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Re: [VHFcontesting] NEW ARRL "222 MHz and Up Distance Contest" rules are

To: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] NEW ARRL "222 MHz and Up Distance Contest" rules are now on the ARRL web
From: Bart Jahnke <bjahnke@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:59:18 -0400
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Hi Peter,

Keep a head of steam going on your array!

Yes, the contest exchange is each station's 6-digit grid locator.

Like today, Rovers can recontact band stations worked earlier once
they move to a different 4-digit grid.

73 Bart W9JJ


On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Bart Jahnke <bjahnke@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please distribute widely:
>>
>> The new ARRL "222 MHz and Up Distance Contest" rules are now on the
>> ARRL Web at http://www.arrl.org/222-mhz-and-up-distance-contest
>>
>> The contest is held on the first full weekend of August, beginning at
>> 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 1800 UTC Sunday (August 5-6, 2017).
>
>
> If I'm very lucky, I'll have antennas for 1296 and 222 by then, now
> that I have transmitters.  :-)
>
> "A station in a specific grid locator may be contacted from the same
> location only once on each band, regardless of mode. " - Need to
> somehow make clear that "specific grid locator" is 6 characters long
> and not 4.  It *is* 6, right?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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