When registering and setting up your Station Location, be sure your TQSL Station Location includes your Grid Square!Įvery new grid square contact confirmed through LoTW counts toward your monthly total, so you have an incentive to start the chase as soon as you ring in the New Year. If you are not currently registered with Logbook of The World, this is a good reason to get started. The objective of the ARRL International Grid Chase is simple: Work stations in as many grid squares as possible and upload your log data to ARRL's Logbook of The World (LoTW). But at 0000 UTC on January 1, 2018, the global Amateur Radio community came alive with the exchange of grid squares.įor more information on grid squares see Unless you are a VHF enthusiast, this nugget of information may not mean much. They're all part of a geographic location system adopted in the 1980s at a meeting of the VHF Working Group in Maidenhead, England. The entire world is divided into thousands of these 1° latitude × 2° longitude squares, each one with a unique designation. You may not know this, but your station is in a Maidenhead grid square. The ARRL International Grid Chase is underway! Join in on our newest year-long operating event!īart Jahnke, W9JJ, ARRL Contest Branch Manager Announcement | Rules | Facebook Group | Event Score Data
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