{"id":1937,"date":"2020-05-07T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:19:44","slug":"chinese-special-event-call-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/chinese-special-event-call-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Special Event Call Signs&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<p>Members of the\u00a0<strong>Chinese Radio Amateurs Club<\/strong>\u00a0(CRAC) will activate 10 special event callsigns (B0CRA &#8211; B9CRA) across their country making QSOs with amateur radio operators all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Operations will take place between 0000 UTC May 1st and 1200 UTC May 7th. QSL via BA1GG. Log search entry:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mulandxc.com\/crac\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/mulandxc.com\/crac\/view<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This activity\/event takes place every year. It started on May 5th, 1940, where Chinese amateur radio operators started an &#8220;On air conference&#8221;. On May 5th, 1947, the conference covered all the regions in China, it was the biggest on air event.<br \/>\nIn 1942 and 1944, there were 2 exhibitions associated with the &#8220;On air conference&#8221;. In recent years, the CRAC organized several events on May 5th every year and designated that day as a Chinese amateur radio festival, called &#8220;5.5 Festival&#8221;. Due to COVID-19, the CRAC called for all amateur radio operators &#8220;Stay Home&#8221; to fight for the Conoravirus situation. The 2020 &#8220;5.5 Festival&#8221; was shifted to the air waves.<\/p>\n<p>The CRAC provides special awards to whose who meet the criteria below.<br \/>\nAward application can be sent to (cq55@crac.org.cn); indicate your call- sign, award category and E-mail address to receive the award. The award application deadline is September 30th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Award Rules: The award has three categories Bronze, Silver and Golden, which will be measured by slots worked. One slots is a combination of a special callsign, band and mode. For example, worked B1CRA in 20m, SSB, model is 1 slot.<br \/>\nFor All Applicants:<br \/>\nBronze Award: 20 slots<br \/>\nSilver Award: 40 slots<br \/>\nGolden Award: 50 slots &#8212; Must consist of all 10 special callsigns<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">OPDX<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the\u00a0Chinese Radio Amateurs Club\u00a0(CRAC) will activate 10 special event callsigns (B0CRA &#8211; B9CRA) across their country making QSOs with amateur radio operators all over the world. Operations will take place between 0000 UTC May 1st and 1200 UTC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/chinese-special-event-call-signs\/\" 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-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}