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RUSSIAN DX
Contest
1. Organizers
The "Soyuz Radioljubitelej Rossii" (Union of
Radioamateurs of Russia), SRR is pleased to announce the
10th International "Russian DX Contest
2. Contest Period
1200 UTC 18 March - 1200 UTC 19 March 2006
3. Categories:
- SOAB–MIX - Single Op,
All Bands, MIXED,
- SOAB–MIX-LP - Single
Op, All Bands, MIXED, Low Power 100 watts
- SOAB–CW - Single Op,
All Bands, CW
- SOAB–CW–LP - Single
Op, All Bands, CW, Low Power 100 watts
- SOAB–SSB - Single Op,
All Bands, SSB
- SOAB–SSB-LP - Single
Op, All Bands, SSB, Low Power 100 watts
- SOSB - Single Op,
single band, MIXED (6 different band entries,
separately 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 m)
- MOST - Multi Op, All
Bands, Single transmitter, MIXED
- SWL - MIXED
160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and
10 m. WARC bands are excluded.
3.1 The same
station is allowed to enter logs in two Single Band
categories. This allows a station, for example, to enter
a log for 10m and 80m and have both count towards awards.
3.2 Single Band
entrants who operate other bands during the contest are
encouraged to submit logs for more that one band to aid
in the log cross-checking process.
3.3 All entry
separate by World, European Russia, Assiatiac Russia.
4. Team Competition
4.1 OBLAST COMPETITION (Russian entrants only).
Final scores of ten top-scored stations of every Oblast
will be summarized.
4.2 CLUB
COMPETITION - between contest clubs and groups,
separately for Russian and foreign entrants.
4.2.1 CLUB
consists of stations within 500 km diameter circle, with
HQ station in the center. Exception: Russian DX Contest
expeditions to other countries or oblasts
4.3 Check logs
will be counted for OBLASTS and CLUBS competition.
5. General Rules
5.1 Transmitters and receivers must be located
within a 500 meter diameter circle. All antennas used by
the entrant must be physically connected by wires to the
transmitters. And receivers used by the entrant.
5.1.2 All
categories of entrants are allowed to use packet and WEB
clusters.
5.1.3 The use by
an entrant of any IP net for the remote transceiving,
including web radiostations is unsportsmanlike and the
entry is subject to disqualification.
5.1.4
Self-spoting not allowed. Use by a entrant means such as
telephones,telegramms, internet, or the use of packet to
solicit contacts during the contest not allowed.
5.2 Single
Operator participants may change bands, modes without
restrictions. Only one signal can be transmitted at any
given time.
5.2.1 Single
Operator: Those stations at which One person performs
all of operating, logging, and spotting functions.
5.3 MOST
stations are limited by the "10 minute" rule. Start time
will be determined on the first QSO made on that
particular band. Only one signal can be transmitted at
any given time. Exception: two signals on different
bands are allowed if and only if the station on another
(only one) “multiplier” band picked up a new multiplier.
This “multiplier” band should also be changed on “10
minute” rule. Contacts, violating both rules, should be
shown in the log, they will neither be counted nor
penalized for an entrant, but counted for the station
contacted.
5.4 All of MIXED
categories entrants can work the same station both CW
and SSB. CW contacts on SSB portion of the band, and SSB
contacts on CW portion of the band are prohibited.
6. Exchange:
6.1 Non-russian stations: signal report + QSO
number, starting with 001.
6.2 Russian
stations: signal report + oblast code (two letters).
Alternative oblast codes are allowed.
7. QSO Points.
7.1 Russian stations: QSO with your own country (Russia
on your continent) – 2 points, QSO with Russia on
another continent – 5 points, QSO with a different
country on your continent – 3 points, QSO with another
continent – 5 points.
7.2 Non-Russian
stations: QSO with Russian station – 10 points, QSO with
your own country – 2 points, QSO with a different
country on your continent – 3 points, QSO with another
continent – 5 points.
7.3 Kaliningrad
(UA2) is a separate DXCC entity and a separate Oblast,
but points for QSO with Kaliningrad are counted as for
European Russia.
7.4 /MM stations
are not the multipliers, but worth 5 points for any
participant.
7.5 SWL stations
must copy one or both exchange numbers, points are
scored on common rules.
8. Dupes
8.1 Dupes are contacts made with the same station
on the same band and mode. If the first contact between
stations is valid, dupes have 0 points value. If the
first contact is not valid, second (dupe) contact is
accepted.
8.2 Dupe
contacts are not penalized; one does not have to mark
them in the log submission. Moreover, entrants are
strictly recommended to leave DUPES in the log file. DO
NOT DELETE DUPES!
9.2 Different
Russian Oblasts are: Franz Josef Land (R1FJ), Malyj
Vysotskij Island (R1MV) and Russian stations in
Antarctica (R1AN).
10. Final Score
All stations: the final score is the result of the total
QSO points multiplied by the sum of your oblast and
country multipliers.
11. General Log
Submission Requirements
We need electronics logs! The RDXC Committee requires an
electronics log for any possible high-scoring log.
11.1 Submit your
log in the CABRILLO format created by all major logging
programs.
11.2 All times
must be in GMT.
11.3 All send
are received exchanges are to be logged.
11.4 Filename
for the log should be yourcall.log.
11.5 A
plain-text file format is also acceptable.
11.6 Log
submissions in MS Word, Excel or UUE-coded files may
force disqualification of an entrant in case of wrong
file conversion to plain-text format.
11.7 In the
header part of the electronic log submission you MUST
specify a category of entrance and the full postal
address for dispatch to the participant RDXC results,
trophies, awards and certificates. A written declaration
is not necessary.
11.8 Submit your
log in the Cabrillo file format by e-mail or on IBM,
MS-DOS compatible computer disk.
11.9 The
hand-written log can be made in chronological order or
have separate sheet for each band. Each QSO must contain
call sign, time, band, RS(RST), exchange number (both
sent and received - even for check logs).
11.10 Points and
final score calculations are not necessary for all type
logs; final score calculations are done by our software.
11.11 Dupes
should not be marked or deleted.
12. Log Submission
Addresses and Terms
12.1 Logs must be submitted to the organizers
within 45 days (no later than May 7nd 2004).
12.2 Electronic
logs must be submitted via E-mail to:
RusDXC@contesting.com. Be sure to put the station
call sign and the category in the "Subject:" line. The
server will automatically acknowledge your e-mail log
within 48 hours.
12.3 Paper logs
must be sent to: Russian DX Contest, P. O. Box 88,
119311 Moscow, Russia.
13. Awards
13.1 1st, 2nd and 3rd place certificates will be
awarded in each category listed under Section 3.
Special plaques
from sponsors to the participants who have won 1st place
in different categories were founded.
13.2 Every
participant from Russia and Europe will receive a
certificate of merit for the following:
- Multi-band and
single band 20 and 15 m entries – 300 and more QSO,
- Single-band 160, 80,
40 and 10 m entries – 150 and more QSO.
13.3 Every NA,
SA, AF, AS, OC and AN participant will receive a
certificate of merit for the following:
- Multi-band and
single band 20 and 15 m entries – at least 200 QSO’s,
- Single-band 160, 80,
40 and 10 m entries – at least 100 QSO’s.
13.4 Non-Russian
participants: 1st place certificates will be awarded in
each category listed under Section 3 in every
participating country, but the log must contain at least
50 QSO’s.
13.5 SWL
stations, will be awarded a certificate (13.2, 13.3).
13.6 Every CLUB
to be listed 5 stations and more will be awarded a
certificate.
14. Russian
Districts Award (RDA)
The Russian Districts Award (RDA) (http://rdaward.org/),
sponsored by Tambov Award Group (TAG), is issued for
contacts with specified numbers of districts of the
Russian Federation according to the RDA list of
districts. The basic RDA certificate can be obtained for
working at least 100 districts. Generally, award
application is based on the QSL cards received.
But: Starting in
2003, the participants of RDXC are able to fulfill RDA
award in 24 hours. No QSL cards needed, every
participant will be sent a list of confirmed Districts
for RDA award together with so-called UBN-file (errors
list), generated by QSO crosschecking program. One can
send an RDA award application, based on the confirmed
Districts list. All crosschecked logs and confirmed
Districts list will be forwarded to the RDA Award
Committee, so if a participant is interested in the RDA
award, only an application and payment should be sent to
the award committee. Of course, this confirmed Districts
list can also be used as an addition to application,
based on the received QSL cards. All RDA award related
qustions should be sent to Roman Novikov
rx3rc@qsl.net.
15. Contest-Related
Information
15.1 All "Russian DX contest" and related
information (Rules, claimed/confirmed scores, FAQ,
additional information) is posted on RDXC official
Website
http://www.rdxc.org/.
15.2 A color
booklet with contest results, next years RDXC Rules and
additional information will be sent to every participant
along with the certificate.
15.3 Every
participant, who sends his log submission via e-mail,
will be sent a UBN-list with his claimed/confirmed
results separately by bands/modes and QSO list,
containing his errors and errors of worked stations.
Also "RDA" confirmed Districts list would be sent.
15.4 Any RDXC
related questions would be sent via e-mail to
rusdxc@contesting.com.
16. Analysis
RDXC 2003 will be made with total computerized control
followed by each QSO’s computerized analysis.
17. Penalties
Penalties are counted as tripled good QSO points.
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