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Special callsigns for amateur radio stations during 2012

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Published on Thu 9th Feb 2012 15:10

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The Radio Society of Great Britain and Ofcom have reached agreement on the optional use of special callsigns for two significant events during 2012.

For the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, all UK amateur stations will have the option of applying for a variation to their licence if they wish, to use a special prefix for a five week period. This will add or substitute the letter “Q” in the place of the Regional identifier in the callsign.

For the period of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, a similar facility will exist for a seven week period, using the letter “O”.

Both the above facilities will also be available to Amateur Club licences.
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GB4SLB Selsey Lifeboat 150th Anniversary-

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Published on Wed 1st Jun 2011 12:00

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A Special Event Station GB4SLB is being run on June 4th and 5th, to mark the 150th anniversary of Selsey Lifeboat Station.

It is being run by Pete M6PAP and Peter G4LKW with other members of the Worthing & District Amateur Radio Club helping as well.

Main band should be 40mts that's what we are aiming for dependant on conditions over the 48 hours, we aim to get as much air time as possible.
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G6NHU - 365 Days of QSOs

Published on Mon 30th May 2011 22:00

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In 2011 I am attempting to have at least one QSO per day and I will document these QSOs in this blog. I won’t blog every day but I will provide details of my QSOs here. The caveat to this is that if I’m away from home (holiday, working away, etc) then I won’t be able to have a QSO on those days – It’s difficult to have any contacts when one isn’t near a wireless!
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