{"id":29341,"date":"2022-04-14T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=29341"},"modified":"2022-04-14T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:27:23","slug":"special-events-news-17-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2022\/04\/14\/special-events-news-17-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 17 April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out for GB1BB today from about 5pm to 7pm local time around 7.170MHz or 3.770MHz as well as 2m FM simplex and via GB3IW. Operators from the Isle of Wight Radio Society will be on the Bramble Bank in mid-Solent for the few minutes that it is exposed by this weekend\u2019s extreme Spring tide. After the event, the club will QSL direct. QSL certificates will show Gold, Silver, or Bronze Awards. Gold for confirmed contacts with GB1BB on HF, VHF, and UHF; Silver for confirmed contacts on any two of those; and Bronze for a confirmed contact on any one band. Details on the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowrs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of April Harlow &amp; District Amateur Radio Society will be operating GB0MGY for International Marconi Day.<\/p>\n<p>With the kind permission of the National Trust, Weston super Mare Radio Society will be operating GB0IMD from the Old Fort on Brean Down on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of April, as part of the International Marconi Day celebrations.<\/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>Look out for GB1BB today from about 5pm to 7pm local time around 7.170MHz or 3.770MHz as well as 2m FM simplex and via GB3IW. Operators from the Isle of Wight Radio Society will be on the Bramble Bank in mid-Solent for the few minutes that it is exposed by this weekend\u2019s extreme Spring tide. [&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-29341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341","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=29341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}