[OZ-CONTEST] IT'S TIME FOR AZORES NINE ISLANDS HUNT LOTTERY DRAW

[Jan Thogersen]

PRESS RELEASE, OCTOBER,12. 2012 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

*IT'S TIME FOR AZORES NINE ISLANDS HUNT LOTTERY DRAW * 

A lottery draw for two free travel packages to the Azores will take 
place at DARC Headquarters in Kassel, Germany at 1100 UTC on 
October 15, 2012 and the winners will be announced immediately 
hereafter at www.visitazores.com\a9ihunt 

You can also join the lottery anywhere in the world and listen/watch 
as it happens with the instructions below. 

Azores Nine Islands Hunt organizers and sponsors are thrilled at the 
amount of emails received from all continents congratulating them on a 
well implemented project, leading Amateur Radio to new horizons while 
drawing on the hunt & gather urge of our great community to get all 
aboard a project of this unique nature. No one at 1200 UTC on September 
29 expected that more than 9000 hams from all continents would dedicate 
all their efforts to make the project a success. All contest organizers 
would be pleased with a similar result. 

Additionally, the hunt proved that Amateur Radio is a valuable resource 
in emergency communications as the nine islands operators demonstrated 
their skills in professional station building and effective traffic 
handling in need. The emergency exercise was run on 7099 kHz one hour 
prior to the official starting bell for the nine islands hunt. The 
organizers and the Azores Civil Protection thank the ARRL for supporting 
this dimension with their best resources and experience. 

A total of 1542 amateurs contacted five or more of the nine islands, 
resulting in 11.404 lottery tickets for first round. Additionally, the 
twenty-five (25) amateurs who contacted all nine islands fastest will 
participate in a second lottery. These twenty-five represent 12 
different countries and include three stations from USA. 

Totally 551 stations contacted all islands and they will be honored with 
a personalized special Award of Merit. Full-color QSL cards featuring 
each island will be released through the QSL bureau network while direct 
requests can be mailed to Jose Melo, CU2CE. 

Here is your lock-in details for the ceremony; 
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/653398466 (Meeting ID: 653-398-466) 

Note to attendees: 
Please connect in good time for the draw. There is software to install before you can use the meeting service, provided by GoToMeeting, and you should allow plenty of time for this. On some PCs, it will be a matter of seconds, but we have seen 
PCs spending 15 minutes getting the prerequisite components in place. The draw will not wait for late attendees! 

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