Special Events News – 19 April 2026

| April 17, 2026

The Ramsbury Amateur Radio DX Group will be active as GB80RY on Saturday, 25 April and Sunday, 26 April.

The station will be on the air to commemorate 80 years since the decommissioning of RAF Ramsbury in Wiltshire.

Operators will be using CW, FT8 and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands.

Special event station GB2JAF will be active on Saturday, 25 April from 10am to celebrate the life and work of Professor Sir John Ambrose Fleming, the inventor of the Thermionic Valve.

Look out for activity on the 40 and 20m bands using SSB. There will also be some activity via the GB3LV repeater and EchoLink.

More information is available at QRZ.com

Category: GB2RS Special Events