{"id":10646,"date":"2014-08-01T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2014-08-01T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T12:54:49","slug":"contest-news-3-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2014\/08\/01\/contest-news-3-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News &#8211; 3 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VHF part of the 43rd Alpe Adria VHF\/UHF\/SHF contest takes place today, 3 August. Entry categories include a low power high altitude class for those above 1600m ASL and below 5W. Operations are on CW and SSB from 0700-1500UTC and full details are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpe-adria-contest.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.alpe-adria-contest.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 3 August, the CW contest RoPoCo 2 is on the air from 0700-0830UTC. Using CW only on the 80m band, the exchange is RST and full postcode received.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB 432MHz Low Power contest is today, the 3rd. Operating from 0800UTC until 1200 on all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is RST, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>Finally for this weekend, Microwave Field Day takes place on today, the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, from 0900-1700UTC. Using all modes on the 1.3 and 10GHz bands, RST, serial number and locator form the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday sees the 144MHz UK Activity Contest, running from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is the usual signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>For the whole 48 hours of the weekend of 9-10 August the first of this year\u2019s Worked All Europe DX Contests, the CW leg, will be filling the HF bands with signals. Europeans work non-Europeans only. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th 70MHz Cumulative Contest takes place on Sunday the 10th from 1400 to 1600UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VHF part of the 43rd Alpe Adria VHF\/UHF\/SHF contest takes place today, 3 August. Entry categories include a low power high altitude class for those above 1600m ASL and below 5W. Operations are on CW and SSB from 0700-1500UTC and full details are at www.alpe-adria-contest.net. Today, 3 August, the CW contest RoPoCo 2 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","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=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}