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Portugal Day Contest
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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.


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:

    REP - Rede dos Emissores Portugueses
    Award/Contest Manager
    P O Box 2483
    1112 LISBOA CODEX
    PORTUGAL


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Date of info: 3 June, 2005
  - Source: REP - Rede dos Emissores Portugueses Web Site
              - http://www.rep.pt/ -


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     Districts and Autonomous Regions of
     Portugal identification codes (20):
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     Aveiro ............. AV     Lisboa ............. LX
     Beja ............... BJ     Portalegre ......... PG
     Braga .............. BR     Porto .............. PT
     Bragança ........... BG     Santarem ........... SR
     Castelo Branco ..... CB     Setubal ............ ST
     Coimbra ............ CO     Viana do Castelo ... VC
     Evora .............. EV     Vila Real .......... VR
     Faro ............... FR     Viseu .............. VS
     Guarda ............. GD     Açores ............. AC
     Leiria ............. LR     Madeira ............ MD
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This contest is known to be supported by:

   CTDAY by LAØFX: http://www.qsl.net/la0fx/
  GEN LOG by W3KM: http://www.qsl.net/w3km/gen_log.htm

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


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MORE INFO:

  REP - Rede dos Emissores Portugueses Web Site: http://www.rep.pt/
  GPDX -Portuguese DX Group Web Site: http://gpdx.netpower.pt/


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

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