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British Isles Rambler Award (BIRA)

 


Complete Rules: https://gmff.uk/bira

The British Isles Rambler Award (BIRA) is a GMFF island award programme created to encourage amateur radio activity from and with the islands of the British Isles.

The British Isles are one of Europe’s most distinctive island regions, formed by the two great islands of Great Britain and Ireland together with a very large number of offshore, coastal, inhabited, uninhabited, tidal, and remote islands. From major population centres to isolated island communities, the region offers a wide and varied operating landscape for radio amateurs, combining history, geography, maritime character, and excellent opportunities for portable operation.

The BIRA programme brings together qualifying island references from all six GMFF British Isles island award programmes into one combined award structure. In addition, the mainland parts of Great Britain and Ireland are also included as special qualifying references for this programme.

Qualifying References

For the purpose of BIRA, qualifying contacts and activations are valid from the island references listed in the following six GMFF island award programmes:

In addition to the island references contained in those six programmes, the following two mainland references also count for BIRA:

  • GB-01 – Mainland Great Britain
  • IR-01 – Mainland Ireland

For award purposes, each qualifying reference counts once only, identified by its unique official reference.













































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