[UK-CONTEST] SD for the SP DX Contest

Paul O'Kane pokane at ei5di.com
Thu Mar 31 17:45:14 EST 2005


The Polish DX contest takes place from 15:00 UTC on Saturday 2nd April
to 14:59 UTC Sunday 3rd April.  Full rules at
www.contest.spdxc.org.pl/reg/reg_g.html

SD directly supports this contest. It runs on any Windows PC and is
freeware from www.ei5di.com.

Contesters outside Poland work Polish stations only.  There are
single band, and all-band (10m to 160m) sections, together with
CW only, SSB only, or mixed-mode.  An interesting new category
is SOTB - Single Op on Three Bands (any 3 bands you choose), but
this category is mixed-mode only.

Select SD Type 4 - General, Area Multipliers.

Multipliers Count   : B (by band)
Points -  CQ QSOs   : 3
Points - SSB QSOs   : 3
Pts/Bonus           : 0 (multipliers)
.MLT file           : SPDXC
Receive Serials?    : N
Mode                : CW/SSB - your mode now.
Mixed Mode?         : Y/N - your choice.
If mixed -
      mults count
    on both modes?  : N
If mixed -
  work same station
  on both modes?    : Y

Work Polish stations only - prefixes 3Z, HF, SN, SO, SP, SQ, SR.
If you're not sure whether a call is Polish, just type it.  If
it's not Polish, SD changes its colour to red.

Send 59(9) + Serial.
Receive 59(9) + single-character Province abbreviation.

Use SDCHECK, after the contest, to create your .LOG Cabrillo
file.  Rename it to YOURCALL.LOG and email it, as an attached
file, to spdxc-logs at pzk.org.pl.

73,
Paul EI5DI


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