 The
2006 Monitoring Monthly Listening Contest - Listen & Win!
The first of what may well prove to be an annual event, the Monitoring
Monthly Listening Contest, will be held on Bank Holiday Monday, 29 May
2006. The event is organised by Monitoring Monthly in conjunction with
a day's operation of the magazine's amateur radio callsign M0NMO.
The magazine amateur station will be manned by MM Editor Kevin G3UNR,
Monitoring Monthly Operations Manager Clive G4SLU and various other keen
volunteers from the Dorset Police Amateur Radio Society (DPARS). The station
will operate from Dorset's famous Island of Portland at grid reference
SY700727.
M0NMO will commence operation at 0800UTC and finish at 1500UTC, the main
band used will be 40m on approximately 7.070MHz depending on QRM. It is
possible that the station will also be operating on other bands, this
will be mentioned on the day on the 40m frequency and on the Monitoring
Monthly website www.monitoringmonthly.co.uk.
The event station's objective is to work as many other stations as possible
so that entrants to the listening contest have as many logging opportunities
as possible. We welcome all licensed amateurs to work the event station.
The more contacts we make the better for the contest and it will be good
to contact readers on air. Every hour on the hour, starting at 0900UTC,
we will have a 10 minute window for M3 exclusive contacts to promote M3s
working M0NMO.
There will be an attractive and unique QSL card available for the day's
activity from the Portland location. To make things even more interesting
we will be located in the relatively rare WAB square SY77DOR*. This square's
rarity is due to most of the area being occupied by the sea. Full rules
are given on page 20 of the June issue of Monitoring Monthly
The overall winner of the Monitoring Monthly Listening contest will have
collected the most points based on the stations they have logged during
the seven hour operating period. All stations must have worked the Event
station M0NMO to be a valid logging. All reports must include the report
given to M0NMO and the serial number allocated by
M0NMO, if the contact is to be considered.
Please note that the event station will not be repeating their received
report from the station worked, so you'll have to listen carefully. There
will be several winning categories, including overall winner, best UK
place and best overseas place.
Come and join us on the 29th either on-air or in person and help make
it a day to remember! All stations worked during the day will receive
a special event QSL card.
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