SA Contest News

The Durban Amateur Radio Club Midwinter 80 metre Sprint will be run on Wednesday 4 July 2007 starting at 19:00 CAT and ending at 20:00 CAT. It is a phone and CW/PSK sprint and the exchange is a RS or RST report and your age, ladies may use 21.

Contacts with stations in the same ZS call area or Southern African country is worth 2 points and contacts with stations in different ZS call areas or Southern African countries are worth 4 points.

Log sheets must be sent by e-mail to zs5lp@sharksden.co.za or by snail mail to
The Durban Amateur Radio Club,
17 Brownlee Place, Bluff, Durban, 4052.

On Sunday 22 July, the Boland ARC 40 Metre Contest will be on the air from 15:00 to 18:00 CAT.

The SARL HF Phone Contest will be run on Sunday 5 August 2007.

Provisional Contest Results:

The 80 Metre QSO Party Contest Committee has notified SARL News that the name of Jan, ZS1VDV, must be added to the results of the April leg of the 80 Metre QSO Party.
Jan made 480 points which places him in second place with the East Rand ARC.

There was a typing error in the English results of the SARL Hamnet Contest. For the Single Operator Stationary Mobile category, Theunis, ZS2EC, and not Barry as reported took the second place. The results in the Afrikaans version are correct.