<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone</div></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Overbeck, Wayne via VHF" <vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu> </div><div>Date:03/23/2016 10:30 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu </div><div>Subject: [VHF] The 2016 UHF Contest is ON </div><div><br></div><br>Please save August 6-7 for the 2016 August UHF Contest.<br>It will be held as scheduled this year, but under new <br>sponsorship.<br><br>After ARRL announced that it would not sponsor the UHF <br>Contest in 2016, a group of radio amateurs from coast <br>to coast came together to make sure that the contest <br>does occur in 2016.<br><br>The sponsoring group includes the leaders of several large <br>VHF-oriented clubs, two volunteers who write contest results <br>articles for QST, the editor of the "World Above 50 MHz" <br>column in QST, two people with extensive computer <br>log-checking expertise, and others who are concerned about <br>the future of contesting on the amateur bands above 222 MHz.<br><br>This will be the 39th annual August UHF Contest. We believe <br>continuity is important. Even a one-year hiatus is not a good <br>idea for a contest that has shown an upswing in logs submitted for <br>several years in a row.<br><br>The new sponsors will try very hard to make the 2016 UHF Contest <br>a good one. There will be gavels awarded to the top-scoring clubs <br>plus certificates for all division leaders. We will try to publish the results <br>promptly and prominently online and in print. In addition, the Northern <br>Lights Radio Society will again sponsor "Rovermania" and the limited <br>(three-band) rover award--both fixtures of the August contest.<br><br>We already have a website to promote the UHF Contest. It includes a history <br>of the UHF Contest and a photo gallery of rovers in five different time <br>zones.<br> <br>http://augustuhf.org OR<br>http://uhfcontest.org (either domain name will get you there)<br><br>See you on the bands above 222 MHz on August 6-7, 2016 (1800z Saturday <br>until 1800z Sunday).<br><br>73, Wayne Overbeck, N6NB<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>VHF mailing list<br>VHF@w6yx.stanford.edu<br>https://w6yx.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/vhf<br></body>