[UK-CONTEST] European Sprint Contests

[Dave Lawley]

The European phone sprint takes place this coming Saturday, 12th April
and the CW sprint is the following Saturday, 19th. Sorry about the clash
with
Easter. 

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)

SD supports the sprint - it's option 12. For those who are used to CT, the 
free software from DL2NBU works just like CT. It can be downloaded from
the Eu sprint web site   http://www.qsl.net/eusprint
TRlog and N1MM also 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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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 - 12 April 2003 - managed by G4BUO
   CW: third Saturday in April - 19 April 2003 - managed by I2UIY
 
 EU SPRINT Autumn:
   SSB: first Saturday in October - 4 October 2003 - managed by I2UIY 
   CW: second Saturday in October - 11 October 2003 - 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:
 your callsign,  
 the other station's callsign, 
 your serial number starting from 001 (RST not required),  
 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: Colourful 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://www.qsl.net/eusprint>. 

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, England, 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, and the
B.C.C. Sprint Committee.