I remember during the Bicentennial year people were allowed to substitute A
for W, so I was AA2VIU then. Was in camp as a kid and don't remember if I
got back for the contest.
Best,
Barry WA2VIU
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Barry Jacobson
bdj@alum.mit.edu
WA2VIU
@bdj_phd
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 9:58 AM Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first 24-hour "IARU HF" was 1987. For 10 years before that, it was the
> "IARU Radiosport", allowing 36 of 48 hours as well as VHF activity to
> count.
>
> Quoting my brief history in my July 2023 CQ Contesting column:
>
> "The deep origins of this July contest can be traced to a one-off
> predecessor, the 1976 ARRL Bicentennial
> Celebration. This 48-hour event was held in late July 1976. It was hugely
> popular, with 2500 logs
> submitted; US stations celebrated their history by using as their exchange,
> a number corresponding to
> the order of their state’s entry into the union. There were no multipliers,
> but action was livened up by
> allowing contacts on both voice and another mode (most commonly CW, but
> also allowed were SSTV
> and RTTY.) US stations were encouraged to use their special bicentennial
> prefixes.
>
>
> From 1977 through 1986, the IARU Radiosport Championship continued the
> lively July contest tradition,
> settling down on the second weekend in July. Stations operated for up to 36
> hours of the 48 hour
> weekend and ITU zones were the exchange for all entrants. There were no
> multipliers, but DX activity
> was motivated by awarding 5 points for intercontinental QSOs, as opposed to
> just a single point for
> working stations in your own zone. VHF activity on both the 6 Meter and 2
> Meter bands was also
> allowed.
>
>
> A major revamp took place beginning in 1987. The new contest, called “The
> IARU HF World
> Championship”, began the current 24-hour period, and introduced not just
> ITU zones but IARU HQ
> stations as multipliers. The IARU HF contests was one of the last contests
> to include a category for
> assisted operators using telnet clusters for spotting, finally adopting the
> “Single Op Unlimited” category
> in 2015."
>
> Tim N3QE
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