VU2AJ – Contester of the year
Objective: VU2AJ – Contester of the year: to promote hams actively participating in VU and International contesting arena
Mode: Nomination to be called in June/July each year on ARSI group
Guidelines:
- Nomination can be by self or fellow ham for the previous calendar year (Jan 1st to Dec 31st)
- Nominee should be ARSI member
- Nomination shall contain details about the contester, his/her details about the contests participated, QSOs, Scores made in each contest.
- Contester shall be agreeing to publish his details on ARSI media such as webpage, HRN, Facebook, Twitter etc.
- Selection will be done by ARSI GC and final decision will be taken by Contest Manager
- Qualifying contests are :
| Sr. No. | Contest | Weightage multiplication (over the QSO count for each contest) |
| 1 | CQVU 40mtr (SSB/CW) and any new ARSI contest in future | 1 |
| 2 | CQWW SSB /CW / RTTY | 0.6 |
| 3 | CQWPX SSB /CW / RTTY | 0.4 |
| 4 | IARU HF Championship | 0.4 |
| 5 | All Asia Contest SSB / CW | 0.4 |
Awardees of the Yesteryears
| Year | Awardee |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | Ajaya Gupta – VU2DED |
| 2022 | Ajaya Gupta – VU2DED |
| 2021 | Ajaya Gupta – VU2DED |
| 2020 | Prakash Srinivasan – VU2IBI |
| 2019 | Ajaya Gupta – VU2DED |
| 2018 | Ajaya Gupta – VU2DED |
| 2016 | Madhukar K R – VU2MUD |