[CQ-Contest] Getting Ready - Worked All Europe DX Contest CW

[DL8WPX]

Dear fellow contesters,

Next weekend, August 9/10th, the Worked All Europe DX Contest is finally
starting into its 54th season. The official rules and much more information
can be found in the Internet: http://waedc.de .

In 2008 we also commemorate the 60th anniversary of the "Worked All Europe"
award. A WAE Marathon will be held starting with the WAE DX Contest CW next
week and ending with the WAE DX Contest SSB in mid September. Please visit
http://wae60.de , where a lot more information is available.

Please be aware that in the context of this WAE60 Marathon Europeans might
be interested to work other Europeans too, which is unusual for the WAE DX
CW and SSB contests. These EU-EU QSOs are fully legal, of course, and
can/should be present in the WAEDC contest logs as well. While they will not
count as points for the contest score, they won't hurt either and will
certainly count for the special WAE60 award. Thus, if you are an European
and another European is calling you during the contest, don't get angry this
time - just work and log him and after a few seconds he is gone again.

Finally I hope to meet you on the bands during the contest.

Enjoy and be ready for the famous QTCs!

Best 73

de Joerg, DL8WPX
WAE DX Contest Manager
waedc-info at dxhf.darc.de