[UK-CONTEST] REF CW Contest
Paul O'Kane
pokane at ei5di.com
Thu Jan 25 05:34:43 EST 2007
The REF contest takes place from 0600 UTC Saturday 27th
to 1759 UTC Sunday 28th January. It's a CW-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. V13.13 runs on any
Windows PC, and is free from www.ei5di.com/sd/sdsetup.exe.
Select SD's "REF, DX" template.
Work "French" stations only. Send 5NN + Serial. Receive
5NN + département number or country prefix (Overseas Territories).
Multipliers are départements and certain country prefixes.
French stations include Mainland France, Corsica, and French
Overseas Territories. If SD displays the country name and
beam heading, after you've entered two or more callsign
characters, then 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.
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 cdfcw at ref-union.org.
73,
Paul EI5DI
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