{"id":25325,"date":"2020-07-03T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=25325"},"modified":"2020-07-03T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:51:56","slug":"special-events-news-5-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2020\/07\/03\/special-events-news-5-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News &#8211; 5 July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Since the change of regulations applying to special event stations in the UK, many activations are now able to go ahead. UK amateurs would like to thank Ofcom for their help in making this happen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To commemorate their third anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days until 31 July. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix, referring to the third anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club. An FTDMC Anniversary Award can be earned by working the FTDMC and FTDM stations and collecting points applicable for various award classes\u2014see <a href=\"http:\/\/ft8dmc.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ft8dmc.eu<\/strong><\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/g4euz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Durham and District Amateur Radio Society<\/strong><\/a> is participating as one of the bonus stations in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.13colonies.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>13 Colonies Special Event<\/strong><\/a>. GB13COL will run until 0400UTC on 8 July. The primary focus of the event will be the HF bands using SSB, CW, FM and various digital modes, but VHF and UHF will also be in use. This year\u2019s QSL cards for GB13COL has been kindly sponsored by Martin Lynch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamradio.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ML&amp;S<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the change of regulations applying to special event stations in the UK, many activations are now able to go ahead. UK amateurs would like to thank Ofcom for their help in making this happen. To commemorate their third anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days until 31 July. [&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-25325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325","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=25325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}