1912 - Titanic Centenary - 2012

From our friend Tom Rosner and the UDXF newsgroup (thanks for sharing Tom):

A special broadcast on longwave 147,3 kHz & amateur crossband event will be held in memoriam of the sinking of RMS "Titanic"

on 14th April 22:30 GMT until 15th April 02:00 GMT with NWS transmitter DDH47 on 147,3 kHz in Morsecode only During 'silence periods' (red sectors of radio clock) of former maritime radio service the names of radio officers will be sent in qrss3 ( 1 dot in 3 seconds !)

Calls from amateur radio on hf will be answered by DL0SWA & DDH47

Event hosted by Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) & employees of TI33, Pinneberg & amateur radio group Seewetteramt & friends of Prof. Braun Day

Veterans Day Special Event Station K0V

The Emporia Amateur Radio Society will be on the air with a special event station on November 7th and on Veterans Day, November 11, to honor our Veterans. We will be using the special event callsign KØV, and the station will be located adjacent to the Emporia All Veterans Memorial. You can get more information at:
http://www.qsl.net/emporiaars/Veterans%20Day%20Special%20Event%20Station.html

Ham Station to Operate from Arctic Circle

W1AW/KL7 to Operate from Arctic Circle: Just 300 miles south of the Alaskan Arctic Ocean -- where the Arctic Circle crosses the Dalton Highway (66 degrees, 33 minutes north) -- W1AW/KL7 will be on the air (grid square BP56) July 26-August 10 on all bands from 160-6 meters. This ARRL 2008 Alaska State Convention Special Event Station plans to run two HF stations operating CW, SSB and digital, one satellite station and one station devoted to 146.52 MHz. The Alaskan summer skies are ablaze with gray line-enhanced propagation effects, providing six to eight hour spurts of activity to most of the ham radio world. W1AW/KL7 plans to be active from 0600 UTC-1400 UTC to maximize gray line propagation. From Alaska, signals will take off in both directions at the same time: Europe to the East on one side, with Asia to the West on the other side. For an illustration of how Arctic gray line propagation
works, see page 21 in the August 2008 issue of QST. The 2008 Alaska ARRL Convention will run from August 1-4, 2008 in Anchorage. For more information, please see the W1AW/KL7 Web site http://www.akhamfest.com/arcticcirclespecial.php.

Courtesy of The ARRL Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 28 (Friday July 18, 2008)

GB Special Event on the 18th - GB40BYE

Courtesy of GB2RS, F8LDX and the SRT-DX Newsgroup

To mark the final closure of the London Air Traffic Control Centre at its site at the former RAF West Drayton in West London, the Air Traffic Control Engineers are holding a Closing Down Sale - All Engineers must go! event at the Park on 18 July. An amateur radio station will be operating for the day with special event callsign GB40BYE, reflecting goodBYE after 40 years. The intention is to operate all bands from top band to 70cm including 6 metres.

Special event Christmas callsigns in The Netherlands

Information below courtesy of an I.C.P.O. (Islands, Castles & Portable Operations) update.

Between Dec 20, 2007 and Jan 6, 2008, there will be eight special event callsigns QRV from The Netherlands. QSL for each special event station is via the operator (QSL manager) listed below.




Callsign Operator/QSL manager
PA07XMAS PG7V
PC07XMAS PA3AM
PD07SANTA PD0AT
PD07XMAS PD2J
PD08HNY PD0EMR
PF07XMAS PA1WLB
PG07XMAS PA7JWC
PH07XMAS PA4CHE

All stations are valid for the Christmas 2007 award, all info on www.pg7v.net/xmas2007 [PG7V]

From Dave Raycroft - VA3RJ
Home of ICPO: http://webhome.idirect.com/~va3rj/
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USS Kidd ARS OTA Today to Honor Pearl Harbor Attack

December 7, 1500Z-2230Z, Baton Rouge, LA. USS Kidd Amateur Radio Club, W5KID. Pearl Harbor Day aboard the USS Kidd (DD-661) museum in Baton Rouge.

SSB 14.250 to 14.320 MHz
CW 28.060 21.060 14.060 10.106 7.040 MHz
PSK 14.070 7.070 3.570 MHz

6 meters IF it is open we will move off of 50.125 to 50.175 MHz and 50.290 MHz for PSK.

QSL Address: W5KID, c/o USS Kidd Museum, 305 South River Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Website: http://www.lsu.edu/brarc/uss_kidd.htm

Special Event Pentagon Ham Station to Operate on 9/11

Pentagon ARC to Host Special Event Station Commemorating 9/11: On Tuesday, September 11, the Pentagon Amateur Radio Club (PARC) will operate a Special Event station commemorating the 6th anniversary of the attacks that occurred on the Pentagon, the World Trade Center and over Pennsylvania in 2001. They will be operating on 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters, both phone and CW where and when possible. There will be a special QSL card available for stations that work K4AF. For more information, please
contact Claude Hennessey, KG4TVN. QSL via PARC, PO Box 2322, Arlington, VA 22202.