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MARAC County Hunters CW Contest
The Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club - MARAC
is pleased to sponsor the
37th Annual County Hunters CW Contest

Mobile, Portable, and Fixed operation from every county in the US is encouraged.


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 Date and time:

0000 UTC, Saturday May 3 to 2400 UTC, Sunday May 4, 2003

(First weekend in May)

 Rules:

Fixed Stations may be worked only once on each band.

U.S. Mobiles and Portables (identified by signing /M or /P) may be worked each time they change county or band; and when operating on one- or two-county lines count as one QSO, but the receiving station may count each county (two maximum) as a separate multiplier.

A station may not operate more than one transmitter at one time.

 Exchange:

Signal report, county, and state for U. S. stations.

Signal report, province (Canada) or country for other stations.

 Scoring:

For a valid contact, one station must be in a US County.

  • One (1) point for for Fixed stations;
  • 15 points for U.S. Mobiles and Portables (operating from more than one county);
  • 5 points for DX.

Controlled Net contacts are invalid for contest purposes.

FINAL SCORE = TOTAL QSO POINTS times TOTAL NUMBER OF U. S. COUNTIES WORKED.

Mobiles and Portables changing states during the contest should calculate their scores for each state and total score. Total Overall Score must not count a county as a multiplier more than once regardless of the mobile’s county or band.

 Frequencies:

CW: 3.575, 7.050 (NOTE CHANGE), 14.050, 21.050, 28.050.

Fixed Stations should operate above the suggested frequencies; mobiles, below.

 Awards:

MARAC Contest Certificates:
  • First Place Fixed in each State, Canadian Province, and Country.
  • First Place Mobile in each State.

MARAC Contest Plaques:
  • 1st and 2nd place Mobile in the U.S
  • 1st and 2nd place U.S. Fixed station
  • 1st place Canadian Station
  • 1st place DX station

For contest purposes, DX is any country other than the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

 Logs:

Send completed logs and summary sheet by June 8, 2003, to:

Mailing address:
Norm Beavers, W3DYA
3320 McMillan Drive
TYLER, TX 75701-8239
USA

or email to:

E-mail:
w3dya@juno.com

(Text, WORD .DOC, EXCEL files OK).

Contest package available on request (no SASE required).

Date of info: 30 April, 2003 Source: Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club - MARAC Web Site
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