[nrv-hams] ARRL 10 meter contest this weekend

[Russ Abbey]

Thanks Kay!
I will be there either at the house or on the mobile.  I just got my
screwdriver set up in the mobile, so that should be fun.  Everyone have
fun, that is what it is all about.

73
Russ Abbey
KG4MAV



On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Kay Craigie <n3kn at verizon.net> wrote:

> The ARRL 10 meter contest begins at 0000 UTC Saturday, December 10, and
> ends
> at 2359 UTC  on Sunday, December 11.  In our local time, that's 7 PM
> Friday,
> December 9, to 6:59 PM on Sunday, December 11. Full info about the event is
> posted at http://www.arrl.org/10-meter.
>
> Ten meters was dead for years but has come back to life, and you can work
> the world on 100 watts and a simple antenna. In this contest, you can use
> SSB, CW, or both. If you work a station on phone, you can work the same
> station again on CW. Ten meters is mainly a daylight band but you may be
> able to work some stations after our local sunset.
>
> You can work stations in the USA and in all other countries. You can even
> work maritime mobile stations (they'll give their callsign plus /MM - for
> example, N3KN/MM).
>
> The exchange (what you say and what the other stations will say to you) is
> as follows.
>
> Stations in the USA (including Alaska and Hawaii) send a signal report  (59
> on phone, 599 on CW) and our state. I would send 59 Virginia on phone and
> 599 VA on CW.
>
> Stations in Mexico send a signal report and their state (there's a list of
> their state abbreviations on the ARRL web site).
>
> Stations on shipboard send a signal report and their International
> Telecommunications Union (ITU) Region: R1, R2, or R3.
>
> All other stations send a signal report and a serial number.
>
> If you're operating just for fun, you don't really need to write down the
> whole exchange that you receive, but (a) it's interesting to know what to
> expect to hear and (b) if you try logging the exchanges on paper, you'll
> get
> a sense of what contesting was like before we had computer programs for
> contest logging.
>
> Have fun! 73 - Kay N3KN
>
>
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