{"id":49456,"date":"2026-07-31T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49456"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:26:05","slug":"contest-news-2-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2026\/07\/31\/contest-news-2-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 2 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 2\u00a0August, the <strong>RSGB 432MHz Low Power Contest<\/strong> runs from 0800 to 1200UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and your two-letter postcode.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon<\/strong> started on 2 May and ends today, 2\u00a0August.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is your four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 4 August, the <strong>RSGB 144MHz FM Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1800 to 1855UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using FM on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday, 4 August, the <strong>RSGB 144MHz UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2130UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 5 August, the <strong>RSGB 144MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest<\/strong> runs from 1700 to 2100UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, 5 August, the <strong>RSGB 144MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2100UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>Stations entering the four-hour contest may also enter the two-hour contest.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>RSGB Machine Generated Mode Contest<\/strong> starts at 1400UTC on Saturday, 8 August and ends at 1400UTC on Sunday, 9 August.<\/p>\n<p>Using machine-generated modes on the 6 and 2m bands, the exchange is your report and four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Worked All Europe DX CW Contest<\/strong> starts at 0000UTC on Saturday, 8 August and ends at 2359UTC on Sunday, 9 August.<\/p>\n<p>Using CW on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 9 August, the <strong>UK Microwave Group 24GHz Trophy Contest<\/strong> runs from 0800 to 1700UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 1.2cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 2\u00a0August, the RSGB 432MHz Low Power Contest runs from 0800 to 1200UTC. Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and your two-letter postcode. The UK Six Metre Group Summer Marathon started on 2 May and ends today, 2\u00a0August. Using all modes on the 6m band, 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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456","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=49456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49457,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions\/49457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}