{"id":41981,"date":"2025-08-22T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=41981"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:02:57","slug":"special-events-news-24-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2025\/08\/22\/special-events-news-24-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 24 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Maximilian Kolbe, special callsign 4A2MAX is active until the 31 August. Kolbe is venerated by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of amateur radio operators. Activity will be on the 80 to 6m bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via Logbook of the World, eQSL, QRZ.com or via EA5GL.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the International Amateur Radio Union&#8217;s 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, members of the Atlantic Coast DX and Contest Group are active as CG9IARU throughout August. The station was spotted recently on the 20m band using SSB. QSL via VE9CF. See <a href=\"http:\/\/QRZ.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QRZ.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Maximilian Kolbe, special callsign 4A2MAX is active until the 31 August. Kolbe is venerated by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of amateur radio operators. Activity will be on the 80 to 6m bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via Logbook of the World, eQSL, QRZ.com or via EA5GL. [&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-41981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981","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=41981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41982,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions\/41982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}