Special Event Stations
Cray Valley Radio Society has organised many special event amateur radio stations throughout its history.
These range from small events like GB2CM for Railyways on the Air or Museums on the Air at Crossness Museum, to big stations like GB23C for the coronation of King Charles III, GB70E and GB50 for the platinum and diamond jubilees of Queen Elizabeth II, and 2O12L for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Radio amateurs or short-wave listeners working towards the Cray Valley Award certificate can clock up additional points by contacting Cray Valley RS special event stations. There’s a full list of applicable eligible special event callsigns on the Cray Valley Award page.
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GB8KW 2024
KW Weekend, which is an annual celebration of KW electronics – a local manufacturer of amateur radio equipment in the 50’s to 70’s – took place on the weekend of 6th and 7th of January 2024. Over the years, the event has grown, and this year there were no less than eight special event stations on the air for the KW weekend. Guy G0UKN organised the…
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GB2RE Jamboree On The Air 2023
In October 2023, Jamboree On the Air (JOTA) took place at Severndoog Castle, organised by the Scouts and Cray Valley Radio Society. CVRS ran four bases this year. Together with the normal HF, DF hunt and Morse-code bases, the club also ran Amateur TV for the first time. All proved very popular with the most popular, and the one that drew the most comments, being the…
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GB2CM Railways On The Air 2023
On the Sunday 24th September, Cray Valley Radio Society operated the special event station GB2CM at Crossness to celebrate Railways On The Air (ROTA). This year, ROTA coincided with a steaming day at Crossness when the Prince Consort Engine was in steam. The engine is the largest working rotary beam engine in the country. See https://www.crossness.org.uk/ GB2CM operated next to the engine shed at Crossness and the…
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GB23C Special Event Station
Celebrating the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla Cray Valley Radio Society organised a flagship amateur radio station GB23C located in the Monument Gardens of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. The site for the station was next to the historic sailing ship ‘Cutty Sark’. Club members operated the station around-the-clock once the radios, antennas an exhibition areas had been set up at…
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KW Weekend 2023
The club hosted the GB8KW special event station on 7th and 8th of January 2023 at the Cray Valley Club Shack. This annual event marks the anniversary of the founding of KW Electronics in the mid 1950s. Guy G0UKN brought together a range of vintage AM and SSB stations to celebrate the iconic KW Electronic brand of radio equipment made just down the road in Dartford until…
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GB70E Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee
GB70 was a series of amateur radio special event stations, celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. Cray Valley Radio Society worked with Burnham Beeches Radio Club to operate the GB70E station from Windsor Home Park on 2-6 June. Other RSGB affiliated clubs activated six other similar special event stations in other parts of the United Kingdom during the same period. The special event stations were located in…
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KW Weekend 2022
After the enforced scaling-back of GB8KW in 2021, the GB8KW special event was again run from the Cray Valley shack on 8-9 January 2022. Eight fully operational stations were on display, all using different KW models including all versions of the KW2000 (mk1 through to E). Most on-air activity was with the KW2000B+KW1000 combo, but the KW Atlanta and KW1000 was also used on 20 metres.…
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2O12L London Olympics
2O12L – Two Oscar One Two London – was the callsign of the London Flagship Amateur Radio Station celebrating the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. This unique amateur radio special event radio station was organised by Cray Valley RS and operated from the Royal Greenwich District Scouts Activity Centre in New Eltham, south-east London between 25th July and 9th September 2012. Eltham is in the…
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GB200T – Trafalgar
Trafalgar 200th Anniversary Celebration Following the successful large-scale special event stations M2000A and GB50, the Cray Valley RS team ran a third large event from 17 to 24 October 2005 to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. A single antenna mast was placed on the front lawn of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and supported antennas for 80m through to 70cm. It was…
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GB50 at Windsor Castle
Celebrating the Golden Jubilee with Amateur Radio GB50 ran from the 29th of May to the 9th of June 2002 in commeration of the Queens Golden Jubilee. Windsor Castle was the perfect location for this high profile, prestigious event. Not only did it celebrate a landmark in British history, it provided an opportunity to establish an amateur radio station that was of national and international importance…
