{"id":48881,"date":"2026-07-03T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=48881"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:04:16","slug":"special-events-news-5-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2026\/07\/03\/special-events-news-5-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 5 July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur radio operators across the USA, Canada and Mexico are activating a series of special callsigns to celebrate the <strong>2026 FIFA World Cup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stations are active until 19\u00a0July from each of the cities hosting the tournament. Look out for activity on all bands and modes.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wc2026ses.org\/\">wc2026ses.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of <strong>Swissair Radio Amateur Club<\/strong>, HB9VC are active as <strong>HB200LF<\/strong> until 31\u00a0July.<\/p>\n<p>The special callsign is in operation to commemorate the 200<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the birth of Louis Favre. In 1872 the Swiss engineer built the first Gotthard railway tunnel \u2013 the longest railway tunnel in the world at that time.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/\">QRZ.com<\/a>\u00a0 for details of a certificate that is available for working the station. QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World and Club Log.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur radio operators across the USA, Canada and Mexico are activating a series of special callsigns to celebrate the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Stations are active until 19\u00a0July from each of the cities hosting the tournament. Look out for activity on all bands and modes. For more information, visit wc2026ses.org Members of Swissair Radio Amateur [&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-48881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881","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=48881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48882,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions\/48882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}