Contesting what is it?

A Radio contest is competition on the Amatuer radio frequencies, The General idea is make as many contacts as possible in a set period, We generally operate 24hr contests, however many of these also have a 6hr section.
We operate portable, by that we mean, we set the stations or staions up from scratch for the contests and normally use tents to house the station

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Click Here for Reports on our Previous Contests

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VHF

We mainly Operate VHF contests, these are scored on distance  from your station, you give your locator square, ours from Faversham, being JO01HL, you get back from a station there locator Square, The points you get are us-ally 1 point per km between stations, however some contests have multipliers, that differ this.

Equipment

We us-ally set up our arrays  on Trailer towers, ranging from 40-60ft, Mainly bigger antennas than most can use at home, We also operate QRO, with Linear amplifiers, to legal limit.
Logging is done by computer and we use digital voice keyers to save voice when calling CQ time after time