{"id":27455,"date":"2021-06-25T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=27455"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:51:33","slug":"durham-is-13-colonies-bonus-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2021\/06\/25\/durham-is-13-colonies-bonus-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham is 13 Colonies bonus station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/g4euz.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Durham and District Amateur Radio Society<\/strong><\/a> is participating as one of the bonus stations in the 13 Colonies Special Event.<\/p>\n<p>The event began in 2009 as a way of celebrating American Independence with the original 13 colony states of 1776.<\/p>\n<p>Since the UK was a major historical player in the Revolutionary War, GB13COL from England will present an added challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The event will run from 1300UTC on 1 July 2021 to 0400UTC on the 8th.<\/p>\n<p>The primary focus of the event will be the HF bands, including VHF and UHF for QSOs using SSB, CW, FM and various digital modes.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an opportunity to exchange QSL cards with all 13 colony state stations, plus the bonus stations.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.13colonies.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>13 Colonies Special Event<\/strong><\/a> website for further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durham and District Amateur Radio Society is participating as one of the bonus stations in the 13 Colonies Special Event. The event began in 2009 as a way of celebrating American Independence with the original 13 colony states of 1776. Since the UK was a major historical player in the Revolutionary War, GB13COL from England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455","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\/20377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}