W100AW ARRL's centennial year

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Celebrating the ARRL's centennial year, the Maxim Memorial Station in Newington (W1AW) will also use the callsign W100AW during 2014. When used from regional Centennial conventions and during the IARU HF Championship, W100AW will have portable designators as appropriate. Contacts with W100AW will be worth 100 points in the ARRL Centennial QSO Party (see below).

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The FCC has authorized the Maxim Memorial Station W1AW to also use the call sign W100AW during 2014, the ARRL's centennial year. Contacts made from the Maxim Memorial Station in Newington, from regional Centennial conventions, and during the IARU HF Championship will use W100AW, with portable designators as appropriate. The "W1AW WAS" operations throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will use W1AW, not W100AW. Bulletins and code practice transmissions during 2014 also will still use W1AW. Contacts with W100AW will be worth 100 points in the ARRL Centennial QSO Party. To help kick off the ARRL Centennial, special W100AW activity will begin at 0500 UTC on January 1, 2014

(midnight in Newington), and will include participation in ARRL's Straight Key Night; one CW station will use Hiram Percy Maxim's straight key. Activity will continue throughout New Year's Day.

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Look for special call W100AW to begin operations from the ARRL Headquarters Maxim Memorial Station at 0500Z on 1 January. See the ARRL Web site for more information about QSLing and about the Centennial QSO Party.