First Iranian ham radio contest
To celebrate 37th anniversary of Iranian Islamic revolution, the first Iranian ham contest is going to be held on February 1st, 2016 and will last for 10 days.
Objective: To encourage and increase contacts (especially DX ones) with Iranian radio amateurs.
Dates:
Contest Period: 10 days (Feb 01, 00:00 UTC - Feb 11, 23:59 UTC)
All modes (CW, SSB, RTTY) can be used on this period.
Bands:
40, 20, 15 and 10 meters
Note: On 20m, the upper limit is 14.250 MHZ
Contact information:
For contest information and any sort of inquiries contact epcontest.2016@gmail.com
Certificates:
Certificates will be awarded to:
1- Top single operator (at least 30 contacts on all modes)
2- Top CW operator
3- Top SSB operator
4- Top RTTY operator
5- Any operator who contacts at least 3 Iranian hams
Getting QSL card:
If you need the printed certificate, you should send 5USD (or equivalent in your currency) to this address: "P.O. Box 14185-736 , Tehran, Iran"
Please use registered mail to make sure it delivers without problems.
WebMoney and Bitcoin are also accepted. (Contact us for more information)
Misc:
Iranian amateurs will use "/contest" at the end of their call sign for this contest.
The deadline for contacting us for certificate is 3 months after the contest.
List of Iranian participants:
- EP2FM : Abdollah Sajjadian
- EP3RB : Reza Batebi
- EP3AG : Ali Ghanbari
- EP2FA : Farman Aghdasi
- EP2CM : Jamshid Mansoori
- EP4HR : Hamid-Reza Rahimi
- EP3MIR : Mohammad Mobini
- EP3CQ : Ali Solh-Joo
- EP2LMA : Mohammad Azimi
- EP2LSH: Saeed Shokrollahi
- EP2HZM : Hassan Zohoorian
- EP2HEK : Hekmatollah Rahimi
- EP5MKN : Majid Kiani Nejad
- EP5ABD : Bagher Mir-Abdolhagh
- EP7AHN : Hamed Nahrir
- EP4KHA : Amin Kharadmehr
- EP4MMM : Mohammad Mirab
- EP2MA : Mohammad Ameli
- EP2LSD : Sepehr Dalir
- EP3EEE: Ehsan Esteki
Mehdi Asgari, the author of this post, is a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Mehdi lives in Tehran and is an active member of the EP2C amateur radio club.