GR2HQ 2011 Awards   

       Congratulations to the following GR2HQ Award Winners for 2011 :

Congratulations to the Newbury and District ARS team on winning the 'Medium Club' Trophy :

Ian G3RVM, Andy G3SVD, Rob G4LMW, Andy G8MIA, Richard G3ZGC, Colin M0DDT, Bill M0TDW, Michael G0POT, Gus G3LLK

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2011 Awards information - there are two parallel GR2HQ awards schemes :

Important note : DEADLINE for all Award submissions is Sunday 31st July 2011

1.   UK HQ Club Challenge Award

This award is available once a year by participating in the IARU HF World Championship (July 9/10^th 2011)

The object of the UK HQ Club Challenge is for all members of radio clubs to produce a Combined Club score by working the UK headquarters station GR2HQ on as many bands/modes as possible during the IARU HF Championship 2011 contest. Stations wishing to enter the IARU contest can add their score to the overall club score.

Whilst stations are encouraged to work any station active in the IARU event, only QSOs with GR2HQ will count for the UK HQ Club Challenge. Stations with limited band or mode capability are encouraged to operate from either a friend’s station or their local club station, whichever is appropriate to maximise their club’s overall score.

 Date/Time :      1200UTC on Saturday 9th July 2011     until     1200UTC on Sunday 10th July 2011

 Bands :             160m to 10m - excluding WARC bands

 Modes :            CW and SSB

 Exchange :      RS(T) + ITU Zone    [ all of the UK is in ITU Zone 27 ]

 Sections:    1. Small Club or Group - up to three entries per club

                     2. Medium Club or Group - up to 9 entries per club

                     3. Large Club or Group - 10 or more entries per club

 Frequencies:   the usual HF contest frequencies – See the full IARU HF Championship contest rules at :

  http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship

 Scoring :  One point per contact with GR2HQ – up to a maximum of 12 points (6 bands x 2 modes) per club member.

 Entries:    One club member should collate all the individual club member’s entries and produce a summary sheet of all QSOs which must be in Cabrillo or Excel format and must include each member’s name and callsign and their club or group name to be valid. This summary sheet should be sent by e-mail ( awards@gr2hq.com ) to Stewart GW0ETF who will do the log checking by 31st July 2011 (3 weeks after the contest).    

Sorry - paper logs will not be accepted.

 Awards:   In each of the three sections listed above there are two UK HQ Club Challenge trophies which will be awarded to the club or group with the highest overall score in each of two geographical regions – the UK and Europe.

In the event of two or more clubs or groups having the same final points score, the group or club which achieves this score first during the 24 hours of the contest will be the winner.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Logging software - SD by EI5DI supports the IARU Contest and has a special feature to help you apply for GR2HQ awards.

If you use the free version (pre V15.00) of SD in the IARU Contest, you can get an updated version of SDCHECK that will help you to submit your entry to the UK HQ Club Challenge Award.  Download  www.ei5di.com/sd/sdcheck.zip  - it unzips to SDCHECK.EXE.

 If you are currently registered (you have a key file) for recent (non-free) versions of SD, you will already have an updated SDCHECK.

 When you choose the Cabrillo option in SDCHECK for the IARU Contest, you are offered the choice of ‘All QSOs’ or ‘HQ Challenge QSOs’ – this second option creates a Cabrillo file containing QSOs with GR2HQ only, which can then be e-mailed to whoever is collating your club entry.     (Thanks Paul EI5DI)

_____________________________________________________________________________

2.   Award Certificates for working GR2HQ

Individual stations that contact GR2HQ on up to 12 band/mode slots will also be eligible for a special certificate issued by the GR2HQ team.           

This is the 9th year that these award certificates have been available.

Bronze award certificate :        GR2HQ on three, four or five band/modes
Silver award certificate :          GR2HQ on six, seven or eight band/modes
Gold award certificate :            GR2HQ on nine, ten or eleven band/modes
Platinum award certificate :    GR2HQ on all twelve band/modes

The GR2HQ Awards are free, but your application must be made by e-mail, not by post.

Award certificate applications must your show your callsign and list all contacts with GR2HQ in date and time order with the band and mode clearly stated. Applications should be sent by e-mail to  awards@gr2hq.com  by 31st July 2011. Please include your full name. All applications will be acknowledged by e-mail.  

GR2HQ Award certificates will be sent out ELECTRONICALLY (as a PDF file) - for you to print at home - during August 2011.

=========================================================================================================================================