::.  RULES HA - HAPPY NEW YEAR Contest The Budapest Society of the Hungarian Radio Amateur Society and the Puskás Tivadar Radio Amateur Club, HA5KHC, herby invites the radio amateurs and SWLs of the World to take part in the HA - Happy New Year Contest in the first 21 hours of the year (as of UTC).

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Operating period:

From 01.01.2002 00:00 UTC to 01.01.2002 21:00 UTC

Operating bands:

1,8 - 3,5 - 7 - 14 - 21 - 28 - 144 - 432 - 1296 MHz radio amateur bands according to the frequency allocation recommendations of the IARU Region 1.

Operating modes:

HF: CW, SSB VHF/UHF: CW, SSB, FM

Contest call:

CQ HNY or CQ CONTEST

Control exchange:

CW: RST + HNY Phone: RS + Happy New Year

Categories:

A: SW 1,8-29,7 MHz B: V/UHF 144-1300 MHz C: SWL 1,8-1300 MHz

Scoring:

1 point for each QSO per band.

Multipliers:

On HF bands: DXCC countries, and stations having suffix "HNY" in the callsign. On VHF/UHF bands: Each large QTH Locator square (e.g.:JN97, stations having suffix "HNY" in the callsign. Multipliers are counted separately for each band.

Claimed score:

The sum of the QSO points multiplied by the by the sum of multipliers on each band. The sum of the final scores achieved in each bands makes the claimed score.

Other conditions:

QSOs made through active repeaters or on emergency calling frequencies are not permitted and are null and void! The same station can only be worked once in each band independently of the operating mode! Even in case of multi-operator category only one transmitted signal is permitted in the same band! All the QSOs that are made in any other contest activity which is running in the same time can be counted as valid if in other respects these QSOs meet the present contest rules. During the contest the permitted output power must be in accordance with the station licence, but it is limited to 250 watts in the HF bands and to 100 watts in the VHF/UHF bands.

Awards:

Every winners of the first three places in each country and in each category will receive an Award. Everyone of the participants who submits a contest log and an application will be receive a beautiful certificate of participation. The fee is HUF 200 for the Hungarian stations and 5 IRCs for the stations abroad.

Contest logs:

The contest logs are to be made up for each band separately, using the LOG 1, 2, 3 and/or 4 blanks or similar format computer logs. The contest evaluation committee highly appreciates if the participant's contest logs are made using the commonly used computer logging programs and sending them on an 1.44 Mbytes floppy disk, by e-mail attachment or by packet radio through our BBS (converted into text file by 7PLUS). The computer logging program will be available to download from December 2001 from the home page of HA5HNY (http://radioklub.puskas.hu) and from the Hungarian packet BBS (title:HAHNY@WW). Contest log submission deadline (according to postmark): 31st January, 2002. Postal address: Paper entries should be mailed to: Puskás Tivadar Rádióamatõr Klub HA-HNY Contest P O Box 166 H-1476 BUDAPEST HUNGARY E-mail address: E-mail entries to: ha5oj@radioklub.puskas.hu AX25BBS: ha5oj@ha5ob To obtain the final results please visit the home page of HA5HNY or the Hungarian packet BBS.

Date of info: 21 December, 2001	Source: Tibor Szabo, HG4I On behalf of HA5KHC Radioklub