[UK-CONTEST] European Sprint Contests

Tue Apr 9 13:56:18 EDT 2002

The European phone sprint takes place this coming Saturday, 13th April
and the CW sprint is the following Saturday, 20th. The great thing about
the sprint format is that you can't stay on a frequency and CQ endlessly.
After calling CQ or QRZ and making a contact, you must QSY at least 2kHz.
The need to keep QSYing keeps you on your toes and the four hours pass 
very quickly.

You'll see from the rules that I am the manager for the phone sprint and
you can post or email your logs to me (g4buo at compuserve.com) If you're
wondering which software to use, DL2NBU's program is very much like CT. It
is FREE and available from the web site. The .ASC file it produces is read
directly into the checking software which helps speed up the checking
process. SD and TR both support the Eu sprint, and if you prefer to log 
on paper, that's fine as well. 

As you'll see from the rules below, the sprints are 4-hour contests
starting at 15.00z and run on 20, 40 and 80m only. Activity always starts on
20m, and after an hour or so a few participants can be heard migrating to
40m. 80m is mainly used in the last hour. 

Dave G4BUO

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                            EU SPRINT 2002

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 13!

                            EU SPRINT 2002

The  EU  Sprint  Gang hereby invites you to participate  in  the  four 
European Sprint Contests held in 2002.

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 Spring:
 * SSB: second Saturday in April - 13 April 2002 - managed by G4BUO
 * CW: third Saturday in April - 20 April 2002 - managed by I2UIY
EU SPRINT Autumn:
 * SSB: first Saturday in October - 5 October 2002 - managed by I2UIY
 * CW: second Saturday in October - 12 October 2002 - 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 official web site  at  this  address: 
<http://loja.kkn.net/~i2uiy/>. 
Log  files  must be sent NO LATER than 15 days after the  contest  to: 
<eusprint at kkn.net>.  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, UK.
 *  Spring CW Sprint: Paolo Cortese, I2UIY, P. O. Box 14, 27043  Broni 
(PV), Italy.
 * 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.