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 Bob Helms, AF5Z (lef) and Pete Brunet, WS4G, operate the station of Tom Whiteside, N5TW, during the 1999 ARRL International DX Contest. N5TW is one of six stations that will operate under the W1AW/5 call sign. The operating position at N5TW is designed for single-operator two-radio or multi-two contesting. Eleven rotor control boxes and seven antenna selection switch boxes control the antennas. |
NEWINGTON, CT, Jun 24, 2002--Maxim Memorial Station W1AW and International Amateur Radio Union club station NU1AW will be on the air during the IARU HF World Championship July 13-14. Both will count as "HQ" station multipliers for the event. W1AW will operate from Texas, while NU1AW will operate from Virginia for the event. ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ--who serves as IARU secretary and trustee for both call signs--said the NU1AW operation will mark the first time that call sign has been operated outside the first call district.
Six well-equipped Austin-area contest stations will sign W1AW/5 on 160 through 10 meters, CW and SSB. "We expect to have as many as 40 dedicated operators, mostly from the Central Texas DX & Contest Club, involved in this effort," said organizer Richard King K5NA. "We want to produce the best score ever done from the USA by any HQ station effort in the past and threaten, if not beat, the best of the European HQ stations."
The Soyuz Radiolyubitelei Rossii (SRR)--the Russian Amateur Radio Union--holds bragging rights for 2001. Using the call sign R3HQ, their operators finished with an IARU HQ station record score of 20,559,840. Former record holder, the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club's DA0HQ finished a strong second with a score of more than 17.1 million.
A map of the W1AW/5 station locations is available on the Central Texas DX & Contest Club Web site.
Two of Virginia's
premier contest stations--Bob Morris' W4MYA and Paul Hellenberg's K4JA--will
host IARU Headquarters Station NU1AW for the annual IARU event. NU1AW/4 also
will be active on CW and SSB on all six contest bands. Operators are affiliated
with the Potomac Valley Radio Club, Central Virginia Contest Club and the
Northern Neck Contest Club.
 The main tower at N5CQ is 195 feet of rotating Rohn 55G. The antennas are all Force 12s: three C-3s, three C-4s, a WARC-7, and a Magnum 280C. [Photo courtesy of CTDXCC] |
Certificates will be awarded to the high-scoring entry in each category in each ARRL section, each ITU zone and each DXCC entity as well as to the high-scoring IARU member society HQ station.
Achievement level awards will be issued to those making at least 250 QSOs or having a multiplier total of 50 or more. Additional awards may be made at the discretion of each country's IARU member society.
IARU HF World Championship Contest rules are available on ARRLWeb and in April 2002 QST, p 96.
World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC 2002) will run concurrently from locations in the vicinity of Helsinki, Finland. Contest Club Finland (CCF) and the Finnish Amateur Radio League (SRAL) are jointly hosting the event.
ARRL will handle
all QSL requests for W1AW/5 and NU1AW/4. QSL via ARRL or IARU, 225 Main St,
Newington, CT 06111.
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