[UK-CONTEST] GB5HQ 10-11 July

[Dave Lawley]

Right! Now we've only got two 80m sessions left, this is a plea to 
contesters old and new to put those contesting skills to good use in the 
IARU Radiosport contest which takes place this coming weekend, 1200-1200UTC.

GB5HQ is the RSGB Headquarters station, which will be made up of twelve 
stations in ten different locations around the country, operating 
simultaneously on all band/mode slots 160-80-40-20-15-10, phone and CW.

We'd like lots of UK participation in this contest, and in particular 
we'd like as many Gs as possible to work GB5HQ on as many band/mode 
slots as possible. The aim for GB5HQ is to win the headquarters section: 
last year in our first serious attempt in this section, GB5HQ came a 
close second to the German national society DA0HQ, and the French 
station TM0HQ was not far behind. The Germans in particular get an 
incredible level of support from within their country, but with a 
comparable level from the UK we know we can beat them!

Please get in touch with your club members, not just the 80m CC 
operators, and ask them to support us. All ten sites (listed below) will 
be connected via the Internet to a central log server, using Writelog. 
This means that if you call us on one band/mode we should be able to let 
you know which other frequencies we're on at that moment.

There will be a *prize* of £10 RSGB book tokens for the first three 
stations to work us on all twelve band/modes. The same prize will also 
go to the first M3 to work us on ten band/modes. That's a tall order, 
but we believe it can be done.

In addition to the above, there is an award programme for working us on 
a minimum of three, six, nine or all twelve band/mode slots. Full 
details are on the web site  www.gb5hq.com.

The exchange in the contest is RS(T) and ITU zone - the UK is in zone 
27. HQ stations give their national society abbreviation instead of 
zone, so in our case it'll be 59(9)RSGB. Full rules are at 
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2004/iaru.html

I hope that all of you can spend some time in the contest, and that you 
will make sure to work the RSGB HQ station on as many slots as possible.

73, Dave Lawley G4BUO
GB5HQ Coordinator


Below is the list of station locations with WAB square in brackets, 
together with the list of operators at each station.

160m CW - Guernsey (WV27)  GU4YOX

160m SSB - Bexhill, East Sussex (TQ70)  G3UEG G3SVL G7TAJ

80m CW - Brough, West Yorkshire (SE82)  G3LZQ G4BYG G4ZVJ G3SJJ

80m SSB - Milton Keynes (SP83)  G4BJM M0BEW G0MTN M5RIC M0CMK

40m CW - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (TL67)  G4BWP G5LP

40m SSB - Montrose, Angus (NO76)  GM4AFF GM0GAV

20m CW - Woolacombe, Devon (SS44)  G3TXF G3SXW G3WVG

20m SSB - Martlesham, Suffolk (TM24)  G4PIQ G4CXT G0DVJ

15m CW - Penshurst, Kent (TS54)  G4BUO G0CKP G4TSH

15m SSB - Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset (ST35)  G6PZ G0WMW G4DRS M0CLW G3TJE

10m CW - Brough, West Yorkshire (SE82)  G3LZQ G4BYG G4ZVJ G3SJJ

10m SSB - Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset (ST35)  G6PZ G0WMW G4DRS M0CLW G3TJE