{"id":41560,"date":"2025-08-01T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=41560"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:38:50","slug":"contest-news-3-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2025\/08\/01\/contest-news-3-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 3 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon started on Saturday 3 May and ends today, the 3 August. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is your four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the 3 August, the RSGB 432MHz Low Power Contest runs from 0800 to 1200UTC. Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and two-letter postcode.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday 5 August, the RSGB 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. Using FM on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday 5 August, the RSGB 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday 6 August, the RSGB 144MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator. Also on Wednesday 6 August, the RSGB 144MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator. Stations entering the four-hour contest may also enter the two-hour contest.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB Machine Generated Modes Contest starts at 1400UTC on Saturday 9 August and ends at 1400UTC on Sunday 10 August. Using machine generated modes on the 6 and 2m bands, the exchange is your report and four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>The Worked All Europe DX CW Contest starts at 0000UTC on Saturday 9 August and ends at 2359UTC on Sunday 10 August. Using CW on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon started on Saturday 3 May and ends today, the 3 August. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is your four-character locator. Today, the 3 August, the RSGB 432MHz Low Power Contest runs from 0800 to 1200UTC. Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41560","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=41560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41561,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41560\/revisions\/41561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}