This year sees the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic on the night of the 14-15 April 1912 To remember this tragic event the Amateur radio community put on special event amateur radio stations on both sides of the Atlantic to celebrate the night that wireless communication came of age. There was two radio officers on board the Titanic John (Jack) Philips he was the senior wireless operator he was 25 years of age. Harold Bride was  the junior Wireless operator He survived the sinking of the titanic and continued as a radio operator for a year or so in October 1913 he took two years unpaid leave then returned in  May 1915 on special duty at Leafield station and room 106. He resigned in May 1917 and died in 1956. Harold Cottom was the sole wireless operator on board the rescue ship Carppathia after the sinking of the Titanic he continued in service with the Marconi Company during 1915-18 for war service he did special duties under Lieutenant Round who was involved with the Admiralty on wireless direction finding Harold Cottam resigned from the company in December 1923 and died in 1984.

I worked the following special event stations:

CW

GR100MGY, DM100MGY, SK100MGY, PH100MGY.

SSB.

GB100MUC, GX1WOR, GB0WSL, GB100MWT, GB100GGM G3MPD, GB4T, GB1WSL, GB1HMGY, EI1MGY,EI100T, GI100MGY, TM5MGY, PC100T, OR100MGY, OT100MGY.

SSB: March 24-25, 2012 CW: May 26-27, 2012
Starts: 0000 UTC Saturday Ends: 2359 UTC Sunday
I. Objective: For amateurs world wide to contact as many amateurs and prefixes as possible during the contest period.
II. Period of Operation: 48 hours. Single Operator stations may operate 36 of the 48 hours – off times must be a minimum of 60 minutes during which no QSO is logged. Multi-operator stations may operate the full 48 hours.
III. Bands: Only the 1.8, 3.5, 7, 14, 21, and 28 MHz bands may be used. Observance of established band plans is strongly encouraged.
One of the advantages of a big contest weekend like this one is the simple fact that many big Gun station’s will be on the air with there Kilowatts of power and Elephant ear antenna’s that are set up to pick out the weekest of signals on the bands – fortunitly many of these types of stations are located in far away places (DX) The avarage UK amateur radio station can easly manage to make that much needed radio contact with the Big Gun’s making for a new country in the log.

In my Log:

40m Band.

S56X, 9A1A, S55T, OE3K, E7DX, K1ZR, KK1W,
HG1S, SP9LJD, YT8A, EE3T, 9A3DX, OH5Z, 9A2ZP,
DJ8OG, OL4A, 9A7A, 5D5A, DR7B, IQ2MM, VK7ZX,
IQ3PN, 7S0X, DQ8N, OZ5GX, DM4X, DR5N, GI0RQK,
OR1Z, IK3UNA/P1 DM4DX G6PZ.

20m Band.

Yl2BJ, S53M, IN3ZNR, 9A206B, 9A203B, 4O3A, 9A7A,
YT5A, SO2R, 9A1A, II5PT, IZ1NBX, US1, HG1S,
UT7QL, E74ACL, IZ2ACD, IQ1RY, UT7E.
15m Band.

R7FO, RF9C, YP8T, CS2C, YO3RU, 5B4KH, 6V7Z,
YO3CZW, RA5A, EE7Y, YU5A, YT5W, UA1CEI, OG6N,
YT5W, LZ2JA, YP3A, IT9AUH, LZ12FDAY, UU4JC, IR9Y,
LZ9W, ED92, 3V8BB, YO4RIU, II9K UU7J.

10m Band.

EU85DRK, EO4M, C4W, P3N, RL6M, RN3F, FY8DX,

RC3W, P33W, RY7G,

I woke early on Sunday morning I did not want to disturb Allison she had a busy enough time in the past two week ‘s visitng me in hospital So I got up and went into the shack. After morning prayer and bible reading which is my normal way to start to the day I got a cup of coffee and returned to the shack and had a listen on the bands at first I was checking to see if could hear PJ7PT Sint Marteen 2012 Dxpedition but propagation was not on my side I was going to have to conced to the fact that I was not going to work them – instead I took advantage of having some fun on 40m and 20m CW in the Russian DX contest I took my time and from time to time I checked to see if propagation had changed lifting PJ7PT out of the noise giving me the oppertunity to make that much needed contact. I also kept a listen out for 6Y0A and I did spend some time in the pile up calling him but was unable to make that much needed qso. I returned to the contest to give a few more points away.
In the log:

40M CW
SK3W , OG1M, SP9KDA, EF5Y, DJ1MM, ER3DX, RA3AW, S51F, TR3Y, 9A5Y, S52W, HB9EP, EU1A, DJ9DZ, OK7F, SN3R, 9A8A, LA3BO, DM8D, DP4M, SP2LNW, OK1HGC, LA9JA,

20M CW
RT5G, EF5Y, HA8VK,HA3NU, YL9W.

At 07:30am I changed to 80m SSB and joined the pre – WACRAL net then at 8am Victor G3JNB stepped in as net control and started the main WACRAL net on the net was:

G4FI, M0SMJ, G4YJW, G8CCD, MW0RHD, G4SMB, G3XNX, MW0LUK, G3TWS, 2E0TGF, G6CZQ, M3XIP, MW3VJN, G6ULN.

After Breakfast I returned back to bed where I stayed for the majority of the day.