[UK-CONTEST] REF Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

The REF contest takes place from 0600 UTC Saturday 26th to
1759 UTC Sunday 27th January.  It is CW-only 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.  V13.35 runs on any Windows PC, and
is free from www.ei5di.com.

  UK Entrants - select the "REF, DX" template

Work "French" stations only.  Send 5NN + Serial, receive
5NN + département number (France & Corsica) or country
prefix (French Overseas Territories).

If you're not sure which countries, apart from France, you
can work - look for SD to show a beam heading (under the
logging line) after you've typed two or more callsign
characters.  Once you see a heading, it means SD has
identified it as a "French" country.  You can log other
stations, but they will not score.

NOTE:  Scoring is by continent, but SD does not know what
continent you're in, unless your prefix and country are
added to the REFDX file.  You must copy your own country
record in DXCC.CTY and add it to REFDX.CTY (use NotePad),
before the contest, for SD to score correctly.

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

73,
Paul EI5DI