{"id":46562,"date":"2026-03-20T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=46562"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:54:09","slug":"contest-news-22-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2026\/03\/20\/contest-news-22-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 22 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>British Amateur Radio Teledata Group HF RTTY Contest<\/strong> started at 0200UTC yesterday, 21 March, and runs until 0200UTC tomorrow, 23\u00a0March.<\/p>\n<p>Using RTTY on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number and time.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 24 March, the <strong>RSGB SHF UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1930 to 2230UTC. Using all modes on 2.3 to 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 25 March, the <strong>United Kingdom and Ireland Contest Club Contest<\/strong> runs from 2000 to 2100UTC. Using CW on the 80m band, the exchange is your six-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 26 March, the <strong>RSGB 80m Club Championship<\/strong> runs from 2000 to 2130UTC. Using SSB on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>CQ World Wide WPX SSB Contest<\/strong> starts at 0000UTC on Saturday and runs until 2359UTC on Sunday, 29 March. Using SSB on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 29 March, the <strong>UK Microwave Group Millimetre Band Contest<\/strong> runs from 0800UTC to 1700UTC. Using all modes on 24 to 76GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Amateur Radio Teledata Group HF RTTY Contest started at 0200UTC yesterday, 21 March, and runs until 0200UTC tomorrow, 23\u00a0March. Using RTTY on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number and time. On Tuesday, 24 March, the RSGB SHF UK Activity Contest runs from 1930 [&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-46562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562","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=46562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46563,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562\/revisions\/46563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}