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Welcome to the Tennessee Contest Group

The Tennessee Contest Group (a.k.a. TCG) is a group of Amateur Radio operators (hams) who enjoy operating in competitive radio sporting events or "contests." The contests range from world-wide 48-hour events with tens of thousands of participants to smaller regional events which may be as short as one hour in duration. The goal of most contests is to contact as many other participants on as many amateur radio bands as possible. The "prize" for doing well in contesting is usually nothing more than a wooden plaque, a paper certificate, and of course the recognition of one's peers. The real prizes are found in the joy of competing, improving over past efforts, and learning from each other along the way. We invite you to consider joining the TCG in the fun and excitement of amateur radio contesting.

Current Radio Weather Conditions

New TCG Email Reflector

The TCG email list has moved to

Click here to Visit the new TCG Google Group

NCJ CW SprintThis Weekend !

Don't forget the CW Sprint contest, coming this weekend to a radio near you. See the Sprint Rules Page for more information.

What is contesting about?

Check out this video to get an idea... WRTC 2006 Video by W6AQ

TCG Makes Over a QUARTER MILLION QSOs in 2008 - AGAIN WITHOUT SUNSPOTS

Despite being at the worst bottom of the sunspot cycle since the Not-so-Great Depression, the Tennessee Contest Group continued to pound out QSOs in 2008. TCG posted 127 more logs in 2008 than in 2007 but logged 8,016 fewer QSOs. Like many of us in 2008, TCG worked harder but made less than the year before. TCG also entered more events during 2008 than in any of the last six years. Thanks to Greg, K4KO for maintaining these statistics year after year.

TCG THE LAST SIX YEARS... -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- QSOs 261,736 269,581 213,608 252,581 247,926 211,838 Logs 1,206 1,074 839 876 882 657 Avg Qs/Log 217 251 255 288 281 322 Events 198 188 162 144 122 101 Players 93 79 73 75 79 76 ====================================================================

Real-Time Propagation Charts

From VE5ZX and our friends at Radio Sport Canada.
ZoneProp uses a widely accepted propagation engine to determine the band on which a contestant in one CQ DX zone is likely to be able to contact a contestant in another CQ DX zone taking into account the current geomagnetic activity. ZoneProp produces a 40 zone by 40 zone matrix that is updated hourly at approximately 20 minutes past the hour. The intersection between a row and column gives the band on which a constestant in the zone represented by the row is mostly likely able to contact an contestant in the zone represented by the column. The zone numbers in the left hand column are clickable. Once clicked the information for that zone is displayed in isolation above a map of CQ DX zones. The pages are refreshed every 10 minutes inorder to capture hourly updates of the matrix
Click here for real-time propagation data by CQ zone.

Please submit your Contest Logs

If you operate radio contests and would like to contribute to a club effort, the TCG would appreciate your points. No log is too small. Simply add the following line to your Cabrillo Log file:

CLUB: Tennessee Contest Group

Most logging programs will prompt you for the name of your club and create the appropriate line in your Cabrillo file. Simply type "Tennessee Contest Group" when prompted for the club name.