{"id":29118,"date":"2022-03-17T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?page_id=29118"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:14:40","slug":"special-event-stations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/activity\/hm-queen-elizabeth-platinum-jubilee\/special-event-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee special event call signs &#8211; GB70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29564 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/GB70_logo-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/GB70_logo-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/GB70_logo-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/GB70_logo.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29362 size-large alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/04\/Jamie-and-Nick-on-the-radio-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p>RSGB \u201cSpecial\u201d Special Event Stations were activated from the four UK Home Nations and three Crown Dependencies. The call signs were: GB70E England, GB70M Scotland, GB70W Wales, GB70I Northern Ireland, GB70J Jersey, GB70U Guernsey and GB70D Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p>The UK regulator, Ofcom, licensed a series of special call signs that were active only during June 2022, including from 2-5 June 2022, which was the Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jubilee Weekend Activation<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the Jubilee Weekend, operation was on multiple bands and modes by one or more clubs operating from each of the seven nations\/dependencies. These were Special Event amateur stations run by teams of club members and several were open to the public &#8211; go to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gb70.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GB70.co.uk<\/a><\/strong> for full details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activation during the rest of June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the first weekend of June the special call signs were available for activation by RSGB affiliated clubs or individual RSGB members. There were awards available for QSOs with the special call signs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QSL Cards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29777 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-1024x658.png 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-150x96.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-1536x988.png 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/05\/220506-QSL-Card-v4-updated-final-version-1-2048x1317.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>These QSL cards are no longer available but we hope that they helped you to commemorate the contacts you made in celebration of the Jubilee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSGB \u201cSpecial\u201d Special Event Stations were activated from the four UK Home Nations and three Crown Dependencies. The call signs were: GB70E England, GB70M Scotland, GB70W Wales, GB70I Northern Ireland, GB70J Jersey, GB70U Guernsey and GB70D Isle of Man. The UK regulator, Ofcom, licensed a series of special call signs that were active only during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20388,"featured_media":29564,"parent":28949,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29118","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29118\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}