[SMCARA] IARU Contest this Weekend

[Tom Shelton]

Hope to hear you on the air – This is a short (24 hour) contest, a lot of DX, short exchange, and becoming more popular.

Here’s the critical info:

Start: 1200 UTC Saturday (July 13 at 7:00 AM Local)
Ends: 1200 UTC Sunday (July 14 at 7:00 AM Local)

Phone, CW, or Mixed

160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands

Exchange: 
You send: RST and ITU Zone (08)
You receive: RST and ITU Zone – or – (from IARU member society HQ stations) RST and official IARU member society abbreviation (W1AW, NU1AW, R1, R2, R3, etc)

QSO Points: 
Contacts within your own ITU zone, as well as QSOs with any IARU-member society HQ station or IARU official (counting as the special multiplier), count one point each.
Contacts with a station in the same ITU zone but on a different continent count one point.
Contacts within your continent (but different ITU zone) count three points.
Contacts with a different continent and IARU zone count five points. 
Multipliers: The total number of ITU zones plus IARU member society HQ stations worked on each band (not mode). IARU officials represent a maximum of four multipliers per band (AC, R1, R2 and R3). 

Full Rules available here: http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship

Free and Easy Logging Program:
Genlog - http://www.qsl.net/w3km/

Free – but more difficult to use:
N1MM - http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php

The Software I use ($$$) - http://writelog.com/

If you need some help getting your station ready for the contest, or need some help submitting your log, contact me...

Tom Shelton, AB3IC
(240) 434-3811

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