PEARS VHF Contest to inspire contacts between divisions
The PEARS National VHF/UHF Contest will take place on 20-22 January 2012 and will feature SSB, CW, FM and digital modes.
The first session commences on Friday at 18:00 CAT until Saturday at 16:00 CAT.
The second starts immediately thereafter and ends on Sunday at 14:00 CAT.
The main objective for the PEARS National VHF/UHF contest this year will be to inspire VHF contacts between the divisions in the RSA and promote VHF activity. They wish to appeal to all the Radio Clubs in the RSA to encourage field and base stations in their area for this VHF contest and make it successful. This can also result in a special competition between Club stations country-wide.
The main long distance contest frequencies are on 50,200 MHz SSB and 144,200 MHz SSB. In recent contests weaker distant stations have been drowned out by strong local stations and long conversations.
To avoid this problem in the future, VHF stations are kindly requested to work all local stations, which are within 100 km from them, on the FM contest channels of 50,400 MHz and 144,400 MHz where they can compare notes and have short chats. If the SSB contest frequency is occupied then QSY 5 or 10 kHz higher in frequency.
Wishing you good luck and help to make it a real national VHF contest.
PEARS website
http://www.zs2pe.co.za/
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