GB2RS Contest News
Contest News – 26 January 2014
The 24 hour BARTG RTTY Sprint HF contest comes to an end at noon today. Single band entries aren’t allowed and the contest exchange is serial number only. Also today, the 48 hour CQ WW 160m DX Contest comes to a close at 10pm tonight. Work the contiguous 48 States plus Canada only, giving a […]
Contest News – 19 January 2014
The 24 hour HA-DX contest concludes today at 1159 GMT. Operation is on contest bands from 160m to 10m on CW and SSB. The exchange is RST plus serial number from 001, and HA stations will send their county abbreviations. The RSGB 1.3GHz UKAC takes place on Tuesday 21 January from 2000-2230. Working all modes […]
Contest News 12 January 2014
The CW AFS takes place on Sunday 12th from 1400 to 1800UTC with the SSB event six days later on Saturday 18th at the same time. Because twilight occurs about half way through them, propagation at the end can be expected to be nothing like it is at the start. At the start signals from […]
Contest News 22 December 2013
The UK Six Metre Group Winter Marathon continues over the Christmas period, ending on 31 January 2014. It’s a 100% locator square chase, with no points for individual QSOs, but as well as normal QSOs you can claim the squares worked in other 6m contests over the period. The exchange is signal report and locator. […]
Contest News 15 December 2013
To promote activity on 6m during the winter, the UK Six Metre Group has introduced a new event to complement their Summer E’s Contest. Called the Winter Marathon, it will be held over a two-month period, commencing on 1 December 2013 and ending on 31 January 2014. It’s a 100 percent Locator square chase, with […]
Contest News 8 December 2013
The ARRL 160m Contest runs for 42 hours finishing at 1600UTC today, the 8th. This is a CW-only event in which you work the USA, US Territories and Canada only. The wording of the rules suggests that good frequencies to work on are 1830-1835kHz, but you are not limited to this 5kHz window. The exchange […]
