::.  RULES YLRL Howdy Days YLRL encourages Amateur Radio competition by sponsoring several contests, some open only to YLs and others which both YLs and OMs can participate in.

MORE INFO Text-only page General Rules for YLRL Contests WEB

Date/Time:

CW & SSB: 1400 UTC, September 10, 2003 to 0200 UTC, September 12, 2003

Eligibility:

All licensed women operators throughout the world are invited to participate.

Procedure:

Call "CQ YL".

Operation:

All bands and modes of emission may be used. A station may be worked and counted once on each band and mode for QSO points. The maximum power output that may be used at any time during the contest is 750 watts on CW and 1500 watts PEP on SSB. Participants may work only 24 hours of the 36 hours in each contest. Operating breaks must be indicated in the log. RTTY will count as CW.

Exchange:

YLRL member or non-YLRL member? Entries in log must also show date, time, band, call or station worked.

Scoring:

Score two points for each YLRL member worked and one point for each non-YLRL member worked. There are no multipliers.

Suggested frequencies:

Try listening around 7.233, 14.288, 14.298, 21.388, 28.433 on voice, basically frequencies ending in 33 or 88. Similarly for CW.

Logs:

All logs must show if operator is a YLRL member or non-member to be eligible for awards.

Awards:

Top scoring YLRL member will receive her choice of a YLRL pin, charm, or stationery. Top scoring non-YLRL member will receive a one-year YLRL membership.

Date of info: 7 April, 2003 Original rules updated: 20 January, 2003	Source: YLRL Web Site