{"id":18639,"date":"2017-11-03T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18639"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:55:58","slug":"special-event-news-5-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2017\/11\/03\/special-event-news-5-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Event News &#8211; 5 November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many amateur radio operators will use the 630m band on the 11 November during a special operating event to commemorate the 1906 Berlin Treaty.<\/p>\n<p>On the 3 November of that year the treaty made 500kHz the international distress frequency.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian and authorised US radio amateurs will operate from 472 to 479kHz, using CW.<\/p>\n<p>Some stations are expected to offer cross-band contacts, transmitting on 630m and listening on 160, 80, and 40m.<\/p>\n<p>Experimental operators, including WD2XSH stations and others who don\u2019t yet have UTC approval, will operate in the 472-479kHz band or just outside of it, and there may be some operation on 500kHz proper.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomarine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maritime Radio Historical Society<\/a> will activate its KSM\/KPH transmitter at Bolinas, California with special messages and bulletins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many amateur radio operators will use the 630m band on the 11 November during a special operating event to commemorate the 1906 Berlin Treaty. On the 3 November of that year the treaty made 500kHz the international distress frequency. Canadian and authorised US radio amateurs will operate from 472 to 479kHz, using CW. Some stations [&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-18639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18639","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=18639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}