{"id":37901,"date":"2019-05-22T07:06:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37901"},"modified":"2019-05-22T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:06:20","slug":"rsgb-archives-film-field-day-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/rsgb-archives-film-field-day-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Archives Film: Field Day 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37902\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-624x446.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following film from the archives of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB):<\/p>\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\/TeLeecrhytw?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\/TeLeecrhytw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0 Thanks so much for sharing this film, Kris.\u00a0 What an amazing number of classic rigs. Hams back then needed some <em>serious<\/em> muscle to take their gear to the field!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following film from the archives of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB): Click here to view on YouTube. Wow!\u00a0 Thanks so much for sharing this film, Kris.\u00a0 What an amazing number of classic rigs. Hams back then needed some serious muscle to take [&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":[545,3,305,288],"tags":[3060,7784,4102,5584,4094,7710,6923],"class_list":["post-37901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-field-day","tag-field-day-1947","tag-ham-radio","tag-kris-partridge","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-society-of-great-britain","tag-rsgb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Rj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36840,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/rsgb-archive-silent-film-of-d-f-field-day-in-1947\/","url_meta":{"origin":37901,"position":0},"title":"RSGB Archive: Silent Film of D\/F Field Day in 1947","author":"Thomas","date":"April 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-7.23.10-AM.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43151,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/bbc-how-amateur-radio-is-connecting-people-during-lockdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":37901,"position":1},"title":"BBC: &#8220;How amateur radio is connecting people during lockdown&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"May 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors, Kris Partridge and Mark Hirst, who share the following article from the BBC: Coronavirus: How amateur radio is connecting people during lockdown By Vanessa Pearce BBC News Amateur radio use in the UK has seen a \"significant\" rise during the coronavirus lockdown as people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NPOTA-QRP-LD-11-QRP-Ranger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NPOTA-QRP-LD-11-QRP-Ranger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NPOTA-QRP-LD-11-QRP-Ranger.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NPOTA-QRP-LD-11-QRP-Ranger.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44518,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/free-rsgb-radcom-basics-july-2020-issue\/","url_meta":{"origin":37901,"position":2},"title":"Free RSGB RadCom Basics July 2020 issue","author":"Thomas","date":"July 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Paul Evans, who notes that the Radio Society of Great Britain has made the July 2020 issue of the bi-monthly RadCom Basics free to download. 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