It's Iowa's turn as an ARRL America250 Worked All States station.

W1AW/Ø
This is ARRL's year-Long Worked-All-States Operating Event Celebrating the 250th Anniversary (Semiquincentennial) of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Iowa's participation as W1AW/Ø runs April 22-28 and August 5-11, UTC.

The process is simple!

  1. Sign up at Ham-QTV (linked by the announcement map).
  2. You will receive a packet once approved. REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD!!
  3. Log in at Ham-QTV and select the 2-hour operating times and modes you want.
  4. When your selected day(s) and time(s) come up, be sure to use UTC (Z)!
  5. Start operating, signing as W1AW//Ø and logging to a program that can export your log to an ADIF file.
  6. When you are done for the week, submit your log as directted in the Operator Guideline.
  7. Sit back and bask in the glow of knowing you helped others earn a WAS award!

ARRL instructions

Very Important:
Logging: As it is expected that a W1AW/Portable operations will make hundreds of QSOs over the course of their operating periods, it is important that logging be done by computer using ADIF format. ELECTRONIC LOGGING MUST BE PERFORMED DURING THE COURSE OF THE OPERATING EVENT! NO PAPER LOGS WILL BE ACCEPTED! MAKE PERIODIC BACKUPS OF THE LOGGING FILE THAT YOU HAVE IN USE.
Commonly used logging software such as N1MMLogger+ is recommended, but any software that will generate an ADIF‐formatted file is acceptable.

Ensure that each band/mode operating station is prepared to supply ALL station data in every QSO line (such as county, grid square, CQ/ITU zones, etc.) ARRL HQ will perform the ADIF file uploads to LoTW, as only we have the LoTW call sign certificates to sign and upload W1AW logs.