{"id":51017,"date":"2026-10-09T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=51017"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:19:48","slug":"special-events-news-11-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/special-events\/2026\/10\/09\/special-events-news-11-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Events News \u2013 11 October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the <strong>Cray Valley Radio Society<\/strong> are operating special callsign GB80CV until 28\u00a0October to celebrate the club\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/cvrs.uk\/cvrs80\/\">cvrs.uk\/cvrs80<\/a> for detailed information on the Oak Anniversary Award. QSL via Logbook of the World.<\/p>\n<p>8J7SPO\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0special\u00a0callsign\u00a0commemorating\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Japan\u00a0Sport\u00a0Association<\/strong>\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup> Japan Games and the 25<sup>th<\/sup> National Sports Festival for People with Disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for activity until 26\u00a0October. QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and confirmed automatically via the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Belgian\u00a0Air\u00a0Force\u00a0Amateur\u00a0Radio\u00a0Association<\/strong> is active until 30\u00a0October to celebrate the Air Force\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Listen for activity on the HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes.<\/p>\n<p>All the details, including eQSLs and awards, are at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafara80.be\/\">bafara80.be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Cray Valley Radio Society are operating special callsign GB80CV until 28\u00a0October to celebrate the club\u2019s 80th anniversary. Visit cvrs.uk\/cvrs80 for detailed information on the Oak Anniversary Award. QSL via Logbook of the World. 8J7SPO\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0special\u00a0callsign\u00a0commemorating\u00a0the\u00a0Japan\u00a0Sport\u00a0Association\u2019s 80th Japan Games and the 25th National Sports Festival for People with Disabilities. Look out for activity until [&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-51017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51017","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=51017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51019,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51017\/revisions\/51019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}