[CQ-Contest] EU Sprint 2001

I2UIY i2uiy at cqww.com
Mon Oct 1 23:52:12 EDT 2001


EU SPRINT 2001
In 1994 the EU Sprint Gang (I2UIY, OK2FD, DL6RAI, and G4BUO) organized  the 
first European Sprint contests. For 2001 there have been some rule changes, 
introducing an awards programme and bringing the Spring Sprints forward  in 
the  calendar.  You can find past scores and other  information  about  the 
sprints  by  visiting  the official EU Sprint web  site  at  this  address: 
<http://loja.kkn.net/~i2uiy/>.
The BIG news is that now we will award a certificate to the winners in each 
country but this is not all. Three nice plaques will be awarded for the top 
three scores from all four contests combined. Therefore, please red  circle 
the  four EU Sprint saturdays on your calendar, we will be looking for  you 
starting April 14!

EU SPRINT 2001
The  EU Sprint Gang hereby invites you to participate in the four  European 
Sprint Contests held in 2001.

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.
DATES:
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 stations MUST repeat  BOTH  callsigns  DURING  the 
exchange. 
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: Colorful 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 the EU Sprint web site:
<http://loja.kkn.net/~i2uiy/free_sw/eu_sprint.zip>. 
Log files must be sent NO LATER than 15 days after the contest to: 
<eusprint at dl6rai.muc.de>. The receipt of your electronic log will be
confirmed. 
If you do not 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.
  *  Autumn  SSB Sprint: Paolo Cortese, I2UIY, P. O. Box  14,  27043  Broni 
(PV), Italy.
  *  Autumn  CW  Sprint: Karel Karmasin, OK2FD, Gen. Svobody  636,  674  01 
Trebic, Czech Republic.

Thanks  in advance for your participation de: G4BUO, I2UIY, OK2FD, and  the 
B.C.C. Sprint Committee. 


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>From k5na at texas.net, wm5r at arrl.net  Mon Oct  1 21:54:43 2001
From: k5na at texas.net, wm5r at arrl.net (Kenneth E. Harker)
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:54:43 -0500
Subject: [CQ-Contest] W1AW/5 IARU 2002 Bulletin #1
Message-ID: <20011001155443.F27315 at cs.utexas.edu>


BULLETIN #1
25 September 2001

Steering Committee Selects Stations by Band-Mode For W1AW/5

The Steering Committee for the W1AW/5 effort in the 2002 IARU HF 
World Championship met in September to discuss which stations
would be best suited to host each of the twelve band-modes in the contest.
After significant debate, and consultation with the station owners, the
following is the planned arrangement of primary stations for each band-mode.
The Steering Committee intends to come up with contingency plans to deal
with unexpected future changes in these band-mode assignments.

W1AW/5 Chairman Richard King K5NA addressed the selected stations: "We 
want to produce the best score ever done from the USA by any HQ station 
effort in the past and threaten, if not beat, the best of the European 
HQ stations."

Six stations in five central Texas counties will represent the United States 
of America.  With the big contest a little under a year away, many of these 
stations are planning to further improve their band-modes.  Updates will be 
made as they become available.

Please direct comments or questions about W1AW/5 in the 2002 IARU World 
Championship to Richard King K5NA at k5na at texas.net.


Station Matrix

Band   Station County     Grid    Antennas
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160CW  N5TW    Williamson EM10dp  Four Square, with buried radial system
                                  Beverages at 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 
                                  270, 315 degrees
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160SSB NX5M    Burleson   EM10ri  Inverted V @ 85'
                                  Vertical T @ 104'
                                  Beverages at 20, 45, 90, 120, 270, 300, 
                                  330 degrees
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80CW   K5NA    Travis     EM10fk  Sloper Dipole NE @ 168'
                                  Sloper Dipole NW @ 168'
                                  Sloper Dipole S @ 168'
                                  Two element quad NE @ 180'
                                  Two element quad NW @ 160'
                                  Beverages at 0, 45, 90, 135, 315 degrees
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80SSB  K5TR    Blanco     EM00uf  Sloper Dipole NE @ 120'
                                  Sloper Dipole NW @ 120'
                                  Sloper Dipole S @ 120'
                                  Dipole N-S @ 130'
                                  1/4 wave vertical
                                  Beverages at 45, 135, 225, 270, 315 degrees
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
40CW   K5NA    Travis     EM10fk  Cushcraft XM240 @ 197' rotatable
                                  Cushcraft XM240 @ 132' fixed NE
                                  Cushcraft XM240 @ 67' rotatable
                                  Cushcraft XM240 @ 95'  rotatable
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
40SSB  W5KFT   Llano      EM00st  Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 150', rotatable
                                  Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 67', fixed NE
                                  Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 80', rotatable
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20CW   N5TW    Williamson EM10dp  M2 5-element monobander @ 130', rotatable
                                  M2 5-element monobander @ 86', rotatable
                                  M2 5-element monobander @ 43', rotatable
                                  Force 12 3-element monobander @ 65', fixed SE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
20SSB  K5TR    Blanco     EM00uf  6-element monobander @ 90', rotatable
                                  6-element monobander @ 40', fixed NW
                                  6-element monobander @ 90', fixed NE
                                  6-element monobander @ 40', fixed NE
                                  4-element monobander @ 60', fixed SE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
15CW   W5KFT   Llano      EM00st  Hygain 155CA @ 135', rotatable
                                  Hygain 155CA @ 90', fixed NE
                                  Hygain 155CA @ 45', fixed NE
                                  Hygain TH7 @ 70', rotatable
                                  Hygain TH7 @ 35', fixed NW
                                  Hygain TH7DX @ 60', rotatable
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
15SSB  K5NA    Travis     EM10fk  Cushcraft XM515 @ 168' rotatable
                                  Cushcraft XM515 @ 127', fixed NE
                                  Cushcraft XM515 @ 86', fixed NE
                                  Cushcraft XM515 @ 45', rotatable
                                  Cushcraft XM515 @ 100', rotatable
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
10CW   N5CQ    Travis     EM10bg  Force-12 C-4XL @ 195', rotatable
                                  Force-12 C-3 @ 155', rotatable
                                  Force-12 C-4XL @ 125', rotatable
                                  Force-12 C-3 @ 95', rotatable
                                  Force-12 C-4XL @ 65', rotatable
                                  Force-12 C-3 @ 35', rotatable
                                  Force-12 C-4XL @ 75', rotatable
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10SSB  NX5M    Burleson   EM10ri  Three-element yagi @ 87', rotatable
                                  Three-element yagi @ 70', fixed NW
                                  Six-element yagi @ 51', fixed NE
                                  Three-element yagi @ 35', fixed W
				  Five-element yagi @ 104', rotatable
                                  Five-element yagi @ 80', fixed NW
                                  Six-element yagi @ 72', fixed NE
                                  Five-element yagi @ 56', fixed SE
                                  Five-element yagi @ 40', fixed SW
                                  Four-element yagi @ 40', fixed NE
                                  Four-element yagi @ 35', fixed NW
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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences         President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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