YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
The PEARS National VHF/UHF Contest will be run over two sessions from 17 to 19 January.
The first 22-hour session starts at 16:00 UTC on Friday 17 January and closes at 14:00 UTC on Saturday afternoon 18 January.
The second 22-hour session commences immediately after 14:00 UTC on Saturday and ends at 12:00 UTC on Sunday 19 January.
You can participate as a Base station, a Field station, a Club Multi-Operator station, a Rover station, a Limited station or a 144,400 MHz and 145,500 MHz FM station.
Activity using CW, SSB, FM and digital modes takes place on 6, 4 and 2 m, 70 and 23 cm.
All ZR, ZS and ZU amateurs may participate, as well as amateurs from the six neighbouring countries, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho and eSwatini and only contacts with these states will count.
The exchange is call signs, signal reports and the grid locator.
Separate log sheets are required for analogue and digital QSOs.
Your log sheet must indicate the category, your name and surname, call sign, locator en e-mail address. On the log sheet indicate the date, time, frequency, call sign of the station worked, signal reports received and the grid locator of the station worked.
Log sheets must be submitted to contest@peham.co.za by Friday 14 February.
The full set of rules are on page 23 of the 2020 Blue Book
