Updates and Announcements
This website will continue to be updated with news and information until the event.
In the meantime feel free to contact us with any questions
Organised by the International Bomber Command Centre Radio team, ( Lincolnshire Portable Radio Group ) Andy M0IYE, Rose 2E0RXO, Daron 2E0GFY, James M7GYP and the Plusscouts Radio team in the Netherlands Sander PD9HIX , Erwin PA3EFR.
With a huge amount of help from radio Clubs and individuals around the world. Nearly 100 people who have worked so hard to make this event possible. Huge thanks to them all!
Also many thanks to the Radio Amateurs of Canada and the Radio Society of Great Britain for all their help and support!
This event will be supported by AMRO operators mostly in Australia but also worldwide with their event on the 25th of April (ANZAC day) and the 26th and 27th of April. Details on their website.
Commemorating 80 years since
Operation Manna & Operation Chowhound
Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound were humanitarian food drops to relieve the famine in Holland behind Nazi lines late in World War two.
The Special Event
10 Teams of radio amateurs from locations all around the world will operate on HF , VHF and DMR Brandmeister Talk Groups unique to this event 98080, 980801, 980802, 980803. As well as providing activities to visitors from their locations. Please have a read of the website and get involved with this commemoration.
Listen in to the Stations on the Internet
The locations of teams operating in commemoration of events 80 years ago, include a station in the Netherlands at an Operation Manna / Chowhound Drop Zone.
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.
Plus Canadian, Australian, American, Polish and Dutch teams operating from their respective countries due to the international participation in operation Manna / Chowhound.
62 nationalities were part of Bomber Command in WW2 with Poland, Australia and Canada making massive contributions.
The teams will work on HF, VHF, and DMR Brandmeister talk groups 98080, 980801, 980802, and 980803. Many teams will run Digital modes and CW.
The 10 stations are free to paper or computer log, upload to QRZ / LoTW or not, take part in awards, QSL, in any way they choose so please see their QRZ page for more information.
This event is great chance to get your Children or Grandchildren on the air; many of our locations are running Children’s activities and getting Children to speak to other Children around the World.
Your children can participate from your station if you’re a radio amateur or from one of our locations if you can visit. Why not join in with your radio club and have a Children’s on-air day to commemorate this important operation in WW2 while teaching some History and Science. Check out our Children’s page.
Please check out our individual teams and who they are.
Any questions you can Email us or ask in our guest book here.
Time until the SES begins
About Operation Manna
History
Approximately 20,000 people behind Nazi lines in Holland had died through starvation, with a further 980,000 classed as malnourished. Desperation had lead to many having to survive by eating small animals including pets and tulip bulbs, some of which were poisonous.
In the final days of the war operation Manna / Chowhound was launched to help those people. The first ever use of air power in a humanitarian mission.
Some of the Stations
Latest News
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Thanks to Lincoln Shortwave Club for some great advertising
Lincoln Shortwave Club who are our Station at the former RAF Binbrook have been doing some great advertising for us hitting nearly every amateur radio group in the UK. Many thanks Team !
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Operation Manna trail for Children opens this Saturday at the International Bomber Command Centre
From this Saturday our Operation Manna Easter Trail will begin to celebrate the 80 year anniversary of the life-saving humanitarian food drops in the Netherlands. Join us at the IBCC and find the Op Manna crew members who have been placed at 5 drop zones replicating those in Holland in 1945 and see if you…
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BBMF Lancaster fly pasts at the IBCC.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight have announced that they will conduct Lancaster flypasts on three days during the operation of the GB80MAN station at the International Bomber Command Centre. The Lancaster will be over our station on the 26th and the 27th of April then again on May the 18th when we operate GB80MAN…