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Ham Radio remembers a great warshipThe United Kingdom's H.M.S. Hood Association will be airing special event station GB2HA from November 4th to the 12th. This, in remembrance of the famous British battleship of World War 2. The HMS Hood was the pride of the British Naval Fleet at the start of the Second World War. She was destroyed in one of the most famous naval battles of all time. On 24th May 1941 in the Denmark Strait, the Hood and fellow Royal Navy warship the Prince of Wales took on German battleships Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen. The Hood was sunk in the ensuing battle and only three members of her 1,421 crew survived. The HMS Hood Association was set up in 1975. The GB2HA special event station has been aired every year since 1995. The frequencies being used this year are 40, 20 and 2m. The station's operator Malcolm Butler, G0LMD, plans to make contacts with radio amateurs both in the UK and world-wide. You can find out more about the Hood Association by taking your web browser
to www.hmshood.com Source: Amateur Radio Newsline, GB2RS
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