About
Contest Objective: To support amateur self-training in radiocommunications including improving amateur operating skills, conducting technical investigations, and intercommunicating with other amateurs around the world, especially IARU member society headquarters stations, using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands.
Dates: The second full weekend of July (July 13-14, 2024).
Contest Period: Begins 1200 UTC Saturday and runs through 1159 UTC Sunday. Both Single and Multioperator stations may operate the entire 24-hour period.
Click here for the complete IARU HF World Championship Rules (PDF)
For contest information contact contests@arrl.org or (860) 594-0232
Exchange:
IARU member society HQ stations, such as W1AW, send signal report and official IARU member society abbreviation as listed on the IARU website at https://www.iaru.org/reference/member-societies/. IARU International Secretariat club station NU1AW counts as a HQ station, and sends "IARU". Members of the IARU Administrative Council and the three IARU regional Executive committees send “AC,” “R1,” ”R2,” and “R3” as appropriate.
All others send signal report and ITU zone.
Log Submission Deadline
Logs are due within SEVEN (7) days after the event is over. Logs may be submitted either online or via mail, but electronic Cabrillo logs are the preferred method. Electronic logs must be submitted via our web app at contest-log-submission.arrl.org/
Logs that have been submitted electronically are listed on the Logs Received page. Click the contest name to see a list of submitted logs sorted by call sign and club name.
Online Log Submission - Cabrillo formatted logs must be uploaded via our web app at contest-log-submission.arrl.org.
Submitting Paper Logs By Mail - Be sure to mail your completed Summary Sheet and Log Sheets (include a dupe sheet if over 500 QSOs) postmarked before the log submission deadline to: IARU HF Contest Logs c/o IARU International Secretariat, Box 310905, Newington, CT 06111-0905 USA.
IARU HF Summary Sheet: PDF file
Log Sheet: PDF file
If submitting a paper log, it is strongly suggested you use a delivery method that offers a tracking number.
If you wish to convert your log into a Cabrillo formatted log for electronic submission, visit www.b4h.net/cabforms/ and select the event of interest. You can input your log data which will be converted to a Cabrillo formatted log for you (it will generate a log and return it to you), and then you can in turn submit your Cabrillo log online via the web app at contest-log-submission.arrl.org/.
Awards:
Certificates will be awarded to the high scoring entry in each category in each ITU zone, each DXCC country and each ARRL Section.
Certificates of participation will be awarded to all IARU member society HQ stations. Achievement level awards will be issued to those making at least 250 QSOs or having a multiplier total of 75 or more.
Printable certificates will be downloadable from contests.arrl.org/certificates.php.
Additional awards may be made at the discretion of each country’s IARU member society.
Additional Information
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ITU Zone Borders for the US and Canada
ITU Zone Prefix Location
06 W-K-N-A U.S.A. (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, & that part of Montana, Utah & Arizona west of 110 Deg. W.) 07 W-K-N-A U.S.A. (N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, that part of Utah & Arizona East of 110 Deg. W., & that part of Michigan, part of Montana Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana & Wisconsin west of 90 Deg. W.) 08 W-K-N-A U.S.A. (Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Kentucky, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, & that part of Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana & Wisconsin east of 90 Deg. W.) 01 KL7 Alaska (West of 141 Deg. W.)02 KL7 Alaska (East of 141 Deg. W.) VE6,7,VY1 Canada (South of 80 Deg. N. and West of 110 Deg. W.) 03 VE3,4,5,8 Canada (South of 80 Deg. N. and between 90 Deg. and 110 Deg. W.) Includes western area of Ontario North section 04 Pieces Canada (South of 80 Deg. N. and of VY0 between 70 Deg. and 90 Deg. W. VE2,3,4,8 including Baffin Isl.) Includes Ontario East, Ontario South & Greater Toronto Area sections and eastern part of Ontario North section 09 FP St. Pierre et Miquelon VE1,2 VY2,VO2, Canada (South of 80 Deg. N. & VO1 East of 70 Deg. W., including Pieces Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova of VY0 Scotia, but excluding Baffin Isl.) 75 VE8 Canada (80 Deg. N. to 90 Deg. N., North Pole) -
Tell us how you did! Send us feedback and photos! Tell us what fun you had, and how you did, what challenges you faced, via our contest Soapbox page.
Send us your photos! Please, send us your high-resolution photos – especially youth! Kids (and us adults wanting to regain our youth!) We love to see activity photos – Kids and adults having fun, operating, setting up antennas! For higher resolution, please send your photos as 500kb to 3mb in size. ARRL is always looking for youth activity photos for Write-Ups, Strays and Upfront in QST!
Please be sure to send a Photo Release for each person shown when submitting youth photos - found at www.arrl.org/photo-video-release-form.
