Announcing the Digitalradio 7th Anniversary WAC Challenge/Award
Open to ALL radio amateurs. This May 11th, 2007, the digitalradio email group will be seven years old. We started May1th 2000. To mark this occasion we will be issuing a digital radio challenge, as follows. Your task : Work all continents in seven (7) different modes over a seven day period . Start : 0000 UTCMay 11th End : 2359 UTC May 17th Mimimum exchange = callsign and RST (or RO/RRR in FSK441 JT65) Bands: Any bands authorized by license class. Approved digital modes: PSK10, PSK110AM PSK31, PSK63 , PSK125 (QPSK is permitted but will not count as different "mode), 45 baud RTTY, ASCII, MFSK 8, MFSK 16 , Olivia (all variants count as one mode) , Dominoex (all speeds count as one mode) , Throb, ALE (including ALE FEC), SSTV /DSSTV, PAX 1 or 2) Chip 128/64, MT63, Packet 300,1200, or 9600 (count as one mode) . , Pactor 1, Amtor, FSK441, JT65, Contestia, RTTYM, Hell, Voice, DRM (WinDRM)., CCW (not plain old CW) . 27 different modes. ARRL rules on WAC will apply "The following information should be helpful in determining the continental area of a station located adjacent to a continental boundary. North America includes Greenland (OX) and Panama (HP). South America includes Trinidad & Tobago (9Y), Aruba (P4), Curacao & Bonaire (PJ2-4) and Easter Island (CE0). Oceania includes Minami Torishima (JD1), Philippines (DU), Eastern Malaysia (9M6-8) and Indonesia (YB). Asia includes Ogasawara Islands (JD1), Maldives (8Q), Socotra Island (7O), Abu Ail Island (J2/A), Cyprus (5B, ZC4), Eastern Turkey (TA2-9) and Georgia (4L). Europe includes the fourth and sixth call areas of Russia (R1-6), Istanbul (TA1), all Italian islands (I) and Azores (CU). Africa includes Ceuta & Melilla (EA9), Madeira (CT3), Gan Island (8Q), French Austral Territory (FT) and Heard Island (VK0)" Antarctica is not required. So, work WAC on seven separate modes. 42 QSOs in one week. Certificates to all that compete the challenge and submit a log to K3UK by May 31, 2007. -- Andy K3UK Owner. Digitalradio. 2746 subscribers
