First person in space - Special Event Station R45G

Members from the radio club station RK3DZB at the Cosmonauts Traning Center (QTH - Zvyozdny Gorodok 'Star-City') will activate the special callsign R45G from 0600z, on April 10th until April 16th.

Activity is to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first flight of a person in space. The Russian Cosmonaut Jury Alekseevich Gagarin on the spacecraft, 'Vostok-1', made the first historical manned flight into space on April 12th, 1961. He orbited the earth for 108 minutes.

Club members plan to be active on CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31, MFSK16 and SSTV on the HF bands. The equipment to be used are: an IC-756 ProII (2 piece), FT-990, ACOM-2000A and TL-922A. The operators mentioned are: Vladimir/UA3DKR (SSB, SSTV, PSK31, RTTY), Paul/RU3DNN (SSB, SSTV, PSK31, RTTY, MFSK16), Andrey/RV3FF (CW) and Sergey/RV3DSA (SSB).

The information on the frequencies will be spread on the DXClusters; watch for spots from RK3DZB.

QSL ONLY direct via RW6HS to: Vasil M. Kasyanenko, P.O. Box "0", Novopavlovsk, Stavropolsky kr., 357300, Russia.
NO QSLs via the Bureau.

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