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REF Contest
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The Reseau des Emetteurs Francais (REF)
invites the radio amateurs worldwide to participate in
the REF Contest, the Championnat de France.

Object of this contest is to establish as many contacts as possible
between radio amateurs around the world and French radio amateurs.


Date:

   CW - Each year on the last full weekend of January.

     2004: January 24 and 25

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  SSB - Each year on the last full weekend of February.

     2004: February 28 and 29


Time:

     From Saturday 0600 UTC to Sunday 1800 UTC

  Single operator is limited to 28 hours with a minimum of 8 hours rest
  (max 3 rest periods of minimum 1 hour).


Object:
  Foreign stations work as many French stations as possible once per
  band.

  French stations are:

    • Stations in France (mainland) or Corsika (F, TM, TK)
    • Stations in the Overseas Territories
      (FG, FH, FJ, FK, FM, FO, FP, FR, FS, FT, FW, FY, TO)


Classes:

    • Single operator
    • Multi operator, one TX
    • SWL

  For the multi-operators, 15 minutes are necessary between 2 band
  changes.


Bands:
  80, 40, 20, 15, 10 m (IARU contest subbands).


Exchanges:

  Given by French stations:

    • Mainland and Corsica: RS(T) + department number
    • Overseas stations: RS(T) + own prefix
    • F6REF, REF official headquarter station: RS(T) + 00

  Given by foreign stations:

    • RS(T) + serial number

  Foreign station are only allowed to contact french station.


Scores:

    • 1 point for a contact with a station located in the same continent
    • 3 points otherwise


Multipliers:
  On each band, departments, 00, and overseas prefixes.

    • French departments (96)
      [ Ø1 - 96 ]
    • F6REF (1)
      [ ØØ ]
    • Corsica (TK) departments (2)
      [ 2A, 2B ]
    • Overseas prefixes (13)
      [ FG, FH, FJ, FK, FM, FO, FP, FR, FS, FT, FW, FY, TO ]

  Multipliers are counted per band.
  (A total of 112 multipliers/band).


Final score:
  Sum of contact points by sum of multipliers.


Rank listing and awards:
  By continent.


Logs:
  Please apply log before February 24 (CW) or March 28 (SSB) to:

    F5LBL, Gerard Karpe
    Chemin des Roses Malerargues
    30140 THOIRAS
    FRANCE

  or by E-mail to:

     CW: cdfcw(at)ref-union.org

    SSB: cdfssb(at)ref-union.org


INFORMATION via E-mail:

    concours(at)ref-union.org


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Date of info: 19 October, 2000
  - Source: Luc Favre, F6HJO - REF-Union Contest Manager.
            - lfavre(at)generali.fr -

Date of info: 25 January, 2000
  - Added info about F5MZN software and SD.

Date of info: 26 January, 2000
  - Added info about multiplier abbreviations.

Date of info: 25 December, 2002
  - Deleted TP2CE as multiplier
  - Source: Vincent Lecler, F5OIH - vlecler(at)wanadoo.fr -

Date of info: 20 January, 2004
  - Source: REF UNION Web Site - http://www.ref-union.org/ -


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This contest is known to be supported by:

       AALog by RZ4AG: http://www.aalog.com/
      GEN LOG by W3KM: http://www.qsl.net/w3km/gen_log.htm
     Lux-Log by LX1NO: http://www.luxlog.info/
          N1MM Logger: http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/
     OH2GI Ham System: http://www.kolumbus.fi/jukka.kallio/
          SD by EI5DI: http://www.ei5di.com/
  Wincontest by I8VKB: http://digilander.iol.it/wincontest/
      YP-Log by VE6YP: http://members.shaw.ca/ve6yp/

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

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  Olivier, F5MZN, writer of the contest log software EDITEST,
  has written a new FREEWARE Windows version of his software
  to manage the DX side of the French Championship.
  It has CT-like commands, Cabrillo and ADIF export, a huge
  database of french stations etc...

  You can download it at:
    http://download.wintest.online.fr/wt-2.0_ref-dx-side.exe
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SM3CER Contest Service Software Page:
  http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/software.htm


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MORE INFO:

  REF UNION Web Site: http://www.ref-union.org/

  Original Rules in French:
    http://www.ref-union.org/concours/reglements/2003/reg_cdfhf_fr_0212.pdf

  REF Contest Cabrillo format:
    http://www.ref-union.org/concours/informations/fmt_cabrillo_fr_0212.pdf


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

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