QRP-Contest
Date:
2nd Saturday in March
Time:
1400 UTC to 2000 UTC.
Participants:
All licensed radio amateurs. Single-OP only, only one single TX and one single RX or one single TRX are/is allowed at any given time. Mode is only CW (A1A). The use of keyboards and automatic CW decoders is not allowed.
Call:
CQ QRP TEST
Categories:
VLP: max. 1 W output or 2 W input, QRP: max. 5 W output or 10 W input, MP: max. 25 W output or 50 W input, QRO: more than 25 W output or 50 W input
Exchange:
RST+ 3-digit QSO-number / category / AGCW-membership number (Non-members: “nm”) e.g. 579001/QRP/1234. The strokes are part of the exchange and are to be keyed.
Bands:
80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m
Scoring:
QRO-QRO: NO points, QRP-VLP, QRP-QRP, VLP-QRP and VLP-VLP: 3 points, all other QSOs: 2 points
Multipliers:
1 multiplier point for every AGCW-member per band
Final Score:
Sum of all QSO points multiplied by sum of all multiplier points
Logs:
Columns: UTC, Call, exchange sent, exchange received, multiplier points, QSO points. Separate log sheets for each band are required. Cover sheet: own call, address, rig and power used in the contest, final score claimed, word of honour to have obeyed this contest's rules, operator's signature.
Deadline:
31st March (Arrival date at contest manager's address!). Checklogs are welcome as are participants' comments.
Contest
Manager
Edmund H. Ramm, DK3UZ
Anderheitsallee 24
Bramfeld
D-22175 Hamburg
Germany
Electronic logs should be e-mailed to: qrp-test AT agcw DOT de using only plain ASCII (ISO-8859); please no proprietary character sets nor any outputs from contest- or logbook-programs.
Logs per PacketRadio: dk3uz@db0hht.ampr.org