::.  RULES Portugal Day Contest REP - Rede dos Emissores Portugueses - member of IARU, sponsors the PORTUGAL DAY CONTEST, a 24 hours contest, every year on the second Saturday of June. It is on PHONE (SSB) only, on 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters, using the recommended IARU band plan for Region 1, and is part of the IARU’s International Contest Calendar. For all the effects of this Contest a Portuguese station is any CT, CT3 or CU prefix station (or any other official Portuguese prefix), and DX station are any other station on the DXCC list.

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Date:

0000 UTC to 2400 UTC of 2nd Saturday of June of every Year 0000 - 2400 UTC, Saturday 11 June 2005

Classes:

Single operator all bands SSB.

Exchange:

DX station send RST and sequential number beginning with 001. Portuguese stations will send RST plus the letters that identifies his District or Autonome Region.

Points:

Contacts of DX stations with stations of different countries of DXCC with exception of Portuguese stations counts 3 points. Contacts of DX stations with Portuguese stations counts 6 points. Contacts between Portuguese stations or with EA stations (with exception of EA6, EA8 and EA9), counts 3 points, but are only valid on 40 and 80 meters bands. Contacts of Portuguese stations with DX stations with exception of EA counts 3 points. Contacts with the same station are only valid on different bands.

Multiplier:

Each Portuguese District/Autonome Region and each DXCC Country valid on the date of the Contest on each band is a multiplier. Contacts between DX stations of the same DXCC country, counts only as a multiplier.

Final Score:

Total contact points from all bands times the sum of all the multipliers.

Awards:

Plaque for the top world scorer. Plaque for the first portuguese and for the first EA scorers. Diploma for the highest score on each DXCC country, if the final score is at least 20% of the higher score. Participation Diploma to all stations with 50 or more logged contacts (Portuguese and EA stations) or 25 or more logged contacts (DX). The awards are not cumulative.

Logs:

The logs must be sent postmarked no later than August 31th, on any standard log sheet including summary and dupe sheets if applicable or for logs with more than 200 contacts, and if possible with description of the station and power used, to the address shown below: Mailing address: REP - Rede dos Emissores Portugueses Award/Contest Manager P O Box 2483 1112 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL

Date of info: 3 June, 2005	Source: REP - Rede dos Emissores Portugueses Web Site