The Geoparks communications weekend this year takes place on 26 and 27 May. South Eastern amateur radio group will again operate from Tankardstown on the Copper Coast Geopark in Co. Waterford. The callsign should be EI2GEO and activity will mainly be on HF.
GS5NB will be on the air from Ness Battery, Stromness, Orkney until 2000UTC on 21 May using the 10 through to 80m bands, operating SSB, CW RTTY and PSK. Run by Orkney Amateur Radio Club, it celebrates the official opening of this Scheduled Ancient Monument to the public after its restoration by Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership. QSL is direct only via GM0WED and LoTW. Full details are online at http://eu009.webplus.net and qrz.com.
Coventry Amateur Radio Society will put GB50CCC on the air on 23 May to 19 June for the Coventry Cathedral Celebration.
The Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society will run a special event station at the HMS Collingwood open day on 26 May. It is expected that the call sign GB6COD will be used again. The station will be operational on all amateur bands from 1.8 to 430MHz. The Society headquarters station will be open to the public from 0930 to 1800 on the day. A number of demonstrations will be taking place using amateur radio and amateur television.
GB60VUL will be on the air from ex RAF and USAF Greenham Common today, 20 May. On 25 May, the callsign will be on the air as part of the birthday weekend for XH558 at 211 Squadron ATC in Newbury. On the air until 27 May, there will be an open weekend with a Vulcan exhibition and the GB60VUL special event station.