The provisional results of the 70 MHz CW/SSB Contest are available on the IARU R1 VHF+ Contest Robot: 

We evaluated 48 different logs coming from 14 different countries.

The winner in the Single Op. category is HA8MV with 32 QSOs and 40k points; the Multi Op. category winner is the team LZ1AG with 40 QSOs and 62k points; the 6 Hours category winner is 9H1PI with 29 QSOs and 40k points.

The complaining period will end on September 6^th, and after that results will be final.

For any further requests please write to Alex IV3KKW [Contest WG Chair].

The provisional results of the 50 MHz CW/SSB Contest are available on the IARU R1 VHF+ Contest Robot: 

We evaluated 525 different logs coming from 38 different countries.

The winner in the Single Op. category is ED5R with 735 QSOs and 1.1mln points; the Multi Op. category winner is the team D4K with 137 QSOs and 632k points; the 6 Hours category winner is 4O3A with 271 QSOs and 421k points.

The complaining period will end on September 6^th, and after that results will be final.

For any further requests please write to Alex IV3KKW [Contest WG Chair].

The provisional results for the 2026 IARU R1 50 MHz MGM Contest held on April 18^th-19^th are available on the IARU Region 1 VHF & Up Contest Robot.

The complaining period will end on May 18^th, after that results will be final.

For any further requests, please write to Alex IV3KKW [IARU R1 Contest WG Chair].

Some new features are available in the VHF+ Contest Robot.

For each contest, you can find :

Results Table: you can filter the classification for country with a multiple choice instead of DXCC prefix.

Statistics: you can show for each contest band/category the graphs for
QSOs per hour, Score per hour, QSOs per distance, QSOs per country, and Participants per country.

In the Main Menu (Top bar), there are three new buttons :

Hall of fame: it shows the best score per band/category for the entire region or for a selected country.

Heatmap: for a selected year/contest and Band/section, it shows the grid squares heatmap and a list of contacts for each of them.

Comparisons: for a selected year/contest and band/section you can compare the trend for a maximum of 5 participants.

The VHF+ Newsletter 97 is out.

In this issue, the VHF+ Committee would like to inform you about the revision of the VHF Handbook, especially the section devoted to contesting. Some of the phrases have been amended and, at the suggestion of the RSGB VHF Contest Committee, a rule on self-spotting has been added to section 9.7. pag. 69.

The reason is to harmonize the use of self-spotting on the DX Clusters in all IARU R1 V/U/SHF
contests, so that it is consistent with “self-spotting” on ON4KST, etc.
The RSGB proposal was approved by the members of the VHF+ Contest Working Group and submitted for formal approval to the EC, which formally approved it at a meeting in Vienna for the upcoming contest season in 2026 as an interim decision. Please consider that it is necessary to send a proposal about this rule from the C5CWG to the upcoming General Conference in Vienna (September 2026) to be formally ratified by the Conference.

The new version of the VHF+ Handbook 10.03 is available.