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Contest Introduction

Saturday May 6th 2017 - 10:00 -11:46 UTC

The Harry Angel Sprint is an annual 80m contest event, first established in 1999, to commemorate the life of Harry Angel VK4HA who at the time of his becoming a Silent Key was the oldest licensed amateur in Australia.

The duration of the contest is 106 minutes, one minute for each year of Harry's life.

The "HA" is held on or around the first Saturday in May each year and is open to all grades of licence holder. This contest is structured to suit both seasoned contesters and operators new to contesting.

There is also a section for Short Wave listeners to enter.

Place winners in the Harry Angel Contest are eligible to claim points for the WIA Contest Champion (Peter Brown) Trophy. See some details a( http://www.ozlogger.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=166 and http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/c...pionrules/ )

Aim Of The Contest

The aim of the competition is to make as many contacts as possible in the allotted time. Each station may be worked on one occasion only per mode.

SWLs may claim points for each station copied in any mode.

The contest is open to all listeners and amateurs licensed to use 80m, including individual operators and stations representing radio clubs and societies


Info at http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/harryangel/

For those who don't recognise the date, it is this weekend - yes, this Saturday night - so get your gear tuned up on 80 metres and jump in for 106 minutes of hard slog.

The VKCL logging software is available for download from http://www.mnds.com.au/vkcl/

Well the "Sprint" is over for another year. I think the highest number I heard exchanged was 77 but there could easily have been some higher numbers. There were even a few ZLs participating.

Where were the rest of the VK operators ??

From WIA News for 16 July 2017:

Harry Angel Memorial 80m Sprint Contest 2107 Results

 From Kevin Johnston VK4UH and Charlie Strong VK4YZ (Contest Managers) on  behalf of the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club and the WIA.

 The Harry Angel Sprint is an annual 80m contest event, first established in 1999, to commemorate the life of Harry Angel VK4HA who at the time of his  becoming a Silent Key was the oldest licensed amateur in Australia.

 The duration of the contest is 106 minutes, one minute for each year of Harry's  life. The 2017 HA Contest was run on May 6th this year.

 The contest is run across four sections:-  Phone, CW, Mixed and Short wave Listener.

 This year there were 54 entries received across all sections including  participants from all VK call areas except VK8 and also from ZL.

 There were four entries from F-call stations.

 Position holders in each category are awarded a commemorative certificate by the Redcliffe Group and points gained in the HA can be used towards an entry  in the annual Peter Brown WIA Contest Champion Trophy competition.

 Place winners in this year’s HA will be posted on the WIA website, under  CONTESTS and also in the AR Magazine.

 http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/harryangel/

 Participation in the 2017 contest was higher than ever guaranteeing the continuation of this event in future years.

 ( Kevin VK4UH )

NOTE : 2017 results not yet on the WIA website (as at 14/7/17)

Found purely by accident today that the results for 2017 are now out:

Certificate winners (*) 


CW Section. 

STEVE SALVIA VK7CW 48 *
SKIP HODGSON VK2ALR 42 *
KUND OLESEN-JENSEN VK2KJJ 38* 

MIXED Section 

WIA AGM station VK5WOW 105*
LAWRIE MEW VK5LJ 78* 
ALAN SHANNON VK4SN 75* 

PHONE Section 

CHRIS CARROLL VK2SR 79*
CHRIS PLATT VK5CP 74* 
ROB McKNIGHT VK2MT 72* 

SWL Section. 

MARCUS BERGLUND 61*
JOHN RAMSEY 27* 


2017 Results - full list

Congrats to all winners...