{"id":1812,"date":"2020-03-30T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:57:54","slug":"new-zealand-zl-to-use-of-zm-callsigns-during-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/new-zealand-zl-to-use-of-zm-callsigns-during-covid-19-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand (ZL) to use of ZM Callsigns during COVID-19 Lockdown&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<p>At the suggestion of\u00a0<strong>Paul, ZL4TT<\/strong>, we applied to Radio Spectrum Management for, and have been granted, approval to treat the COVID-19 lockdown period as a \u201cspecial event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This means that, for the duration of the lock down, New Zealand Amateurs may use the\u00a0<strong>ZM<\/strong>\u00a0prefix instead of the ZL prefix on their callsign.<br \/>\nPlease feel free to use these callsigns from today.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that the use of the ZM prefix will:<br \/>\n\u2022 help to relieve the boredom for amateurs stuck at home over the lockdown<br \/>\nperiod; and<br \/>\n\u2022 increase the profile of New Zealand amateurs (and New Zealand in general) overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe in your bubble.<br \/>\nRegards<br \/>\n<em><strong>Don ZL2TLL<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nNZART ALO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the suggestion of\u00a0Paul, ZL4TT, we applied to Radio Spectrum Management for, and have been granted, approval to treat the COVID-19 lockdown period as a \u201cspecial event.\u201d This means that, for the duration of the lock down, New Zealand Amateurs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/new-zealand-zl-to-use-of-zm-callsigns-during-covid-19-lockdown\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}