{"id":35767,"date":"2024-11-08T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2024-11-08T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:19:34","slug":"rsgb-contest-club-to-enter-world-wide-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2024\/11\/08\/rsgb-contest-club-to-enter-world-wide-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Contest Club to enter World Wide Award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/radio-sport\/rsgb-contest-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Contest Club<\/strong><\/a> is excited to announce that the second <a href=\"https:\/\/hamaward.cloud\/wwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>World Wide Award event<\/strong> <\/a>will be taking place in January 2025 and that it is looking for volunteers to take part.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s event included 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/join-us\/join-the-rsgb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB members<\/strong><\/a> who made in excess of an impressive 109,000 contacts. The Society\u2019s Contest Club has confirmed there are currently special activator stations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. However, if volunteers from Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man would like to participate then further call signs can be added. QSOs can be made using SSB, CW, and digital modes.<\/p>\n<p>To be involved you will need to be an RSGB member and hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/full\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full Licence<\/strong><\/a>. To find out more visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/radio-sport\/rsgb-contest-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Contest Club webpage<\/strong><\/a> and then email <strong>contestclub@rsgbcc.org<\/strong> to register your interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Contest Club is excited to announce that the second World Wide Award event will be taking place in January 2025 and that it is looking for volunteers to take part. Last year\u2019s event included 28 RSGB members who made in excess of an impressive 109,000 contacts. The Society\u2019s Contest Club has confirmed there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}