{"id":10540,"date":"2014-07-18T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:05:15","slug":"special-events-news-20-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2014\/07\/18\/special-events-news-20-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News &#8211; 20 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Worked All Britain Awards Group will be operating GB4CGS, for Commonwealth Games Scotland, from different locations between 23 July and 3 August to celebrate the Commonwealth Games. A certificate will be awarded for working the station on 3, 6 or 9 of the 12 days that it will be active, with the certificate being endorsed as Bronze, Silver and Gold respectively. Full details are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wab.intermip.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Worked All Britain website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July 1914 Sigurjon Isfeld travelled from Gimli, Manitoba to deliver 100 Canadian husky dogs to Sir Ernest Shackleton in England for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. To recognise the centenary of the trip, VE4XSI will be on the air from Gimli from 26 July until 4 August. Operation will be on 7.200 14.250, 21.250 and 28.350MHz as band conditions dictate. See VE4XSI on QRZ.com for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Bromsgrove and District ARC will be running a World War One commemoration station, GB1WWO, on all bands from 25 July to 4 August.<\/p>\n<p>Chester and District Amateur Radio Society will operate GB100GW for Great Britain 100 Great War from Leasowe Lighthouse near Morton Wirral from 25 July until 7 August. During busy periods M0MTC will also be used.<\/p>\n<p>Wirral and District Amateur Radio Club will be on the air as GB100CMM for Great Britain 100 Cheshire Military Museum from Chester. Operations commence on 1 August and continue until 7 August.<\/p>\n<p>Burton\u00a0upon Trent Amateur Radio Club\u00a0is holding a special event at the National Brewery Museum on 2 and 3 August with the callsign GB2ALE. The event is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of one of the club\u2019s founders, Mr FVA Smith, XSR, receiving a message from the Marconi spark transmitter at Poldhu on the eve of World War 1, announcing the mobilisation of French and Belgian troops. A re-enactment will be attempted at various times over the weekend. Main operations will be on all HF bands and there will be talk-in available on 2m. Full details are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burtonarc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.burtonarc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Worked All Britain Awards Group will be operating GB4CGS, for Commonwealth Games Scotland, from different locations between 23 July and 3 August to celebrate the Commonwealth Games. A certificate will be awarded for working the station on 3, 6 or 9 of the 12 days that it will be active, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}