[UK-CONTEST] REF SSB Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

The REF contest takes place from 0600 UTC Saturday 27th to
1759 UTC Sunday 287th February.  It is SSB-only on the 5
contest bands from 80 - 10m.  There are single and all-band
options for HP, LP (100w) and QRP (5W).

Rules at concours.ref-union.org/reglements/actuels/reg_cdfhfdx.pdf

SD supports SO entries.  V14.30 is free from www.ei5di.com.

  UK Entrants - select the "REF, DX" template

Send a serial.  French stations send their département number
or country prefix (Overseas Territories).

Work "French" stations only - mults are départements and
certain country prefixes.  French stations include Mainland
France, Corsica, and French Overseas Territories.

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

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 entered 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.

Use SDCHECK to create your Cabrillo .LOG file and send it
to cdfssb at ref-union.org.

73,
Paul EI5DI