The CT3 Madeira Contest Team (CQ9K/CT9M), is proud to announce the Call CQ95F in comemoration of the 500 Years of Funchal City foundation. Funchal is the Capital city from Madeira Isl. Arch. The Arch. is composed by 4 Groups of Islands: Madeira Main Isl.; Porto Santo Isl. (AF014);Desertas Group (AF046);and Selvagens Group. (AF047). The QSL cards maybe requested to any of the operators or to ARRM (CS3MAD). Operators: CT3BD, CT3DL, CT3DZ, CT3EE, CT3EN, CT3IA, CT3KY, CT3KU The city of Funchal, capital of the Island of Madeira, will celebrate its centennial as city in August 2008. Funchal was the first city to be designated as such, within the vast dominiumof the Portuguese Discoveries. This deignation complied with its development as a consequence of the thriving cultivation of sugar as well as the presence of many foreigners living on the island, who were involved in commerce. Funchal had therefore been acknowledge as being an important trading centre in the North Atlantic, end the headquarters of a large Bishop's Diocese that was spiritually responsabile for the new territories on shores of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This call is a special used to conmemorate this event