{"id":41938,"date":"2025-08-29T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=41938"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:24:16","slug":"young-radio-amateur-aspires-to-make-moonbounce-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/your-stories\/2025\/08\/29\/young-radio-amateur-aspires-to-make-moonbounce-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Young radio amateur aspires to make Moonbounce contact"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oliver<\/p>\n

Amateur radio is a family affair for Martin de Heaver, G4WSW and his son Oliver, M7ITL. Oliver first became interested in amateur radio when he and his dad set up an antenna on the Pewsey Downs Hills and listened to an ARISS<\/strong> <\/a>contact. The contact, last October, was between the International Space Station (ISS) and Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0who was with 100 Brownies, Guides and Rangers at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey.<\/p>\n

Since then, Oliver, who was aged seven at the time, has passed his Foundation licence exam. He has also taken part in ARDF<\/strong> <\/a>and participated in SSTV events with the ISS. Oliver and his dad have also visited the RSGB National Radio Centre<\/strong> <\/a>at Bletchley Park and took part in the \u2018Find the Spy Transmitter\u2019 event for Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

Oliver\u2019s current challenge is studying for his RSGB Morse Certificate of Competency<\/strong><\/a> test, which he hopes to take in September. However, his ultimate goal is to be able to communicate with his grandparents in Japan via Moonbounce. For this, he requires his Full licence<\/strong><\/a>, which he hopes to study for and pass during 2026.<\/p>\n

Wishing you all the best Oliver!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amateur radio is a family affair for Martin de Heaver, G4WSW and his son Oliver, M7ITL. Oliver first became interested in amateur radio when he and his dad set up an antenna on the Pewsey Downs Hills and listened to an ARISS contact. The contact, last October, was between the International Space Station (ISS) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938","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=41938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42005,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938\/revisions\/42005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}