{"id":687681,"date":"2021-04-20T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=687681"},"modified":"2021-04-20T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:48:37","slug":"radio-amateur-g3yjo-on-bbc-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=687681","title":{"rendered":"Radio amateur G3YJO on BBC Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_23186\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/professor-sir-martin-sweeting-g3yjo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23186\" data-attachment-id=\"23186\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2014\/08\/01\/g3yjo-becomes-chair-of-surrey-space-centre\/professor-sir-martin-sweeting-g3yjo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/professor-sir-martin-sweeting-g3yjo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,679\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO&lt;\/p&gt;&#010;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/professor-sir-martin-sweeting-g3yjo.jpg?w=221\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/professor-sir-martin-sweeting-g3yjo.jpg?w=500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23186\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/professor-sir-martin-sweeting-g3yjo.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-23186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Radio amateur <strong>Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO<\/strong>, was the guest on the Radio 4 show <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000v7pb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Life Scientific<\/strong><\/a> that was broadcast on Tuesday, April 20.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Sweeting G3YJO pioneered the original SmallSats revolutions with the UOSAT-1 and UOSAT-2 spacecraft that carried amateur radio payloads and launched in the early 1980\u2019s. They led to the founding of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of which he is Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to, or download, an MP3 recording of the BBC show which mentions amateur radio and AMSAT from the BBC website at <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000v7pb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000v7pb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is Amateur Radio? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/what-is-amateur-radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/what-is-amateur-radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free UK amateur radio Online Training course <a href=\"https:\/\/essexham.co.uk\/train\/foundation-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/essexham.co.uk\/train\/foundation-online\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2021\/04\/20\/radio-amateur-g3yjo-on-bbc-radio-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Radio amateur G3YJO on BBC Radio 4<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Amsat UK&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO Radio amateur Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO, was the guest on the Radio 4 show The Life Scientific that was broadcast on Tuesday, April 20.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}