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MARAC County Hunters CW Contest
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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.


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:

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

  or email to:

    w3dya(at)juno.com

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

  Contest package available on request (no SASE required).


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Date of info: 30 April, 2003
  - Source: Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club - MARAC Web Site
            - http://marac.org/cwrules2003.htm -


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This contest is known to be supported by:

  GENLOG by W3KM: http://www.qsl.net/w3km/gen_log.htm
      TR by N6TR: http://www.qth.com/tr/

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


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MORE INFO:

  Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club - MARAC Web Site: http://marac.org/
  CountyHunter Dot Com and Net: http://countyhunter.com/


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

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