{"id":11701,"date":"2023-05-04T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.g8srs.co.uk\/?page_id=11701"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:11:44","slug":"gb0dba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.g8srs.co.uk\/legacy\/gb0dba\/","title":{"rendered":"GB0DBA – Dambusters 80th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Station Information<\/em><\/strong>
Callsign: GB0DBA
IARU Locator: IO83WJ
WAB Square: SJ88
IOTA: EU-005
Email: gb0dba(at)g8srs.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location @ Address for correspondence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stockport Radio Society, Walthew House, 112 Shaw Heath, Stockport, SK2 6QS <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GB0DBA<\/em> <\/strong>was a special event station hosted by Stockport Radio Society (\u2018SRS\u2019) to commemorate the Dambusters Anniversary: 80 years since Operation Chastise, the legendary \u2018bouncing bomb\u2019 air mission of 16th and 17th May 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the night, 19 specially adapted Avro Lancaster bombers of the elite 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force undertook a daring low-level attack that successfully breached the Eder and M\u00f6hne dams in the Ruhr Valley, the heart of Nazi Germany\u2019s industrial production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QRV<\/em><\/strong>
The station was QRV on Sunday, 14 May 2023, and, again, during the evening of Tuesday, 16 May 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HF operations concentrated on 15, 20 and 40 metre bands, with SSB, CW and RTTY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VHF and up activities included FM, both simplex and through the GB3PZ & MR Repeaters, and SSB on 2 metres and 70 centimetres, as well as SSB operation through the QO-100 geostationary satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Operations<\/strong><\/em> (included)<\/p>\n\n\n\n