Archive - May 2010

UK & IRELAND FLORA FAUNA

GREEN DAY WORLDWIDE AWARD (GDWW)

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You must work/hear/activate 20 WFF reference numbers, conditions below apply:-

1) Work/hear/activate 17 WFF reference numbers.

(All 17 contacts must be at a WFF location ).

AND

2) Work/hear/activate 3 WFF reference numbers

(All 3 must be worked/heard/activated on ‘Green Day‘ )

******All 20 of the contacts must be made in the same year as ‘Green Day’ occurs

(e.g’s – If the 3 ‘Green Day’ stations you are claiming are from
Green Day 2009 (13th June 2009)
then the other 17 contacts must also be made anytime during 2009,

If the 3 ‘Green Day’ stations you are claiming are from
Green Day 2010 (12th June 2010)
then the other 17 contacts must also be made at some point during 2010.)

Band / Mode endorsements on request

*** It is hoped that from 2011, a different GDWW Certificate will be available each Year ***

The Claimant does not have to produce Qsl Cards to claim the Award but all the contacts

must be shown in the log

search at http://www.ew4dx.org/WFFsearch.html .

(If you are not in the LogSearch and think you should be, please contact me by email).

The Award is free of charge but I do ask that the amount below is paid to cover cost

of postage and hard backed envelope :

€6.00 Euro

** If you wish to use IRC’s instead of the above, then the IRC’s

must be the ‘new’ IRC’s with Expiry 2013 (sample below).

Qsl information – click here

GR2HQ Log Search – click here

(GR2HQ status – see bottom of page)

History:

The UK Headquarters team will again be active in the IARU Championships this year (2010). This is the 8^th year that the team has taken part in the contest ‘nationwide’ using several calls over those years such as GB5HQ, GB7HQ and new for this year ‘’GR2HQ’’, a new and unique prefix. This year the team has expanded to include more than 60 experienced contest operators, operating simultaneously from 16 locations around the UK. The main 20M stations are in Northern Ireland and Orkney Islands. Other stations are on the Isle of Man, the Midlands, East Anglia, Wales and Somerset etc.

Who can work who? :

All UK Stations are encouraged to work other HQ stations and other IARU stations in addition to working the UK HQ station. The full rules of the IARU HF Championships can be found at www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship .

Qsl’s, Awards and Sponsorship:

GR2HQ team is sponsored by Martyn Lynch & Sons and Icom UK give their financial support towards the Website, Qsl printing and also the new Trophies that are available this year.

There are several Awards available again this year. This award is available to any licensed radio amateur who makes contacts with GR2HQ during the IARU HF World Championship contest on 10-11 July 2010 on a minimum number of bands/modes (maximum is 12 :
i.e. 6 on CW and 6 on SSB)

Bronze award: GR2HQ on three band/modes
Silver award: GR2HQ on six band/modes
Gold award: GR2HQ on nine band/modes
Platinum award: GR2HQ on all twelve band/modes

In addition to the usual paper awards, there are 3 new attractive trophies on offer for the ‘UK HQ Club Challenge’. This is for Clubs, groups or individuals to make a concerted effort to try and work GR2HQ on as many bands as possible. Details on Trophies will appear here in the coming weeks.

How to apply for the Awards:

http://www.gr2hq.com/awards1.htm

How to apply for the Qsl’s:

Qsl Cards for this year’s event are via me, Charles MØOXO. Please note, I am the Manager only for ‘GR2HQ’! All previous calls such as GB5HQ & GB7HQ must go via their original Manager (Qrz.com) and NOT by me. I have no Qsl Cards for the old callsigns so please do not ask me for them.

Qsl Cards can be applied for Direct or via the RSGB Bureau. To cut the bureau time in half, I encourage you to request the card via email.

Qsl requests info: click here.

Questions? Email me here.

73 de Charles MØOXO

Brace yourselves guys!

DARC (German Qsl Bureau) have just announced they intend to start playing ‘catch-up’ with the Qsl cards they have to send for their contest station ‘DR1A’.

They report ””But now, the time has finally come to send out those cards for the 100,000 QSO’s we made over the last years”.

Its happy days for all those Qsl Managers out there!

“A coronal mass ejection (CME) is heading for Earth and it could spark
geomagnetic storms when it arrives on May 27th or 28th” reports Spaceweather.com.

(click image to be directed to Spaceweather.com)

From the team’s spokesman –

We apologize to the world radioamateur community – for the reasons
independent of us, we are not able to carry out the expedition. On the 25th of May at 10 p.m. local time the engine of our ship “Southern Cross” fell out, when we were in 120 nm from Kanton Island.
The captain Paul Green decided to turn the ship and go back to the port of Apia, Samoa under sails. Such decision was determined by the fact that the entry to the Kanton`s cove without engines would be impossible and the repair of engine in the ocean is impossible too.

The way to Apia, Samoa will take approximately 8-10 days with favorable wind under sails. The food and water must suffice.Our main task at the moment is to come back safe to Apia.

(Click Logo above to be directed to their website).

June 2010 is the four year anniversary of the European PSK Club (EPC). Throughout June, EPC members will celebrate the occasion by being on air using a wide range of special call signs, each appropriate to their own particular Country but also sharing in the joint theme of the EPC event.

The Stations will be easily recognisable and prominent on the bands (many from the UK too!), the majority having the suffix ‘EPC’ but watch out for other variants such as ‘PSK’ and maybe more!
The list of the announced EPC Club & Special Event Stations which will be operating in honour of the 4th Anniversary of the European PSK Club from 1st to 30th June, 2010 is available just click on the picture to the left.
Thanks Jurij MM0DFV