Radio Round-up

GB0WYT AND GB2DWM: During the weekend of 3/4 April Huntingdonshire Amateur Radio Society (HARS) members ran their first special event station of 2021 by using the callsign GB0WYT for Royal Air Force Wyton in Cambridgeshire, as part of RAFARS Airfields on the Air.

For the weekend Cadet Adult Force Volunteers (CAFV) and HARS team members were co-ordinated on a rota basis by David M0SKT who under normal conditions would run the event from ‘inside the wire’ at RAF Wyton and would be operating using local RAF Air Cadets who regularly attend the event. This year again they worked from their home stations using HF Voice, CW and Data modes. 214 QSOs were made.

New HARS operators who came on board this year were Dale G5DKT, Ian D G3NID and Ian T M0XCF who enjoyed the activity. Thanks go to Steve G1KWF, Mervyn G4KLE, Andy G8OHM and Clive G3NKQ for assigning time and putting the effort into making the event a success while keeping the GB0WYT callsign alive during the current situation. Then during the weekend of 8/9 May, HARS activated the callsign GB2DWM for Duloe Mill in Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire for the National Mills on the Air event, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth year. The callsign was operated from homes due to current Government guidelines, by various local operators who live nearby or have run the special event station at the Mill in previous years.

This year was the eighth year of the club operating the callsign and 100 QSOs were made over the weekend.

Thanks go club members Mervyn G4KLE, Steve G1KWF, Clive G3NKQ who assisted organiser David M0SKT during the weekend.

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 amateur radio enthusiasts all over the world.

For this event only, starting 26 June 2021, 0000 UTC and until 31 December 2021, 2359UTC, Slovenian amateur radio stations can use special callsigns. 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 S5 stations (regular and special callsigns apply), out of which 10 or more must be 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 scc@hamradio.si.