Rules of the SPDX RTTY Contest 2008 The SPDX RTTY Contest organized the Polish Radiovideography Club ( PK RVG ) is held on the 4th full weekend of April.( 26/27 April 2008).
1. Contest Period: 12.00 UTC Saturday , through 12.00 UTC Sunday. 2. Bands: 3,5 - 28 MHz without WARC bands. 3. Mode: Baudot only 4. Classes: A.Single Operator, All Band. B. Multi Operator, All Band C. SWL D. SP Single Op. D1. SP Multi Op. 5. Message: RST & QSO Number. Polish station transmits RST & one letters denoting the province (wojewodztwo) 6. Points: QSO with own country 2 points QSO with other countries in own continent 5 points QSO with other continents 10 points. 7. Multiplier: Each DXCC country and each different province ( max. 16 for each band ) count as a multiplier . Multiplier count only once on each band. Each continent QSO counts as a multiplier ( max. 6 ) of all bands. 8. Scoring: ( Sum of QSO points ) x ( Sum of countries + sum of province ) x number of continents worked ( max. 6 ) = total score 9. SWL: The same rules apply as above. 10. Contest Call : CQ SP RVG TEST for all station. 11. Awards: 1st place plaque to top winner in all classes, 1st through 3rd place certificates, all five classes. Note: Awards will be issued based on participation of 20 or more entries in each class. 12. Results: The Contest Committed will send results to all stations who worked in the contest and submitted log. 13. Logs and summary: CABRILLO is preferred format !!!, however as an exception all text format LOGs generated by other logging programs will be accepted. LOG must be viewable by simple text editor. Your output file should be named by your callsign, i.e. SP7AAA.CBR, SP7AAA.LOG, SP7AAA.SUM (for summary sheet) etc... The logs should contain = Band , Date Time UTC, Callsign, All sent and received exchanges are to be logged, Multiplier and Points claimed.Summary sheet !!. Please send us your computer disk we prefer is Cabrillo !!! Official Cabrillo log template for SPDX RTTY Contest (thanks LA0FX , SP7DQR) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- for WW stations: --------info sent------- -------info rcvd-------- QSO: freq mo date time call rst exch call rst exch QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* nnn **** ************* nnn **** QSO: 14089 RY 2003-04-24 0711 LA0FX 599 1 SP6CIK 599 U QSO: 28089 RY 2002-04-24 1625 4Z5LA 599 078 SP2ILQ 599 P QSO: 21089 RY 2002-04-24 1627 4Z5LA 599 079 SP3OL 599 W QSO: 14089 RY 2002-04-24 1629 4Z5LA 599 080 SP6ZLC 599 D 0000000001111111111222222222233333333334444444444555555555566666666667777777777 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 Cabrillo header: CONTEST name in field CONTEST is : SP-DX-RTTY-C. CATEGORY: operator-category The operator-category must be one of the following (single-operator, multi-operators, SWL , SP - SINGLE OPERATOR , SP - MULTI OPERATORS ,checklog ): A , B , C , D , D1 or CHECKLOG. The mode- RY Example: START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CONTEST: SP-DX-RTTY-C CALLSIGN: SP7DQR CATEGORY: D CLAIMED-SCORE: 123456 OPERATORS: Marek CLUB: NAME: Marek Niedzielski ADDRESS: P.O. Box 25 ADDRESS: 25-030 Kielce 10 ADDRESS: Poland ADDRESS: E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOAPBOX: QSO: 21089 RY 2002-04-24 1657 SP7DQR 599 S SN7N 599 S QSO: 21089 RY 2002-04-24 1657 SP7DQR 599 S K5DJ 599 4 QSO: 21095 RY 2002-04-24 1658 SP7DQR 59 S VP6DI 59 32 END-OF-LOG: 14. Deadline: Logs must be postmarked no later than May 27 th 2008. 15. Mail logs to: SPDX RTTY Contest Manager, Christopher Ulatowski Box 253 ; 81 - 963 Gdynia 1 , Poland or E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PK RVG information [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Polish Province's : Z - zachodnio-pomorskie; F - pomorskie; J - warminsko-mazurskie; O - podlaskie; B - lubuskie; W - wielkopolskie; P - kujawsko-pomorskie; R - mazowieckie; L - lubelskie; D - dolnoslaskie; U - opolskie; G - slaskie; C - lodzkie; M - malopolskie; S - swietokrzyskie; K - podkarpackie Full results and rules of the SP RTTY Contest can be seen at http://www.pkrvg.org