Upcoming World Radiosport Team Championship

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The World Radiosport Team Championship takes place between 12-16th July 2018.

This invitation-only event pits the world’s elite contesters against each other in two-person teams. To level the playing field, all the contesters use similar stations with similar antennas, all within a relatively small geographical operating area to ensure no-one is aided or disadvantaged by local propagation conditions.

More Information - http://www.wrtc2018.de

Canada Day Contest 2018

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This years Annual Canada Day Contest takes place on Sunday 1st July 2018, offering an invation to amateur radio operators around the world to celebrating the anniversary of Canada’s Confederation. Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC).

This event begins on 1st July at 0000 UTC (Saturday, June 30, in North American time zones) and continues until 2359 UTC. Available bands are 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, and 2 meter, on CW and phone. Suggested frequencies for CW are 25 kHz up from the band edge. Look for SSB activity centered on 1.850, 3.775, 7.075, 7.225, 14.175, 21.250, and 28.500 MHz.

Stations in Canada should send their signal report and province or territory. VE0s and stations outside Canada should send the signal report and serial number. Contacts with RAC official stations (RAC suffix) are worth 20 points.

A trophy is awarded for the highest single operator (no power classification), non-Canada participant.

Worked All WRTC Stations for World Radio Team Championship

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The World Radiosport Team Championship taking place over the weekend of 14-15th July 2018 in parallel to the IARU HF Championship, has announced a new award available to the 63 completing teams from identical sites south of Berlin.

The Worked All WRTC Stations (WAWRTC) award honours QSOs with all 63 stations. In order to apply for the award, one QSO with each station, regardless of band and mode, is needed.

For Europeans, 80 and 40 will likely be the best bands (+20m depending on propagation conditions). For DX operators from outside Europe 40 and 20m are probably the best bet. 

More Information - http://www.wrtc2018.de/