RSSGB2RS Special Events

Special Event News – 19 November 2017

| November 17, 2017

Indian special event station AU2JCB will be on the air from 23 November until the 11 December. This is to celebrate the 159th anniversary of the birth of India’s great scientist and inventor, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. Activity will be on 40 to 10 metres using SSB, plus FM on 10 and 6 metres. QSL […]

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Special Event News – 12 November 2017

| November 10, 2017

As part of the church’s annual festival remembering St Hilda, the Special Event Station GB5SH will again be run from St Hilda’s Church, Hartlepool TS24 0DA on Saturday, 18 November and Sunday, 19 November. Operation is expected to be on 80 and 40m bands, with some operation on 2m. GB1BSW will now take place on […]

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Special Event News – 5 November 2017

| November 3, 2017

Many amateur radio operators will use the 630m band on the 11 November during a special operating event to commemorate the 1906 Berlin Treaty. On the 3 November of that year the treaty made 500kHz the international distress frequency. Canadian and authorised US radio amateurs will operate from 472 to 479kHz, using CW. Some stations […]

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Special Event News – 29 October 2017

| October 27, 2017

Hull is the UK’s City of Culture throughout 2017. Hull and District Amateur Radio Society has had the special event call sign GB17HCC on the air regularly and over 500 QSOs have been made so far. QSLs received via the RSGB Bureau will be replied to once all QSLs have been received.

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Special Event News – 22 October 2017

| October 20, 2017

On Sunday, the 22nd, Watcombe Radio Club is running JOTA station GB3TBS for Torbay Borough Scouts at the Torbay District Scout Camp in Torquay from 10am to 1pm. Grey Point Fort Amateur Radio Society will be operating JOTA and Jamboree on the Internet, JOTI, with Bangor West Explorer Scouts today, the at Grey Point Fort, […]

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Special Event News – 15 October 2017

| October 13, 2017

On 21 October, members of Wrexham Amateur Radio Society will put on a special event station during the open day at the Brymbo Heritage Project. Using the call sign GB1BSW they will be active on HF and VHF, looking for contacts in this country and all around the world. Feel free to pop along and […]

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