Ham Radio Amateur Radio Contesting

It was quite long time ago when a group of local operators, inspired by many visitors, started team contesting in the beautiful island of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean.

It is time again for the SP DX Contest, a one-country event with a long tradition. The first Polish International Amateur Radio competition took place in 1933.

I have always had a lot of respect for people who get together and build large antennas and share them with other radio fans. The spirit of collective Amateur Radio was spread all over Eastern Europe in the 50s and 60s of the previous century.

CQ WW DX CW Contest 2014 Raw scores

WRTC 2018 Organizing Committee announce Team Selection Criteria for WRTC 2018.

CQ WW DX SSB 2014 Raw Scores

As CQ Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, explained, "a large portion of the contesting community felt that we were unfairly denying our fellow amateurs in Crimea of the opportunity to fully participate in our contests.

Ice storm UA9BA station near Chelyabinsk city

A reminder that the HF bands will be alive with Oceania CW signals this coming weekend (11/12 October) in the 2014 Oceania DX CW contest.

WRTC Sanctioning Committee is very pleased to announce that the organization of World Radiosport Team Championship 2018 was granted to a German group consist of representatives of DARC, BCC and RRDXA.

This is not a typical HF contest, not like the hundreds of weekend events that block the bands with meaningless “five-nine” or “5NN”. This is a slower pace, geographically focused chase for stations in the long stretched State of California.

Gold Medals of WRTC 2014 is Awarded to home stations worked WRTC 2014 teams.

WRTC 2014 CW Skills Competation.

Final results WRTC 2014.

It is only one month left to the only official contesting world championship. This contest is unique and distinguishable from all other competitions by a few factors. All organisations in the world sponsor this event through the Union.