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The annual IARU Region 1 Amateur Television Contest takes place from 1800 UTC on Saturday 13 September until 1200 UTC on Sunday 14 September on all bands from 70 cm upwards. Stations are encouraged to participate, or just look for increased Amateur TV activity on these bands. Talkback is most likely to be found on 144.75 FM.
The rules of this contest can be found in the VHF Managers Handbook V5.11 (chapter 4.8 / page 99) at http://www.iaru-r1.org/VHF_Handbook_V5_11.pdf
Entrants are encouraged to use the draft IARU Log Sheet template here. Thanks to Stefan ON6TI for providing the template.
The results for March Repeater Contest and the Summer Fun Contest have been published on the results page. Congratulations to John, GW3JGA for winning the repeater contest, and to the Grimsby ATV Group for winning the Summer Fun.
The new Contest Calendar is on the web site, including all the dates for 2008.
The Contest Manager's address has changed to: Wg Cdr D G Crump, Mailbox Number ACT, BFPO 63, London. He can still be contacted on contests@batc.org.uk.
New e-mail alerting service. If you are planning to be active in one of the contests, and want to know who else might be on, please send an e-mail to contests@batc.org.uk, and I will circulate details of probable participants.