{"id":49641,"date":"2026-08-07T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49641"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:48:45","slug":"contest-news-9-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2026\/08\/07\/contest-news-9-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 9 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 9 August, the <strong>UK Microwave Group 25GHz Trophy<\/strong> contest 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<p>The <strong>RSGB Machine Generated Mode Contest<\/strong> started at 1400UTC on Saturday, 8 August and ends at 1400UTC today, 9\u00a0August.<\/p>\n<p>Using machine-generated modes on the 6 and 2m bands, the exchange is report and your four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Worked All Europe DX CW Contest<\/strong> started at 0000UTC on Saturday, 8 August and ends at 2359UTC today, 9\u00a0August.<\/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 Tuesday, 11 August the <strong>RSGB 432MHz FM Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1800 to 1855UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using FM on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday,\u00a0the <strong>RSGB UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2130UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 12 August the <strong>RSGB Eclipse CW Contest<\/strong> runs from 1630 to 1930UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using CW on the 80m band, the exchange is report and serial number.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>RSGB Eclipse FT8 Contest<\/strong> runs from 1630 to 1930UTC on Wednesday. Using FT8 on the 40m band, the exchange is your report.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, the <strong>RSGB 432MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest<\/strong> runs from 1700 to 2100UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using FT8 on the 70cm band, the exchange is report and four-character locator.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>RSGB 432MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2100UTC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Using FT8 on the 70cm 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>On Thursday, 13 August, the <strong>RSGB 50MHz UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1900 to 2130UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 9 August, the UK Microwave Group 25GHz Trophy contest runs from 0800 to 1700UTC. Using all modes on the 1.2cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The RSGB Machine Generated Mode Contest started at 1400UTC on Saturday, 8 August and ends at 1400UTC today, 9\u00a0August. Using machine-generated modes on 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-49641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641","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=49641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49642,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641\/revisions\/49642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}