[W8MWA] Two BIG Contests coming up!

[Spence Graham]

The *Hiram Percy Maxim Birthday Celebration*
<http://www.arrl.org/hpm150-birthday-celebration> gets under way on
Saturday, August 31, and wraps up on Monday, September 8. The 9-day
operating event commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of ARRL
co-founder and first president Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW (HPM) — born on
September 2, 1869 — and is open to all radio amateurs. The objective is to
work as many participating stations as possible. W1AW and *all *ARRL
members will append “/150” to their call signs during this event (DX
operators who are ARRL members may operate as <*call sign*>/150, if
permitted by their country of license.)

Stations will exchange a signal report and *ARRL/RAC Section*
<http://www.arrl.org/contest-sections-list>. A total of 84 multipliers are
available. DX stations will send a signal report and “DX.” All Amateur
Radio bands except 60, 30, 17, and 12 meters are available. Contacts may be
made on CW, phone, and digital modes. Incentives are available for using
different modes, operating portable, and using social media, among others.
Logs will be scored, and downloadable certificates will be available.

An *announcement and complete rules*
<http://www.arrl.org/files/file/HPM150/HPM150-QST.pdf> also appear in the
September issue of *QST*, p. 86.


The inaugural *World Wide Digi DX Contest* <https://ww-digi.com/> is set
for August 31 – September 2, sponsored by the World Wide Radio Operators
Foundation (*WWROF* <http://www.wwrof.org/>), in collaboration with the
Slovenia Contest Club (*SCC* <http://lea.hamradio.si/scc/>). Sponsors hope
the WW Digi will become an annual event. The new contest will embrace the
use of both FT4 and FT8 protocols of the *WSTJ-X
<https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html>* version 2.1.0
software suite on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters.

Participants earn points based on the distance between grid square centers
of the two stations in a given contact. Each new two-character grid field
contacted on each band will be a multiplier. The final score will the
product of total contact points and grid *field* contacts. Single-operator
and multi-operator entries are welcome. Plaques will be awarded to top
scorers. Additional resources: “*Using DigiRite with WriteLog in the WW
Digi Contest* <https://www.rttycontesting.com/tutorials/writelog3/digirite/>”
and “*Operating WW Digi with N1MM+*
<https://www.rttycontesting.com/tutorials/n1mm/operating-ww-digi-with-n1mm/>
.”

-- 
73,

Spence

*Spencer W. Graham, II*
*WT8WV*
*73 Crosby Road*
*Morgantown, WV 26508*

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