{"id":18117,"date":"2017-08-18T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18117"},"modified":"2017-08-18T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T14:43:01","slug":"special-events-news-20-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2017\/08\/18\/special-events-news-20-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News &#8211; 20 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th and 20th is International Lightships and Lighthouses weekend, with numerous special event stations active around the world. We gave details of a number of stations in last week\u2019s bulletin, which we won\u2019t repeat today. The official list of all 436 entrants, including around 25 UK special event stations, is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illw.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.illw.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A wide range of special event stations are also expected to be on the air to mark, or experiment with, the solar eclipse that will cross the USA on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A special event station will be active from The Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre Open Day from 10am-4pm on 26 and 27 August. Contact Ewan Cameron, MM0BIX, on 01674 676 740 for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby Amateur Radio Transmitting Society will operate GB0RRS from 10am on Saturday, 26 August until 12.00 on Friday, 22 October, celebrating Rugby Radio Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th and 20th is International Lightships and Lighthouses weekend, with numerous special event stations active around the world. We gave details of a number of stations in last week\u2019s bulletin, which we won\u2019t repeat today. The official list of all 436 entrants, including around 25 UK special event stations, is at www.illw.net. A wide [&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-18117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117","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=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}