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FISTS Straight Key Week
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New Rules - Now open to Non-Members (from 2002)

FISTS CW Club invites all licensed radio amateurs and short-wave
listeners to take part in its yearly Straight Key Week. This is a
leisurely, relaxed, event and QSOs need not necessarily be of the
"rubber stamp" variety if participants wish to chat and exchange
more than the basic information required by the rules.


Dates:

    The SKW runs from:
    Sunday 5th September till Saturday 11th September 2004


Times:

    From 0001 UTC on the Sunday
    to 2359 UTC on the following Saturday

  Details available from the contest manager shown below.


Frequencies:
  Any licensed amateur frequency, except WARC bands.


Mode:
  CW, using straight key only.


Exchanges:
  RST / Name / QTH / FISTS Nr (Non-Members, send NM) / Day Number.

  Note: Sunday is Day 1, Monday Day 2, and so on up to Saturday Day 7.
        This allows duplication of working the same station on
        different days. All entrants must have used a straight Key for
        all their QSO’s, but the worked station does not have to use a
        straight key.


Classes:

    • A: Transmitting (including non-FISTS members)

    • B: Short-wave listeners (including non-FISTS members)


QSO Scoring:

    • 3 points for a Club Station
    • 2 points for a Fist Member
    • 1 point for a Non Member


Best Fist of the Year:
  Entrants are invited to submit with their logs one vote for the
  station which they feel had the Best Fist of all stations worked
  (or participating stations heard and logged by SWLs). This station
  does not have to be a member of FISTS.

  The operator receiving the most votes will be declared
  "Best Fist of the Year", provided he/she has also submitted a log for
  the SKW, and has not been declared "Best Fist of the Year" in a
  previous SKW. If the station receiving the most votes is disqualified
  for either of these reasons the qualifying station receiving the next
  highest number of votes will be declared "Best Fist".

  If there are equal top votes the person scoring most points in the
  contest will be declared the winner.


Awards:
  In the SKW, the "Best Fist of the Year" will be awarded a prize of a
  Morse key and a certificate.

  The first three runners-up in the voting for "Best Fist of the Year"
  in the SKW will be awarded certificates.

  The three highest scoring operators will receive certificates.

  The three SWL entrants with the highest number of points SKW will
  receive certificates.

  Recipients of any award or certificate in this event are not required
  to be members of FISTS.


Entries:
  Logs to include: Date; Call worked or heard; Name; QTH; QRG; RST;
  Time; FISTS number (if not a member = NM); Day number; Points; and,
  one vote for "Best Fist" as described earlier.

  SWLs may log one or both participants in a participating QSO,
  provided they have not logged either of them in a previous QSO on the
  same day.

  The name and call sign of the entrant (or name of the SWL) should be
  printed clearly at the top of all log sheets. The name and address of
  the entrant should be printed at the end of the log together with
  his/her FISTS membership number, if applicable.

  Entries to be received by:

    FISTS Contest Manager
    R. P. Kimpton, M5AGL
    15 A Buckden Road, Brampton
    HUNTINGDON, Cambridgeshire PE28 4PR
    ENGLAND

  Or e-mail:

    bobm5agl(at)btopenworld.com

  not later than the 25th September 2004.


Results:
  Results will be published in Key Note, newsletter of FISTS CW Club,
  and radio related magazines.

  Non-members may obtain the results by sending an SAE to the Contest
  Manager, as above.


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Date of info: February 22, 2002
  - Source: Keith Farthing, MØCLO - FISTS Contest Manager
            - keithm0clo(at)hotmail.com -

Update: July 6, 2004
  - Source: Mark Brendish, MØCMQ - FISTS 7701
            - mb702002(at)yahoo.co.uk -
            New FISTS Contest Manager: M5AGL
            - bobm5agl(at)btopenworld.com -


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MORE INFO:

  FISTS HQ Web Site: http://www.asel.demon.co.uk/fists-hq/


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

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