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A reminder that the Eu Sprint contests have been moved forward in the
contest calendar, the phone sprint will be this Saturday 14th and the CW
sprint will be next Saturday 21st April.
The contest period is 15.00z-18.59z on 20, 40 and 80m. The rules are below
and you can get further details including past results and free logging
software from the web site www.kkn.net/~i2uiy
Dave G4BUO
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Entrants: any licensed station may enter the Sprint. European stations can
work everybody, stations outside of Europe can work only European stations.
Categories: Single Operator ONLY. Only ONE signal may be aired at one time.
EU SPRINT Spring:
SSB: second Saturday in April - 14 April 2001 - managed by G4BUO
CW: third Saturday in April - 21 April 2001 - managed by B.C.C.
EU SPRINT Autumn:
SSB: first Saturday in October - 6 October 2001 - managed by I2UIY
CW: second Saturday in October - 13 October 2001 - managed by OK2FD
Time: from 15:00 UTC until 18:59 UTC.
Bands: 20, 40 and 80 metres only.
Pilot frequencies are: SSB: 14.250, 7.050, 3.730. CW: 14.040, 7.025, 3.550
Exchange: all of the following data MUST BE PART OF THE EXCHANGE:
a) your callsign,
b) the other station's callsign,
c) your serial number starting from 001 (RST not required),
d) your name or nickname.
Please note that BOTH callsigns MUST be repeated by BOTH stations.
A valid exchange is: "OK2FD de I2UIY 118 Paolo" while "OK2FD 118 Paolo" is
NOT a valid exchange.
Special QSY Rule: if any station initiates a call (by sending CQ, QRZ?,
etc.), he is permitted to work ONLY one station on the same frequency. He
must thereafter move AT LEAST 2 (two) kHz before he may call another
station or before he may solicit again (CQ, QRZ?, etc.) other calls.
Valid contacts: valid contacts are QSOs correctly logged and confirmed.
Each operator may use ONE and ONLY one name during the Sprint. If the
exchange is copied incorrectly, that operator will receive zero (0) points.
In case of miscopied callsigns, both stations will receive zero (0) points
for that QSO.
Scoring: each valid QSO counts one 1 (one) point. The final score is the
total number of QSOs.
Awards: Colourful certificates will be issued to the winners of each
sprint, and to the leaders in each country. A special plaque will also be
awarded for the top three scores from all four contests combined. To be
eligible for this award an operator must enter at least three of the
sprints in the year. Results will be forwarded as soon as possible to
Leagues, magazines and bulletins.
Logs: a single chronological log is required. Please send us your log via
email or on a floppy disk, if you use computer for logging. Use any of the
available software or send a plain ASCII file. A separate summary sheet is
also required. Please send us the right files: for DL2NBU software, send
yourcall.ASC; for N6TR software, send yourcall.DAT; for IK4EWK software,
send yourcall.DBF.
If you want the latest release of the DL2NBU software, you can download
it from <http://www.kkn.net/~i2uiy/free_sw/eu_sprint.zip>.
Log files must be sent NO LATER than 15 days after the contest to:
<eusprint@dl6rai.muc.de>. The receipt of your electronic log will be
confirmed. If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, try again
or use the postal system.
Disk logs, or paper entries must be posted NO LATER than 15 days after the
contest to the appropriate address:
- Spring SSB Sprint: Dave Lawley, G4BUO, Carramore, Coldharbour Road,
Penshurst, Kent, TN11 8EX, England, UK.
- Spring CW Sprint: Bernhard Buettner, DL6RAI, Schmidweg 17, 85609 Dornach,
Germany.
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