DeaR Contest
LSB
Competition
By the Delta Radio Group
First part:
Begins on May 24, 2003 at 12 GMT and ends on May 25, 2003 at 12 GMT.
Second part:
Begins on May 31, 2003 at 12 GMT and ends on June 1, 2003 at 12 GMT
Fundamental Rules and limitations
1. The participants must use only one
QRZ during the contest.
2. Special QRZs are not allowed (for
example: SES, DX activations etc.)
3. Multi stations are allowed. (In the
case a multi-operator station wins, there will be only one prize). The call
will be composed by: Personal QRZ of one of the operators + the suffix M. (For example: 2XX002/M
4. You can contact the same operator
ONLY ONE TIME during the contest.
5. Contacts will be valid ONLY if you
exchange a progressive number and radio report.
Example
|
DeaR Contest.
QRZ: 2XX002 Date_______ Beginning at______gmt
Ending at______gmt |
|||||
|
QRZ |
Radio Report TX |
Prog.TX |
Radio
Report RX |
Prog. RX |
|
|
20DR/jolly1 |
55 |
001 |
59 |
034 |
|
|
47EG087 |
59 |
002 |
57 |
065 |
|
6. Contacts must be made ONLY in
LSB “Lower Side Band”.
7. You can operate on the whole band,
keeping in mind that you cannot use the frequencies close to the international
call frequency (over and under 50 khz).
8. You CANNOT use the international
calling frequency to communicate your position on the band.
9. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT ask for
contribution of any kind, during the contest. Please do not treat badly those
operators that are not interested in the competition or those who have no
knowledge of the rules. Those who use bad behaviors during the contest will be
excluded from the competition.
10. You must send your logs BEFORE AND
NOT after 30 days from the end of the contest to the Contest Manager: Nico –
Vle. U. d’Italia 22 – 70125 Bari, ITALY. The logs must be complete of: QRZ,
Signal Report RX and TX, Progressive number given, Progressive number received.
IMPORTANT: Please send your
personal address, e-mail and telephone number. If you do not include your
personal address, it will be impossible for us to send you your prize (in case
you should win, of course!)
Dates:
The FIRST
PART of the DeaR Contest begins on May 24, 2003 at 12 GMT
and ends
on May 25, 2003 at 12 GMT.
The SECOND
PART of the DeaR Contest begins on May 31, 2003
and ends
on June 1, 2003 at 12 GMT.
Jolly
There
will be five (5) Jolly stations on the air for a limited period of time. The
Jolly stations will have a minimum of one hour each to contact as many stations
as possible. These Jolly stations will not compete neither for the prizes nor
for the results. The only reason for their participation is to give out progressive numbers and signal reports to
the operators in contest.
The Jolly
stations will have a special QRZ: Prefix DR/Jolly e n° assigned.
Example:
1DR/Jolly1 or 20 DR/Jolly1
Points
and Multipliers
- 5 points for each contact made
- 10 points for each prefix DXCC
worked
- 100 points for every 100
contacts made (Multiplier 1)
- 100 points for every 30
prefixes DXCC worked (Multiplier 2)
- 100 points for each JOLLY
station worked (Multiplier 3)
- 200 additional points if all of
the JOLLY stations are contacted (Multiplier 4)
Penalties
- – 5 (minus five) points for
each contact not valid (log without signal reports, QRZ or progressive
number given and received)
- – 50 (minus fifty) points if
you do not contact any Jolly station.
- – 10 (minus ten) points for each
double QSO. (Remember: Only one QSO with each
station is allowed.
Important: Since it is impossible for us to
verify….try to use ONLY the power of your radio, so that the band will not be
totally saturated with RF…..Thank you.
Prizes
This is
the most exciting part of the contest!
1st
Classified : Directional Antenna Yagi Long Space (Minimum 3 Elements, Maximum 5
Elements) + Certificate
2nd
Classified : Desk Microphone ADONIS + Certificate
3rd
Classified : 1500 Special QSLs (marked DeaR Contest) for whatever group and
whatever QRZ + Certificate
4th
Classified : Plate + Certificate
5th
Classified : Plate + Certificate
- Anyone can ask for a
Participation Certificate. You can request it when you send your log to
the Contest Manager (Nico 1 DR 134) together with $ 2 U.S. Dollars for
mail expenses.
- The Delta Radio Group offers a
Directional 3 Elements Yagi Antenna for the First Classified. Other
groups or single operators can also sponsor the competition. If there
should be any additional sponsoring by others besides the DR group, the
elements of the antenna can be increased. Therefore, the value and the
weight of the antenna will increase. The only limit to this process will
be the number of elements possible for an antenna of this kind. The number
of elements that can be reached will be 5 (five), due to extra charge for mailing expenses.
- The
sponsors will be listed on the Dear Contest web site:
The names of the
operators or groups sponsoring will be reported.
If the amount offered exceeds or
is not sufficient to increase the antenna with
an extra element, this amount will be
used for the mailing expenses of the
major prizes. If the amount is enough or exceeds the cost of the
two extra elements, another 3 element antenna will be offered to the
second
classified and so on. In this case the number of operators classified
may be
brought to 6 instead of 5 as written in the rules of the competition.
INFORMATION:
Infoline e-mail: dearcontest@deltaradio.org
Or By SMS or telephone: 0039.347.6588139