[CQ-Contest] UBA - SWARL 365 Days Contest 2004

[Marc Domen, ON7SS]

UBA - SWARL 365 Days Contest 2004

The Royal Society of Belgian Radio Amateurs (UBA) and Short Wave Amateur
Radio Listening (SWARL) invite every licensed radio amateur and short wave
listener to participate in this contest. The aim of this contest is to work
or hear as many DXCC countries as possible, on the various bands as
stipulated in the rules, during a period of one year starting on January 1st
at 00:00 hrs. UTC, and this without obligation of confirmation by a
QSL-card.

1 Duration
The contest begins on January 1st 2004 at 00:00 UTC, and ends on the
December 31st 2004 at 24:00 UTC.
2 Participants
All licensed radio amateurs, and short wave listeners, even without a short
wave listener's number, are welcome.
3 Categories
There is only one category:
Category 1 = MIXED-mode, meaning SSB, CW, RTTY and all the new digital modes
like PSK, Throb, MT63, HELL, Pactor, MFSK etc.
4 Bands
Logging takes place on all HF bands, i.e. 160, 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12
and 10 meter bands. Respect the IARU band planning recommendations. This
means e.g. that SSB QSO's may not be logged on 10 MHz.
5 Logs
Logs should be established in alphabetical order according to the normal
country prefix. The logs should comprise the following information: 1-
DXCC-country (*), 2- Callsign of the station heard, 3- Frequency (in MHz),
4- Mode, 5- Date, 6- Time (in UTC), 7- RS(T) (QTH SWL or Licensed Ham), 8-
Callsign of the QSOs partner (for licensed Hams, his own callsign). Do not
forget to put your Callsign or SWL number, your name, address, and club
section in the heading of your logbook.
(*) The normal prefix of the countries concerned should be entered in the
DXCC column.
6 Summary sheet
All logs (final and intermediate, see par. 10) shall be accompanied by a
summary sheet. These summary sheets shall include the following information:
your callsign or SWL number, the category of participation, your surname and
given name, your address and E-Mail, the number of DXCC countries per band,
possiblel remarks and observations, a station description, and the following
signed declaration: "I hereby declare that I operated my station in
accordance with the contest rules. I accept the decision of the contest
committee."
7 Scores
Each DXCC country counts only once per band and counts for one (01) point.
8 Multipliers
This year no multipliers (maybe in the future).
9 Winner
The winner is the participant with the highest number of logged DXCC lands
on all bands together.
10 Submission of log and summary sheet
Provisional (intermediate) summary sheets MUST be submitted three times per
year, these sheets must contain the information outlined in par. 6 above.
These must reach the contest manager by the end of the month following the
closing date.
Closing date 1st period = March 31s t
Closing date 2nd period = June 30th
Closing date 3rd period = September 30th
The final log and final summary sheet must reach the contest manager by the
end of the month following the final closing date. The date of the E-mail is
the only proof. Logs that are sent after the deadline will not be considered
for the competition.
11 Results
Both the interim results and the final results will be published in CQ-QSO,
on the UBA web page ( http://www.UBA.be  ), in the ONL/SWL section and on
the SWARL reflector SWARL ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWARL/  ), and on
my homepage ( http://users.skynet.be/ONL4299/Contest/1Contestinfo.htm  ).
All participants having fulfilled the requirements of par. 10 will
automatically receive the final results.
12 Address
Logs and summary sheets should be sent to the contest manager only via
E-mail
( onl4299 at skynet.be  ).
13 Awards and plaques
The participants placed first and second in both the HAM and SWL categories,
will receive a plaque sponsored by the UBA (The Royal Society of Belgian
Radio Amateurs). The first ten will receive a e-certificate sponsored by
SWARL (Short Wave Amateur Radio Listening).
14 Penalties and disqualification
Penalties are applicable for incomplete or inaccurate contacts. Such QSO's
will score zero points but there will be no additional penalty. Each
unidentified duplicate DXCC country is deleted and penalised by deduction of
5 points.
Disqualification is foreseen for logs which manifestly break the rules.

Good hunting !

Patrick - ONL4299,
E-mail : ONL4299 at skynet.be





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