Special Event Station news

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Members of the Wireless Institute of Australia are QRV with special call VI110WIA until the end of 2020 to celebrate the club's 110th anniversary. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL via LoTW.

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Verghese, VU3WNI is QRV with special call AU9VV until August 20 while participating in the STAY-HOME activities. In addition, VU2USI is QRV as AT2SAH until August 19. QSL via operators' instructions.

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AM500ISJ - San Fernando - Spain - Ferdinand Magellan
Radio Amateurs members of URE San Fernando, EA7URF will be active with special call AM500ISJ from San Fernando, Spain,
20 - 28 June 2020, to memorialize Ferdinand Magellan's overwintering at Puerto San Julian (Argentine Patagonia).
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via EA7URF, LOTW, eQSL.
SECCION COMARCAL URE SAN FERNANDO, P.O. BOX 196, 11100, SAN FERNANDO, (CADIZ), Spain.

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TC1KESAN - Kesan - Edirne - Turkey.
TC1KESAN Team will be active from Kesan, Edirne, Turkey.
Team - TA1NKL Yusuf İsmail Cinoğlu and TA1LFU Furkan Esmeyar.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via TC1KESAN.

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EG3PTM - Berga - Spain - La Patum de Berga 2020
Radio Amateurs members of Radio Club Baells, EA3RCI will be active with special call EG3PTM from Berga, Spain.
Special Award will be available.
SPECIAL QSL: Every station that has contacted our EG3PTM special station, even in a single day, will have obtained the special QSL. The QSL 's will be sent only by the e-QSL system.
The lists of contacts made will be sent exclusively in ADIF electronic format (preferably) before 00:00 on June 22, 2020, to the email rcbaells@gmail.com or to the manager ea3dur@gmail.com
DELIVERY OF DIPLOMAS: The Diploma (in A4 color format) will be sent to all participants free of charge by electronic email in digital format, at the sender address of the sent logs. There is also the possibility of sending the diplomas in paper format by ordinary mail at a total cost of € 5, or on paper as well and free of charge at future face-to-face meetings on request. The special QSL will be sent VIA e-QSL in digital format.

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FT8DMC Activity Weeks 2020
FT8DMC 3rd Anniversary-Activity Days 2020
www.ft8dmc.eu www.facebook.com/groups/FT8DMC/
To commemorate our 3rd anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days
from 1. to 31. July 2020. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix, referring to the third anniversary of the
FT8 Digital Mode Club.
The following stations will be active:

9K8FTDMC, QSL via 9K2RA
A60FTDMC, QSL via OE4VIE
A91FTDMC, op A92AA, QSL via A92AA.
DQ8FTDMC, Germany, QSL via DM2RM
HZ8FTDMC, QSL info on QRZ.com
II8FTDM, op IK8YFU, QSL via IK8YFU
LR8FTDMC, Argentina, ops LU3PI, LW5DR, LW2EIY, LU6MAL and LU1DLA, QSL via F1ULQ.
LX8FTDM, ops LX1TI, LX1JH, LX1HD, QSL via LZ1TI
OD5FTDMC, op OD5TE, QSL via K3IRV
OE20FTDMC, ops OE1SGU and OE4VIE, QSL via OE1SGU
OE4FTDMC, QSL route TBD.
RO3FTDM, Russia, QSL route TBD.
SU8FTDMC, QSL via A92AA
TM8FTDM, France, ops F1ULQ and F4ESV, QSL via F1ULQ
TO8FTDM, Guadeloupe, op FG8OJ, QSL via F1ULQ
TK8FTDM, Corsica, QSL route TBD.
YP8FTDMC, Romania, QSL through LoTW, eQSL and Club Log.
YQ6FTDMC, Romania, eQSL, hrdlog.het, LoTW.
ZL6FTDMC, op ZL1MVL, QSL via F1ULQ.
ZW8FTDMC, Brazil, QSL via PP2CS, bureau, LoTW, direct, eQSL, Club Log.

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Spanish special event
The URE section San Fernando (EA7URF) will be active with the special event callsign AM500ISJ between the 20th and 28th to mark a milestone during Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe.
His fleet wintered at Puerto San Julian 500 years ago.
QSL via EA7URF, LoTW, eQSL

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Centenary of the Royal Corps of Signals is 28 June. The Royal Signals Museum has a permanent special event call sign, GB100RSM, but due to the Covid-19 restrictions they cannot run the station from the museum. The station will instead run from the home QTH of G3WZP in IO90BR. Activity will be until the end of June on the 40, 20 and 17m bands, using SSB and CW.

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Special event station GB125NT is QRV until June 28 from the Marconi Lizard Wireless Station to draw attention to the 125th anniversary of the National Trust. QSL via operators' instructions.

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The following International Short Wave League (ISWL) club callsigns will be used throughout the month of July 2020:

GX4BJC/A - Operated from Walton on the Naze, in Essex, by Herbie, G6XOU (WAB Square - TM22 - England, IOTA EU-005, WLOTA 1841).

MX1SWL/A - Operated from Great Missenden, in Buckinghamshire, by John, G8XTJ (WAB Square - SP80 - England, IOTA EU-005, WLOTA 1841).

ALL QSLs will be handled by Dick, M5DIK - The QSL Manager and NOT the individual operator

The I.S.W.L. is a member of the European PSK Club. All QSL info is on www.iswl.org.uk or www.qrzcq.com or www.qrz.com or via www.eQSL.cc.

NO LoTW

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International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
The 23rd International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW), which usually takes place during the third weekend of August, has been moved to August 22-23rd.

As of June 18th, there are 185 registered Light-house/Lightship stations listed at:
https://illw.net/index.php/entrants-list-2020

For more details about this year's event, see:
https://illw.net/

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Sunday, the 28th, is the centenary of the Royal Corps of Signals. The Royal Signals Museum has a permanent special event call sign, GB100RSM, but due to the COVID-19 restrictions they cannot run the station from the museum. The station will instead run from the home QTH of G3WZP in IO90BR. Activity will be until the end of June on the 40, 20 and 17m bands, using SSB and CW. Skeds are welcome.

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Royal Corps of Signals centenary station is GB100RS Royal Signals, operating from Bishop Auckland. It will start operating this Sunday, the 28th. Full details of the centenary stations and their operations can be found at rsars.org.uk/rsars-corps-celebrations-2020.

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o commemorate their third anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days from 1 to the 31 July. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix, referring to the third anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club. An FTDMC Anniversary Award can be earned by working the FTDMC and FTDM stations and collecting points applicable for various award classes—see ft8dmc.eu.

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Durham and District Amateur Radio Society is participating as one of the bonus stations in the 13 Colonies Special Event. GB13COL will run from 1300UTC on 1 July to 0400UTC on 8 July. The primary focus of the event will be the HF bands using SSB, CW, FM and various digital modes, but VHF and UHF will also be in use. This year’s QSL cards for GB13COL has been kindly sponsored by Martin Lynch at ML&S.

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[bTo commemorate their third anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days until 31 July. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix, referring to the third anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club. An FTDMC Anniversary Award can be earned by working the FTDMC and FTDM stations and collecting points applicable for various award classes—see ft8dmc.eu for more details.

Durham and District Amateur Radio Society is participating as one of the bonus stations in the 13 Colonies Special Event. GB13COL will run until 0400UTC on 8 July. The primary focus of the event will be the HF bands using SSB, CW, FM and various digital modes, but VHF and UHF will also be in use. This year’s QSL cards for GB13COL has been kindly sponsored by Martin Lynch at ML&S.][/b]

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GB100RSM is the Special Event amateur radio callsign allocated to the museum until December 2020.
Originally planned to be active from the museum on the 100th anniversary of the Corps ....however Covid-19 has changed the plans and the station has been active since 7th June from the home location of Museum volunteer Geoff Budden in Bournemouth.
Most contacts were made using morse code and contacts with stations using replica PARASET. SOE radios in Belgium and Holland were most significant and rewarding .
Statistics so far 396 contacts in 35 Countries and 2658 "hits" on the call sign listing on International Amateur Radio Website...www.qrz.com

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GB2VJ on the air for V-J Day
GB2VJ is on-air from 8th August until 4th September 2020 activated by members of the Essex CW Club.
This special event callsign is to commemorate the 75th anniversary of V-J Day in Europe and the USA.
www.essesxcw.org.uk

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The popular event Churches and Chapels On The Air will still take place this year, despite Covid-19 restrictions. On Saturday 12 September, operators will be a mix of individual activities near churches as well as operating from home. Activity is usually 10am to 4pm and mainly on the 80, 40 and 20m bands using SSB. Contact John, G3XYF via jhwresdell@gmail.com for more details.

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Scotland Special Event
Look for special event station GB2CR to be active from Invergordon, Scotland, between March 4-18th.
The special callsign's suffix "CR" stands for 'Collins Radio'.

During the GB2CR operation, the equipment will be vintage valve/tube radio equipment manufactured by the Collins Radio Company (1933-1971) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A.
Chris, GM3WOJ/GM2V, will also use the special callsign from his home station near Invergordon using a KWM-2A transceiver, 312B-5 external VFO/control unit and 516F-2 AC power supply. An amplifier and good antennas
will be used -- with operations on 80-10 meters; mostly SSB with some CW.
Sorry - no paper QSLs - LoTW only. GB2CR will have a real-time logging system, with an online webpage, which feeds all QSOs directly to ClubLog.
Look for more information on QRZ.com

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Russian Special Event
To commemorate 76th anniversary of the Victory in WW II, the Union of Russian Radio Amateurs (SRR), is conducting 'Victory-76' special on-the-air event between May 2nd (starts at 0000 UTC) and May 9th (ends at 1159 UTC).
Many special memorial stations with "RP76" (not RP75 as mentioned in OPDX last week) prefix in their callsigns will be active.
Activity will be on all HF band and modes including the satellites. A special award (diploma) is available.
The complete list of participating stations is available at:
https://pobeda.srr.ru/stations
For more details, see: https://pobeda.srr.ru
For QSL routes, check QRZ.com.

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GB0UTA Special Event
The GB0UTA Special Event station will be active from 6th - 28th June, operated on behalf of the University of the Third Age in Honiton Devon. The intention is to raise awareness of the u3a among the amateur radio community.
Founded in 1982, the u3a is a UK-wide collection of locally-run interest groups providing a wide range of opportunities for members to come together to learn for fun and where they enjoy exploring new ideas, skills and activities together.
In the UK, there are more than 1,000 u3a branches with over 430,000 members. Membership is open to all who are partly or fully retired.
See the GB0UTA QRZ.Com entry for details of the Honiton and UK u3a web sites.

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Italian special event
Members of the 4U1GSC Amateur Radio Club are now active as 4U29MAY from the UN Global Service Center in Brindisi, Italy, until June 30th.
Activity is to celebrate "International Day of UN Peace- keepers" (May 29th) [http://www.un.org/en/events/peacekeepersday/].
They hope that the '29MAY' suffix will be reminding you of this day when they pay tribute to more than 4,000 'Blue Helmets', UN Police and civilian personnel who lost their lives whilst serving in field missions.
Their efforts are one of the most concrete expressions of the UN Charter's determination to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
Operations will be on 160-10 meters. Remember, this operation ony counts for Italy for DXCC.

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30 Years of Independence Award
The Slovenian Amateur Radio Union will celebrate the country's 30 years of Independence by issuing a special award. It will be eligible to all amateur radio enthusiasts all over the World.

For this event only, starting June 26, 00:00 UTC and until December 31 2021, 23:59 UTC, the Slovenian amateur radio stations can use special call signs. Those will add the number '30' into the suffix. For example: S50ZZ will be S5030ZZ, S51A will be S5130A, S57XXX will be S5730XXX etc.

In order to obtain the award a foreign amateur radio station must have at least 30 contacts with an S5 stations (regular and special call signs apply), out of which 10 or more with special prefixes ('30'). The use of any band/mode counts for the award.

Send the log - list of contacts (date, time, call, band and mode) to the following e-mail address: scc@hamradio.si. The same email also applies for any possible questions.

The award will be issued in electronic form and will be downloadable as a PDF file from the website of Slovenia Contest Club

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Curtis, MW0USK and Tom, MW0REN will be active with special call GB0DMC from Wales, 2 - 15 August 2021, commemorating anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via DJ6OI.

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