{"id":29301,"date":"2022-04-08T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=29301"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:19:45","slug":"special-events-news-10-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2022\/04\/08\/special-events-news-10-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 10 April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final preparations for GB1BB are now under way at the Isle of Wight Radio Society. A crew of three young operators will, weather permitting, operate on 70cm through GB3IW; on 2m FM simplex; and on the 80m or 40m band using SSB. This Special Event Station is highly unusual in that it will be established on the Bramble Bank, a sand bar 3km north of Cowes, which is usually under water. Twice a year, around the times of the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, extreme spring tides uncover the bank and a small island appears for about an hour. Look out for GB1BB around 6am or 6pm, on Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, or Tuesday the 19<sup>th<\/sup> of April. Activation will occur in only one of those time slots. G4ZUP\/MM and G6RTE\/MM may well be heard before and after the event. For latest information and expected operating times, check on the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowrs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flight Refuelling ARS will be operating from the club station using GB2FRA to celebrate the club\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. It is intended that the callsign will be used on all the bands and modes that are available from the club shack including 10GHz EME. Operations will run throughout April.<\/p>\n<p>Medway Amateur Receiving and Transmitting Society will operate GB5MW between the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 30<sup>th<\/sup> of April to celebrate the society&#8217;s centenary year. QSL via eQSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final preparations for GB1BB are now under way at the Isle of Wight Radio Society. A crew of three young operators will, weather permitting, operate on 70cm through GB3IW; on 2m FM simplex; and on the 80m or 40m band using SSB. This Special Event Station is highly unusual in that it will be established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29301","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=29301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}