[NLRS] Fwd: [VHF] The 2016 UHF Contest is ON

[Chris Cox, N0UK]

FYI -it's back!

73 Chris Cox, N0UK
Chrisc at chris.org
chrisc at britishcaranddriver.com

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> From: "Overbeck, Wayne via VHF" <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>
> Date: March 23, 2016 at 09:30:23 CDT
> To: "vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu" <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>
> Subject: [VHF] The 2016 UHF Contest is ON
> Reply-To: "Overbeck, Wayne" <woverbeck at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>
> 
> 
> Please save August 6-7 for the 2016 August UHF Contest.
> It will be held as scheduled this year, but under new 
> sponsorship.
> 
> After ARRL announced that it would not sponsor the UHF 
> Contest in 2016, a group of radio amateurs from coast 
> to coast came together to make sure that the contest 
> does occur in 2016.
> 
> The sponsoring group includes the leaders of several large 
> VHF-oriented clubs, two volunteers who write contest results 
> articles for QST, the editor of the "World Above 50 MHz" 
> column in QST, two people with extensive computer 
> log-checking expertise, and others who are concerned about 
> the future of contesting on the amateur bands above 222 MHz.
> 
> This will be the 39th annual August UHF Contest.  We believe 
> continuity is important.  Even a one-year hiatus is not a good 
> idea for a contest that has shown an upswing in logs submitted for 
> several years in a row.
> 
> The new sponsors will try very hard to make the 2016 UHF Contest 
> a good one.  There will be gavels awarded to the top-scoring clubs 
> plus certificates for all division leaders.  We will try to publish the results 
> promptly and prominently online and in print.  In addition, the Northern 
> Lights Radio Society will again sponsor "Rovermania" and the limited 
> (three-band) rover award--both fixtures of the August contest.
> 
> We already have a website to promote the UHF Contest.  It includes a history 
> of the UHF Contest and a photo gallery of rovers in five different time 
> zones.
> 
> http://augustuhf.org     OR
> http://uhfcontest.org  (either domain name will get you there)
> 
> See you on the bands above 222 MHz on August 6-7, 2016 (1800z Saturday 
> until 1800z Sunday).
> 
> 73, Wayne Overbeck, N6NB
> 
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