{"id":409,"date":"2025-01-14T00:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-01-14T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:08:20","slug":"overheard-on-gb3ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Overheard on GB3NY&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of M7 callsigns were overheard bemoaning that GB3HS was not on during all of the day. It&#8217;s unfortunate that the amateurs in question do not realise that the EYRG repeaters have had their hours of operating curtailed to reduce the electricity bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This December&#8217;s bill has just landed for \u00a343.95. This includes the standing charges of \u00a320.13 and VAT of \u00a32.10 that the Group cannot recover, leaving \u00a321.72 for power used.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-410\" style=\"width:604px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bill.jpg 604w, https:\/\/eyrg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bill-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>At that rate the whole year would cost \u00a3527 in electricity alone. There&#8217;s the site rent to add, making just the running costs almost \u00a3800 every year; add to that repairs, maintenance and improvements and it ends up being a lot more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So, if you don&#8217;t like the reduced hours, how about subscribing to the Group and supporting the repeaters so that they can be switched on for more of the day? Details are on the Subscriptions page!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of M7 callsigns were overheard bemoaning that GB3HS was not on during all of the day. It&#8217;s unfortunate that the amateurs in question do not realise that the EYRG repeaters have had their hours of operating curtailed to reduce the electricity bill. This December&#8217;s bill has just landed for \u00a343.95. This includes the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/?p=409\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}