{"id":11657,"date":"2014-12-19T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2014-12-19T12:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:55:19","slug":"dx-news-21-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/dx-news\/2014\/12\/19\/dx-news-21-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"DX News &#8211; 21 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special callsigns in the format E50x have been issued to the seven resident amateurs in the Cook Islands, OC-194, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of self-governance. They may be used at the operator&#8217;s discretion between 1 January and 31 December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>RV3ARY is planning to operate from Mount Vinson in Antarctica between 24 December and 3 January. He will use battery power and take Windom and Yagi antennas for 20 metres. Listen out or him on 7.045, 14.260 and 21.260MHz.<\/p>\n<p>F2VX and F9IE will be active stroke FM from Martinique, NA-107, until 8 January. Operations will be on all HF bands using CW and SSB from FM5WD\u2019s station. QSL via their home callsigns.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce, 3W3B will be in Laos operating as XW4XR until 2 January. He operates CW and RTTY and his QSL manager is E21EIC.<\/p>\n<p>Nobuaki, JA0JHQ will sign JA0JHQ\/VK9N from Norfolk Island, OC-055 until 22 December. He expects to be mainly active on 17 and 15m SSB. QSLs go via the home call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special callsigns in the format E50x have been issued to the seven resident amateurs in the Cook Islands, OC-194, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of self-governance. They may be used at the operator&#8217;s discretion between 1 January and 31 December 2015. RV3ARY is planning to operate from Mount Vinson in Antarctica between 24 December and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","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=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}