[South Florida DX Association] ARRL 10 Meter Contest

[Norman Alexander]

From the ARRL Contest Update:

Be sure to update your logging software to handle the ARRL 10 Meter
Contest's new XE multipliers. Here are the earliest versions of
several popular programs that fully support the new multipliers
including correct output format:
N1MM - version 10.11.2
Writelog - version 10.77
Win-Test - version 4.7.0
CT - user group's instructions
NA - user group's instructions
TRLog - version 6.96
TR4W - version 4.231
SD - version 15.25
N3FJP - version 3.1

Ken WM5R emphasizes that you need to help get new folks (and other
casual HF contesters) interested in playing along this weekend. "Talk
up the contest with your friends. Post something to your local club
and mention the new XE multipliers. Grupo DXXE's reference sheet for
Mexican multipliers can be downloaded and remember that in addition to
the XA-XI prefix block, Mexico is also assigned prefixes in the ranges
4A-4C and 6D-6J." Hector XE2K/AD6D says that DXXE is also encouraging
operators to activate the rare and semi-rare states - you can get an
idea of who to look for in the online activity page. Now if we can
just get some propagation!

Here is the list of Mexican states and the abbreviations to use for
logging them in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest: (from Rule 5.2.3 of the
contest rules) Aguascalientes (AGS), Baja California (BAC), Baja
California Sur (BCS), Campeche (CAM), Chiapas (CHI), Chihuahua (CHH),
Coahuila (COA), Colima (COL), Distrito Federal (DF or DFE), Durango
(DGO), Estado de México (EMX), Guanajuato (GTO), Guerrero (GRO),
Hidalgo (HGO), Jalisco (JAL), Michoacán (MIC), Morelos (MOR), Nayarit
(NAY), Nuevo León (NLE), Oaxaca (OAX), Puebla (PUE), Querétaro (QRO),
Quintana Roo (QUI), San Luis Potosí (SLP), Sinaloa (SIN), Sonora
(SON), Tabasco (TAB), Tamaulipas (TAM), Tlaxcala (TLX), Veracruz
(VER), Yucatán (YUC), Zacatecas (ZAC).