THE EUROPEAN CW ASSOCIATION EUCW Straight Key Day

The EUCW SKD is not a contest but an event meant to bring out your old manual straight keys and make a couple of contacts.

EUCW SKD is arranged yearly on the Swedish Midsummer Day, i.e. the Saturday falling on or between the dates June 20 and June 26.

Date: Swedish MID-SUMMER DAY (e.g. 23-6-01, 22-6-02, 21-6-03)
Time: 0800-2200 UTC
Frequencies: 3540-3580, 7020-7040, 10105-10125 and 14050-14070 kHz.
Mode: CW, straight key only

Scandinavian participants are encouraged to activate 10 and 14 MHz to give the non-Scandinavian stations a better chance to get in contact with them. It is obligatory for Scandinavian participants to make at least one QSO with non-Scandinavian stations. Likewise, it is obligatory for non-Scandinavians to make at least one QSO with Scandinavia.

As a function of the number of QSOs the participants are invited to give a "vote" to stations with a particularly good "handwriting" or "fist".

1-2 QSO: no votes
3-5 QSO: 1 vote
6-8 QSO: 2 votes
9-11 QSO: 3 votes
More than 12 QSO: 4 votes

Do not issue more than one vote per station.

The "Straight Key Award" will be awarded to stations receiving at least 3 votes.

Send your log not later than the 1st of July 2001 to:

SM3BP, Olle Berglund, Hartsv. 10, S-820 22 Sandarne.
E-mail:...sm3bp (at-symbol) tiscali.se...

Logs can be sent via e-mail as text-file.

RESULT LISTS

Click here to see the results of the 2000 EUCW SKD which was held using the old rules. Click here to see the old rules.

2001 (Sorry, Swedish only) 2002

NOTE: Sources say that the new manager is SM5TK and that 20m QSOs are not valid... The official SCAG-NL from spring 2002 still publishes the rules above.

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