054"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:14:25","slug":"new-regional-forum-chair-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/07\/11\/new-regional-forum-chair-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"New Regional Forum Chair elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Regional Forum<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/regional-managers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Regional Representatives<\/strong><\/a> elected George Crawford, MM0JNL as the Regional Forum Chair.<\/p>\n<p>George represents Scotland South and Western Isles as the Representative for <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/regional-managers\/scotland-south-and-western-isles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Region 1<\/strong><\/a>. He got involved in amateur radio in 2020 and gained his Full licence by March 2021. George has also been a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/gb2rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GB2RS<\/strong> <\/a>Newsreader.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the rest of the Regional Team, George is keen to continue to help RSGB members and the wider amateur radio community, and to promote amateur radio and the Society at public events. He will be attending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirriemuirshow.co.uk\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kirriemuir Show<\/strong> <\/a>on 19 July to showcase amateur radio to the agricultural and rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear more details about that in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/gb2rs\/gb2rs-special-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Special Event News<\/strong><\/a> section of this week\u2019s GB2RS News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent meeting of the RSGB Regional Forum, the RSGB Regional Representatives elected George Crawford, MM0JNL as the Regional Forum Chair. George represents Scotland South and Western Isles as the Representative for Region 1. He got involved in amateur radio in 2020 and gained his Full licence by March 2021. George has also been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41054","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=41054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41056,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41054\/revisions\/41056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}