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The 41st BALTIC Contest - BC-2005
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The Lithuanian Radio Sports Federation
has the honor to invite radio amateurs all over the world
to enter the 41st Baltic Contest 2005

General rules of BC-2005


 1. Aim of the BC:
    To promote radio sport in the Baltic countries and to expand
    relations between amateurs of the Baltic and the world.


 2. The object of BC:
    To establish as many contacts as possible with amateur stations
    world wide.


 3. Period:

      From 2100 UTC May 21, 2005 till 0200 UTC May 22, 2005

    (Every year the last but one weekend in May
    - one week before WPX CW Contest)


 4. Sections:

      • A - Single Operator, CW/SSB
      • B - Single Operator, CW
      • C - Single Operator, SSB
      • D - Multi Operator, Single TX
      • E - SWL


 5. Frequencies:
     CW: 3510-3600 kHz

    SSB: 3600-3650 and 3700-3750 kHz.


 6. Contest call:
    CW - TEST BC, SSB - CQ Baltic Contest.


 7. Exchange:
    RS(T) and serial number starting from 001.

    Each station may be worked once in SSB and once in CW.


 8. Scoring:
    For participants in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania each QSO
    (SWL rprt) with Europe counts one (1) point and QSO (SWL rprt)
    with another continent counts two (2) points.

    For participants in Europe each QSO (SWL rprt) with Estonia, Latvia
    and Lithuania counts ten (10) points; each QSO (SWL rprt) with
    other participants counts one (1) point.

    For participants outside Europe each QSO (SWL rprt) with ES, YL
    and LY counts twenty (20) points; each QSO (SWL rprt) with other
    participants counts one (1) point.

    SWL report must contain both call signs and at least one of the
    control numbers.


 9. Final Score:
    The sum of QSO (SWL rprt) points (no multiplier, no duplicate QSO
    (SWL rprt)).

    When the number of points is equal, the criteria for priority are:

      • for better percentage of QSO (SWL rprt) confirmation
      • for more DX QSO (SWL rprt)


10. Awards:
    Certificates will be awarded to the leading stations of each
    section for every country (DXCC) in accordance with the number of
    participants.

    Winners in A, B, C, D and E sections in the Baltic countries
    (ES, LY, YL), in Europe and outside Europe will receive trophies.


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                             SPECIAL TROPHIES
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      TROPHY                         DONOR
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      Europe ....................... S. Franckevicius, LY4AA
      Baltic countries LP .......... Estonian Amateur Radio Union
      (less than 100 W output)
      Non Baltic countries LP ...... Latvian Radio Amateur League
      (less than 100 W output)
      Asia ......................... M. Jukna, LY2UF
      Europe CW .................... R. Šaltauskas, LY2BG
      Estonia ...................... R. Baltušis, LY2BM
      Latvia ....................... LY7A Contest Team
      Woman (YL) ................... M. Stern, 4Z4KX, LY2NL Memorial
      Youth (until 16 years) ....... J. Urbonas, LY3BU
      Lithuania CW ................. G. Lucinskas, LY3BA
      Oldtimer from BC countries ... A. Macas, LY2OO
      (more than 60 years)
      SWL .......................... V. Morkűnas, LY3BY
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11. Logs:
    The IARU R1 standard format sheets are recommended, or send by
    E-mail or in 3 1/2", 1,44 MB Microdisk in the ASCII form, suitable
    for computer analysis.

    Deadline: July 1, 2005.

    Address:

      BALTIC Contest
      P O Box 210
      LT-3000 KAUNAS
      LITHUANIA

    E-mail:

      lrsf(at)lrsf.lt

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    We hope that the participants will enjoy the contest.
    Welcome to BC-2005.

    73! LRSF


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Date of info: 7 April, 2005
  - Source: Darius Kybartas, LY3DA - Vice President of LRSF
              - dakyb(at)ktu.lt -
            and BALTIC Contest Web Site - Rules:
              - http://www.lrsf.lt/bcontest/english/rules_html.htm -


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This contest is known to be supported by:

      All In One by WD8KNC: http://www.geocities.com/ghafler.geo/wd8knc.html
  BALTIC Contest by UA1AAF: http://www.lrsf.lt/bcontest/english/Baltic.zip
            GENLOG by W3KM: http://www.qsl.net/w3km/gen_log.htm
               N1MM Logger: http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/
          RCKLog by DL4RCK: http://www.rcklog.de/
               SD by EI5DI: http://www.ei5di.com/
                TR by N6TR: http://www.trlog.com/
         Win-Test by F5MZN: http://www.win-test.com/

How to setup SD for this contest:
  http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/sdconf.htm#BALTIC

SM3CER Contest Service Software Page:
  http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/software.htm


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MORE INFO:

  Baltic Contest Web Site: http://www.lrsf.lt/bcontest/english/
  RESULTS: http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/resultsb.htm#BC


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Please send corrections/changes/new rules/results to:
  Jan-Eric Rehn - SM3CER
  sm3cer(at)contesting.com

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