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| 2023: 1200Z, Jul 8 – 1159Z, Jul 9 | Logs due: 1159Z Jul 16 |
Contact as many other amateurs, especially IARU member society HQ stations, around the world as possible using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10-meter bands.
Contest Objective: To support amateur self-training in radiocommunications including improving amateur operating skills, conducting technical investigations, and intercommunicating with other amateurs around the world, especially IARU member society headquarters stations, using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10-meter bands.
Dates: The second full weekend of July (July 8-9, 2023).
Contest Period: Begins 1200 UTC Saturday and runs through 1159 UTC Sunday. Both Single and Multioperator stations may operate for the entire 24-hour period.
Contest rules are now maintained as a single downloadable document.
Click here for the complete IARU HF World Championship Rules (PDF)
For contest information contact or (860) 594-0232
Exchange:
IARU member society HQ stations, such as W1AW, send signal reports and official IARU member society abbreviation as listed on the IARU website at https://www.iaru.org/reference/member-societies/. IARU International Secretariat club station NU1AW counts as a HQ station, and sends “IARU”. Members of the IARU Administrative Council and the three IARU regional Executive committees send “AC,” “R1,” ”R2,” and “R3” as appropriate.
All others send signal reports and ITU zones.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
RSGB IOTA
Next RSGB IOTA Contest: 27-28 July 2024
The RSGB IOTA Contest, using the Islands on the Air concept, was created in 1993. This is now a major international event, attracting thousands of participants from all over the world. Radio Amateurs will be travelling to islands around the globe, and putting them on the air, making contacts with other islands and with those who are chasing islands.
Contest bands are 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m, both CW and phone. The duration is 24 hours, starting at 12:00 UTC on Saturday (1 p.m. UK time). Stations send a signal report and serial number, with stations on islands sending their IOTA reference number, described below.
The next RSGB IOTA Contest is 27-28 July 2024, and a guide for newcomers to the contests is at www.rsgbcc.org/hf/information/iotahelp.shtml .
The IOTA Contest is based on the RSGB Islands on the Air awards programme which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The IOTA idea was conceived in 1964 by British short wave listener Geoff Watts (SK), who imagined that those of us who live in crowded cities would love to set up a station on a sunny beach among palm trees. This prospect is appealing to Radio Amateurs, even if the island in question might not be further away from the UK mainland than the Isle of Wight!
Geoff realised that there were too many islands in the world to enumerate, so he grouped together islands, particularly when they were small. In the IOTA programme numbers are allocated to each group using a continental prefix. The basic IOTA award requires contacts with 100 islands and groups including at least one from each continent. Entrants can obtain award credit for QSOs made in the RSGB IOTA Contest.
The IOTA Reference, sent by Island Stations in the IOTA Contest, consists of two letters indicating the continent, and a number indicating the allocated reference within that continent.
For example:
EU115 EU = Europe Ireland
AF032 AF = Africa Zanzibar
AN003 AN = Antarctica Heard Island
AS020 AS = Asia Taiwan
NA107 NA = North America Martinique
OC225 OC = Oceania Turtle Islands
SA004 SA = South America Galapagos
This contest brings together those who like to put islands on the air, those who enjoy contesting, as well as those chasing islands for awards. Please join us for a great weekend!
Results: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the IOTA Contest
Getting started with the RSGB IOTA Contest
The IOTA website has a full list of IOTA islands, and other information relating to the IOTA program.
The RSGB shop (www.rsgb.org/shop) has the RSGB IOTA Directory.
To contact the IOTA Contest Manager, please email:
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
GB2SL International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
Numbers Location information Lighthouses:
Locator: JOØ3BN
UK0080=Spurn Point High
UK0081=Spurn Point Low
WAB: TA-41
LAT: 53.578978n
LNG: 0.06.33 E
Spurn Head (old): A2424X
Grid Reference: TA 40345 11240
Grid Reference (6 figure)
TA403112
X (Easting) 540345, Y (Northing) 411240
Latitude, Longitude (decimal)
53.578980, 0.11832847
Latitude, Longitude (degs, mins, secs)
53°34?44?N, 000°07?06?E
What3Words: wages. decompose. question
The Humber Fortress DX ARC has once again been invited by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, to put on a station during International Lighthouse on the Air weekend, Spurn High Light is a visitor attraction, and the tallest lighthouse in Northern England!
Made of 300,000 Staffordshire bricks, with a height of 128ft (39m) and 145 steps to the top landing, providing a spectacular view of the Spurn nature reserve and the River Humber.
We are pleased to have been invited back by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to help promote the restored Spurn High lighthouse for the 25 Anniversary of International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend and to back to Spurn Point to activate GB2SL.
Since our last visit, there have been changes to the shape of Spurn Point and it is now inaccessible to road transport due to the storms of 2013.
With at least a 200-yard break between the mainland and Spurn Point, it is a newly created island at high tide.
We are taking a small team of 12, regrettably, only those who can climb Stairs can attend this event, manpower and equipment will be ferried to the site by the YWT, in “or should that be on” their Unimog all-terrain vehicle.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
Association of Lighthouse Keepers
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
The event is run by H.A.D.A.R.S and H.F.DX.A.R.C as Guests only with the beast mobile tower, you can camp over for a small fee for any more info please email Rich M0RKK at
The rear of Easington Methodist Church Easington HU12 0TY
Latitude: 53.6502724 / 53° 39? 0? N Longitude: 0.1192834 / 0° 7? 9? E
Grid Square: JO03BP
Grid Reference TA 40174 19172
Grid Reference (6 figure) TA401191
WAB – TA41
What3Words app – twinkled.surgical.dorm
https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/
SSB FD – 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m – SSB only
Only one signal may be transmitted at any one time
A station may be contacted once on each band.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
SSB is always the last full weekend of October.
2024: October 26 – 27
This is the Clubs only closed event for members and Guests only
The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves on the last weekend of October (SSB) and November (CW) with the goal of making as many contacts with as many different DXCC entities and CQ Zones as possible.
https://www.cqww.com/rules.htm
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.