20th Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2014 Special Event

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To celebrate the Commonwealth Games this summer, the Stirling & District Amateur Radio Society (GM6NX) are hosting a special event station, GA14CG, at their club premises, approximately 25 miles northeast of the city of Glasgow, between 21st July 3rd August 2014.

Stirling and District Amateur Radio Club will be operating special event station GA14CG throughout the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Stirling and District Amateur Radio Club will be operating special event station GA14CG throughout the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games

The station will be run by members of the Stirling & DARS along with other clubs in the surrounding area. Visitors are most welcome to the station and visiting amateurs can operate the station, permitted they bring a copy of their license.

There will be 3 HF stations and 2 VHF stations operational. Activity will be on 160-2 meters using CW, SSB and Data.

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To celebrate the Commonwealth Games this summer, the Stirling & District Amateur Radio Society (GM6NX) are hosting a special event station, GA14CG, at their club premises, approximately 25 miles northeast of the city of Glasgow, between 21st July 3rd August 2014.

More Information - http://www.ga14cg.com/
 

The World ATV QSO Party

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This year’s annual on-air gathering of the visual mode of Amateur Television will be held on 29-30 August 2014.

The event will be broadcasted on the Melbourne-Geelong VK3RTV repeater and streamed through the British Amateur Television Club.

The 2014 event is the 4th annual World Digital ATV QSO Party which was originally a part of the centenary for Amateur Radio Victoria.

Friday night will be VK-only including links to new digital repeater VK5RDC at Port Pirie, and possibly joined by VK4RKC in Brisbane.

Australians can work through their local ATV repeaters and net controllers are to provide the Internet links. Those ATVers not within repeater range may pre-arrange to Skype-in direct to master controller Peter VK3BFG.

On the Saturday there will be four net controllers - Peter VK3BFG, Don KE6BXT, Art WR8DMC and for the first time Noel G8GTZ. International repeaters are W6ATN, WR8ATV, GB3HV and possibly GB3SQ and GB3KM.

 

Youngsters On The Air and ERTC 2014

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YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) is a youth movement inviting fifteen European national youth teams to a selected rotating EU location every year to get together, learn from each other and experience various aspects of Amateur Radio through meaningful and entertaining concepts emphasizing social, radio communication and technology skills.

OF3ERTC is a special event Amateur Radio station active in conjunction with ERTC 2014 from July 18-20th, while OH2YOTA will be active from the actual event site in Virrat, Finland starting July 16th.

ERTC (European Radio Team Championship) is a voice communication (VoIP) contest where two-member national youth teams try to make a maximum number of contacts with a maximum number of countries within a defined time period.

ERTC uses a Virtual Amateur Radio platform (HamSphere) where amateur radio-like operating is conducted on the Internet with amateur radio-like bands and operating features such as current radio propagation together with beam antennas and amplifiers plus an online logbook, awards and QSLing backed up with learning material and an exam free entry gate.

All this makes HamSphere a highly suitable application to learn about real Amateur Radio and help youth to discover Amateur Radio in their regular hangout, the Internet.

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES -- Belgium (ON), Bulgaria (LZ), Croatia (9A),
Czech Republic (OK), Estonia (ES), Finland (OH), Italy (I), Lithuania (LY),
Netherlands (PA), Poland (SP), Romania (YO), Slovakia (OM), Sweden (SM), United Kingdom (G) and Spain (EA). 

These country-teams are currently active in Virtual World Amateur Radio practicing and preparing for their trip to Finland. Also, some invited Exhibition Teams will participate in the event over the Internet.

HamSphere - http://www.hamsphere.com/23_31496_read.html