The half-way point for ILLW
The 100th entry in the 15th annual International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend is the Moritzburg Lighthouse, Germany.
It was built in 1770 next to a lake and miniature harbour for the King of Saxony for entertaining imitation naval battles.
Contest style station DM2C at a lighthouse expects to work CW, SSB and PSK31.
Each contact will receive a QSL card through the bureau.
With seven months to go Australia is in the lead accounting for a third of all entries so far, with Germany on 16, the USA 12 followed by England having nine.
Among the other early representatives are Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, France, Honduras, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Sweden and Wales.
Only a quarter of regular countries have joined at this stage and hundreds of entries are yet to be received.
It was a record last year with 470 entries including 19 Lightships and 55 countries involved. The International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend, a 48 hour fun event, is always on the third full weekend of August.
The founder of the annual event was Mike Dalrymple GM4SUC, who passed away in December 2005 and operated from Turnberry Lighthouse with the Ayr Amateur Radio Group.
Check out the availability of a lighthouse or lightship now and register it. For guidelines, an entry form and other full information about August the 18th and 19th this year visit the website illw.net
Jim Linton VK3PC
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