{"id":49953,"date":"2026-08-21T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49953"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:44:29","slug":"contest-news-23-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/contest-news\/2026\/08\/21\/contest-news-23-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest News \u2013 23 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 23 August, the <strong>UK Microwave Group High Band Contest<\/strong> runs from 0800 to 1700UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on the 6 and 3cm bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 25 August, the <strong>RSGB SHF UK Activity Contest<\/strong> runs from 1830 to 2130UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Using all modes on 2.3 to 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>World Wide Digi DX Contest<\/strong> starts at 1200UTC on Saturday, 29 August and ends at 1200UTC on Sunday, 30 August.<\/p>\n<p>Using FT4 and FT8 on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your four-character locator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 23 August, the UK Microwave Group High Band Contest runs from 0800 to 1700UTC. Using all modes on the 6 and 3cm bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday, 25 August, the RSGB SHF UK Activity Contest runs from 1830 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on 2.3 to 10GHz [&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-49953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953","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=49953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49954,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953\/revisions\/49954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}