4° MEMBERS TROPHY
17-18 May
2008
The MDXC, seen the success got in the past
edition, to celebrate the growing presence of our Club in the
world, overtaking the number of 450 members, presents the
“Members Trophy – edition 2008”.
Aim of this Trophy, open to all OM and SWL of
the world, is to contact/heard the largest number of MDXC
Members and the Special Event Stations (among these also the
Headquarter Station MDXC:
IQ8MD).
The Web page dedicated to this event is
available at URL:
http://www.mdxc.org/trophy.asp
Date –
The Trophy is programmed on
17, 18 May
2008 (00.01 UTC of
17until 24.00 UTC of
18).
Categories:
a1) MDXC Stations, SSB mode; a2) MDXC Stations, Mixed Mode; b1)
Not-MDXC Stations, SSB Mode; b2) Not-MDXC Stations, Mixed Mode;
c) MDXC Special Event Stations (Mixed Mode only); d) SWL (Mixed
Mode only)
Points -
Each QSO with Not-MDXC Stations counts 1 point. Each QSO with
MDXC Stations counts 2 points. Each QSO with MDXC Special Event
Stations counts 3 points. Each QSO with
IQ8MD
(Headquarter Station MDXC) counts 5 points. Each Station can be
contacted once per band and once per mode.
Reports:
The MDXC Stations will give RS(T) + their Membership Number,
preceeded by the letter “M” (e.g. 59-M040), Not Members will
transmit the RS(T) + a serial number starting with 001, the MDXC
Special Event Stations and the Headquarter Station will transmit
only the RS(T). For
SWLs the ‘callsign of
station being worked’ may not appear more than three
consecutive times. There must be at least one other QSO before a
series of one to three callsigns is repeated.
Multipliersi:
Each MDXC Member and each Special Event Station will count 1
multiplier regardless the bande and the mode.
Final score:
the sum of the points multiplied the sum of the multipliers.
Bands ande Modes -
HF only, from 10 m to 80 m, WARC excluded, Modes: SSB, CW/Digitals.
Call SSB: CQ MDXC TROPHY. Call CW/Digital: CQ MDXC.
Prizes –
First 3 operators wit best score for categories a1, a2, b1,
b2 e d, and the best Special Event Station
(category c) will be awarded.
Award-
Reaching 300 points, and at least twenty (20) of them coming
from QSOs with MDXC Members, applicants can apply for a Special
Award. No applications containing only QSOs with Special Event
Stations, without QSOs with MDXC Members will be accepted.
Application forms and logs, and a fee of 15 Euro, must be sent
to the Members Trophy Manager:
Giuliano
Mondini P.O. Box 10 21052 Busto Arsizio ( VA. )
QSL Cards –
For all Special Event Stations a
special QSL card will be printed. To get it, no request is
necessary: all QSOs with S.E.S. will be automatically confirmed
via the Bureau.
Direct requests for QSL cards must be sent to
the Manager IK2VUC only.
Logs –
The log-deadline is established at
June
20th 2009, the logs
must be mailed to the Manager’s address or emailed to:
ik2vuc@aribusto.it.
S.E.S must send ther logs in ADIF
format only, or they will be excluded from the standings.
Other stations can use the ADIF, DBF or Excel
format for logs sent via e-mail, printed TXT, for logs sent via
normal mail. Incomplete logs will be cancelled from the
standings. (Logs must contain Call, Date, UTC, Band in meters,
Mode, Complete Report, sent and given). Example:
IK2VUC
03-02-2006 08.30 20 SSB 59 -001 59 -M040
IK2UVR
03-02-2006 08.31 20 PSK 599-002 599-M074
Received logs will be shown in the Web page
dedicated to the trophy once received.
Special Event Stations –
The S.E.S. can operate as single or multi-operator, each
multi-operator team will have no more than three operators
(license owner plus two other operators). All S.E.S. operators
cannot take part to the Trophy with their own callsigns, and
cannot make QSO and send reports with other callsigns except the
Special Callsign they are using in this Trophy, or their
stations will be disqualified. Each S.E.S. will be in
competition only with other S.E.S. regardless the composition of
the teams (single or multi-operator). Multi-multi are not
allowed, only one TRX per team will be allowed.
N.B. –
Money sent to claim the Awards will be used to pay the Awards
and the QSL cards. In case the amount of the expenses will be
less than the collected money, the rest will be used, as usual,
to sponsor further IOTA and DX activities.
Good Luck and Have Fun!
Giuliano
IK2VUC
MDXC # 40
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