{"id":44784,"date":"2026-01-16T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=44784"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:20:44","slug":"contest-news-18-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2026\/01\/16\/contest-news-18-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 18 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, 19\u00a0January, the RSGB FT4 Series Contest runs from 2000 to 2200UTC. Using FT4 on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your report.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 20 January, the RSGB 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes on the 23cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>The CQ World Wide 160m DX Contest starts at 2200UTC on Friday, 23 January and runs until 2200UTC on Sunday, 25 January. Using CW on the 160m band, the exchange is signal report and CQ Zone. American stations also send their state and Canadian stations send their province.<\/p>\n<p>The British Amateur Radio Teledata Group Sprint starts at 1200UTC on Saturday, 24 January and runs until 1200UTC on Sunday, 25 January. Using RTTY on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your serial number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, 19\u00a0January, the RSGB FT4 Series Contest runs from 2000 to 2200UTC. Using FT4 on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your report. On Tuesday, 20 January, the RSGB 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes on the 23cm band, the exchange is signal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44784","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\/20399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44790,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44784\/revisions\/44790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}