UKRAINIAN DX CONTEST
                              Rules 2004




  Sponsored by:

The Ukrainian Contest Club (UCC),
The Ukrainian Amateur Radio League (UARL) . 

Date: The 1st full weekend of November (in 2004 it will be on
6-7 of November).

Time: 12:00 UTC Saturday to 12:00 UTC Sunday.

Modes: CW, SSB, RTTY.

Frequency Bands: 1.8 - 28 MHz excluding WARC bands.

Categories of participants:
A. - Single Op - All Bands - HP - MIXed (CW,SSB);
B. - Single Op - All Bands - LP (max. output power 150 watts) - MIXed (CW,SSB);
C. - Single Op - All bands - QRP (max. output power 5 watts) - MIXed (CW,SSB);
D. - Single Op - Single Bands - MIXed (CW,SSB);
E. - Single Op - All Bands - RTTY ;
F. - Multi Op - All Bands - Single TX - MIXed (CW,SSB);
G. - SWL - All Bands - MIXed (CW,SSB);

*There will be separate results for UKRAINIAN stations in this contest, categories A, B, D 
will contain 3 additional groups: only CW, only SSB and Mixed.

All participants regardless of category must remain on the band at least 10 minutes after 
changing bands, quick QSY to another bands is permitted only to work new multiplier. There 
is no any limitation for mode change on the band. Start time will be determined on the first 
QSO made on that particular band. QSOs made during 10-minute rule on another band and which 
are not multipliers will be removed from the LOG without penalty. The use of DX-cluster is 
permitted for all categories however self-spotting is strictly prohibited. You can make up to 
2 QSO with the same station on the same band - CW and SSB. CW QSOs must be made in the CW 
portion of the band. Duplicate contacts with same station on the same mode and band counts 
0 points. No penalty for duplicate QSO. Please do not delete dupes. In the Single Band 
category you can make QSO on other bands. Single Band entrants who operate other bands during 
the contest are encouraged to submit full log for more than one band to aid in the log 
cross-checking process.They should send one Cabrillo file of full log and thoroughly indicate 
correct category in the head of the file.

Contest exchange:
For Ukrainian stations: RST(RS) + two letters (oblast abbreviation);
For all other participants: RST(RS) + serial number starting from 001.

List of Ukrainian oblasts abbreviations:

CH CN CR DN DO HA HE HM IF KI KO KR KV LU LV NI OD PO RI SL SU TE VI VO ZA ZH ZP

QSO points:
a) 1 point for QSO with own country;
b) 2 points for QSO with different country on the same continent;
c) 3 points for QSO with different continent;
d) 10 points for QSO with Ukraine (for participants outside of Ukraine
only).

Multipliers:
DXCC and WAE countries plus Ukrainian oblasts on every band.
Ukraine also is a country multiplier for foreign stations, i.e. the first QSO on each band 
gives 2 multipliers.

*For stations in Ukraine multiplier is DXCC + WAE countries only
(Ukraine counts as a country).


LOGS:
CABRILLO is preferred format, however as an exception all text format LOGs generated by MixW, 
TR, CT, SD and other logging programs will be accepted.
LOG must be viewable by simple text editor, for example, NOTEPAD. WINWORD, EXCEL, HTML and other  
"complicated" format won't be accepted. LOG should contain the following data:
Date and Time (UTC), Band (Freq), Mode, Number Sent, Call and Number received.
Your output file should be named by your callsign, i.e.
DL7AAA.CBR,
DL7AAA.LOG, DL7AAA.SUM (for summary sheet)etc...