[WWYC] Europe Sprint 2003

Tue Sep 23 02:17:52 EDT 2003

Needless to say that we need cool team-names.

Just some proposals:

Beatles Team: John, Paul, George and Ringo
The King-Team: Elvis, Elvis, Elvis and Elvis
The Geek-team: Bill (Gates), Steve (Jobs), Linus (Torvalds), Alan (Cox).
The Prez-Team: Saddam, Yasir, George, Gerhard (ouch, not a good idea!)
The Lid-Team: Lid, Lid, Lid, Lid
The badger-team: Badger, Snake, Mushroom  (only for #wwyc lids)

Mmh, anybody has some better suggestions?

73, Fabian Dj1yfk

GO WWYC

At 00:52 23.09.2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Probably many of you got it but here it is for those that never participated
>the EU Sprint contest. It's 4 hours of big big fun and a contest were every
>WWYC QSO makes a differnece. Let me remember that in the Spring part almost
>10% of the participation were made by WWYC members, why not do it again?
>Actually why not do it even more!? I know each of you can take that 4 hours
>to be on!
>
>First come the SSB Sprint so take your microphones and get on!
>
>I'd like to make 2-3 teams to fight out between. We'll probably discuss this
>into #wwyc so get there or just drop me an email. I'll invite all of you
>that I've seen to be active lately in personal to make you into a team or
>something.
>
>Untill then, read the rules carefully!
>
>Hrle - 9A6XX
>
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>Hello!
>
>This email is to invite all contesters to have a go in the European
>Sprint contests 2003. The Autumn phone event is on Saturday 4th October
>and the CW leg is the following Saturday, 11th October.
>
>The whole point of a Sprint is that you cannot stay on a frequency and just
>call CQ: after each CQ or QRZ, when you make a contact you must QSY at
>least 2kHz. The contest cannot be won by a 'big gun' sitting on a frequency
>and CQing.
>
>If you're wondering which software to use, DL2NBU's program has been
>written specially for this contest. It is very much like K1EA's CT, and it
>is FREE
>for download from the new Eu Sprint web site <http://www.qsl.net/eusprint>.
>SD by EI5DI and TRlog by N6TR both support the Eu sprint, and if you prefer
>to log on paper, that's fine as well. We accept any fixed column ASCII
>file, too.
>
>As you'll see from the rules below, the Eu Sprints are 4-hour contests
>starting at 15.00z on 20,40 and 80m only. Activity always starts on 20m,
>and after the first hour a few participants start to move to 40m.
>80m is mainly used in the last hour.
>
>Both callsigns must be sent on each QSO and it is very helpful to follow
>the convention for different QSO formats. Since you must QSY after
>you have CQed and made a QSO, what happens is that the person who has just
>called and worked you, stays on your frequency, calls CQ or QRZ and makes
>his next QSO, and then in his turn he QSYs. When you are tuning the band
>looking for a QSO, the way that the exchange is sent tells you which station
>you can call.
>
>Here's an example
>-- CQ TEST G4BUO G4BUO TEST
>-- I2UIY
>-- I2UIY G4BUO 81 DAVE
>-- G4BUO 123 PAOLO I2UIY
>-- TU QRZ I2UIY
>-- OK2FD
>-- OK2FD I2UIY 124 PAOLO
>-- I2UIY 117 KAREL OK2FD
>-- R DE OK2FD
>-- TEST OK2FD TEST
>-- DL6RAI
>-- DL6RAI OK2FD 118 KAREL
>-- OK2FD DL6RAI 43 BEN DL6RAI
>-- R DL6RAI
>......
>
>In all the cases above, the caller who has just tuned onto the frequency
>sends his callsign at the end of his exchange, to signal to anyone else
>tuning the band that he is the one who will stay on the frequency. The
>CQing station sends his callsign near the beginning of the exchange
>and so anyone else tuning across the QSO will be able to work out
>who is the one who is going to QSY. It takes some getting used to but
>it makes lots of sense and adds to the fun of the contest. The TR logging
>program has some special support for the two different types of sprint
>exchange.
>
>So, we hope you will give the Sprints a try in October, and then send
>your logs to <eusprint at kkn.net>. The full Eu Sprint rules are shown below.
>
>73 from the EU Sprint Gang
>I2UIY, OK2FD & G4BUO
>
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>-
>
>Eu Sprint Contest - 2003
>
>ENTRANTS: any licensed station may enter the Sprint. European stations can
>work everybody; stations outside of Europe can work only European stations.
>
>CATEGORIES: Single Operator ONLY. Only ONE signal may be aired at one time.
>
>DATES:
>EU SPRINT Autumn:
>* SSB: first Saturday in October - 4 October 2002 - managed by I2UIY
>* CW: second Saturday in October - 11 October 2002 - managed by OK2FD
>
>TIME: from 15:00 UTC until 18:59 UTC.
>
>BANDS: 20, 40 and 80 metres only.
>Pilot frequencies are: SSB: 14.250, 7.050, 3.730. CW: 14.040, 7.025, 3.550
>
>EXCHANGE: all of the following data MUST BE PART OF THE EXCHANGE:
>a) your callsign,
>b) the other station's callsign,
>c) your serial number starting from 001 (RST not required),
>d) your name or nickname.
>Please note that BOTH stations MUST repeat BOTH callsigns DURING the
>exchange.
>A valid exchange is: "OK2FD de I2UIY 118 Paolo" while "OK2FD 118 Paolo" is
>NOT a valid exchange.
>
>SPECIAL QSY RULE: if any station initiates a call (by sending CQ, QRZ?,
>etc.), he is permitted to work ONLY one station on the same frequency. He
>must thereafter move AT LEAST 2 (two) kHz before he may call another
>station or before he may solicit again (CQ, QRZ?, etc.) other calls.
>
>VALID CONTACTS: valid contacts are QSOs correctly logged and confirmed.
>Each operator may use ONE and ONLY one name during the Sprint. If the
>exchange is copied incorrectly, that operator will receive zero (0) points.
>In case of miscopied callsigns, both stations will receive zero (0) points
>for that QSO.
>
>SCORING: each valid QSO counts one 1 (one) point. The final score is the
>total number of QSOs.
>
>AWARDS: Colorful certificates will be issued to the winners of each Sprint,
>and to the leaders in each country. A special plaque will also be awarded
>for the top three scores from all four contests combined. To be eligible
>for this award an operator must enter at least three of the Sprints in the
>year. Results will be forwarded as soon as possible to Leagues, magazines
>and bulletins.
>
>LOGS: a single chronological log is required. Please send us your log via
>email or on a floppy disk, if you use computer for logging. Use any of the
>available software or send a plain ASCII file. Please send us the right
>files:
>for DL2NBU software, send yourcall.ASC; for N6TR software, send
>yourcall.DAT; for IK4EWK software, send yourcall.DBF.
>If you want the latest release of the DL2NBU software, you can download it
>from the new EU Sprint web site: <http://www.qsl.net/eusprint>.
>Log files must be sent NO LATER than 15 days after the contest to:
><eusprint at kkn.net>. The receipt of your electronic log will be immediately
>confirmed. If you do not receive a confirmation within few hours, try again
>or use the postal system.
>Disk logs, or paper entries must be posted NO LATER than 15 days after the
>contest to the appropriate address:
>* Autumn SSB Sprint: Paolo Cortese, I2UIY, P. O. Box 14, 27043 Broni
>(PV), Italy.
>* Autumn CW Sprint: Karel Karmasin, OK2FD, Gen. Svobody 636, 674 01
>Trebic, Czech Republic.
>
>Thanks in advance for your participation de: G4BUO, I2UIY & OK2FD.
>
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>-
>
>About Eu Sprint:
>- download the FREE software,
>- rules in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, Russian, Czech,
>- all past results from 1994,
>- download full logs and ubn reports,
>- all time records,
>- find more information about Log Checking,
>- and much more about the Eu Sprint....
>You will find everything here: <http://www.qsl.net/eusprint>
>
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