EA RTTY Contest

Sponsored by Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles (URE).

Any licensed amateur station.

First full weekend of April, from 16:00 UTC Saturday till 16:00 UTC Sunday (April 7-8, 2012).

RTTY Baudot.

10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters, according to the IARU Region 1 band plan.

Classes:
1) Single operator all band EA.
2) Single operator single band EA. (One band is only allowed during the contest).
3) Single operator all band non-EA.
4) Single operator single band non-EA. (One band is only allowed during the contest).
5) Multioperator EA, only all bands.
6) Multioperator non-EA, only all bands.
NOTES:
a) The use of cluster is allowed for all classes, but it is not allowed self-spotting.
b) In the single operator categories only one signal is allowed in the air.
c) In the multioperator categories only one signal is allowed by band.

 “CQ EA TEST”.

 Any station can be contacted during the contest. Every station can be contacted once per band.
The points and/or multipliers derived from unique QSOs will be not valid.

Exchange: 

Spanish stations: RST + Province code (see below).
The foreign stations that transmit from the Spanish territory will be considered as EA stations.
DX stations: RST + QSO number starting with 001. Multi-operator stations, if used multi TX, shall
report separate serials per band starting with 001.

Scoring:
On 10, 15 and 20 meters, one (1) point for QSO within own continent, and two (2) points for QSO
outside own continent.
On 40 and 80 m, three (3) points for QSO within own continent, and six (6) points for QSO outside own continent.

Multipliers:
– EADX100 entities.
– Spanish Provinces.
– USA, Canada, Japan and Australia call areas (VE3, VE6, W5, JA1…).
NOTES:
1) Each multiplier counts once per band.
2) The first QSO with W, VE, JA and VK stations, on each band, counts for two multipliers
(EADX100 entity + call area)
3) The first QSO with EA, EA6, EA8 and EA9 stations, on each band, counts for two multipliers
(EADX100 entity + Province).

Final score: 

Total QSO points by total multipliers in all bands.

Prizes: 

Trophy to the winner in each class.
Certificate to the second and third places in each class.
Certificate to the first classified of JA and VK.
Certificates to all operators of the multioperator-stations rewarded.
It is required at least 50 valid QSO to be eligible for any award.

All logs should be submitted in Cabrillo format via Internet to the following E-mail address: rttycontest@ure.es
Logs should be sent as an e-mail attachment, not in the text of the e-mail, and the filename for the log should be yourcall.log.

 All entries must be e-mailed by April 28th, 2012. Logs lately received will not be considered to any effect.

A – Alicante           AB – Albacete         AL – Almería          AV – Ávila                  B – Barcelona
BA – Badajoz          BI – Vizcaya            BU – Burgos           C – Coruña                CA – Cádiz
CC – Cáceres          CE – Ceuta             CO – Córdoba         CR – Ciudad Real        CS – Castellón
CU – Cuenca          GC – Las Palmas       GI – Girona             GR – Granada            GU – Guadalajara
H – Huelva             HU – Huesca           IB – I. Baleares        J – Jaén                    L – Lleida
LE – León              LO – La Rioja           LU – Lugo               M – Madrid                MA – Málaga
ML – Melilla             MU – Murcia            NA – Navarra           O – Asturias              OU – Ourense     
P – Palencia            PO – Pontevedra     S – Cantabria           SA – Salamanca         SE – Sevilla        
SG – Segovia          SO – Soria              SS – Guipúzcoa        T – Tarragona            TE – Teruel         
TF – SC Tenerife     TO – Toledo            V – Valencia            VA – Valladolid           VI – Álava           
Z – Zaragoza           ZA – Zamora