Open VHF-FM contest Director: UT5UUV Date: Sundays 2nd fool weekend of February, May, Noveber and last fool weekend of August (1800-2000 UTC in February and November 1700-1900 UTC in May and August) 10 Begin: Sunday 13 February 2011 18:00 UTC End: Sunday 13 February 2011 20:00 UTC 11 Begin: Sunday 15 May 2011 17:00 UTC End: Sunday 15 May 2011 19:00 UTC 12 Begin: Sunday 28 àâãóñòà 2011 17:00 UTC End: Sunday 28 àâãóñòà 2011 19:00 UTC 13 Begin: Sunday 13 Noveber 2011 18:00 UTC End: Sunday 13 Noveber 2011 20:00 UTC 4 tours by 30 minutes. Dupes in new tour. Freqency: 145.2-145.6 MHz recomended step 25 kHz Possible step 12.5 kHz - due to the local conditions. Mode: FM Band: 2 M CLASS HP: No limits (Your licensy limits). QRP: Handy transceiver output 5 W or less. SWL: Any equipment. If You work from temporary QTH identitier /P /M is nesessery. Any assistance by open DX-clusters possible. CONTEST EXCHANGE RS and QTH-loc (59 KO50gk) PARTICIPANTS ANY IARU REG 1 stations from UR and UA TA ER YO HA OM SP EU UA2 LY YL ES... POINTS QSO inside Your small QRA - 1 pts Other QSO - 3 pts No log confirmed QSO valid if this callsign will be in 2 or more another logs. Time difference in logs 3 minutes less. SAT REPEATERS ECHOREPEATER QSO - NO VALID. MULTIPLIERS QTH-loc (6-figure) Multipliers count only once. Each new small QRA (6-figure) is 1 mult. Additionaly for each big QRA (4-figure) is 5 mult bonus. FINAL SCORE Summ of QSOs points X Summary multiplier. CALL CQ CONTEST AWARDS Winners depends for each Region inside DXCC or TERRITORY (UR#E SP8 ER4 UA3W...). Category HP, LP, QRP, SWL winners receive a trophy by sponsor, if sponsors exist. 1-3 places in each category in each Region inside DXCC or TERRITORY receive an electronic awards. LOGS For electronic logs format CABRILLO 3.0 (CBR) Info need: SOAPBOX Your equipment (transceiver type, power), Antenna (ANT type, AG, ASL), Region (and QRA - example: UR#U KO50gk, SP8 KN09qr) QRA shows in LOCATION. Topic letter - Your Callsign. Log File "YourCallsign.CBR". DISQUALIFICATION Ignoring contest Rules. ADDRESS FOR LOGS E-mail: ut5uuv@yandex.ru Homepage: http://www.opencontest.org forum http://www.433.in.ua DEADLINE 10 days after the Contest SOFT FOR THE CONTEST TR4W by UA4WLI Notepad LOG EXAMPLE START-OF-LOG: 3.0 CREATED-BY: TR4W 4.148 & notepad CALLSIGN: UT5UUV/P CONTEST: Open VHF-FM contest CLAIMED-SCORE: 1014 CATEGORY: QRP LOCATION: KO50GK NAME: Moshensky Andrey ADDRESS: 01010 Kiev Ukraine ADDRESS: Moskovskaya 29 17 SOAPBOX: TRX VX-6R 5W SOAPBOX: 1/2 DIPOLE 2 MTR ABT GND 200 MTR ASL QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1700 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UT5R__ 59 KO60hs QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1701 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk RA3Y__ 59 KO62ko QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1702 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk EW8___ 59 KO52av QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1703 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UR4A__/P 59 KO61of QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1704 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UT5U__/M 59 KO50gk QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1705 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UR3C__ 59 KN59rr QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1706 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UR5U__ 59 KO60jm QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1707 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UT4U__ 59 KO50gm QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1708 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UZ5U__/A 59 KO50hj QSO: 145000 PH 2009-08-30 1709 UT5UUV/P 59 KO50gk UT4U__ 59 KO50gk END-OF-LOG: FINAL SCORE EXAMPLE 8 QSO with another small QRA - by 3 pts: 3x8=24 2 QSO with Your QRA (KO50gk) counts 1 pts: 1õ2=2 Summary QSO pts: 24+2=26 pts Mult for the small QRA: 1x9=9 (KO60hs KO62ko KO52av KO61of KO50gê KN59rr KO60jm KO50gm KO50hj) Additionaly mult for big QRA: 5x6=30 (KO60 KO62 KO52 KO61 KO50 KN59) Mult summary: 9+30=39 Result: 26x39=1014 EQUIPMENT EXAMPLE BY CLASS HP ICOM IC-706MKIIG ant 3 x 5/8 FT-8800 50 W dipole ICOM IC-746 25 W ant stack 2 by 13 EL YAGI DK7ZB FT-857 15 w ant 2 EL QUAD GP-300 PA 2õGI-7 450 W ant stack 4 by 16 EL YAGI RA3AQ QRP Alinco dj195 W 6 EL YAGI VX-7r 5 W 4 by 7 EL YAGI YU7EF CP-50 5 W 1/2 Dipole K2AT 1 W 2 EL MOXON and 10 EL QUAGI GP-300 5 W Wrip SWL Any RX and ANT REMARKS WELLCOME CONTESTERS AND SPONSORS 73 ES 55 DE UT5UUV