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Major VHF/UHF ContestsMid January, Full WeekendARRL VHF Sweepstakes

Early March, Full WeekendARRL International DX Contest Phone

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Early April, Spring Sprint–432 MHz

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Mid June, Full Weekend, SMIRK 6 meter QSO Party

Mid/Late June, Full WeekendARRL Field Day

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Early August, Full Weekend ARRL UHF Contest

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Icom Grid Square Tips:1. Say your grid square location when operating on VHF & UHF bands.

2. Many portable GPS receivers can read out Maidenhead* grid squares automatically.

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4. Give your general location along with your grid square.

5. Have fun on VHF & UHF!*An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in 1980), a grid square measures 1° latitude by 2° longitude and measures approximately 70 x 100 miles in the continental US. A grid square is indicated by two letters (the field) and two numbers (the square).. “ From ARRL source: http://www.arrl.org/locate/gridinfo.html

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**All maps except Hawaii use an Albers Equal Area Projection. The map of Hawaii is based on the grid square map information from ARRL.

U.S. Grid Square Map Maidenhead