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2019 Trans Tasman Contest - VK4ADC - 13-07-2019
From text edition for JULY 14 2019 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/
Also in MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2019-07-14.mp3
HI This is Alan, VK4SN, Manager for the Trans Tasman Contest. This contest is to encourage Low Band Activity on 160, 80, or 40m in Australia and New Zealand.
This years Trans Tasman falls on Saturday night, the 20th of July, That's just less than a week away. At 0800z you can start calling CQ contest.
There are 3 x two hour blocks for you to chase contacts using SSB, CW, and RTTY or PSK.
Choose from Single operator with high, low, or QRP power. For Multi operator stations chose from Single Transmitter or Multi Transmitter.
Logging software used can be VKCL logger, or N1MM using UDCs from VK4SN.COM Both these loggers produce the cabrillo format accepted by the VK Log checker website, where the logs are uploaded to.
Good luck in the contest and hope to work many of you.
Alan VK4SN