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Operation Manna 80
3 February 2025 | by A very special, special event station
SARC has been asked to participate in a large-scale special event late in April commemorating the relief efforts of the winter of 1944-45 to drop tons of food to the starving population of NW Holland. It is well described at: Operation Manna @ 80 and in the video https://youtu.be/0PwhYFdzY_Q. Amateur stations from the drop zones in Holland, air force bases in Britain, plus the Allied forces that provided aircraft and pilots, including the UK, Canada, The US, Poland and Australia will be represented by special event stations in those countries.
Three UK Teams, one at the International Bomber Command Centre, another at former RAF Binbrook (an Operation Manna Airfield in the UK) and another at the 100th Bomb Group Museum Thorpe Abbots representing the US operation Chowhound from a former Chowhound airfield.
The national Radio Scouting team (Plusscouts PA3EFR/J) will be operating from an Operation Manna drop zone near The Hague, The Netherlands. Read on for further details on this team and their radio station location at The Team in the Netherlands – Operation Manna @ 80
The stations will be active April 25-27 (Friday through Sunday) using variations of the xx80MAN callsign. Here in Canada, we will be applying for VE80MAN.
Children and youth activities will also be included and there will be activity on HF, DMR and VHF
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There will be a full article in the next Communicator (March 1st)
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My father as a young boy lived close to the field in The Hague where these dropping took place. He also remembers his mother, my grandma, going on a bike to the very east of the Netherlands to buy food from the farmers there, being away for 4-5-6 days in the middle of a war.
25,26,27 April, coincides with ANZAC day, and AMRO weekend.
AMRO is: Australian Military Radio Operators’ weekend, and is
along with ANZAC day 25th, being a continuation of ANZAC radio events,
The dates are the same as the special event Operation Manna ,so we are joining
up to make this more fun for operators, and I have some work to do …
The AMRO website will be linking back to this website, and showing
respect to the 80th for operation Manna, such that you may wish to look for
many many WW2 and other AM or CW stations with prefix: AX for the 25th,
and VK for the 26th and 27th of April 2025.
Just google ANDREW VK5WT and click on the AMRO link . The AMRO 2024 old
webpage is soon to be replaced with the 2025 version. Keep the link,
and stay connected to Australia and some information
See you on the air… Andrew VK5WT, Adelaide, South Australia. 12 March 2025.