Special Event Call Sign OZ50Q

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Radio amateurs are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the accession to the throne of HM The Queen of Denmark with the call sign OZ50Q

Margrethe II is head of state for Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

On her accession, on January 14, 1972, she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margrethe I, ruler of the Scandinavian kingdoms in 1375–1412 during the Kalmar Union.

Danish Radio Amateurs will celebrate this jubilee by being active with the special event call sign OZ50Q during whole of January 2022.

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75th Anniversary of the Royal Belgian Amateur Radio Union UBA

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75th Anniversary of the Royal Belgian Amateur Radio Union UBA

The Belgian IARU society UBA is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2022.

To celebrate this event, 64 different special event stations will be active from January 1st till February 28th 2022. Each special event station will be using the prefix ON75 followed by a three letter suffix. Awards for working both a specific number of different ON75 stations and/or working ON75 stations in various band/mode slots

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Georgia Club Donates License Manuals to Local Schools

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Georgia Club Donates License Manuals to Local Schools

The Dalton Amateur Radio Club (DARC) in Dalton, Georgia, has donated copies of the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual to several schools in its service area. The materials will be available in the schools’ media centres.

On 1st December, DARC President Jack Thompson, N5UOV, met with media specialists Sarah Hicks of North Murray High School and Ryan Long of Murray County High School to present both schools with copies of the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, which covers everything needed to obtain a Technician-class license, including the full question pool for the exam.

During a second presentation on December 3, Thompson and David Stanley, WI4L, met with Whitfield County Schools Media Specialist Ge-Anne Bolhuis, and Communications Specialist Kristina Horsley, to present 10 copies of the license manual, which will be placed in each middle school and high school in the county.

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