{"id":12,"date":"2014-08-14T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:05:54","slug":"about-tsgarc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Description<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The\u00a0<strong>Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club<\/strong>, commonly abbreviated to the <strong>TSGARC<\/strong>, is a growing, friendly and vibrant\u00a0club, whose members come from many backgrounds in Amateur radio. \u00a0In addition to a common interest in radios members have many other hobbies and interests that have become part of club life, these include Narrow Band Television, Computers and IT, aero modelling, vintage radios and equipment, digital photography, space technology, geocaching and historical engineering. \u00a0A number of our members are active in the local <a title=\"RAYNET\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raynet-uk.net\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAYNET<\/a> group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The\u00a0TSGARC\u00a0programme\u00a0reflects this mix of interests, and in addition to regular on the air nights we have a variety of guest and club speakers, video evenings, practical equipment nights and the occasional external visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The club has its own station (call sign <a title=\"G4ABC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/g4abc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G4ABC<\/a>), complete with VHF\/UHF antenna plus a full-sized dipole for the 40m HF band.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Chairman<\/strong>:<br \/>\nJohn Laney M3EQQ, Tel: 07570 944323, Email: <a title=\"tsgarc\" href=\"mailto:chairman@tsgarc.uk?Subject=TSGARC%20Enquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chairman@tsgarc.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Secretary<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTerry Humphreys M1TJH, Tel: 07889 208090, Email: <a title=\"tsgarc\" href=\"mailto:secretary@tsgarc.uk?Subject=TSGARC%20Enquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secretary@tsgarc.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description The\u00a0Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club, commonly abbreviated to the TSGARC, is a growing, friendly and vibrant\u00a0club, whose members come from many backgrounds in Amateur radio. \u00a0In addition to a common interest in radios members have many other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?page_id=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/4564"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}