[CQ-Contest] First IARU HF Championship

[Steve London]

The first IARU contest was in 1977. It was 48 hours, and the ITU zones were
the multipliers. Single ops could only operate 36 hours.

Sometime in the 1980's the contest was shortened to 24 hours, and after
that, the HQ multipliers were added. The HQ multipliers became de facto
country multipliers, which resulted in major changes to the geographic
distribution of the top-10.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 6:56 PM JOHN GEIGER via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> I remember in the 80s it was called the IARU Radiosport, it was 48 hours
> long, and 6, 2m and 70cm was included.  HQ stations were not separate mults
> either.  Not sure when it changed to its current format.  It was in its
> current format by 1993.
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> 73 John AF5CC
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> ---- On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:56:58 -0500 list at ha3ln.hu wrote ----
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> Dear All,
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> Does anyone know when was the first IARU HF Championship organized?
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> Cannot find the year on the web.
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> Thanks a lot,
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> 73!
> Csaba HA3LN / HG3N
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