Contest News – 10 July 2016

| July 8, 2016

This weekend, the IARU HF championships ends its 24 hour run at 1200UTC on Sunday, the 10th. Using CW and SSB on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands, the exchange is signal report and ITU Zone, which for the UK is 27. The UK has an HQ team entering, GR2HQ, and you can help by working them on as many bands as possible. You can ask any of the GR2HQ stations for the frequencies of the other stations, as they can all see on their logging software where the other stations are transmitting.

On Tuesday the 432MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

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

There are several contests taking place next weekend on the 17th. The Low Power Contest runs from 0900 to 1600UTC, using CW on the 3.5 to 7MHz bands. The exchange is signal report, serial number and power. The UK Microwave group contest runs from 0900 to 1700UTC using all bands from 24 to 248GHz. Using all modes the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Finally, the 70MHz trophy runs from 1000 to 1600UTC. Using all modes on 4m the exchange is signal report, serial number, locator and postcode.

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