Special Events News – 12 March 2023

| March 10, 2023

GB1PAT and GB2PAT are the special callsigns for members of the Bushvalley Amateur Radio Club to use between the 1 and 28 March to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. Three certificates are available for making contact with both callsigns on different bands. QSL via Logbook of the World only.

DR100XRAY will be active until the end of June. It is a special callsign commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm C Roentgen, the physicist whose discovery of X-rays earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 and revolutionised diagnostic medicine. QSL via the bureau, or direct to DJ6SI.

As part of British Science Week, the Bishop Auckland Radio Amateur Club, supported by the Extended Freedom Network, will be operating three special event stations demonstrating FT8, FM Voice and Digital technologies as well as Morse code and more. On Monday 13 March the club will be operating GB4SCE from Staindrop Church of England Primary School. On Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 March it will be operating GB4HJS from Hunwick Primary School. Finally, on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 March the club will be operating GB2SPS from St Andrew’s Primary School. For more information and updates visit the website

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