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We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
About
Contest Objective: To encourage W/VE stations to expand their knowledge of DX propagation on the HF and MF bands, improve operating skills, and improve station capability by creating a competition in which DX stations may only contact W/VE stations. One contest period is CW-only and one is Phone-only. Use only the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10-meter bands.
W/VE amateurs: Work as many DX stations in as many DXCC entities as possible.
DX stations: Work as many W/VE stations in as many of the 48 contiguous states and provinces as possible.
Dates:
CW: Third full weekend in February (February 18-19, 2023).
Phone: First full weekend in March (March 4-5, 2023).
Contest Period: Begins 0000 UTC Saturday and runs through 2359 UTC Sunday.
Contest rules are now maintained as a single downloadable document.
Click here for the complete ARRL International DX Contest Rules (PDF)
For the contest, information contact or (860) 594-0232
Exchange:
W/VE stations send a signal report and their state or province. (See the ARRL Contest Multipliers List for a list of abbreviations.) DX stations send a signal report and power as a number or abbreviation.
Multioperator Accommodations Extended for 2023:
ARRL has extended the temporary accommodations for multi-operator stations competing in the 2023 International ARRL DX Contest (CW and phone). Individual team members may operate from their home stations in conjunction with the multi-op station. The home stations must be within a radius of 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the multihop station and must be within the same DXCC entity, US State, or Canadian province. For more information, visit the link below.
www.arrl.org/news/guidelines-issued-for-arrl-dx-contest-multioperator-stations
Log Submission Deadline
Logs are due within SEVEN (7) days after the event is over. Logs may be submitted either online or via mail, but electronic Cabrillo logs are the preferred method. Electronic logs must be submitted via our web app at contest-log-submission.arrl.org/
Entries for the CW and Phone portions of the competition must be submitted separately and must be postmarked before their respective 7-day deadline.
Logs that have been submitted electronically are listed on the Logs Received page. Click the contest name to see a list of submitted logs sorted by call sign and club name.
Online Log Submission – Cabrillo formatted logs must be uploaded via our web app at contest-log-submission.arrl.org.
Submitting Paper Logs By Mail – Be sure to mail your completed Summary Sheet and Log Sheets (include a dupe sheet if over 500 QSOs) postmarked before the log submission deadlines.
CW Entry Forms:
For W/VE entrants: PDF file
For non-W/VE entrants: PDF file
Phone Entry Forms:
For W/VE entrants: PDF file
For non-W/VE entrants: PDF file
Send completed Summary Sheets and logs to:
ARRL – DX CW Contest, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111.
ARRL – DX SSB Contest, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111.
If submitting a paper log, it is strongly suggested you use a delivery method that offers a tracking number.
If you wish to convert your log into a Cabrillo formatted log for electronic submission, visit www.b4h.net/cabforms/ and select the event of interest. You can input your log data which will be converted to a Cabrillo formatted log for you (it will generate a log and return it to you), and then you can in turn submit your Cabrillo log online via the web app at contest-log-submission.arrl.org/.
Awards:
Certificates will be awarded in the top operator CW and Phone scores in each category in each DXCC entity and ARRL/RAC Section and Division. Printable certificates will be downloadable from contests.arrl.org/certificates.php.
All Overall and Division winners will be awarded a plaque (if sponsored) recognizing their efforts. Plaques are sponsored by individuals, groups, or clubs. For details on plaque sponsorship, contact the ARRL Contest Program at or (860) 594-0232.
Club Competition:
There are ten ARRL-sponsored contests that are designated as Affiliated Club Competitions (ACC) for ARRL and RAC-affiliated clubs:
– RTTY Roundup
– January VHF Contest
– International DX Contest
– International Digital Contest
– June VHF Contest
– 222 MHz and Up Distance Contest
– September VHF Contest
– November Sweepstakes
– 160-Meter Contest
– 10-Meter Contest
For full club competition rules, please see the link below:
Club Competition Rules ver 1.3 (rev 06 Jan 2023)
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
The Humber Fortress DX Amateur Radio Club is celebrating the Kings coronation from 6th may – 31th may, using the once in a lifetime call sign of GB0KCC
This is a historic event for the people of the UK, seeing the once Prince Charles, become King Charles the 3rd. Please give us a shout if you here us on the bands, and collect yourselves this once in a lifetime Special Call sign.
The HFDXARC is proud to host this unique collectable call sign, and we will be active throughout the month of May across all the HF bands.
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We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
The Club will be taking part in this event from our clubhouse the windmill.
National Mills Weekend 2023 in the UK will take place on Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th of May 2023.
More than 300 windmills and watermills would be usually open to the public to celebrate our milling heritage.
More Infomation can be found Here
https://www.ddars.net/mills.html
We meet almost every Friday night from 7:00 pm onwards at the Mill.
We welcome all that are in or looking to get into this wonderful hobby from far and wide and would invite any radio club/society to visit us!!.
The club has a satellite training centre for internal and external training to groups and society in the community.
please see contact details in the About menu at the top if you would like to visit us.
The Weekend of the 26th to the 29th of May run from HFDXARC HQ Event Using the Call Sign GB2HLS Humber Lifeboat Station
SOS Radio Week 2023: Raising awareness of the RNLI, independent lifeboats, & the NCI throughout May.
SOS Radio Week starts at 00:00 on the 1st of May and ends at 23:59 on the 31st of May every year.
Its objective is to raise awareness of the invaluable, and amazingly selfless,
work performed by the volunteers of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI),
independent lifeboats, and the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI).