From the original post: https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/04/tomorrow-starts-mannachowhound-weekend.html
Operations Manna and Chowhound were lifesaving food drops to Northwest Holland 80 years ago, just prior to the end of World War Two. Over 20,000 people had died from starvation and a colder than normal winter. Allied pilots and support staff from the UK, the US, Canada, Poland, and Australia dropped over 7,000 tons of food behind enemy lines.
There are 10 special event stations operating in these countries Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. If you contact 4 or more, a special event certificate will be issued. Check QRZ.com for any of the following callsigns or Manna80.radio on the web where the stations’ current operating frequencies are available via HamAlert.
The UK
2. GB80MAN: International Bomber Command Centre
3. GB8MAN: Royal Air Force Station Binbrook
4. GB80CHO: 100th Bomb Group Museum in Thorpe Abbots
The United States
5. W4C: Boca Raton Amateur Radio Assn
Canada
6. VB7MAN: Surrey Amateur Radio Communications in Surrey, BC
7. VB6MAN: Calgary Amateur Radio Club at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta
8. VE1MAN: Pictou County ARC in Picton, Nova Scotia
Australia
9. VK80MAN: Bull Creek Aviation Heritage Centre Perth, Australia
Poland
10. SN80MAN: The SP5KAB Radio Club
We hope to make contact with you.
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Good morning Bas, I will be taking part in the UK/EI contest this weekend and I will keep an eye out on DX Heat for them.
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Mike
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Hello Mike, I hope you worked some of the stations. I think the whole special event was too short. I only heard 3 out of the 10 stations. Anyway, I hope they had fun. It was even on our national 8 O'Clock news on TV. 73, Bas
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