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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">25th anniversary of 'Lighthouse Weekend'</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">International Lighthouse and Lightships Weekend</strong><span> </span>is happening this weekend, August 18-19th.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">ILLW is one of the largest operating events in the amateur radio calendar, with more than 400 lighthouse/lightship activations in 40 countries, and tens of thousands of amateur stations wanting to work them.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This year is the 25th anniversary of the event from which it all began. The very first 'Northern Lighthouse Weekend' was organised in 1993 by the Ayr Amateur Radio Group with activity from just 10 lighthouses in Scotland and the Isle of Man. But something about 'the romance of lighthouses' found a resonance with radio amateurs; the idea quickly spread world-wide and grew into ILLW as we know it today.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/39289350_1994776290545880_6792649181312843776_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=de6b637e1bba8ff8ee8b0b36854ad94f&oe=5C0FF357" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Sadly the Ayr Group no longer has access to Turnberry Lighthouse, but the<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Wigtownshire Amateur Radio Club</strong><span> </span>were one of the original 10 clubs involved, and are back at the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse with their original callsign<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">GB2LG</strong>. The Mull of Galloway is one of the best radio locations in the British Isles (check the photograph) so expect big signals mainly on 40m and 80m, with other bands as available.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">For further details, look up GB2LG on<span> </span><a href="http://www.qrz.com/db/gb2lg" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">QRZ.com</a><span> </span>and go to the main ILLW website at<span> </span><a href="https://illw.net/history" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">illw.net</a><span> </span>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Wigtownshire Amateur Radio Club<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.gm4riv.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://www.gm4riv.org/</a></p>
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