{"id":20038,"date":"2018-07-06T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=20038"},"modified":"2018-07-06T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:05:21","slug":"contest-news-8-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2018\/07\/06\/contest-news-8-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News &#8211; 8 July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/vhf\/rules\/2018\/VHFNFD.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSGB VHF National Field Day<\/a> is in progress. Running from 1400UTC on Saturday to 1400UTC on Sunday, all modes can be used on all bands between 50MHz and 1.3GHz. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>Today also sees the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&amp;contest=144backpack3\">3rd 2m Backpackers<\/a> contest, running from 1100UTC to 1500UTC, overlapping the last few hours of VHF NFD. The Backpackers contest uses all modes on the 2m band and the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the FM-only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&amp;contest=70cmsfmac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">432MHz FMAC<\/a> runs from 1800UTC to 1900UTC, immediately followed by the all-mode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&amp;contest=70cmsukac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">432MHz UKAC<\/a>, which ends at 2130UTC. The exchange for both is the same, signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Thursday sees the FM-only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&amp;contest=6mfmac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50MHz FMAC<\/a> from 1800UTC to 1900UTC, immediately followed by the all-mode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&amp;contest=6mukac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50MHz UKAC<\/a>, ending at 2130UTC. Again, signal report, serial number and locator forms the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The IARU HF Championship is the big contest news next weekend. Running from 1200UTC on Saturday to 1200UTC on Sunday, it\u2019s a CW and SSB event on all the contest bands from 1.8 to 28MHz. The exchange is signal report and ITU Zone, which is 27 for the UK. Competitors in the World Radiosport Team Championship will be taking part, and the organisers invite you to work as many of the teams as you can. In return, there are awards to be won, along with the respect and thanks of the organisers. You can track the progress of the Team Championships via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrtc2018.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.wrtc2018.de<\/a> website, which also includes links to live-streaming video, daily reports and an online scorecard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB VHF National Field Day is in progress. Running from 1400UTC on Saturday to 1400UTC on Sunday, all modes can be used on all bands between 50MHz and 1.3GHz. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Today also sees the 3rd 2m Backpackers contest, running from 1100UTC to 1500UTC, overlapping the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","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\/20370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}