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SMC Circle Center, for both ARRL and CQ contests, is the center of the 6-character Maidenhead grid locator EN51ee, which is located at Latitude=41.1875 and Longitude=-89.6236. You can calculate the distance to your grid (6 digit grid is required for ARRL contests) by going to this distance calculator. The circle distance is a 250 mile radius.