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GR2HQ
Challenge
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GR2HQ
Challenge
The “GR2HQ Challenge” is an Award Programme, organised by the RSGB
Contest Committee, encouraging all stations to work the UK's
Headquarter station GR2HQ during the “IARU HF Championship” contest,
which runs from 12:00 UTC Saturday 12 July to 12:00 UTC Sunday 13 July
2025.
Stations that wish to enter the GR2HQ Challenge do not need to upload a
log file.
Instead, stations must simply register on the RSGBCC website, up to
five days after the contest has finished, that is by 23:59UTC on Friday
18 July 2025.
The GR2HQ Challenge is open to Single-op and Multi-op stations.
Each station entering the GR2HQ Challenge scores points for working
GR2HQ on each of the twelve Band-Mode combinations,
160m-80m-40m-20m-15m-10m, CW or SSB, according to the points allocation
table below.
Certificates of Achievement will be available for all stations, and
those stations achieving high scores will receive Certificates of
Merit.
In addition, Clubs and other teams are invited to enter the “Teams
Competition”, with their score being the total of the individual scores
of all their team members.
Individual stations may identify their club or team name when
registering on the RSGBCC website.
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IARU
HF World Championship
The
IARU HF World Championship contest is organised by the ARRL, with
single-op and multi-op stations from across the globe working each
other for points and multipliers, and exchanging their ITU zone
numbers.
RSGB encourages individual stations to enter the IARU HF World
Championship, with those entrants sending their own log-entry to ARRL
for adjudication.
It is not necessary to enter the IARU Championship if you only wish to
enter the GR2HQ Challenge. See Section 6 (below) for details on how to
register an entry.
A unique element of this contest is that national organisations (such
as the RSGB) activate “Headquarters Stations” representing their
countries, competing against each other in a mini-league of HQ
Stations.
In the UK, the RSGB contest committee organises the HQ station,
actually a network of about a dozen or so stations around the UK and
islands, all using the call sign GR2HQ.
Each of the GR2HQ stations in this network is allocated one or more of
the twelve Band-Mode combinations, 160m-80m-40m-20m-15m-10m, CW or SSB,
throughout the 24hrs of the IARU HF World Championship.
Note, the 160m SSB and CW stations will only be QRV during the hours of
darkness.
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| 1.
Objective |
The
“GR2HQ Challenge” is an Award Programme, organised by the RSGB HF
Contest Committee, to recognise stations for working the UK's
Headquarter station GR2HQ during the “IARU HF Championship” contest.
We hope this award programme
will encourage you to make QSOs with GR2HQ
which will benefit the UK's HQ entry in the “IARU HF Championship”. |
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| 2. Date
& Time |
12:00
UTC Saturday
12th July to 12:00 UTC Sunday 13th July 2025
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3.
Frequency, Mode, Exchange
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Frequency: 1.8, 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz
Mode: CW and SSB
Exchange: RS(T) + ITU Zone Number
The Full rules of the IARU HF Championship are available on the ARRL
Contest website.
[ URL : https://contests.arrl.org/ContestRules/IARU-HF-Rules.pdf
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4.
Entrants and Sections
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a)
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Entrants are individual stations where a
single call sign has been used
in the IARU HF Championship contest. They may be a Single or
Multi-operator entry.
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b)
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Operators do not have to
be members of the RSGB.
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c)
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Clubs/Teams may be RSGB Affiliated
Societies or
may be other non-affiliated groups.
In the case of non-affiliated
groups please be sure to agree a unique name among your members; to
ensure this, we ask that you include the call sign of your group’s
coordinator in the name. (“Friends of G4FAL”, or whatever.) |
d)
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There is no limit to the number of
individual stations who can participate on behalf of a Club/Team.
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5. Scoring
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Scoring will be 1 or 2 points per
Band-Mode-slot as shown in the table below, with a maximum of 20 points
available.
GR2HQ Challenge - Points
Allocation
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160m
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80m
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40m
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20m
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15m
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10m
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SSB
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2
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1
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1
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2
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2
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2
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CW
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2
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1
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1
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2
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2
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2
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If a Club name or Team
name is included when uploading the log, the score from your entry will
also be added to the aggregate score for that Club or Team.
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6. Registering an
entry
for the GR2HQ Challenge
Opptional Log
Submission
to ARRL |
(a)
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In the GR2HQ Challenge, entrants do not
upload their logs.
An entrant's score will be calculated by the adjudicator who will
automatically search the GR2HQ log for all QSOs made by GR2HQ with the
entrant.
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(b)
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To enter the GR2HQ
Challenge, all entrants must register their entry on the RSGBCC website.
https://www.rsgbcc.org/gr2hq.lnk
Registering must be completed before 23:59 on Friday 18th July 2025.
When registering your entry, entrants may also nominate a club or team,
so that the score from your entry will also be added to the aggregate
score for that club or team.
You can check your registration here
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(c)
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You may choose to submit a log to the ARRL
as an entry for the IARU HF Championship
Details of log
submission are included in the ARRL Rules.
[ URL : https://contests.arrl.org/ContestRules/IARU-HF-Rules.pdf
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ARRL will adjudicate this contest.
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| 7. Results and Awards |
Results for the GR2HQ Challenge will be
displayed on the RSGB Contest website a few weeks after the contest:
• a table of Individual stations and their Awards
• a second table listing the aggregated scores of
Clubs and Teams.
Certificates of Achievement will be available for all stations.
Those stations achieving high scores will receive Certificates of Merit.
GR2HQ
Challenge - Merit Levels
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6-8
pts
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9-10
pts
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11-12 pts
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13-16 pts
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17-20 pts
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SSB
+ CW
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BRONZE
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SILVER
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GOLD
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PLATINUM
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SSB
only
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CHROME
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BRONZE
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CW
only
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CHROME
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BRONZE
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| 8. Declaration
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By
entering this contest you declare that:
(a)
Your station was operated strictly in accordance with the rules and
spirit of the contest, within the conditions of your licence, and that
the power output from your transmitter was no greater than that
permitted in the Section of the contest that you are entering.
(b)
By registering an entry, entrants give the RSGB permission to publish,
republish, print, and otherwise distribute that entry by any means. |
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9. RSGB Administrator
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Graham G0NBI
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Updated 4th June
2025
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