[UK-CONTEST] REF SSB Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

The REF contest takes place from 0600 UTC Saturday 24th
to 1759 UTC Sunday 25th February.  It's an SSB-only event
on the 5 contest bands from 80 - 10m.  There are single
and all-band options for HP, LP (100w) and QRP (5W).

Rules, in French, at
http://concours.ref-union.org/reglements/actuels/reg_cdfhf_fr_0610.pdf

SD supports SO entries in this event. V13.14 runs on any
Windows PC, and is free from www.ei5di.com/sd/sdsetup.exe.

Do not use earlier versions - they do not score QSOs with
Corsica correctly.

  Select SD's "REF, DX" template.

Work "French" stations only.  Send 59 + Serial.  Receive
59 + département number or country prefix (Overseas Territories).
Multipliers are départements and certain country prefixes.

French stations include Mainland France, Corsica, and French
Overseas Territories.  When SD displays the country name and
beam heading, after you've entered two or more callsign
characters, then you know it's OK to call. You can log other
stations, but they will not score.

NOTE for UK entrants:  Scoring is by continent, but SD does
not know what continent you're in until your prefix and
country are added to the REFDX file.  Please copy your own
country record from DXCC.CTY into REFDX.CTY.  You must do
this before the contest for SD to score correctly during
the contest.

After the Contest, use SDCHECK to create your Cabrillo .LOG
file.  Edit it with Notepad to add the Cabrillo header tag
"REF-SECTION: DX".  Rename your file to YOURCALL.LOG and
email it, as an attached file, to cdfssb at ref-union.org.

73,
Paul EI5DI