[nrv-hams] /IARU suffix in a 20M contest this AM

[Russ Abbey]

Thanks Kay, just what we needed.  Also the link is perfect!  I have been
trying to find something all in one place for some time now.

73
Russ Abbey
KG4MAV

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Kay Craigie <n3kn at verizon.net> wrote:

> The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is composed of the world's
> national amateur radio societies, such as ARRL in the USA. IARU is the
> organization that lobbies for amateur radio spectrum privileges and
> otherwise speaks on behalf of amateur radio at the international level.
> Learn more about it at www.iaru.org.
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> IARU sponsors the annual 24-hour IARU HF World Championship contest every
> July. It's unique among major DX contests because it runs on both voice and
> CW on the same weekend. Everybody can work everybody (which is not true in
> most other DX contests), so you don't get barked at for calling other USA
> stations.
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> The IARU contest exchange (the info that has to be sent and logged
> accurately for the QSO to count) is a signal report and (for most
> operators)
> your International Telecommunications Union (ITU) zone. For the people on
> this mailing list, our ITU zone is 8.
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> IARU officials, who are all volunteers, send a signal report and the
> abbreviation for their position in the organization. National amateur radio
> societies' headquarters stations send a signal report and the abbreviation
> for their society's name. The IARU secretariat's callsign (NU1AW) sends a
> signal report and "IARU." This year, W1AW was operated by a group in
> California, so they were signing W1AW/6 and their exchange was 59 or 599
> ARRL. The secretariat operation was by a group in 5-land, so it was NU1AW/5
> and their exchange was 59 or 599 IARU. As just a regular person operator,
> my
> exchange would be 59 or 599 8.
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> When you call CQ in a contest, you often include something in the CQ that
> lets people know you are in a contest and not looking for a casual
> conversation. If I were calling CQ in this contest on CW, I might send
> something like CQ IARU CQ IARU DE N3KN N3KN. On voice I might say "CQ
> contest CQ contest CQ IARU contest this is N3KN N3KN contest."
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> A great web site for finding information about what contests are going on,
> including the expected exchange and rules about who can work whom, is at
> www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/.
>
> Contesting is not done on the 12, 17, and 30 meter bands, or on the 60
> meter
> channels, so if contesting isn't your cup of tea, one of those bands may be
> the place to go when a big contest is on the air.
>
> 73 - Kay N3KN
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