{"id":24844,"date":"2020-04-27T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=24844"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:59:13","slug":"radio-marathon-commemorates-75th-anniversary-of-ve-day-and-vj-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2020\/04\/27\/radio-marathon-commemorates-75th-anniversary-of-ve-day-and-vj-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio marathon commemorates 75th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day, the RSGB has organised the VE\/VJ Day amateur radio marathon on the HF bands and 6m using SSB, CW and digital modes.<\/p>\n<p>Three special UK call signs GB75PEACE, GB1945PE, GB1945PJ will be on the air from 1-31 May 2020 and 1-31 August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The special stations have their own QRZ.com pages that give details of the activation schedule. If you wish to participate and transmit using a VE\/VJ Day radio marathon call sign, please contact Ian, G0FCT at csc.chair@rsgb.org.uk<\/p>\n<p>Full details of radio marathon and the five awards are on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/ve-vj-marathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">radio marathon web page<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is another great initiative that links with our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/gota2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cGet on the air to care\u201d<\/a><\/strong> campaign so we encourage radio amateurs to get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day, the RSGB has organised the VE\/VJ Day amateur radio marathon on the HF bands and 6m using SSB, CW and digital modes. Three special UK call signs GB75PEACE, GB1945PE, GB1945PJ will be on the air from 1-31 May 2020 and 1-31 August 2020. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,274,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cv-news","category-front-page-news","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844","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\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}