This coming weekend (February 11-12) will provide quite a few opportunities to test your contest skills in RTTY, CW and SSB.
The CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest is one of the most important in this mode and the hunting is on prefixes, rather than DXCC entities. This time time it’s even more fun when you consider that LOTW will Support CQ Awards.
So, don’t wait until the last moment to set up your station, rather consider setting up your macros in advance!
Contest Organizer: CQ Communications, Inc. (CQ)

Dates and times: February 11-12, 2012 Starts: 0000 GMT Saturday Ends: 2359 GMT Sunday
Bands: 3.5, 7, 14, 21, and 28 MHz
Contacts between stations on different continents are worth three (3) points on 28, 21, and 14 MHz and six (6) points on 7 and 3.5 MHz.
Contacts between stations on the same continent, but different countries, are worth two (2) points on 28, 21, and 14 MHz and four (4) points on 7 and 3.5 MHz.
Contacts between stations in the same country are worth one (1) point on 28, 21, and 14 MHz and two (2) points on 7 and 3.5 MHz.
The prefix multiplier is the number of valid prefixes worked. Each PREFIX is counted only once regardless of the band or number of times the same prefix is worked.

Logs in CABRILLO format should be sent to rtty@cqwpx.com NO LATER than March 1, 2012
See rules: http://www.cqwpxrtty.com/rules.htm

Not just RTTY, as we mentioned at the beginning of this article. We’ll also have the Dutch PACC Contest from Saturday 1200Z to Sunday 1200Z. Only QSOs with Dutch stations will count and the multipliers will be given for the Dutch provinces: GR, FR, DR, OV, GD, UT, NH, ZH, NB, LB, ZL, FL.

See the contest web site: http://pacc.veron.nl/

As far as Dxpeditions are concerned, we remind you that HU2DX will have gone QRT just before the weekend. The most remarkable operation during the weekend will be ZK2C from Niue. During the week, the team had to work with their Spiderbeams at only 10 feet high due to a hurricane warning. For this reason, they could not install the 75 meter and 160 meter antennas. The passage of the hurricane was expected around the middle of the current week and there should be no more problems by the time you read this. For updates, see http://zk2c.hkmann.de/?News

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Fabrizio is an SWL since 1978, without really feeling the need to get a license, even though he will probably end up getting it one day. He likes listening to rare DX's while sitting in a park with his little receiver and a fishing rod antenna. When there's nothing really rare around, he likes listening to rag-chewers from North America, Europe, Australia, etc.

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