Special Events News – 5 January 2020

| January 3, 2020

From Monday until next Sunday, Hilderstone Radio Society will be operating GB1RNLI from the RNLI lifeboat station in Margate.

TM70TAAF will be activated by François, F8DVD from 12 to 26 January. The special call sign commemorates the 70th anniversary of the first amateur radio contacts with French Southern and Austral Territories that took place in January 1950. TM70TAAF will be operated from Mâcon, 60km north of Lyon in France. QSL via the bureau, direct with SASE and Logbook of The World. More information on QRZ.com.

ARI Fidenza will use a series of special call signs throughout 2020 to commemorate 12 major events and achievements in Marconi’s life. In January, the call sign will be II4BRN to commemorate his birth in 1874.

Category: GB2RS Special Events