Digital Pentathlon - 2008 http://dqso.net/index.files/digipen07.html
Participants : Any licensed amateur radio operators are invited to take part in the 4-th Digital Pentathlon competition. Date and time: Digital Pentathlon contanes 5 stages of a mode. PSK (BPSK63) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,6 2007 MFSK (MFSK16) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,13 2007 Olivia (500hz/16 tones) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,20 2007 Hellschreiber (Feldhell) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,27 2007 THROB (4 throb/sec) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on July,4 2007 Bands: Operation is limited to special digital parts of the next amateur bands: 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz. 3585-3595, 7035-7039, 14073-14077 (14103-14108 - Olivia), 21073-21077 (21103-21108 - Olivia), 28073-28075 (28103-28108 - Olivia) Each station may be worked only once per band during an each stage of a mode. Setup for Olivia: 500 Hz / 16 tones. 50 watts is limit of maximal output power. Exchange: Call "CQ DigiPen" Both station must exchange during a QSO the next information: Serial number - WW_loc - Power (Examples: 001-KO85MM-5 002-JN25AB-35). S/n of each mode begin from 001. Scoring: Each QSO score counts by formula: distance / (P1 * P2) Distance between both stations (km) count by WW-locators P1 and P2 - powers of 1-st and 2-nd stations (watts) Certificates: Winner's awards will be sent to the first, second and third place stagewinners and total 5 modes winners. All awards will be sent by e-mail as jpeg file with the resolution suitable for good quality printing in A4 size. (abt 2MB by e-mail) Each participant who will take part in 5 stages of modes and sent complete logs with no less 10 QSOs in each mode will be enrolled in DQSO Club as a member and will get the certificate with his membership number. Logs: All logs have to be sent before July, 30 2008 The separate logs must be sent for each mode. All logs must contain the following information to be considered for entry: Your name, callsign, QSO data, ww-locator, e-mail address, your claimed score. We will accept only electronic logs in standart Cabrillo format. E-logs are sent to: DQSO Club with your callsign in the message subject. -
