Norfolk Amateur Radio Club organised this special event station at 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum over the weekend of 26th and 27th April 2025.
Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound were important humanitarian food drops to relieve the famine in Holland behind Nazi lines late in World War II. 20,000 people had died from starvation and 980,000 were malnourished and many had survived by eating pets and spoiled food. 2025 commemorates 80 years since these momentous operations by RAF and USAF personnel for the first time using aircraft bombers to drop desperately needed food aid.
Several groups of radio amateurs around the world marked this with special event stations and awards and in addition to GB80CHO near Diss in Norfolk and GB80MAN in Lincoln there were other special event stations also marking the event in Netherlands, Canada, United States, Poland and Australia.
GB80CHO logged 283 contacts over two days working on HF, VHF and DMR working from USA through most of Europe to Ukraine. More details can be found on QRZ.com
The Norfolk Amateur Radio Club station was set up and operated by the following radio amateurs over the weekend (in alphabetical order):
David G7URP • Gordon G3PXT • James M0UKS • Jason 2E0JIV • John 2E0TWQ
Kevin M0UJD • Les G0DFC • Mark G0TMT • Paul G4ZBA • Peter G4RAV
Peter M0RYB • Sonny M0SYW • Tammy M0TC • Wilson G6WQN
You can see some still images below or watch the video made by Jason 2E0JIV Here: https://youtu.be/IR7C1A_rCNw
www.norfolkamateurradio.org
Our sincere thanks to all those at 100th Bomb Command museum for making us so welcome. www.100bgmus.org.uk
