Make Your Voice Heard During the ARRL International DX Contest (Phone)!

The SSB weekend of the ARRL International DX Contest http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx is March 1-2 (UTC), and the DX will belooking for you! In this major event on the radiosport calendar,operators in the US and Canada work stations everywhere else in theworld. It's not only an opportunity to pit your station and operatingskills against those of your peers but to expand your knowledge ofpropagation on the HF and MF bands and tweak your contesting skills.

W/VE amateurs work as many DX stations in as many DXCC entities aspossible on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters, while DX stations workas many US and Canadian stations in as many of the 48 contiguous USstates and Canadian provinces as possible. US and Canadian stationssend a signal report and their state or province abbreviation. DXstations send a signal report and output power.

There are entry categories for individual operators and multioperatorteams as well as a choice of power levels in each category, from QRP tofull legal limit.

There's a place for Big Guns, Little Pistols and everyone in between inthis contest. The excitement and enthusiasm levels will be high, andit's a terrific opportunity to boost DXCC totals too.

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The ARRL Letter