---------------------------------------------------------- Text-only page Edited by SM3CER - sm3cer(at)contesting.com - 6 April 2005 SM3CER Contest Service - http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ ---------------------------------------------------------- DIG QSO Party ------------- DIG-QSO-Party on HF bands 1. Contest period and preferred IARU contest frequencies: Phone: Second weekend in March Saturday 12 March to Sunday 13 March 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday Sunday ---------------------------- -------------------------- UTC MHz UTC MHz ---------------------------- -------------------------- 1200 - 1700 14,125 - 14,300 0700 - 0900 3,600 - 3,650 21,150 - 21,350 3,700 - 3,775 28,300 - 28,700 0900 - 1100 7,045 - 7,100 ------------------------------------------------------------- CW: Second weekend in April Saturday 9 April to Sunday 10 April 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday Sunday ---------------------------- -------------------------- UTC MHz UTC MHz ---------------------------- -------------------------- 1200 - 1700 14,000 - 14,060 0700 - 0900 3,510 - 3,560 21,000 - 21,150 28,000 - 28,190 0900 - 1100 7,000 - 7,035 ------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Participants: All licensed radio amateurs and SWLs. 3. Exchange: RS(T) and number of membership in DIG are exchanged. Non-members only report RS(T). A station may only be worked once per band. Contest call is: CQ DIG! 4. Scoring: Phone, CW and SWLs entries (see point 7) are scored separately. • Each contact with a member of DIG counts 10 points. • Each contact with non-members counts one (1) point. 5. Multipliers: The sum of DIG members worked, numbered consecutively. Each member is counted only once regardless of bands. A second multiplier is the number of countries (DXCC and WAE country list) worked on each band. 6. Final score: The final score is computed by multiplying the sum of contacts by the sum of worked different DIG members and countries worked. 7. Participation of SWL: • Each correct contact between two DIG members counts 10 points but with the same DIG member may be logged only 10 contacts. • Each contact between DIG member and non DIG member counts one (1) point. Scoring and sum see point 4 - 6. 8. Cups, Trophies, Awards: • The winner will get an engraved cup. • Second place to place 10 will be awarded with certificates. • The best YL of each contest part will get a special DIG Trophy. • When we get more than ten logs from a country, a special DIG Trophy will be given to each country winner. All other competitors will get a commemorative QSL with statement of achieved result. 9. Log sheets: You may make your own log sheets with these columns: UTC - Call sent - received - band - QSO points - DXCC Land - DIG member Original log sheets are available from DIG contest manager or DIG secretary DJ8OT with SAE and 1 IRC. 10. Results: The final score of DIG QSO Party will be announced in the DIG-Nets and on DIG Web Site immediately after checking. Logs without scoring can be regarded as check-logs. 11. Deadline for log entries: Deadline for logs is May 31. All logs must be sent to the DIG Contest Manager: Karl-Dieter Heinen, DF2KD Postfach 221 D-53922 KALL GERMANY or by E-mail to: df2kd(at)darc.de ----------------------------- © 2004-2005 by DL6IM, DIG 852 -------------------- ooo -------------------- Date of info: April 6, 2005 - Source: DIG Web Site - DIG QSO Party rules: - http://dig.rmi.de/203.html?&L=1 - -------------------- ooo -------------------- This contest is known to be supported by: Lux-Log by LX1NO: http://www.luxlog.info/ RCKLog by DL4RCK: http://www.rcklog.de/ WriteLog by W5XD: http://www.writelog.com/ YP-Log by VE6YP: http://members.shaw.ca/ve6yp/ SM3CER Contest Service Software Page: http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/software.htm -------------------- ooo -------------------- MORE INFO: DIG Web Site: http://dig.rmi.de/ -------------------- ooo -------------------- Please send corrections/changes/new rules/results to: Jan-Eric Rehn - SM3CER sm3cer(at)contesting.com ----------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/text/digqp.txt Copyright © 1997-2005 Jan-Eric Rehn - SM3CER This page was created March 3, 1997 Most recent revision April 6, 2005 -----------------------------------------------