::. RULES
UBA - Welcome to the
European Union Contest |
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| The UBA has the honour and the pleasure to announce that this contest will be challenged under the Patronage of the EU (EUROPEAN UNION) Commission, responsible for Communication, Information and Culture. This contest is organised only once to celebrate the official entry date of 10 new member states of the EU. |
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To contact as many European Union and other amateurs as possible to welcome state-members in the European Union. This is a welcome and friendship contest, so HAM spirit is the main goal of this event. |
May 1, 2004 from 0000 UTC until 2400 UTC |
- A. Single Operator 6 hours
- B. Single Operator 12 hours
- C. Single Operator 24 hours
- D. Multi Operator Single Transmitter 24 hours
- E. SWL 24 hours (rules under item 10)
REMARKS:
In all categories ONLY ONE transceiver (or receiver) and transmitting signal is allowed at any time during the contest, so NO multiplier station permitted.
All Classes are working in mixed mode: CW, SSB and digital. (digital is RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV).
Each Class is divided in QRP (max 5 W), low power (100 W) and high power. Every station can be worked only once on each band in each mode.
It is not allowed to switch to another mode on the same frequency. The generally accepted mode subband must be used. CW QSOs can only be made in the CW-only subbands.
The use of DX-Cluster facilities is permitted in all categories. (Self spotting however is forbidden).
Participation in the 6 our 12 hour category can be done with operating periods of not less than 1 hour, spread over the entire contest period. |
Bands to be used: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. The IARU band plan as well as the frequencies proposed by the HF Contest committee must be adhered to. At this time, the preferential frequencies are:
CW: 1.810- 1838; 3.510 - 3.560; 7.000 - 7.035; 14.000 - 14.060; 21.000 - 21.080 & 28.000 - 28.070 MHz.
SSB: > 1.843; 3.600 - 3.650; 3.700 - 3.775; 7.040 - 7.100; 14.125 - 14.300; 21.175 - 21.350 & 28.400 - 28.700 MHz.
Digimode: 1.838 - 1.842; 3.580 - 3.600; 7.035 - 7.045; 14.070 - 14.099; 21.080 - 21.120; 28.050 - 28.150.
The band segments 3.500 - 3.510 and 3.775 - 3.800 shall not be used unless for DX contacts (this means no one shall call "CQ Contest" in those segments). |
| 5. Contest Call and exchange: |
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Suggested call on CW "TEST WEU" and on SSB "CQ WEU".
Exchange: RS(T) + serial number starting from 001 for each log. |
Each QSO with a station from a new member country of the EU (EUROPEAN UNION) counts 25 points.
The new member states are: ES, LY, YL, SP, OK, OM, HA, S5, 9H, 5B.
Each QSO with another EU (EUROPEAN UNION) member station of the EU (EUROPEAN UNION) counts 10 points.
These member states are: CT, CU, DL, EA, EA6, EI, F, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GU, GW, I, IS, LX, OE, OH, OHØ, OJØ, ON, OZ, PA, SM, SV, SV5, SV9, SY and TK.
QSOs with any other station outside the EU (EUROPEAN UNION) counts 3 points.
QSOs with own country count 1 point.
A QSO with OR5EU (callsign of radio-club of the European Union) counts 100 points. |
Every different prefix of each of the EU countries counts as a multiplier, once on each band. Prefixes are defined according to WPX rules. |
Total QSO points (from all bands) times the total number of multiplier points (from all bands). |
Only 1 log per station will be accepted.
Logs on floppy or by Email:
Logs will be accepted as long as they are in ASCII (readable by a simple text editor) or CABRILLO format, and respect the IARU format (1 QSO per record). Every record will be terminated by a CR/LF. We strongly encourage participants to use a freeware log software specially made for this contest will be available from the UBA-website. The contest manager will send you a copy upon request and after having received a SAE with a formatted disk from you. Files to be submitted are MYCALL.ALL and MYCALL.SUM where "MYCALL" is your call sign. Each log submission will include a summary sheet (cf. 9.3). Logs in ADIF format will also be accepted; they should have all info in the header (summary) and be submitted as MYCALL.ADIF.
Summary sheet:
EACH log will be send with a summary sheet. This one must include:
- Your call sign.
- Your Name, first name and complete address.
- The category in which you took part.
- For the Multi op station, the complete list of operators.
The log summary sheet shall contain the following signed declaration: "I declare that all contest rules and all the rules and regulations for amateur radio operations in my country have been observed and adhered to. I accept the decisions of the Contest Committee".
Incomplete logs will be used as "Check logs". |
Any station heard giving a contest report - RS(T)+serial - is considered as taking place in this contest.
Logs should show in columns: Time (UTC), callsign of "Station Heard", complete exchange sent by this station, callsign of station being worked, a RS(T) report on "Station Heard" at SWL’s QTH, new multiplier and points claimed.
If both sides of a contest contact are heard they may be claimed as separate stations and the callsigns have to appear in the "Station Heard" column. A station may only appear once per band as station heard. In the column "Station Worked" the same station may only be repeated again after 5 other QSOs, or on another band, or after an interval of 10 minutes.
Scoring and multipliers as for transmitting stations. |
| 11. Address for Log submissions: |
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All logs must be postmarked not later than May 30, 2004. Late logs will not be considered for the competition.
The logs must be send to:
| Mailing address: |
Carine Ramon - ON7LX
UBA HF Manager
Bruggesteenweg 77
B-8755 RUISELEDE
BELGIUM |
Contest logs via E-mail at following address:
The logs sent by E-mail must meet the specifications as outlined above for computer logs. We will confirm reception of your log. |
The stations having sent US $ 5.00 or € 5,00 with their log will receive the results by direct mail. The quickest way to receive the results is to mention your Email address in your log.
Awards will be sent to the highest scoring stations from each class in each country and W, VE, PY, ZL, JA, VK and UA call area provided they have logged at least 40 valid contacts.
Other participants receive a certificate when 40 valid contacts are logged. |
| 13. Penalties and disqualification: |
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Penalties:
Incomplete, incorrect or unreadable exchanges: the QSO will count for zero points, but no additional penalty will be applied.
Deduction of 10 times QSO value for any unmarked duplicate contact.
Disqualification:
For cheating, imaginary logging and clear, repetitive and intentional violation of the contest rules.
For continuous or repetitive violation or total negation of the IARU band plan.
If the total amount of unmarked duplicate contacts amounts to more than 2 % of the total number of contacts.
The decisions of the contest committee are final. |
A selection of pictures of operators in action will be published with the results, so please send us your picture. Please send your comments with your contest log and send us a picture. |
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