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Special Event Station PA80HGV |
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| Sponsor: | none |
| Start date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2025 |
| End date: | Saturday, May 10, 2025 |
| Closest town: | Hoogeveen (Provence of Drenthe) The Netherlands |
| Directions to location: | -- |
| Opening times: | 24 hrs |
| Cost: | -- |
| Talk-in frequency: | -- |
| Description: | PA80HGV is the call that will be used between April 1st and May 10 2025 on the occasion of the commemorations in the context of 80 years of freedom. Various members of the A26 Hoogeveen department will be qrv on various bands and with various modes. It is possible that connections will be made simultaneously with this call on multiple frequencies. In the first week of April 1945, the Canadian and Polish army advanced from the province of Overijssel to the south of Drenthe towards Groningen and then towards Leer, Bremen and further into northern Germany. |
| For more info: | The Canadian liberators were part of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. For a detailed description of the advance from Ommen to Hoogeveen, the diary of this unit contains three detailed pages of the fighting. Pages 11,12, 13. https://blackwatchwardiary.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/april-1945-diary.pdf |
| Email contact: | pa3jd@veron.nl |
| Webpage: | https://www.qrz.com/db/PA80HGV |
| Date updated: | 2025-03-11 20:32:31 |
| Author: | Joop van der Does (PA3JD) |
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