Contest News – 23 October 2016

| October 21, 2016

The UKEICC DX contest ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC on Sunday, the 23rd. Using CW and SSB on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, RST, serial number and district code form the exchange.

On Tuesday the 50MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

Also on Tuesday, the SHF UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using the 2.3 to 10GHz bands the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

On Wednesday the UK EI CC takes place on 80m between 2000 and 21000UTC. It’s CW only and the exchange is your four character locator, for example IO93.

On Thursday, the 80m Club Sprint contest runs from 1900 to 2000UTC. SSB only, the exchange is serial number and name.

Next weekend is one of the big contests, the CQ World Wide DX SSB. Running from 0000UTC on the 29th to 2359UTC on the 30th, it’s SSB only on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands. The exchange is signal report and zone, which for the UK is 14.

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