{"id":46173,"date":"2026-03-10T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=46173"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:13:02","slug":"rsgb-affiliated-school-club-heritage-school-electronics-and-radio-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/school-zone-stories\/2026\/03\/10\/rsgb-affiliated-school-club-heritage-school-electronics-and-radio-club\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB affiliated school club: Heritage School Electronics and Radio Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46179 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/Heritage-School-Canva-300x148.png\" alt=\"Two photos showing youngsters transmitting and inspecting an antenna on a school playing field\" width=\"525\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/Heritage-School-Canva-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/Heritage-School-Canva-1024x506.png 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/Heritage-School-Canva-150x74.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/Heritage-School-Canva-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/Heritage-School-Canva.png 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Heritage School in Cambridge is home to Heritage School Electronics &amp; Radio Club (G7HSC).<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>We spoke with Jon Bonsor-Matthews, M0NOJ, teacher and club leader, and heard why he chose to affiliate with the RSGB.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Why did you choose to affiliate your school&#8217;s club with the RSGB?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Primarily for the QSL Bureau, and also for sharing RadCom.<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>How would you say RSGB affiliation benefitted your club?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>The students are enthused when they get to take a RadCom home. Fingers crossed QSL cards will start to arrive soon!<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Which of the affiliated club benefits have you made use of? <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Each month a different student gets to take the latest edition of printed RadCom home.<\/h4>\n<h4>We like to have our club\u2019s activities promoted to inspire others, although our students love to read about themselves too!<\/h4>\n<h4>We are making use of the QSL Bureau, and we know that by affiliating our club to the RSGB, we are helping to protect the spectrum for future generations.<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>What would you say to another school club considering whether to affiliate with the RSGB?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>The students have loved reading about their activities and those of other youngsters in RadCom. We have a map in school on a pinboard, to track our QSLs and are looking forward to pinning up QSL cards as we receive them.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs\/club-affiliation\/benefits-of-affiliation-for-school-and-university-clubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong> on the benefits of affiliating your school, university or uniformed youth group radio club to the RSGB.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage School in Cambridge is home to Heritage School Electronics &amp; Radio Club (G7HSC). We spoke with Jon Bonsor-Matthews, M0NOJ, teacher and club leader, and heard why he chose to affiliate with the RSGB. &nbsp; Why did you choose to affiliate your school&#8217;s club with the RSGB? Primarily for the QSL Bureau, and also for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-zone-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173","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\/20373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46173"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46197,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173\/revisions\/46197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}