{"id":49783,"date":"2026-08-14T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49783"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:52:52","slug":"dx-news-16-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/dx-news\/2026\/08\/14\/dx-news-16-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"DX News \u2013 16 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special event station <strong>EN35UKR<\/strong> is active until 30\u00a0August to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p>QSL via LoTW or via UT2UCN.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis, MW0USK and Kevin, MW9KJC are operating <strong>GB64MOD<\/strong>, a special event station that \u201ccelebrates the spirit of the Mod movement through amateur radio&#8221;. It is active until 31 August. Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/gb64mod.co.uk\">gb64mod.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>9A10SOTA<\/strong> is the special callsign celebrating ten years of SOTA Croatia. Look out for activity 30 September.<\/p>\n<p>QSL via LoTW.<\/p>\n<p>Sands, VK4WXW has returned to <strong>Willis Island<\/strong> (OC-007) and will be stationed at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology\u2019s weather monitoring facility until late October or early November.<\/p>\n<p>He expects to be increasingly active in the coming weeks and operated SSB and FT8 on the 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands with a vertical antenna.<\/p>\n<p>QSL via M0OXO\u2019s OQRS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special event station EN35UKR is active until 30\u00a0August to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine&#8217;s independence. QSL via LoTW or via UT2UCN. Curtis, MW0USK and Kevin, MW9KJC are operating GB64MOD, a special event station that \u201ccelebrates the spirit of the Mod movement through amateur radio&#8221;. It is active until 31 August. Find out more at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49783","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=49783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49823,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49783\/revisions\/49823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}