Wayne, this is SO great.. Thank you for helping to make this happen. I will be
roving in Central Maine for sure..
It's funny, just before the news broke about the UHF contest I was composing an
email to the list about the "front seat 10 band rover rigs for "old guys""..
That whole thread sort of got gobbled up by the contest.. I'm going to find
that now and publish it to the list.. If only I can remember where it is (old
guy stuff I guess... hee hee..)
bill, K1DY (ex K1JDY, W3HQT, HK1TL)
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:34:45 +0000
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] The August UHF Contest is ON
> From: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
>
>
> Please save August 6-7 for the 2016 August UHF Contest.
> It will be held as scheduled this year, but under new
> sponsorship.
>
> After ARRL announced that it would not sponsor the UHF
> Contest in 2016, a group of radio amateurs from coast
> to coast came together to make sure that the contest
> does occur in 2016.
>
> The sponsoring group includes the leaders of several large
> VHF-oriented clubs, two volunteers who write contest results
> articles for QST, the editor of the "World Above 50 MHz"
> column in QST, two people with extensive computer
> log-checking expertise, and others who are concerned about
> the future of contesting on the amateur bands above 222 MHz.
>
> This will be the 39th annual August UHF Contest. We believe
> continuity is important. Even a one-year hiatus is not a good
> idea for a contest that has shown an upswing in logs submitted for
> several years in a row.
>
> The new sponsors will try very hard to make the 2016 UHF Contest
> a good one. There will be gavels awarded to the top-scoring clubs
> plus certificates for all division leaders. We will try to publish the
> results
> promptly and prominently online and in print. In addition, the Northern
> Lights Radio Society will again sponsor "Rovermania" and the limited
> (three-band) rover award--both fixtures of the August contest.
>
> We already have a website to promote the UHF Contest. It includes a history
> of the UHF Contest and a photo gallery of rovers in five different time
> zones.
>
> http://augustuhf.org OR
> http://uhfcontest.org (either domain name will get you there)
>
> See you on the bands above 222 MHz on August 6-7, 2016 (1800z Saturday
> until 1800z Sunday).
>
> 73, Wayne Overbeck, N6NB
>
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