[SD-User] RDA Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

The Russian District Award Contest (RDA) takes place from
08:00 UTC on Saturday 17th to 07:59 UTC on Sunday 18th August.
There are CW, SSB and Mixed sections, for both HP and LP, on
the 6 contest bands from 160-10m.

Rules at
http://rdaward.org/rdac1.htm

SD V17.12 runs on Windows XP and later, and is free from
http://www.ei5di.com.

     Russian Entrants - select the "RDA, Russia" template
     Others           - select the "RDA, DX" template.

If you're outside Russia, work Russians only.  SD displays
inappropriate callsigns or prefixes in red.  If they're
not red, they're OK to work for points.

Russians:  Send RST + 4-character district code.
Others  :  Sent RST + Serial.

SD adds new district codes to the RDA district-code
reference file as they are logged.  It also loads RDA.LST
at startup - a callsign database with some 26000 Russian
callsigns extracted from previous RDA logs.  SD then
auto-fills the 4-character district code on a callsign
match.

Use SDCHECK to create your Cabrillo .LOG file.  Ensure that
the CATEGORY: record corresponds to one of the options
listed in the rules.  Please mention SD in your Cabrillo
soapbox comments.

Upload your log at
http://ua9qcq.com/en/submit_log.php

or send it to
rx3rc at rdaward dot org


73,
Paul EI5DI