EURAO Spring Party 2018: Discover the WARC 12m Bands

The European Radio Amateurs' Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: "discover the WARC bands: 12m". Remember this is not a contest, it is just a radio meeting with a few simple 'rules', better to call them recommendations.

Purpose: 12m band is only 100 KHz wide (24.890-24.990 MHz) but it is quieter and less noisy than others, mainly on weekends when the big contests are underway. The idea of this party is to promote the band and its calm and peaceful use, ragchewing, having fun and meeting other hams all over the world. Of course also SWLing is welcome.

Date & time: June 16th and 17th, 2018, Saturday and Sunday, 00:00-24:00 UTC.

Bands & modes: these are the recommended modes/frequencies (+/-) for the 12m band: CW/24.890-24.915, digital/24.915-24.940, and SSB/24.940-24.990 MHz.

More Information - http://www.bandplans.com/index.php?band=12

FIFA Football World Cup Amateur Radio Special Event Stations

FIFA's World Cup 2018 takes place from 14 June until 15th July 2018 in Russia.

Many amateur radio special event stations have already started their activity on the bands since early June.

From Russia, calls will be active denoting the participating teams, e.g. R18ARG, R18AUS, R18BE, as well as callsigns referring to the host cities, e.g. RC18EK, RC18KA, RC18MO etc.

Participating nations and other countries will be joining in with many more special event calls, e.g. DJ18FWC, VR2FIFA, YW18FIFA, A60FIFA etc. An award will be available as well.

More information - http://fwc18.hamlogs.net/?locale=en

GB6GEO Special Event station

Organised by the Torbay Amateur Radio Society (TARS),  GB6GEO  will be active from the English Riviera Global Geopark during the special communications weekend between 9th and 10th June 2018

The special event station will transmit live from Kent's Cavern, Torquay, right in the heart of the English Riviera Global Geopark.

Using a special event callsign, GB6GEO will establish contact with other radio stations around Britain, Europe and the World from the English Riviera Geopark.

GB6GEO will also make contact with radio stations transmitting from within other Global Geoparks. There are other operators around the world using the GEO based callsign as part of the Geoparks Communication Week- end. GB6GEO will establish contact with some of these over the communications event weekend.

Geopark Certificate

For amateur radio stations/SWL's around the world who contacted/heard Geopark stations, the English Riviera Geopark is offering a special commemorative European Geoparks Network radio amateur certificate for contacts with GB6GEO (instant qualifier), or two Geopark stations excluding GB6GEO. (the award will also apply to SWL's on a heard basis). This certificate, is endorsed by our Queen's husband H.R.H The Duke of Edinburgh, with his own words congratulating the holder. 

Certificates will cost UK£4 each, Europe €5 and rest of the world USDs7.
Alternatively certificate holders to be the first in their country to claim the certificate will have an 'FC' suffix following the certificate number. This denotes the first person in their country to claim the 'Geo-parks' award. 

These certificate holders will be worth one point towards the basic certificate, that requires two points, or work any five (5) certificate holders.

Certificate Manager/direct QSLs, send to Martin Foster, G3VOF, QTHR or QRZ.com. Please also see QRZ.com for the latest updates. Only log details are necessary.

GB6GEO QSLs

There is a special glossy high-quality souvenir QSL cards for this event promoting the English Riviera Geopark.

All QSL cards will automatically be sent out via the bureau, or send an SASE in the UK. If you are outside the UK, then please send an addressed envelope and sufficient funds for return postage if you would like a card direct, all QSLs via G3VOF.

Any information required about GB6GEO please contact Martin Foster via e-mail at: martin@riviera.fm

If you live in Austria, Australia, China, Norway, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Spain or Brazil or any country with a Geopark and would like to participate in the Geoparks Communication Festival by putting on a "GEO" callsign please get in touch with G3VOF.
Some other Geopark stations include:
DK6GEO Harz Mountains (Unicorn Cave) Germany
GB2MAC (Marble Arch Caves) N.Ireland
EI2GEO (Copper Coast) Rep of Ireland
J48GEO (Lesvos Is) N.Aegean Is, Greece
YP2GEO (Tara Hateulul) Romania

Main freq's that are used: 3.680MHz, 7.080MHz, 14.180MHz, 21.180MHz, 28.380MHz., and 50.180MHz. GB6GEO will also transmit on 2m FM, and 6m SSB.