First Iranian ham radio contest

To celebrate 37th anniversary of Iranian Islamic revolution, the first Iranian ham contest is going to be held on February 1st, 2016 and will last for 10 days.

Objective: To encourage and increase contacts (especially DX ones) with Iranian radio amateurs.

Dates:

Contest Period: 10 days (Feb 01, 00:00 UTC – Feb 11, 23:59 UTC)

All modes (CW, SSB, RTTY) can be used on this period.

Bands:

40, 20, 15 and 10 meters

Note: On 20m, the upper limit is 14.250 MHZ

Contact information:

For contest information and any sort of inquiries contact epcontest.2016@gmail.com

Certificates:

Certificates will be awarded to:

1- Top single operator (at least 30 contacts on all modes)

2- Top CW operator

3- Top SSB operator

4- Top RTTY operator

5- Any operator who contacts at least 3 Iranian hams

Getting QSL card:

If you need the printed certificate, you should send 5USD (or equivalent in your currency) to this address: “P.O. Box 14185-736 , Tehran, Iran”

Please use registered mail to make sure it delivers without problems.

WebMoney and Bitcoin are also accepted. (Contact us for more information)

Misc:

Iranian amateurs will use “/contest” at the end of their call sign for this contest.

The deadline for contacting us for certificate is 3 months after the contest.

List of Iranian participants:

EP2FM : Abdollah Sajjadian

EP3RB : Reza Batebi

EP3AG : Ali Ghanbari

EP2FA : Farman Aghdasi

EP2CM : Jamshid Mansoori

EP4HR : Hamid-Reza Rahimi

EP3MIR : Mohammad Mobini

EP3CQ : Ali Solh-Joo

EP2LMA : Mohammad Azimi

EP2LSH: Saeed Shokrollahi

EP2HZM : Hassan Zohoorian

EP2HEK : Hekmatollah Rahimi

EP5MKN : Majid Kiani Nejad

EP5ABD : Bagher Mir-Abdolhagh

EP7AHN : Hamed Nahrir

EP4KHA : Amin Kharadmehr

EP4MMM : Mohammad Mirab

EP2MA : Mohammad Ameli

EP2LSD : Sepehr Dalir

EP3EEE: Ehsan Esteki

Mehdi Asgari, the author of this post, is a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Mehdi lives in Tehran and is an active member of the EP2C amateur radio club.

Read more at:

http://swling.com/blog/2016/01/first-iranian-ham-radio-contest/

