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North Dakota
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Maine 64
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Montana
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Oregon
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Minnesota
Vermont 43 New Hampshire
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03
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Idaho
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Wisconsin
54
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42 Massachusetts 61
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New
York
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40 60
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South Dakota
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63
73
91
41 Rhode Island
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73
63
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Wyoming
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31 Connecticut
03
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Michigan
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Jersey
Nebraska
Iowa
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Ohio
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Illinois
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98
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70
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Delaware
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Nevada
09 Maryland
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Utah
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69 Indiana
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Colorado
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Virginia
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Virginia
16
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87
California
95
45
Kansas
Missouri
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77
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Kentucky
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96
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Tennessee
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North
Carolina
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New Mexico
92
54
84
Arizona
42
Arkansas
23
13
Oklahoma
64
74
74
64
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33
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94
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Alabama
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Georgia
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Mississippi
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Louisiana
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Texas
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Mid January, Full Weekend

ARRL VHF Sweepstakes

Hawaii

**

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Early March, Full Weekend

ARRL International DX Contest Phone

AL92

Early April, Spring Sprint144 MHz

Mid May, Full Weekend

CQ National Fox Hunting Weekend

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Early June, Full Weekend

ARRL VHF QSO Party

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48

Mid June, Full Weekend,

SMIRK 6 meter QSO Party

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CQ World Wide VHF Contest

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ARRL September VHF QSO Party

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operating on VHF & UHF bands.

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Example: for grid 13 in region DM say delta,
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Maidenhead* grid squares automatically.

*An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside
London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in
1980), a grid square measures 1 latitude by 2 longitude and measures approximately 70 x 100 miles in the continental US. A grid square is indicated by two letters
(the field) and two numbers (the square)..
From ARRL source: http://www.arrl.org/locate/gridinfo.html

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ARRL UHF Contest

5. Have fun on VHF & UHF!

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IARU HF World Championships

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ARRL Field Day

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BL22

Pacific Ocean

BQ

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BL12

BL

AL91

Early April, Spring Sprint432 MHz

Early May, Spring Sprint50 MHz

156

BL02

AL

Alaska

Early April, Spring Sprint222 MHz

4. Give your general location along with your

grid square.

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Albers Equal Area Projection - Alaska

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