Special Event News – 30 October 2016

| October 28, 2016

GB4MTR will be on the air between the 1st and 28th of November, mostly Tuesday and Friday evening and weekends, to mark the 60th anniversary of the amateur 4m band. The station will be run by Selim, M0XTA and other members of the Harlow & District Amateur Radio Society. Bands of operation will be from 80m to 70cm, FM, SSB and some data modes. QSL via the bureau to M0XTA, or direct to G6UT, see QRZ.com, and eQSL. A QSL card for the station will be sent via the bureau to any station worked, if requested.

VI4SEA will be on the air between the 1st and the 9th of November in honour of the officers and sailors of the light cruisers HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden who gallantly fought in the first ever naval action of the Royal Australian Navy in World War One off the coast of the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean. The operations will see them transmitting from the 630m band through to the 6m band. A special webpage has been set up on QRZ.com under VI4SEA.

Category: GB2RS Special Events