COVID-19 COMMUNICATION EVENT

[IK0ZCW]

Held on 6-7 June, the "international gathering of STAYHOME/STAYSAFE stations and fellow amateur radio
operators was organized as a brief 24 hours event where hams were able to quickly greet each other, in a contest-like format, in the spirit of wellbeing", the Organizing Committee (E21EIC, KO8SCA, OH2BH, OH2MM and PY5EG) reports. "A total of 18,838 hams from 181 DXCC Entities participated in the event, using the CW, SSB and FT8 transmission modes. There were 39 registered STAYHOME/STAYSAFE stations from all continents, making this event a very unique global undertaking. An impressive 120,181 radio contacts were made during the event".
The WORLD WINNERS are LY9A (Multi-Mode), PP5JR (SSB), RG9A (CW) and YO9H (Digital). The CONTINENTAL WINNERS are EA8RM (Africa), LY9A (Europe), PY5KD (South America), RG9A (Asia), W1UE (North America) and ZL3P (Oceania). The most productive STAYHOME/STAYSAFE groups that dominated the continental landscape were from Romania, Brazil and Finland. The detailed results of the event are available at http://ko8sca.com/results.pdf. The prize lottery will be organized within the next two-weeks.
"The COVID-19 Communication Event was part of the global STAYHOME activity from 8 April to 7 June. The OH0-OH9 stations made an impressive 133,000 contacts along with 25,000 FT8 QSOs logged by the Brazilian digital station ZW5STAYHOME, working hams from a total of 180 countries from all 40 CQ zones, with other STAYHOME stations totaling almost 290,000 contacts in the two-month period".