[CQ-Contest] PSK31 Contest Announcement

Antony J. Heatwole aheatwole at hns.com
Thu Aug 31 10:10:21 EDT 2000


[Forwarded from PSK31 and WriteLog reflectors by Tony Heatwole, N3FX]

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:07:22 -0400
From: "Andrew J. O'Brien" <obrienaj at netsync.net>
Subject: Psk31 contest

Announcing the 2nd Annual CCCC PSK31 Contest:

Sponsored by the Chautauqua County Contest Club and the Digitalradio
Reflector

DATE: 0000 UTC September 2,  2000 2359.59 UTC September 2, 2000

Objectives:  Have fun and work as many PSK31 contacts from around the world
as you can!

Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 m.

Classes:

A: Single Operator / All Band

B: Single Operator / Single Band

C: Multi Operator / Single TX / All Band

D: SWL / All Band

NOTE 1:

Single operator all band may also enter as a single band entry of their
choice too.

NOTE 2:

DX spotting and alerting assistance is permitted in all classes.

Modes:

PSK31: BPSK or QPSK ONLY (no PSK63F)

EXCHANGES:

RST + QSO number, starting with 001.

QSO Points:

QSO with own country, 5 points.

QSO with other countries in own continent 10 points.

QSO with other continents 15 points.

Same station can be worked once on each band.

In VK, VE, JA and W, each call area will count as separate country.

Multipliers:

Each DXCC country on each band, including first contact with Australia,
Canada, Japan and USA. Additionally, each call area in VK, VE, JA and W will
count as one (1) multiplier on each band.

NOTE:

Stations operating from call areas other than their call ID, are asked to
use '/x' for their actual call area, i.e. K5DJ/1.
Software Support for Scoring:  Contest supported by Mix32 software and
RCKRtty  software. The contest uses SARTG WW RTTY Contest scoring format
which may be supported by other contest software .

Scoring:

Sum of QSO points x sum of multipliers = TOTAL SCORE.

Awards:

E-certificates awarded  to the top stations in each class, country and
district, if the number of QSOs is reasonable.
Due to cost, lost mail, printing hassles, returned mail , broken computers,
Murphy's law, and other difficulties , we will no longer send paper
certificates via regular mail

Logs: Logs must be submitted in ASCII format Use separate log sheets for
each band.
Log must show: BAND, DATE/TIME (UTC), CALLSIGN, EXCHANGE MESSAGE SENT and
RECEIVED, MULTIPLIERS, and QSO points.
Summary sheet must show scoring, class, your callsign, name and address.
Multi-Op stations must show the callsign and names of all operators
involved.

Please advise of any club participation, your score will be added to the
aggregated score of your club.

Your comments will be very much appreciated.

Logs Deadline:

Logs must be received by October 30 to qualify.

Mail logs to:

E-mail: logs to  obrienaj at netsync.net

or via regular mail to :
PSK CONTEST , Andrew O'Brien  KB2EOQ, 9082 Concord Drive
Fredonia, NY 14063 . USA  (NO GREEN STAMPS!!!)

Results published :  Claimed Scores Page :
http://www.netsync.net/users/obrienaj/cccc2.htm

Homepage  http://www.netsync.net/users/obrienaj/carc.htm

Thanks to Scandinavian Amateur Radio Teleprinter Group for contest  format


1999 Winners

World-Wide All Bands P43P
Europe -All Bands  YU7YG
Asia - All Bands  JA6UBK
N. America - All Bands NB1B
Africa - All Bands  VQ9IO
Aus-NZ - All Bands  VK2BGL
S-Central America- All Bands LV5V *

Single Band- World Wide 20M P43P
Single Band -World Wide 15M ER0F
Single Band-World Wide 10M G4ZKJ
Single Band- Europe 20M IT9GKQ
Single Band-Europe 15M ER0F
Single Band -Asia 20M  JA3CMD
Single Band-Asia 15M JE3HHT
Single Band- N. America 20M K4GMH
Single Band -N. America 15M WB0TEV/5
Single Band -Australia/NZ 20M VK3EW
Single Band -South/Central America 20M HK3WGQ*
Single Band -South/Central America 15M PY3CRX


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