Please save August 6-7 for the 2016 August UHF Contest.
It will be held as scheduled this year, but under new
sponsorship.
After ARRL announced that it would not sponsor the UHF
Contest in 2016, a group of radio amateurs from coast
to coast came together to make sure that the contest
does occur in 2016.
The sponsoring group includes the leaders of several large
VHF-oriented clubs, two volunteers who write contest results
articles for QST, the editor of the "World Above 50 MHz"
column in QST, two people with extensive computer
log-checking expertise, and others who are concerned about
the future of contesting on the amateur bands above 222 MHz.
This will be the 39th annual August UHF Contest. We believe
continuity is important. Even a one-year hiatus is not a good
idea for a contest that has shown an upswing in logs submitted for
several years in a row.
The new sponsors will try very hard to make the 2016 UHF Contest
a good one. There will be gavels awarded to the top-scoring clubs
plus certificates for all division leaders. We will try to publish the results
promptly and prominently online and in print. In addition, the Northern
Lights Radio Society will again sponsor "Rovermania" and the limited
(three-band) rover award--both fixtures of the August contest.
We already have a website to promote the UHF Contest. It includes a history
of the UHF Contest and a photo gallery of rovers in five different time
zones.
http://augustuhf.org OR
http://uhfcontest.org (either domain name will get you there)
See you on the bands above 222 MHz on August 6-7, 2016 (1800z Saturday
until 1800z Sunday).
73, Wayne Overbeck, N6NB
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