One Million Kilometres on 2 Metres
FM
The Chair of Colchester
Radio Amateurs James MØZZO thinks there is a need for
a new challenge on two metres, so he has come up with this:
One Million Kilometres on 2 Metres FM
The Award.
A certificate and stickers will be available to mark certain total
distances achieved in QSO's. Initially a certificate will be awarded
to an amateur making QSO's totalling 5,000 Kilometres.
Stickers to update the certificate will be awarded at 25,000, 50,000,
100,000, 250,000 and 500,000 Kilometres.
A fresh certificate will be issued at 1,000,000 Kilometres. Additionally,
two annual awards are offered for the furthest distance in a year
claimed by (1) a CRA Member and (2) a non-member.
The Rules.
Rules will be kept to the barest minimum, as it is more important
that people look at the spirit of this award rather than the detail.
1 All contacts must be made in the FM simplex section of the band
plan which for the UK is 145.200-145.600 MHz.
2 Contacts must be direct station to station. Repeater contacts
including satellite do not count towards the award. Moonbounce,
meteor scatter, etc are also excluded.
3 Multiple contacts with the same station count only with 6 calendar
months in between.
4 Only contacts made on or after 1st January 2006 can count towards
an award.
5 All contacts must be made from the registered address of the Station.
6 Maidenhead locators should be exchanged during each QSO. If this
is not possible then enough detail should be exchanged to allow
later calculation of the Locator.
Measurements.
Distances will be based on the Maidenhead locator system as used
in VHF contests. A spreadsheet for calculating the distances will
be available soon.
In the UK an OS grid Reference can be converted to a Maidenhead
Locator using the spreadsheet provided for the logging of this award.
Go to www.streetmap.co.uk
where there is a facility for converting a point on a map (post
code or street name) to an OS Grid reference, so it should always
be possible to ascertain the locator of a given station.
The purpose of this challenge is to promote activity on the Two
Metre FM Simplex Channels from home based stations. It is open to
all licensed radio amateurs worldwide and there is a small charge
for the awards- profits go to the local
Hospice.
Additional info from James MØZZO.
Email: james@mcginty.net
Tel: 07785 933 309
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