This text is from an article on the ARRL web site, look here.
However, HAMs will still have a contest. Look here for details.
Aug. 6-7, 2016, 1800z Saturday to 1800z Sunday
After ARRL
announced that it would not sponsor the UHF contest in 2016, a group of
radio amateurs from coast to coast came together to make sure that the
contest does occur as scheduled on Aug. 6-7, 2016 (1800z
Saturday until 1800z Sunday).
The sponsoring
group includes the leaders of several large VHF-oriented clubs, two volunteers
who write contest results articles for QST, the editor of the "World
Above 50 MHz" column in QST, two people with extensive computer
log-checking expertise, and others who are concerned about the future of
contesting on the amateur bands above 222 MHz. We believe that continuity
is important in amateur radio contests. We do not want even a one-year
hiatus for a contest that has been an annual tradition for almost 40 years.
While we welcome the efforts of ARRL's leaders to develop a new kind of
UHF contest that could be held in the spring of 2017, in the meantime we
are committed to hosting a first-rate UHF contest in 2016.
73 Herbert
AF4JF
