[UK-CONTEST] Invitation to join the UK CW table for 2004 (2nd
attempt)!
G3WGV at aol.com
G3WGV at aol.com
Sun Jan 4 18:27:50 EST 2004
I apologise for the lack of formatting on the previous message! For some
odd reason my outgoing messages are occasionally missing all the blank lines,
so the paragraph spacing get lost. Here it is in a slightly more readable
format:
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TO ALL UK CW OPERATORS
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You are invited to join the 22nd annual UK 10-band CW table, starting
1st January 2004.
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WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT THEN?
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The purpose of the table is to encourage CW activity on the HF bands and
six metres. Each year participants start afresh and work as many DXCC
entities on each of the ten bands as possible between 0000Z on 1st January
and 2359Z on 31st December. All UK Radio Amateurs are welcome to
participate. You do not have to be active on all bands to make an entry.
You just have to make some QSOs using Morse Code!
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All CW QSOs count: rag chewing, contests, general DXing. No QSL cards are
required: you are on your honour to report your score honestly. There are
no prizes, it's just a bit of fun and it helps to keep CW activity going
throughout the year.
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HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
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Scores can be submitted to the table manager, G3WGV in the following ways:
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* Via Internet e-mail to cw at g3wgv.com (preferred route)
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* Via the UK Packet Cluster, mail sent to G3WGV
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Your score should be set weekly as of 2000Z on the Sunday. If you send
your score in by 2000Z the following Tuesday, it will be included in that
week's tabulation. Send your score as a single line of text in the
following format:
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00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 TT DD
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Where:
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00 is your in-year DXCC score for 1.8MHz
11 is your in-year DXCC score for 3.5MHz
22 is your in-year DXCC score for 7.0MHz
33 is your in-year DXCC score for 10.1MHz
44 is your in-year DXCC score for 14.0MHz
55 is your in-year DXCC score for 18.0MHz
66 is your in-year DXCC score for 21.0MHz
77 is your in-year DXCC score for 24.9MHz
88 is your in-year DXCC score for 28.0MHz
99 is your in-year DXCC score for 50.0MHz
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TT is the sum [00..99] i.e. the sum of all the band scores
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DD is your all-bands DXCC total for the year.
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NB: any band scores that are zero must be shown as such.
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An example:
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5 17 21 0 125 14 101 4 75 1 363 127
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This means that I have worked 5 DXCC Entities on 160m, 17 on 80m, etc. My
total number of band lots is 363 and my all-bands DXCC total is 127.
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You can, of course include other comments with your e-mail. I am always
interested to hear your news and if it's of interest to the rest of the
group then I will attach it to that week's table, unless you ask me not to.
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HOW DO I SEE THE TABLE?
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Tables are published weekly as follows:
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* Via the UK Packet Cluster, as a bulletin to "UK".
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* Via the Internet as an e-mail message.
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To obtain the table via Internet e-mail, please send an e-mail to
<ukcwtable-subscribe at yahoogroups.com>. This will request inclusion in the
distribution list. The subject and content fields are completely ignored
by the registration process, so if your callsign is not obvious from your
e-mail address, please send me a separate e-mail with your callsign.
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WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT?
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The 2004 table has just started. Start keeping track of your scores and
submit them to me as shown above. That's it! It's really a lot of fun -
it makes having those QSOs with UA3 on al bands worthwhile and it will
amaze you how your score can mount up, especially if you take part in a
few contests along the way.
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I look forward to welcoming you to the UK CW table. Any questions, just
ask.
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73, John
G3WGV
cw at g3wgv.com
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