[SESprint] Southern Sprint Coalition Teams

[Jim White, K4OJ]

Just for info:

    1. Eligibility: Any licensed radio amateur may enter.

    2. Object: For North American stations to contact as many licensed 
radio amateurs as possible. For non-North American stations to contact 
as many North American stations as possible.

    3. Entry Classification: High power, low power (100W) and QRP (5W). 
Single operator only. Use of helpers, packet or spotting nets is not 
permitted.

    4. Contest Periods:

       February/March 2003 Contests:

       SSB: 0000Z - 0400Z February 2, 2003 (Sunday of first full weekend 
in February)
       CW: 0000Z - 0400Z February 9, 2003 (Sunday of second full weekend 
in February)
       RTTY: 0000Z - 0400Z March 9, 2003 (Sunday of second full weekend 
in March)

       September/October 2003 Contests:

       CW: 0000Z - 0400Z September 7, 2003 (first Sunday following first 
Monday in September)
       SSB: 0000Z - 0400Z September 14, 2003 (second Sunay following 
first Monday in September)
       RTTY: 0000Z - 0400Z October 12, 2003 (Sunday of second full 
weekend in October)

       These are entirely separate four-hour Sprints. Note that the CW 
Sprint comes before the SSB Sprint in September, but not in February.

    5. Mode: CW only in CW Sprints, SSB only in SSB Sprints, RTTY only 
in RTTY Sprints.

    6. Bands: 80, 40 and 20 meters only. Suggested frequencies are 
around 3540, 7040 and 14040 kHz on CW; 3850, 7225 and 14275 kHz on 
Phone; and 3580, 7080 and 14080 kHz on RTTY. You may work the same 
station once per band.

       Note: For RTTY only, the same station can be worked multiple 
times provided 3 contacts separate the contact in both logs, regardless 
of band.

    7. Exchange: To have a valid exchange, you must send all of the 
following information: the other station's call, your call, your serial 
number, your name and your location (state, province or country). You 
may send this information in any order. For example:

       N6TR DE K7GM 154 RICK NC K
       K7GM NR 122 TREE OR DE N6TR K

    8. Valid Contact: A valid contact consists of a complete, correctly 
copied and logged two-way exchange between a North American station and 
another station. Proper logging requires including the time of each 
contact. Serial numbers must begin with serial number one and be 
sequential thereafter.

    9. North American Station: Defined by the rules of the CQ WW DX 
Contests. Note that KH6 is not in North America.

   10. Scoring: Multiply total valid contacts by the sum of U.S. states, 
Canadian Provinces and other North American Countries to get final score 
(do not count USA and Canada as countries). KH6 is not counted as a 
State and is not a North American country (but counts for QSO credit). 
The eight Canadian multipliers are Maritime (VE1, VE9, VO1, VO2 and 
VY2), VE2 through VE7, and Yukon-NWT (VYØ, VY1 and VE8). Non-North 
American countries do not count as multipliers, but do count for QSO 
credit for North American stations.

   11. Special QSY Rule: If any station solicits a call (by sending CQ, 
QRZ?, "going up 5 kHz," or any other means of soliciting a response, 
including completion of a QSO where the frequency was inherited), they 
are permitted to work only one station in response to that solicitation. 
They must thereafter move at least 1 kHz before calling another station, 
or at least 5 kHz before soliciting other calls. Once a station is 
required to QSY, that station is not allowed to make another QSO on the 
vacated frequency until or unless at least one subsequent QSO is made on 
a new frequency.

   12. Additional Rules: Simultaneous transmission on more than one 
frequency is prohibited. All contacts must be sent and received using 
means requiring real-time human intervention, detection and initiation. 
Each operator must use only one call sign during the contest.

#

Send CW logs to: Boring Amateur Radio Club
15125 Bartell Road
Boring, OR 97009
USA
e-mail: cwsprint at ncjweb.com
Send phone logs to: Jim Stevens, K4MA
6609 Vardon Ct.
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
USA
e-mail: ssbsprint at ncjweb.com
Send RTTY logs to: Douglas McDuff, W4OX
10380 SW 112th Street
Miami, FL 33176
USA
e-mail: rttysprint at ncjweb.com

Entries must be received no later than 7 days after the Sprint. All 
competitive logs (more than 100 QSOs) must be submitted electronically 
(e-mail, 3.5-inch floppy disk, etc.). The file format for electronic 
logs for NCJ-sponsored contests is Cabrillo. Entrants who do not use 
computer logging are encouraged to use the log-entry web form, available 
at http://www.ncjweb.com/manualsprintlog.php, to enter the QSO info from 
their paper logs.

# Team Competition: Team competition is limited to a maximum of 10 
operators as a single entry unit. Groups having more than ten team 
members may submit more than one team entry. To qualify as a team entry, 
the team registration form on the NCJ web site must be completed before 
the contest starts. Use one of the following links:
CW Team Registration: http://www.ncjweb.com/cwsprintteamreg.php
SSB Team Registration: http://www.ncjweb.com/ssbsprintteamreg.php
RTTY Team Registration: http://www.ncjweb.com/rttysprintteamreg.php

# Penalties and Disqualification: Contacts with incorrect received 
information will be removed. Contacts not found in the other station's 
log will be removed with a one QSO penalty. Entries with score 
reductions in excess of 5 percent may be disqualified. Any entry may 
also be disqualified for illegibility, illegal or unethical operation.