[CW] International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend – ILLW

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend – ILLW

3rd Full Weekend in August since 1998

00.01UTC 18 August to 2400UTC 19 August 2018 (48 hours)

For some reason or other August seems to have become the international
weekend for lighthouses. Countries all over the world have become
involved in one for or another of lighthouse activity. Some years ago
the United States Congress declared August 7th as their National
Lighthouse Day and during that first week in August amateur radio
operators in America set up portable stations at lighthouses and
endeavour to make contact with each other. This event is known as the
US National Lighthouse Week.

In Britain the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, conducts
International Lighthouse Heritage Weekend on the 3rd full weekend in
August. Their objective is to encourage Lighthouse managers, keepers
and owners to open their lighthouse or lightstation and related
visitors centres to the public with a view to raising the profile of
lighthouses, lightvessels and other navigational aids, and preserving
our maritime heritage.

More on: https://illw.net/

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