{"id":47974,"date":"2026-05-15T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=47974"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:18:44","slug":"special-events-news-17-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2026\/05\/15\/special-events-news-17-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 17 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Cornish Radio Amateur Club<\/strong> is active from Pendennis Point in Cornwall until the end of May with special event callsign <strong>GB1SOS<\/strong> in support of SOS Radio month.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for activity each Sunday on the 40 and 20m bands using SSB.<\/p>\n<p>Special event station <strong>SP100CVO<\/strong> is active to mark the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the birth of <strong>Ludomir Maczka<\/strong>, SP1CVO.<\/p>\n<p>Maczka was an outstanding Polish geologist, sailor and amateur radio operator. His legendary vessel <em>Maria<\/em> was the first Polish yacht to circumnavigate the globe twice, crossing the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, including details of awards that are available for working the station, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/\">QRZ.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Salamis<\/strong> radio team in Greece is active with special callsign <strong>SX85CB<\/strong> to mark the 85<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Battle of Crete during the Second World War. More details are available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/\">QRZ.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cornish Radio Amateur Club is active from Pendennis Point in Cornwall until the end of May with special event callsign GB1SOS in support of SOS Radio month. Look out for activity each Sunday on the 40 and 20m bands using SSB. Special event station SP100CVO is active to mark the 100th anniversary of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974","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=47974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47977,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974\/revisions\/47977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}