From: "Felber Gyula" To: Hungarian DX Contest Organizer: MTTOSZ Radioclub Gyôr on behalf of the Hungarian Radioamateur Society Goals: to promote the traditionally good friendship between the radioamateurs, to strengthen the reputation of Hungarian radioamateurs, to provide an opportunity to test their skills and technical level as well as a possibility to obtain Hungarian radioamateur awards. Date and time: The 3rd full weekend of January, between Saturday 12:00 GMT to Sunday 12:00 GMT Participants: any licensed radioamateur station or SWL. Frequencies: 1,8 - 28 MHz (no WARC bands). The recommendations for IARU Region 1. Bandplan have to be obeyed. Modes: CW and SSB Entries: SOAB - Single Op All Bands - separately MIXED, CW, SSB SOSB - Single Op Single Band separately MIXED, CW, SSB MS - Multi Ops All Bands Single TX (MIXED only) MM - Multi Ops All Bands Multi TX (MIXED only) SWL (All Bands, Mixed only) Contacts: Any station can be contacted during the contest. Every station can be contacted once per band and mode. Exchange: RS(T) + QSO number starting with 001. MM stations shall use separate serials per band starting with 001. Stations operating from HA- RS(T) give two letters county code or HADXC members give their membership number. Hungarian county abbreviations: District County Abbreviation HA1 Zala ZA HA1 Győr GY HA1 Vas VA HA2 Komárom KO HA2 Veszprém VE HA3 Somogy SO HA3 Tolna TO HA3 Baranya BA HA4 Fejér FE HA5 Budapest BP HA6 Nógrád NG HA6 Heves HE HA7 Pest PE HA7 Szolnok SZ HA8 Békés BE HA8 Csongrád CS HA8 Bács-Kiskun BN HA9 Borsod BO HA0 Szabolcs SA HA0 Hajdú-Bihar HB Points: QSO with own DXCC country: 1 points Another country on same continent: 1 points Other continent: 3 points Contacts with Hungarian stations: 6 points Multipliers: Hungarian counties per band and the number of different HADXC members per band Total score: Sum of QSO points multiplied by sum of multipliers. Logs: Electronic logs should be preferably submitted via E-mail to: contest@enternet.hu or via mail to: MTTOSZ Gyôr Városi Rádióklub, 9002 Gyôr, P.O.Box 79, Hungary Deadline of log submission is 30 days after the contest (based on email timestamp or postal stamp) The subject of the emails should include the contest, the callsign and the category, e.g. HADX W9USC MS Send ONLY TXT files using K1EA, N6TR, K8CC, EI5DI, WriteLog or any ASCII files. The file's name should contain a call sign of participant (yourcall.all and yourcall.sum). The log can be shown either by bands or time. Each QSO must contain callsign, time, band, RS(RST), QSO number (abbreviation) sent and received (even for check logs). Those who used computers for logging or contest scoring regardless if it was real-time or post-contest must submit electronic logs! Summary sheet must include callsign, class, number of QSOs, multipliers and QSO points by band and altogether. Awards: The top 3 entrant of each class will be awarded certificates. The winners of the SO categories will become honorary members of the Hungarian DX Club. Remarks: - No logged duplicate QSO will result penalty if no points are claimed for them. However every duplicate contacts for which points were claimed will be deleted and a penalty will be issued in worth of triple of the points of the claimed duplicate contact. The entrant who claims points for duplicate contacts exceeding 2% of the total number of his contacts will be disqualified. The points of contacts logged with incorrect information will be lost a triple penalty will be applied. - The maximum allowed time difference between QSOs in two logs is 3 minutes. If it can be unambiguously determined which station logged the times incorrectly, only the points claimed by that station will be deducted. - Packet is allowed for everybody. Self-spotting is prohibited. - The highest maximum allowed power for any classes during the contest is 1 kW. - Only one signal may be transmitted at any times by anyone. Stations braking this rule will be disqualified. - Only those multipliers will be accepted, which either have submitted logs or are reported in at least two other logs. - Band and mode changes are allowed only after 10 minutes after the first QSO on that band and mode. The 10 minutes period starts at the first contact logged in that band and mode. - The decision of the contest committee is final. The contest committee maintains the right to appoint observers for the contest. The observers document and report suspected cheating to the Contest Committee. Based on the evidence provided the Committee has the right to disqualify participants. The callsigns of stations and those of their operators disqualified for proven cheating will published to the international contesting community and they loose their right to participate in the contest for 5 years.