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Contest Introduction
The contest has an aim to encourage Low Band activity Trans-Tasman that is between VK and ZL 
Only contest bands 160 80 and 40M are allowed SSB, CW and Digital (RTTY OR PSK) - No CROSS MODE OR CROSS BAND 

From 2018 the Trans Tasman is an official WIA Contest and will count towards the Peter Brown Contest Champion Awards. 

Aim Of The Contest
Work as many VK and ZL Prefixes and as many different stations on 160 80 and 40M in a short evening contest..

Timing
The contest is held on the Saturday night of the third full weekend of July, so the 21st July 2018.

Start Time is 08:00 UTC and finish time is 14:00 UTC 

Full details/Rules : http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/transtasman/

That web page also has links for 2017 Section Winners and Participation Certificates, soapbox comments etc.
Interesting reading..... (or should that be amusing reading ???)

Links repeated here:

2017 Winner Certificates
TT2017WinnerCertificates.pdf

2017 Participation Certificates
TT2017ParticipationCertificates.pdf

BUMP - only a few nights away now - it's this weekend.

Got your antennas for 160, 80 and 40 tuned and ready to go ?


Downloaded the latest versions of the logging software yet ??

http://www.mnds.com.au/vkcl/ 
-OR-
https://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php 

* The User Defined Contest (UDC)for N1MM is available for download from: http://vk4sn.com/downloads/VKTTRTTY.zip 


Radios in warm-up mode ?

Read the Rules beforehand ...

Without a doubt the best conditions in a Trans Tasman for years - Low noise and the bands were really alive.
Operated at VK4KW and had a great time. We were testing a new setup for the CQWW but got caught up in the action and ended up with a pretty good score.
The logging software allowed the results to be released quickly and promptly and overall it made for an enjoyable experience.
We had three radios to a variety of antenna - for 160 80 Verticals and inverted V and for 40M Four square and an inverted V All stations were networked and a fourth radio setup for CW RTTY that could move to anyone of the three bands.
Software was N1MM+