{"id":49127,"date":"2026-07-17T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49127"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:24:07","slug":"special-events-news-19-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2026\/07\/17\/special-events-news-19-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 19 July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radio amateurs using <strong>Bawdsey Radar Museum<\/strong>\u2019s callsign GB2GRS will be on the air today, 19 July.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the museum to hear where in the world they are contacting.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bawdseyradar.org.uk\/\">bawdseyradar.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special callsign <strong>HF170TESLA<\/strong> is active to mark the 170<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the birth of <strong>Nikola Tesla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Look for activity on various bands and modes until 31\u00a0July.<\/p>\n<p>For details of awards that are available for working the station, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/radiodyplom.pl\/ses\/290\">tinyurl.com\/teslaSES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the centenary of <strong>Romania&#8217;s first amateur radio club<\/strong>, special callsign <strong>YR100RC<\/strong> is active until 30\u00a0September.<\/p>\n<p>Find out about awards that are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/hamlog.online\/club\/romania\/1786\">tinyurl.com\/yr100rc2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio amateurs using Bawdsey Radar Museum\u2019s callsign GB2GRS will be on the air today, 19 July. Visit the museum to hear where in the world they are contacting. More information is available at bawdseyradar.org.uk Special callsign HF170TESLA is active to mark the 170th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla. Look for activity on various [&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-49127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127","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=49127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49128,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127\/revisions\/49128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}