Announcing the Digital Radio Century Club New Year Contest
Date : January 1 2008
Time : 1300 to 0000Z
Mode. Olivia . Maximum bandwidth 500.
Suggested tones 4, or 8, but all permitted.
Suggested CQ.. "CQ DRCC CQ DRCC"
Bands : 20M or 40M ONLY. (suggested frequency
range 14073-14080 and/or 7034-7040 USB.)
Class: Single operator low power only
(under 100 watts)
Exchange: DRCC members send name and DRCC number.
Non-DRCC members send name and country.
Multipliers: Number of stations worked with DRCC
numbers under 100 and...
Number of stations worked outside
your continent*
Scoring : 5 points each DRCC member contact
1 point each non- DRCC member contact
Stations can be worked once per band
Example .... K3UK works 55 DRCC stations , 275
K3UK works 20 non-DRCC stations, 20 poiints
sub-total =
295 Points
Of 55 DRCC stations worked, 10 gave
DRCC numbers below 100.
295*10 = 2,950 points
Of 75 QSOs 10 were outside of North America
2,950 * 10 = 29,500 total points.
(multipliers count PER band, e.g. K3UK DRCC, number 001 , work on 40
and 20M is two multipliers. VK7DX worked by a North American station
on 40 and 20M is TWO multipliers).
Submit logs in Cabrillo format to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Feb 1 2008.
Results will be posted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/files/
Those who wish to obtain a DRCC number prior to December 31 may do so
by sending a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ARRL defination of continent boundaries . North America includes
Greenland (OX) and Panama (HP). South America includes Trinidad &
Tobago (9Y), Aruba (P4), Curacao & Bonaire (PJ2-4) and Easter Island
(CE0). Oceania includes Minami Torishima (JD1), Philippines (DU),
Eastern Malaysia (9M6-8) and Indonesia (YB). Asia includes Ogasawara
Islands (JD1), Maldives (8Q), Socotra Island (7O), Abu Ail Island
(J2/A), Cyprus (5B, ZC4), Eastern Turkey (TA2-9) and Georgia (4L).
Europe includes the fourth and sixth call areas of Russia (R1-6),
Istanbul (TA1), all Italian islands (I) and Azores (CU). Africa
includes Ceuta & Melilla (EA9), Madeira (CT3), Gan Island (8Q), French
Austral Territory (FT) and Heard Island (VK0). See
http://www.arrl.org/awards/wac/
Suggested Software: Multipsk, FL-DIGI, DM780, MixW. Score the
contest manually of via home brewed spreadsheets.
--
Andy K3UK
www.obriensweb.com
(QSL via N2RJ)
