 Dear EPC Members, June 2013 is the seven years anniversary of the European PSK Club (EPC). Throughout June, EPC members will celebrate the occasion by being on air using a wide range of special call signs, each appropriate to their own particular Country but also sharing in the joint theme of the EPC event. The Stations will be easily recognizable and prominent on the bands having the suffix «EPC»! Stations will be on air as much as possible during the month and will be using various PSK modes of transmission. Of course different bands will also be targeted and whilst we are in the thick of the «Sporadic E Season», it will be a great opportunity for us to work each other on the higher bands as well. The intention of the event from members is not only to highlight the EPC programme but also to encourage other operators onto the air and maybe even to aid them into becoming members of the Biggest Digital Ham Radio Club in the World! The «EPC Celebration 2013» will also have its own series of Awards. Not only will the stations have the special call signs and QSL cards, they will also have new EPC numbers allocated which again make them eligible for the current award series, as well as the existing EPC numbers of the operators of the stations too. It would appear that so far we have in excess of a few DXCC countries who have announced their intentions to be on air with the special EPC call signs and it would be so good if we could have more! The list of the announced EPC Club & Special Event Stations which will be operating in honour of the 7th Anniversary of the European PSK Club from 1st to 30th June, 2013 will be available shortly. Please contact Heinz, DK5UR or Yuri, RK3DSW as soon as possible if your EPC club or special event station intends to take part in the event, so that we can add your station to the list on timely basis. Announced EPC SES & Club Stations in June 2013 (Updated 15.06.2013): CQ3EPC and CS2EPC (only 15-16 June in ARR PSK 63), DA0EPC, DK0EPC, JT1EPC, K6EPC, OK5EPC, OM90EPC, LZ7EPC, LZ9EPC, MX0EPC, R13EPC, R31EPC, R55EPC, R73EPC/p and /m only, R88EPC, RC3EPC, SN07EPC, UQ1EPC, W4EPC, YT0EPC, and ZS6EPC. EPC 7th Anniversary ETPA Contest: Rules In order to promote the club's expedition program, the Russian section of the EPC organizes the competition of EPC 7th Anniversary ETPA Contest. There is one condition - to hold contacts in June 2013 with the travellers of Europe regions on ETPA program. Contacts are counted with club and special event stations which organize ETPA-expeditions as well as with other activators. The results will be announced at 7 age subgroups: SO & MO-18 (18-full years of age and younger)
SO & MO-19 (19 to 32 years old)
SO & MO-33 (33 to 40 years)
SO & MO-41 (41 to 49 years)
SO & MO-50 (50 to 62 years old)
SO & MO-63 (63 to 72)
SO & MO-73 (73 years and older). Russian section of EPC has established awards for the participants of EPC 7th Anniversary ETPA Contest - hunters for ETPA-expeditions - three souvenirs with PSK-festival logo in each of the seven age subgroups. In all subgroups we award a prize to the winners as well as to those who took the 7th place and we also give away additional prizes. If in any subgroup be less than 7 participants, the winner will be awarded. Souvenirs with PSK-festival logo will also be awarded to the youngest and oldest members of the contest. During the allocation of places occupied by participants in the case of equal number of QSOs in the contest, the advantage will get the much younger one. In the case of collective radio stations the best subgroup will be determined by age of the supervisor. Souvenirs with PSK-festival logo will be awarded to three travellers-activators from Russia and three travellers-activators from other countries of Europe, whose expedition will be recognized as the best in June. Participants of EPC 7th Anniversary ETPA Contest should send a report: copy to the EPC-MC and store spreadsheet with your application form for the award ETHA in *xls format, then highlight all contacts made in June 2013 or delete contacts made in other periods of time. Reports are excepted after July 1, 2013 up to July 10, 2013 at epc(at)epc-ru.ru In the subject line you should indicate your call sign and a sub-group (or age). You must also inform in the letter your full name and postal address, date of birth. For the Club radiostations - full name and date of birth of each operator, callsign and EPC club numbers and indicate the total number of QSO with activators areas. Information about the work of expeditions is published on the website of the ETPA-Center http://etpa.epc-mc.com. The final results of EPC 7th Anniversary ETPA Contest will be posted on all club sites. 73 and see you on the air in June PSK-Festival!
 | EPC Commemorative Coin This is our first «EPC 2006» coin which is available for EPC members only. The «EPC 2006» coin, measuring 1.5 inches (32 mm) in diameter, features a brass relief EPC logo on one side. The reverse side has brass relief, featuring three-dimensional globe made as a dome, the caption reads «DEDICATED TO THE WORLD OF PHASE SHIFT KEYING». Each EPC coin comes with a deluxe velour jewellery box. Coin price includes jewellery box and shipping to any destination in the World. If you don't want to be late, we strongly recommend you to place an order as soon as possible due to a small quantity of coins minted. If you have any additional questions or concerns of any kind, please do not hesitate to contact us. 
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The EPC Contest Committee has received 608 logs from participants in the 67 DXCC countries for the 10th European PSK DX Contest 2013. The final results and UBN files are ready and available at the 
This is an official announcement from the EPC Committee to let you know that Francesco Borgosano, IT9AQC (EPC # 11323) is a new FVGPA, LAPA, LIPA, LOPA, MAPA, MLPA, PDPA, TAAPA, TUPA, UMPA, and VEPA award manager. QSOs with IT9AQC are now valid for EAMA. The previous award manager was Renato Lombardi, IK8NIJ. We would like to thank Renato for his effort in progress and prosperity of our club, and we welcome Francesco, IT9AQC on the EPC managers board.
This is another notification about serious changes in the EPC Committee. The new award manager for NSA series is Miguel Bennasar Frontera, EA6SK. Miguel is an existing member of the EPC Committee, he is already a manager for the EPCMA series as you all know. We would like to thank Miguel for his great job he has been doing for the club.
