Responding to many requests, the ARRL Programs and Services Committee this year accepted the Contest Advisory Committee (CAC) recommendation to add the Single-Operator Unlimited category to the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, ARRL 160 Meter Contest, RTTY Roundup, and the IARU HF Championship.
“This particular issue has been a long time coming,” said CAC Chairman Al Dewey, K0AD.
The new category permits th…
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ARRL 10 meter contest. My receiving conditions on Sunday afternoon. Some of the stations recorded on this video were: HD2A, PY2WB, PY2XC, CE4CT, PY2ESP, LU4V…
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A perennial favorite with many operators, the ARRL 10 Meter Contest is again poised to make a splash on the highest of the HF bands. Conditions on 10 already look much better than they were in 2012, according to early predictions. In fact, the recent CQ World Wide contests provided many operators with outstanding rates on 10, where the band was busy almost from end to end!
The 10 meter band, of …
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This weekend will feature especially high activity levels on Top Band, thanks to the ARRL 160 Meter Contest. This contest provides an excellent opportunity for any station, regardless of size, to make QSOs on 160 meters. A popular event each year, this CW-only contest brings out operators of all experience levels.
Multipliers in the contest are ARRL/RAC Sections and DXCC entities. Alaska (KL7) a…
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Here is an (obviously) unrehearsed excursion into 10 meter QRP. With about average solar conditions (WWV#’s=104/3/1), I turned the power down to 4 watts on my Elecraft K2 (to tribander @ 36ft), flipped on my web cam and commenced to do a bit of search and pounce during the ARRL 10 meter contest. Starting at the bottom of the band and tuning my way to 28.023, I worked 9 stations in N and S America in about 10 minutes.* NOTE*: As Jorge’s comment points out: I mistakenly gave CW5W’s call as “CW4W” – one of several errors in my video narrations – ’tis one of the drawbacks of posting unedited clips.. I have some nice keying fumbles as well, “WYSIWYG”.
Will it be possible to beat the 2011 running of the ARRL 10 Meter Contest? With more than 5300 logs received and worldwide openings last year, that may be a tall order. This past weekend during the CQ WW CW Contest, 10 meters was in great shape, despite a coronal mass ejection that hit on Friday evening. But according to ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, one thing’s for certain: Th…
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Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. Let your voice be heard!
Questions in this month’s QuickStats poll:
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