{"id":36840,"date":"2019-04-07T07:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36840"},"modified":"2019-04-07T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:26:31","slug":"rsgb-archive-silent-film-of-d-f-field-day-in-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/rsgb-archive-silent-film-of-d-f-field-day-in-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Archive: Silent Film of D\/F Field Day in 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36841\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM.jpg 686w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM-624x445.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southgatearc.org\/news\/2019\/april\/rsgb-release-vintage-ardf-ham-radio-video.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southgate ARC<\/a> who notes this recently published 1947 silent film from the Radio Society of Great Britain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The RSGB has released a vintage silent black and white video of an Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) field day held in 1947 at Chipping Barnet which was then in Hertfordshire<\/p>\n<p>The Incorporated Radio Society of Great Britain titled the video &#8211; D\/F Field Day (North of the Thames) May 18th 1947. It has been added to the many amateur radio videos that can be viewed on the Society&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that&#8217;s apparent from the video is the difference in the age range of those who participated in amateur radio in the late 1940&#8217;s compared to today.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch RSGB Archive film &#8211; D\/F Field Day 1947<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_LHb3wPAfE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D_LHb3wPAfE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pages 69-70 of the RSGB Bulletin (forerunner of RadCom) for October 1947 contained a fully illustrated report on the North of the Thames ARDF event as well as the South of the Thames event held on July 6, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>The two leading affiliated societies on May 18 were from Essex:<br \/>\n1st Romford and District Radio Society<br \/>\n2nd Southend and District Radio Society<br \/>\nThe two clubs swapped positions for the July 6 event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating! I love how everyone wore proper attire and much of the equipment was home brew. I imagine operators were happy to go back to field and enjoy all sorts of radio activity so close on the heels of WWII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to the Southgate ARC who notes this recently published 1947 silent film from the Radio Society of Great Britain: The RSGB has released a vintage silent black and white video of an Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) field day held in 1947 at Chipping Barnet which was then in Hertfordshire The Incorporated Radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,304,4796],"tags":[7709,7710,6923,580],"class_list":["post-36840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-videos","category-vintage-radio","tag-7709","tag-radio-society-of-great-britain","tag-rsgb","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Ac","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37901,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/rsgb-archives-film-field-day-1947\/","url_meta":{"origin":36840,"position":0},"title":"RSGB Archives Film: Field Day 1947","author":"Thomas","date":"May 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following film from the archives of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB): https:\/\/youtu.be\/TeLeecrhytw Click here to view on YouTube. 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