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[VHFcontesting] The August UHF Contest is ON

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Subject: [VHFcontesting] The August UHF Contest is ON
From: Wayne Overbeck via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Wayne Overbeck <woverbeck@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:34:45 +0000 (UTC)
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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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