On Thursday 21st March 2024 at 11:00 UTC, Nick HB9DDZ a radio amateur from Switzerland made contact with Richard G4TGJ/P a radio amateur from West Yorkshire near Leeds who was operating from the Yorkshire Dales National Park (GFF-0020) on the 10m amateur radio band.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park (GFF-0020), is a protected area of 218,642 hectares largely in the county of North Yorkshire in northern England. It was designated as an English National Park in 1954 and is an IUCN Management Category V area..
An IUCN Management Category V area is a lived-in working landscape, where the interaction of people with the natural landscape has resulted in a landscape with significant biological, ecological and scenic value.
Parks, Misc, Nature - Scenic
Links: en.wikipedia.org, www.protectedplanet.net, www.cqgma.org
By: Mike_bjm