FIFA World Cup 2018 Special Event Station from Kosovo

Members of the Kosovo Amateur Radio Society (SHARK) will activate the special callsign, Z60FIFA, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup event between until the end of the tournament on July 15th.

Under Z60FIFA on QRZ.com, you will also find details/rules for various special "FOOTBALL 2018 Awards" (RADIO MARATHON, World, Participant, Russia and Cities). There will be many special callsigns for each award. Some callsigns with the prefixes R18, RC18 and RU18, and some suffixes ending FWC and FIFA.

There are at least 40 special stations from country-member of FIFA, and at least 25 special Russian stations, each of which symbolizes the team participant of the final tournament of the World Cup 2018. Also, there are 11 special Russian stations, each symbolizing one of 11 cities where the matches of the World Cup will take place as well as 2 special stations of the Organizing Committee RU18WC and R18REF.

200 Sign up for ILLW

The 200th entry was received from Wales, intending toactivate the East Usk lighthouse which was built in 1893 on the East side of the river USK. 

Margaret’s callsign will be for the event will be GB4EUL.

Other stations of interest for the 2018 Interntional Lighhouse and Lighship Weekend include

• Punta Maya Lighthouse, CU0005, in Cuba, T45FM,
• Faro de Progresso de Castro lighthouse in Mexico using the call 6E3A. This is a new lighthouse for the event with our number MX0010,
• Santiao Chiao lighthouse in Taiwan, callsign BV1EJ, ILLW TW0003,

A rare lighthouse from Maine, USA with the cute title “Ladies Delight” is a new addition to this years event. (LLW number US0227)

2018 Interntional Lighhouse and Lighship Weekend - https://illw.net

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