{"id":47970,"date":"2026-05-15T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=47970"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:01","slug":"contest-news-17-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2026\/05\/15\/contest-news-17-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 17 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>RSGB 144MHz May Contest<\/strong> started at 1400UTC yesterday, 16 May, and ends at 1400UTC today, 17 May.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>UK stations also send their postcode.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 17 May, the <strong>RSGB 1<sup>st<\/sup> 144MHz Backpackers Contest<\/strong> runs from 1000 to 1400UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>UK stations also send their postcode.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, 18\u00a0May, the <strong>RSGB FT4 Series Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2100UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using FT4 on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your report.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 19 May, the <strong>RSGB 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2130UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on 1.3GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 20 May, the <strong>RSGB 80m Club Championship<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2030UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using data modes on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 21 May, the <strong>RSGB 70MHz UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2130UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 24 May, the <strong>RSGB 10GHz Trophy<\/strong> runs from 0800 to 1400UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, 24 May, the <strong>UK Microwave Group High Band Contest<\/strong> runs from 0800 to 1700UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on 5.7 and 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB 144MHz May Contest started at 1400UTC yesterday, 16 May, and ends at 1400UTC today, 17 May. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. UK stations also send their postcode. Today, 17 May, the RSGB 1st 144MHz Backpackers Contest runs from 1000 to 1400UTC. Using [&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-47970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970","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=47970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47971,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions\/47971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}