Contest News – 3 April 2016

The CW/SSB leg of the SPDX Contest ends its 24 hour run at 1500UTC today, the 3rd. Work Polish stations only, giving them a signal report and serial number. Expect a signal report and one of sixteen single-letter Province codes in return. There are a large number of categories, and certificates are on offer for the category winners in each DXCC entity.

The SSB leg of new contest, RoLo 1, which replaces RoPoCo, runs for 90 minutes this evening, the 3rd, starting at 1900UTC. The power limit for all entrants is 100W. Send a signal report plus, for your first QSO, your own full Locator. In subsequent QSOs you send the Locator you received in each of your previous QSOs. Even if you receive a Locator that is obviously corrupted, pass it on exactly as received. This contest is a qualifying event for the HF Championship. It is all about logging accuracy, and as long as you aren’t the person who introduces an error, you won’t lose points.

Also today, the First 70MHz contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes in the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

On Monday, the CW leg of the 80m Club Championships takes place from 1900 to 2030UTC. The exchange is the usual signal report and serial number.

On Tuesday, the 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

Wednesday sees the UK EI 80m CC, which runs from 2000 to 2100UTC. Using SSB only the exchange is your 4 character locator.

On Saturday the 9th, the International Sprint CW contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using the 3.5 to 14MHz bands the exchange is both callsigns, serial number and name.

On Sunday the 10th, the First 50MHz contest takes place from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode.

Also on the 10th, the UK Microwave Group 2nd Low Band contest takes place from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using the 1.3 to 3.4GHz bands the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

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