{"id":1172,"date":"2024-09-20T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.gdarc.co.uk\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:28:06","slug":"2024-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"2024 AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the club held the 2024 AGM at Scotland&#8217;s Secret Bunker, the main thing to come out of the meeting is that we must do better when it comes to bringing new people into the hobby. This isn&#8217;t just an issue for our club, it is a GB wide problem, however, it&#8217;s the grass roots of the hobby that have to make the effort to bring other in. With that in mind, the club have already started working on increasing our activities at the fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/secretbunker.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland&#8217;s Secret Bunker<\/a> near Anstruther.<\/p>\n<p>As well has having a radio shack above ground at the site, we are beginning to set up a radio room down below. Comms is only CW at the moment but we hope we can set up a station there, not only to help us bring new people into the hobby, but to provide an additional service for the public who visit the bunker.<\/p>\n<p>Even if radio isn&#8217;t your thing, you should get your friends &amp; family, particularly the kids &amp; grandkids along to the bunker for a great family day out. We&#8217;re also going to be updating the site more often and keeping the blog flowing as well. keep checking back for updates, particularly items for those new, or hoping to be new to the hobby. You can also take a look at the section on the RSGB website dedicated to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/what-is-amateur-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Getting Started&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the club held the 2024 AGM at Scotland&#8217;s Secret Bunker, the main thing to come out of the meeting is that we must do better when it comes to bringing new people into the hobby. This isn&#8217;t just an issue for our club, it is a GB wide problem, however, it&#8217;s the grass roots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gdarc-agm","category-meeting-report","category-scotlands-secret-bunker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdarc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}