Hello Contesters!
The 48th WAE-DX-Contest is scheduled for the upcoming weekend, August
10/11 for the telegraphy portion. Operation is restricted to the
five classic HF bands from 10 to 80 meters. Exchange RST and serial
number. If you want to get serious, check out the rules, which are
published on the WAEDC Web site at http://www.waedc.de. Be sure to read
the chapter about QTC traffic.
There are minor changes in the rules in respect to previous years:
new DX multipliers for EU participants, a low power category, markup
of unassisted OPs, no more 10 minute QSY rule for Single OPs and
other little changes.
For the EU's:
Activities from some rare spots have been announced for the contest:
9Y4/DL5MAE, 5B4AGN, 9K9O, FR5FD, HS0/OZ1HET, JY9QJ, PJ2M, VP2V/N2WKS,
YB0ECT, ZL6QH and ZS4TX. Remember that at this time of the year,
stations in the southern hemisphere are enjoying good and quiet low band
propagation and so interesting QSOs can be made during WAEDC-CW with
South America, South Africa and Australia/New Zealand on the 80 m band.
For the non-EU's:
Several of the rare EU countries are expected to show up in this event.
Tune the bands and watch out for the 3A, C3, CU, GD, GJ, SV5, SV9, TK
and ZA stations! It is a good time to improve your DXCC totals. Join the
fun by sending QTCs back to EU stations. You don't need a big station
for this, everybody will want you even if you only have a tiny signal.
If you want to listen in on how QTCs traffic sounds, take a look at the
WAEDC Web site where some MP3 files of last year's QTC traffic are
available.
Last minute information is available on the WAEDC Web site
at http://www.waedc.de.
See you all during the weekend!
73 Ben, DL6RAI
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[] Bernhard (Ben) Buettner, DL6RAI - WAE-DX-Contest Manager
[] E-Mail: dl6rai@darc.de Phone: +49-89-943663 Fax: +49-89-943191
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