EU SPRINT 1998
The EU Sprint Gang hereby invites you to participate in the four European
Sprint Contests held in 1998
Entrants: any licensed station may enter the Sprint. European stations
can work everybody, stations outside of Europe can work only European
stations.
Categories: Single Operator ONLY. Only ONE signal may be aired at one time.
Dates:
EU SPRINT Spring:
SSB: third Saturday in April - 18 April 1998 - managed by G4BUO
CW: third Saturday in May - 16 May 1998 - managed by B.C.C.
EU SPRINT Autumn:
SSB: first Saturday in October - 3 October 1998 - managed by I2UIY
CW: second Saturday in October - 10 October 1998 - managed by OK2FD
Time: from 15:00 UTC until 18:59 UTC.
Bands: 20, 40 and 80 meters only. Pilot frequencies are: SSB: 14.250,
7.050, 3.730. CW: 14.040, 7.025, 3.550
Exchange: all of the following data MUST BE PART OF THE EXCHANGE:
a) your callsign,
b) the other station's callsign,
c) your serial number starting from 001 (RST not required),
d) your name or nickname.
Please note that BOTH callsigns MUST be repeated by BOTH stations.
A valid exchange is: "OK2FD de I2UIY 118 Paolo" while "OK2FD 118 Paolo" is
NOT a valid exchange.
Special QSY Rule: if any station initiates a call (by sending CQ, QRZ?,
etc.), he is permitted to work ONLY one station on the same frequency. He
must thereafter move AT LEAST 2 (two) kHz before he may call another
station or before he may solicit again (CQ, QRZ?, etc.) other calls.
Valid contacts: valid contacts are QSOs correctly logged and
confirmed. Each operator may use ONE and ONLY one name during the Sprint.
If the exchange is copied incorrectly, that operator will receive zero
(0) points. In case of miscopied callsigns, both stations will receive
zero (0) points for that QSO.
Scoring: each valid QSO counts one 1 (one) point. The final score is the
total number of QSOs.
Awards: there are NO awards or prizes since these contests have been
created to test the individual skills only. Results will be forwarded as
soon as possible to Leagues, magazines and bulletins.
Logs: a single chronological log is required. PLEASE SEND US YOUR LOG ON A
FLOPPY DISK. Use any of the available software or send a plain ASCII
file. A separate summary sheet is required too. Please send us the
right files: if you use DL2NBU's sw, we want
yourcall.ASC file, if you use N6TR's sw, we want yourcall.DAT file, if
you use the IK4EWK's sw, we want yourcall.DBF file, if you use the EI5DI's
sw, we want yourcall.LOG file. If you want the latest release of the
DL2NBU software, you can download
it from the BCC homepage: http://www.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/~unrz45/BCC. The
link for downloading SPRINT.EXE is:
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc-freeware/hamradio/logbuch/contest
Logs must be sent NO later than 15 days after the contest to the
appropriate address:
Spring SSB Sprint: Dave Lawley, G4BUO, Carramore, Coldharbour Road,
Penshurst, Kent, TN11 8EX, England, UK.
Spring CW Sprint: Bernhard Buettner, DL6RAI, Schmidweg 17, 85609 Dornach,
Germany.
Autumn SSB Sprint: Paolo Cortese, I2UIY, P. O. Box 14, 27043 Broni (PV),
Italy.
Autumn CW Sprint: Karel Karmasin, OK2FD, Gen. Svobody 636, 674 01 Trebic,
Czech Republic.
Logs for any of the four events may also be sent by Internet Mail to
"eusprint@dl6rai.muc.de". The receipt of your electronic log will be
confirmed. If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, try again
or use the postal system.
Thanks in advance for your participation de: G4BUO, I2UIY, OK2FD & the
B.C.C. Sprint Committee.
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