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[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Is August now Lighthouse month ?

WIA news say Kevin VK2CE runs a great web page for the International
Lighthouse Lightship Weekend. The weekend is the 3rd full weekend in
August

On VK2CE's page we see that for some reason or other August seems to
have become the international weekend for lighthouses. Countries all
over the world have become involved in one or another of lighthouse
activity.

Some years ago the United States Congress declared August 7th as their
National Lighthouse Day and during that first week in August amateur
radio operators in America set up portable stations at lighthouses and
endeavour to make contact with each other. This event is known as the
US National Lighthouse Week.

In Britain the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, ALK, conducts
International Lighthouse Heritage Weekend on the 3rd full weekend in
August. Their objective is to encourage Lighthouse managers, keepers
and owners to open their lighthouse or lightstation and related
visitors centres to the public with a view to raising the profile of
lighthouses, lightvessels and other navigational aids, and preserving
their maritime heritage.

However, the major event which takes place in August is the
International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend, ILLW, which came into
being in 1998 as the Scottish Northern Lights Award run by the Ayr
Amateur Radio Group.

The ILLW takes place on the 3rd full weekend in August each year and
attracts over 500 lighthouse entries located in over 40 countries. It
is one of the most popular international amateur radio events in
existence probably because there are very few rules and it is not the
usual contest type event. It is also free and there are no prizes for
contacting large numbers of other stations. There is little doubt that
the month of August has become "Lighthouse Month" due largely to the
popularity and growth of the ILLW.

Fonte: https://illw.net/