[UK-CONTEST] SD for the REF CW Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

The REF CW contest takes place from 0600 UTC Saturday 29th January
to 1759 UTC Sunday 30th January.  Full rules (in French) at

http://concours.ref-union.org/reglements/2003/reg_cdfhf_fr_0403.pdf

It's like a French Commonwealth Contest except that everyone can take
part (on the 5 bands from 80 to 10m).  SD directly supports the REF
contest, and is freeware from www.ei5di.com. It runs on any Windows PC.

French stations send 5NN + département number or country prefix
(Overseas Territories).  UK stations send 5NN + Serial, and work
"French" stations only - with multipliers for départements and
certain country prefixes.

French stations include Mainland France, Corsica, and French
Overseas Territories.

Select SD Type 10 - General, Country and Area Multipliers.

          .MLT File:  REF
          .CTY File:  REFDX (for UK entrants)
  Multipliers Count:  B (by band)
     Points per QSO:  0 (variable points)
          Pts/Bonus:  0 (multipliers)
          Next Page:  Y
Points per Area QSO:  0 (UK entrants)
Non-Area QSOs count
           as mults:  Y
Points vary by Mode:  N
            by Band:  N
        by Location:  Y
             Points:  0 1 3 (UK entrants)
Receive Serial from
          Area QSOs:  N
               Mode:  CW
         Mixed-Mode:  N

NOTE for UK entrants.  Scoring is by continent, but SD does not
know what continent you're in, because your prefix and country are
not included in the REFDX file.

So, please add your own country record, from DXCC.CTY, to REFDX.CTY.
If you do not do this, SD will not score correctly, and you will have
to edit many QSO records after the contest.

It's easy to identify which stations you can work for points. If SD
displays the country name and beam heading, once you've entered two
or more callsign characters, then it's OK to go ahead.  You can log
other stations, but they will not score.

After the Contest, use SDCHECK to create your Cabrillo .LOG file,
rename it to YOURCALL.LOG and email it, as an attached file, to
cdfcw at ref-union.org.

73,
Paul EI5DI



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